Nintendo’s fight against emulators continues, and we’re now hearing that in just one day, the company has taken down over 400 repositories. Seven DMCA anti-circumvention were filed at GitHub. With that, more than 400 emulator repositories were targeted. Copies of the Suyu emulator, Yuzu forks, and Skyline were impacted. Most of these code repositories are now offline. Nintendo primarily targeted...
Really? I thought that only certain, really old, Switch models were modable. Am I misreading or misremembering something?
First revision could be hacked by putting it to recovery mode. All models can be hacked using modchip.
And there are flash carts that work on every model now. They don’t work for online play of course, but neither do traditional modchips/softmods.
They also don’t allow you to play digital-only games (which is the majority of the Switch game library), only games available as cartridge can be played with the flash cart.
You also lose all the other advantages of homebrew, like running emulators or using almost any 3rd party Bluetooth controllers without an external dongle.
And they are also expensive as fuck, a Picofly modchip costs under 10€.
And with a modchip or softmod you CAN go online, you just have to use a legitimate copy for playing online, and can play pirated games offline. If you use the flashcard you will get banned eventually, so you’re limited to playing offline and need a 2nd switch if you want to play online