Nintendo Switch hacked, opening door for homebrew games (and pirates)

Nintendo Switch hacked, opening door for homebrew games (and pirates)

6 years ago
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http://www.techradar.com/news/nintendo-switch-hacked-opening-door-for-homebrew-games-and-pirates

The Nintendo Switch, this Christmas's most sought-after present, has been hacked, paving the way for installations of unofficial "homebrew" software – and potentially even pirated games.

A recent hacking conference in Germany saw a team of tinkerers take advantage of a quirk of the console's off-the-shelf Nvidia Tegra chip, allowing them to use a feature that Nvidia's own engineers and developers use to access deep-level functions of the chipset not usually accessible to the public.