alt Hacker NewsIf one follows this and jailbreaks their Switch 2, are they in danger of getting their account banned by Nintendo, and their games unaccessible?
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I jailbroke my Switch 1 the day I bought it, was banned from Nintendo Online the next day. The only games I bought were physical. I was told this would happen, so it wasn’t an issue at all.
I’ve told my friends if you plan on playing online on it, definitely don’t jailbreak.
never go online and even if you reset the console afterwards , assume the console will get banned when connect to the internet as they know to look for markers of customer firmware.
Switch 1 hacks bypass this by copying ofw from flash onto the microSD card and patching it there to my crude understanding, so that unsigned code never touches the firmware on the system memory.
Something like this definitely will be needed again for the Switch 2 so I'd only do this if you don't care about being banned.
EDIT: ofw = OFW = official firmware
Not your account but the Switch. That’s how it works in Switch 1
I guess banning may be challengeable to court in many juridictions but it would be expensive.
(I'm interested in Homebrew, and I'd love to port my self made game dev framework on Switch 2, but I'm afraid of losing everything)
No doubt we will soon enough get de-Nintendo’d alternatives that service jb’d devices
Yes, you will get banned.
Definitely a risk.
Yes, this is true of all jailbreaks.
The chances of getting banned for this are extremely high. The Switch 2 has plenty of mechanisms to detect tampering. Even if you were completely offline during the process and then reset the Switch afterward, there are logs. People have already been banned for using the MIG Switch to play backups of Switch 1 games on the Switch 2.