Nintendo Switch Piracy & Hacking - Did You Know Gaming Ft. Dazz 

Nothing about the Splatoon 2 player who hacked the ranked leaderboards to spell out "please add anti cheat"?

"Cracked in 4 hours" Wow...

"This is why we can't have nice things" is the best way to describe the profile pic incident

Nintendo pours this much effort into their anti-piracy, but like zero effort in their online.

Users: crack the switch inserting a paperclip in the joycon connector Nintendo: *New Switch Lite, with no joycons!!*

I remember the Mario Odyssey balloon thing. Out of all the things I expected in Odyssey, a balloon with hentai on it wasn't one of them.

I just want a quiet life where I can play GameCube games on the Switch in peace.

Battles between different factions of hackers? Am I living in a sci-fi dystopia?

Good hackers and Bad hackers. Fighting their own wars against hackers and pirates. What a complex situation.

"This is why we can't have nice things." Truer words have never been spoken.

The sheer irony of hackers building anti-hacking features into software that can only be installed on hacked consoles.

With all the time Nintendo spend on this Yet they still can't fix their online services

I remember the hacking fiasco with Odyssey's balloon mode Those were good times

Damn I still have my launch day switch. I didn't know it could be hacked so easy.

1:07 I got my not-hacked switch banned too, all my games were bought, in the shop I bought many indies too and I was even paying for the online service. Messaged them, and their answer was that "the ban was permanent and they couldn't do anything about it". So I actually hacked it and sold all the physical games. Fuck you, Nintendo.

Only 1 reason why I like cfw on the switch: --Can backup ALL game savefiles for FREE. Yearly paying bs for a cloudsave that doesnt backup all savefiles is a big no-no.

Nintendo: Ho ho, is that all you got? Illegal Pirates: No, but thank you for asking!

The BGM's in this video makes the atmosphere so tense lol. in a good way.

Nintendo hates homebrew even though people just want more features for their consoles

One day the Switch will end up like the PSP. CFWs, Homebrew, Emulators everywhere. I look forward to that day.

The Chaotic good/neutral/evil side of the community sounds badass.

Technology is so interesting. I feel like an idiot when I hear about all of this.

This was such an intense video. The music, Liam's reading of it, plus the actual content of hackers and pirates. It really felt like a fire.

Meanwhile I just want to be able to customize my switch more and to get my background to be more than just black or white

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" Gabe Newell, 2011. GIVE US A VIRTUAL CONSOLE TO PLAY GAMECUBE OR OLDER TITLES. A majority of the homebrew market is for emulators, there is your service problem.

I like how they start talking about pirates and then play Ridley's smash bros theme in the background. Thats some good shit there.

You completely forgot to mention Pikabrick, emuMMC, and how people who use CFW use clean backups to avoid getting banned.

Nintendo doesn't let me buy old games on the eShop? Fine, I'll just add the entire library of NES/SNES/GB/GBC/GBA/N64/GC/WII/Genesis games.

So the switch can easily play any games that can run on dolphin yet we still have NO virtual console?

Pirates of the Carribean: Nintendo E-shoppers Tell No Tales

6:24 DYKG did you mean the purpose of a middle man is to protect the LEAKER? because what you said was that the purpose of a middleman was to protect a middleman's identity. lol

Corrections: The recovery mode shown at 7:05 isn't the recovery mode used in the RCM bug. The recovery mode used shows no output and is accessed by pressing the tegra's home button (by bridging some pins) and pressing volume up. The bootloader is not installed onto the Switch. It is injected manually every time the Switch is turned on. You do not need to run a custom program to play the pirated games (unless you're counting the custom firmware). They just run from the home menu once installed. 8:35: You can run pirated games directly off the SD card with other custom firmwares. They run exactly the same as a game downloaded from the eShop. 10:33: There are other methods to hide pirated games from Nintendo, such as 90DNS, which blocks all communications with Nintendo.

Fans: can we have custom pfps? Nintendo: we'll think about it Hackers: *makes custom porn pfps* Nintendo: this is why we dont give you guys good things

You thought lightning was fast. But ain't got nothing against nintendo hackers

It used to be nice when hackers where doing it for fun instead of doing it for resume and working at companies. Back then progress was much faster, hacks were much safer and with far less drama involved. In the end "piracy" doesn't hurt anyone.

Got it: “Echo, order me an RCM jig, and a 200GB SD card”.

i just want to give Mario his fire flower costume back nintendo plz

This topic is so fucking cool tbh. And the music makes it sound even cooler 😂

Sounds like a pretty epic battle You got the good hackers, the bad hackers Nintendo themselves and everyone else in between who gets caught up in the crossfire

Peanut Butter Gamer is trying to look like an Yu-Gi-Oh protagonist?

"... this is why we cant have nice things." I love it.

I just woke up from a coma I sure hope my favorite RU-vidr projared is going to that con

After buying my second set of joycons I don't even feel bad about this.

Just like the war between hackers/homebrew vs Sony during the PSP/Vita days. Sony knew when to give up, though.

the only time I would ever pirate would be if having to get a game that was digital only and was removed from the store. that stuff is BS. can i get an F for scott pilgram vs. the world?

"We believe even in the USA, our product should be legal" Are you FOR REAL?!?!

gotta love watching a company worth billions go after random people

What's that? The Switch can finally play Gamecube games, but only through the use of hacks? Boy howdy, I was saving up all this *fresh, delicious MONEY* to give to Nintendo for that, but I guess I'm modding my Switch instead! Woohoo!

Honestly, Nintendo should focus on banning people who hack to cheat or pirate. Seriously, I just wanna have my custom music in Smash Ultimate, that was so fun to do on Smash Wii U. lol

Piracy isn't itself the problem, Whenever a device is beyond their support circle (as has been demonstrated eternally) it is left for dead

A pirate friend once told me: Dead men tell no tales.

7:50 That transition made me think that kid was Simon.

meanwhile sony when you hacked the ps vita sony: Oh no

DYKG: *Talking about Piracy* Me: Why do I hear boss music?

You guys always know how to get me..just when I think I’ll never watch another one of your videos you just know what I want to watch

One of my friends actually hacked his Switch just to run dj hero 2 on it, it runs surprisingly well.

D.Y.K.G. banned by Nintendo for talking about the hacker-scene in 3....2...

I legit want every console to be hackable and softmodded at this point since we're entering the age of streaming services for games. Can't really do much when support for an outdated console is dropped.

It just shows you how powerful and how much potential the switch actually has

The Dark Room game was like Brain Age on the Wii U. It allowed exploits to happen such as cold booting your wii u

Here before this video gets taken down by you-know-who

Oh the poor people (poor if they were children) that ran into those lewd profile pics.

Watching this before the big N copyright claims it and disallows anyone from seeing it.

Hehe! "Fusée Gelée" in French means "Stoned Rocket".

9:57 so is this why there's a slur of eBay switch games that are being bought that don't work or getting people band?

I remembered when people were hacking to put p0rn in the Balloon World mode in Mario Odyssey. I fortunately never saw them when I played Mario Odyssey, but that proves that people can be WTF sometimes

How convenient that this video would show up in my recommended now, of all times..

watching this on my hacked switch

Nintendo is the Apple of the gaming world.

When the switch gets cracked Nintendo: *Arab Nokia Ringtone*

Wow, I assumed there would be some Switch hacking but this is way more extensive than I assumed it would be. Nice video.

From the moment the specs dropped, we knew that it was gonna be easy to hack. Its SOC setup is basically built to run Linux. It's kinda fun to learn about though.

You can really feel the Nintendo Creators Program on this video

10:09 Wouldn't that affect legit second-hand copies, copies shared with friends and such? Oh who am I kidding, this is a AAA publisher, of freaking course it could...

Thank you, Did You Know Gaming, for making long videos perfect for car rides

It's very likely that the Switch will become one of the most hackable consoles ever of the modern era. It's literally a modified off the shelf SoC. It's rare that there's so much documentation of a console's internals before it's even released. Remember, it's literally a gaming tablet with an SoC that was very very similar to ones found in a few Android tablets. It's actually quite impressive that it's NOT yet the next PSP as far as modding goes. One would have never expected them to make a Linux tablet using a Tegra X1 so secure considering the Wii and Wii U.

Only thing I ever hacked was my psp 2000 And my wii

HEY! Rei is in here! Nice. Rei's actually a childhood friend of mine. No bull! We reunited after 14 years apart in 2017 when we were both working at a supermarket.

0:46 “This ultimately …” **shows footage of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate** I see what you did there.

Nintendo seems to have forgotten that people hacking their own hardware and software is not illegal. It's only illegal if someone tries to break Nintendo's actual property (servers, etc.) Their abuse of copyright law in the US is just screwed up.

Man, all I want from a hacked switch is the ability to play BOTW and Smash ultimate with skins and different player models. But I actually (and sadly) agree with nintendo's measures. If people didn't hack the switch to get pirate games, or to post lewd photos on their profiles (Who the hell does that?), then Nintendo would be open to the modding scene. A rotten apple ruins the bunch.

DYKG: *makes a video on Nintendo Switch piracy* *Nintendo wants to know your location.*

I dont understand why nintendo is so aggressive against piracy. They always find a way to crack it and nowadays even individuals are taking down very secure systems. It seems like a waste of time and effort because the people with money to buy the games wouldnt bother themselves with hacking.

I love this pirates vs Nintendo and pirates in fighting going on! 😁 Now let's wait and see who'll pick up the pieces and make the profit.

I could see some hackers will get Pokemon Sword and Shield before it released earlier and spoils these games by leaking on the internet.

"a group of pirates" then shows a family ordering pizza

Imagine getting a game for a cheap price online, only to find out that it was pirated and you cant even use it, I hope theres a way to check just by looking at the cartridge

Uses slave labor: Piracy is a crime!

Yo. My man Projared gonna be at the con? *Oh wait, he already IS a con*

@11:00 And that right there is exactly why people hated Nintendo's "enforcement" of this. If that's possible and does happen, then non-hackers will get banned. That's ridiculous, but you see the quarrel that Nintendo are in. They can't outright ban people solely based on game carts, nor can they ban them on digital codes because the ability to pre-own games and the chance a duplicate key can be generated are always a possibility. That's exactly why the community has gotten on to Nintendo over these bans. In addition, that's quite ridiculous to charge that much. This is another example of the loony court system being out of control. None of those switches will ever be worth that kind of money. This is exactly why people have softened up to piracy and "illegal" CFW solutions. Because companies like Nintendo use fear tactics and walled gardens instead of actually giving people what they want.

That honor among thieves bit was quite interesting to watch.

It so cool to learn about the unseen hacking war going on with the switch. Its a complete mess, Nintendo vs hackers, and leakers, with the homebrew coders caught in the middle.

This video is very misleading. The brick code was removed from SX OS in the update directly after it was introduced due to the huge backlash. And not a single Switch got bricked because of the code. There are no confirmed reports.

Why am I not surprised that people will put lewd images as their nintendo pfp

Two things that were left out: 1) 90dns blocks all nintendo servers by using DNS, so nothing can be sent to them. Combined with running homebrew and other software on the emuMMC, which is the eMMC running on a SD card without touching the eMMC at all, Nintendo has no way to detect the mod as the system physically remains unmodded except in the sd card, which should be removed when the legit switch is booted. 2) Incognito can erase the Switch's identifiable info so Nintendo knows that a console is being modded but has no information to ban it. The switch can't connect online, but it also can't be banned. If a user uses recovery mode to restore the switch, then it can connect online and once again all traces of being modded are lost. Overall a good video, these things are probably just more recent or are irrelevant to the overall video.

Congrats on Trending. Miss see this kinda stuff on regular trending.

Oh no. No online services? Whatever will I do with a console I have no interest in playing online?

It is always a good thing for hardware that is a walled garden and locked down to be able to be made into unrestricted hardware. It increases overall value and longevity. Take the Nintendo DS and Wii for example. There are still people playing multiplayer Mario Kart for the DS and Wii even though it's been years since Nintendo shut down the servers. How? Because people reverse engineered how the multiplayer servers worked and implemented their own. I feel the same will happen with the Switch by the time Nintendo shuts down the servers for it. So thanks to the work of reverse engineers, you will still be able to play Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Luigi's Balloon World with other people many years after Nintendo closes the official servers for them. This is an example of reverse engineers (or as the media calls them, 'hackers') benefitting people with unmodified consoles. Their work will allow you to enjoy ALL the features of games you own indefinitely, where as there is a clock ticking down for the official Nintendo servers and once those are gone the only way to enjoy the multiplayer features of your Switch games will be to play on unofficial ones. There is also the issue of software preservation. Piracy is the only way to effectively preserve things. One day, the Switch eShop won't exist, or rather the servers hosting it will be gone. For popular games like Mario Odyssey there is virtually no risk of them disappearing as they have physical game cards, but there are many obscure games that do not have physical versions where one day the only way to play those games will be to obtain them unofficially and illegally. Video games are just as relevant to our culture as paintings, music, and motion pictures and so they are just as worthy of long term preservation - I'm talking decades to centuries here. So future generations can still play these games long after there's no legitimate way to purchase them. There are many great NES and SNES games that will never ever be officially re-released because the publishers no longer exist and in some cases it's not known who the actual copyright holder is. That you have a way to play those games is thanks to the scofflaws who broke the law and dumped the ROM images and uploaded them to BBSes back in the day. So we fast forward to the year 2031, you are suddenly feeling nostalgic for a Switch eShop-only game you bought back in 2019, but since that time you bought a new Switch and never got around to redownloading it to the new Switch, and it's now too late because the Switch eShop no longer functions. Thanks to software pirates, you can grab that old game and play it still decades later. Many publishers don't care about long term preservation or can't afford the infrastructure to effectively store them for decades on end. There has been untold numbers of games lost because publishers didn't care enough to archive them for re-release later down the line. It falls on the scofflaws of the world to be our culture's renegade archivists for future generations. And open source development of alternate firmware for proprietary hardware adds features that won't ever get added officially. This is especially true when it comes to network appliances such as routers. Where Netgear would stop providing updates a year to two years after release, open source developers continue to provide updates for their open source alternative many years afterward. For the Switch, examples include being able to back up save data for ANY game - and it backs up a local copy to your SD card that you can place where ever you wish. Whereas Ninendo Online's 'Cloud Save' feature only works for some games, and those 'Cloud' servers won't be around for longer than 5-10 years. After that, all your precious backed up save data is gone. Whereas if you could make local copies of your save data and you made sure to store it properly you can go back to that save data 20 years from now. Reverse engineering of the hardware is also necessary for emulation. In the distant future, there will be no working Switches left. And so the only way to enjoy Switch software will be through emulation. That is covered as well luckilly and so even after the last working Switch dies decades down the line, you'll still be able to play those old games on a modern platform. Future generations will be able to experience the games their grandparents and great grandparents played rather than be left with a few old gameplay videos and articles describing them.

LOL they literally leaked Legend of Zelda TOTK

Wow, it's like watching an Anime where the protagonist and villain are equally smart