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SwissCM posted:Piracy made the games more convenient and fun to play, games loaded significantly faster off Memory Sticks and custom firmwares usually offered things like overclocking options. I mean, sure, with a CFW-modded PSP you could also pirate games if you wanted, but the feature benefits incentivised console modding even for those who didn't pirate games.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:It's custom firmware that did that, not "piracy". Once you had a CFW-modded PSP it was trivial to dump your UMD game collection to memory stick with all the benefits associated with it. There was no inherent advantage to pirating games (other than not having to pay for them). Pedantic
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Apr 24, 2018 15:45
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ExcessBLarg! posted:It's custom firmware that did that, not "piracy". Once you had a CFW-modded PSP it was trivial to dump your UMD game collection to memory stick with all the benefits associated with it. There was no inherent advantage to pirating games (other than not having to pay for them). Actually you got considerably better battery life from a CFW-modded PSP in the early days when there were no digital games, because you could play games without having to power a motor to spin the disc. So piracy did have that advantage.
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Apr 24, 2018 15:47
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s.i.r.e. posted:You've misunderstood, I'm not saying the Switch is dead, only laughing at it getting cracked this soon. It has to be a record, right? s.i.r.e. posted:Super strange of them to go with the Tegra since this apparently is has been a known exploit for a while. Nintendo, maybe, should've recruited some white-hat hardware hackers to bash on prototype Switch hardware prior to its release though. I'm sure they have an internal team that does this work, but they're probably just not the same level of talent.
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Apr 24, 2018 15:50
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univbee posted:Actually you got considerably better battery life from a CFW-modded PSP in the early days when there were no digital games, because you could play games without having to power a motor to spin the disc. So piracy did have that advantage. Contrast that to copy-protected PC games where pirated (cracked) versions have legitimate advantages you simply can't get without cracking the games themselves.
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Apr 24, 2018 15:52
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ExcessBLarg! posted:No, the Tegra X1 didn't have known boot ROM vulnerabilities at the time of the Switch launch. It was the interest and popularity of the system that resulted in hardware hackers taking a look at the Tegra X1 platform and discovering it suffered from a known-class of vulnerabilities (incorrect handling of USB commands). Ahh, interesting, I thought it was known prior. Didn't Nintendo have bounties on some bug and cracking website for such a thing on the 3DS? I wonder why they didn't extend that to the Switch. Though maybe they did, I didn't keep up with that.
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Apr 24, 2018 16:13
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s.i.r.e. posted:Didn't Nintendo have bounties on some bug and cracking website for such a thing on the 3DS? I wonder why they didn't extend that to the Switch.
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Apr 24, 2018 16:22
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I've seen people say this cna be done with a paperclip...anyone have any idea? Also lol @ the crybabies in the switch thread.  They hacked my precious nintendo
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Apr 24, 2018 16:24
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Empress Brosephine posted:I've seen people say this cna be done with a paperclip...anyone have any idea? It looks like from a hardware standpoint it mainly comes down to bridging two exposed pins in the right joy-con rail. So yes, this would work, but maybe be slightly less ideal just from the standpoint of rigidity of paper clips possibly making it difficult to bend so it'll hold the way you need it to reliably.
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Apr 24, 2018 16:28
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Empress Brosephine posted:I've seen people say this cna be done with a paperclip...anyone have any idea? Maybe, but I'd be wary of jamming random poo poo into the Joycon connector in case it damages the contacts. Those pins are quite small. I'm sure the market will be flooded with $2 pin shorting tools soon.
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I’m honestly more mad at Nintendo here than anything. Home brewers are going to fill in the gaps in their services and if they had just offered the stuff people want (and other companies offer by default) the drive wouldn’t be there for a lot of people, myself included. I personally am not interested in pirating Switch games, but backing up saves? Yeah I’d like to back up my 200+ hour botw save before I send my switch in to be repaired for it’s loose screen. Virtual console? I know everyone in this thread says “you have a million other devices that can play roms”, but if I’m leaving the house with games in tow, i only have my iPhone and my switch. Neither of which can play super mario world today. Nintendo, stop driving people straight to home brew because you can’t/won’t deliver. If I could back up my saves and play retro games on the Switch I wouldn’t be paying attention to any of this
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Apr 24, 2018 17:00
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I really dont know how good a plethora of emulators would be for switch with its weird controllers and nonexistent battery life but it would probably actually be pulled out of the drawer more than once a month if it had that stuff.
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Apr 24, 2018 17:06
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For emulation the joy-cons are of limited use since you really want a proper array of buttons and a D-Pad for those. Which means an external bluetooth controller, at which point you might as well get an $80 Android tablet if that's the form factor you want. Putting emulators on a 2DS/3DS makes more sense, relatively.
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Apr 24, 2018 17:12
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univbee posted:For emulation the joy-cons are of limited use since you really want a proper array of buttons and a D-Pad for those. Which means an external bluetooth controller, at which point you might as well get an $80 Android tablet if that's the form factor you want. Putting emulators on a 2DS/3DS makes more sense, relatively. The joycons are fine for anything I want to play
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Andrast posted:The joycons are fine for anything I want to play Good for you but games designed for D-Pads aren't always ideal with analog sticks, and the shoulder buttons aren't great if you need a lot of access to them like in a 6-button fighting game.
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Apr 24, 2018 17:18
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s.i.r.e. posted:Ahh, interesting, I thought it was known prior. Didn't Nintendo have bounties on some bug and cracking website for such a thing on the 3DS? I wonder why they didn't extend that to the Switch. Though maybe they did, I didn't keep up with that. To further elaborate, they did and they applied those fixes to their custom Switch OS, which is similar to the 3DS OS. By all accounts, the post-1.0.0 software has been reasonably secure, except a massive oopsie they opened up on 3.0.0 specifically. But turns out Tegras are troubled. As are our Intel/AMD CPUs (to a lesser extent). Technology is tricky, and nerds are smart.
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univbee posted:Good for you but games designed for D-Pads aren't always ideal with analog sticks, and the shoulder buttons aren't great if you need a lot of access to them like in a 6-button fighting game. They have kits that replace the D-Buttons with a proper D-Pad on the left Joycon so you'd be good for really anything.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I personally am not interested in pirating Switch games, but backing up saves? Yeah I’d like to back up my 200+ hour botw save before I send my switch in to be repaired for it’s loose screen. I don't know if you're the same person from the switch thread, but if they are replacing your screen, you aren't going to lose your saves. They aren't just going to delete all the data on your Switch. If they were replacing the whole tablet, they might forget to transfer the save data, but the loose screen thing is a repair, not a replacement.
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Cojawfee posted:I don't know if you're the same person from the switch thread, but if they are replacing your screen, you aren't going to lose your saves. They aren't just going to delete all the data on your Switch. If they were replacing the whole tablet, they might forget to transfer the save data, but the loose screen thing is a repair, not a replacement. There was already one horror story about someone sending in for a screen repair and getting back a “oops we wiped your saves, sucks but we warned you it might happen” and their sending-in page does have that warning on it unless they changed it recently
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Apr 24, 2018 18:04
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Yeah it’s still there and yeah I’m that guy.
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420 SWAGLORD posted:I am way more excited by a dope dockable emulation tablet than I am about free switch games. Imagine a switch running retropi+kodi, that is so much cooler than playing friggin splatoon for free  s.i.r.e. posted:They have kits that replace the D-Buttons with a proper D-Pad on the left Joycon so you'd be good for really anything. What I'd really like is a Joy-Con that either replaces the analog stick with a D-pad, or switches the position of the analog stick and the buttons and replaces the buttons with a D-pad.
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Apr 24, 2018 18:44
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Empress Brosephine posted:I've seen people say this cna be done with a paperclip...anyone have any idea? This is what I made from a paperclip and it fits the joycon rail perfectly and works consistently. It did take a while to make though.  You might be able to use something smaller like a staple instead.
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Flagrama posted:This is what I made from a paperclip and it fits the joycon rail perfectly and works consistently. It did take a while to make though. Out of curiosity, is there anyway that this could potentially fry a Switch if you jumpered poo poo wrong?
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Infinitum posted:Out of curiosity, is there anyway that this could potentially fry a Switch if you jumpered poo poo wrong? I'd be surprised, it's unlikely connectors which are exposed like that would create an issue if bridged without a resistor given how much could easily go wrong there, especially with little kids.
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Apr 24, 2018 19:27
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Depends on what voltage/current they send through it to charge the joycons.
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univbee posted:I'd be surprised, it's unlikely connectors which are exposed like that would create an issue if bridged without a resistor given how much could easily go wrong there, especially with little kids.
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I totally forgot I even had a Wii and thanks to this thread I dug it out and discovered homebrew, and holy poo poo thank you everyone, I am in total heaven right now. I had zero clue all this was possible. I found an old 20 inch LCD TV I have that is not HD or widescreen and playing SNES / Mega Drive / Master System games is pretty much perfect, even the slightly dodgy picture quality is there. It's honestly everything young me would have wanted and I am just delighted 
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peter gabriel posted:I totally forgot I even had a Wii and thanks to this thread I dug it out and discovered homebrew, and holy poo poo thank you everyone, I am in total heaven right now. I had zero clue all this was possible. OG Wii’s on a 4:3 CRT are loving awesome for old games
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Apr 24, 2018 20:56
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univbee posted:OG Wii’s on a 4:3 CRT are loving awesome for old games It really is, and I can get the Gamecube pads I think? Man, it all just seems to work together so well, I had a Retron 5 but the HD out was just not doing it for me, this however has just enough of a janky analogue vibe about it to be perfect
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Apr 24, 2018 21:00
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Modded Wii is a godlike console
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Yeah you can use Gamecube controllers, plus you can use Nintendont to play GC backups with a virtual memory card too
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Yeah you can use Gamecube controllers, plus you can use Nintendont to play GC backups with a virtual memory card too Sweet! I'm interested mainly in the 8 / 16 bit stuff and a bit of MAME, I'll try and track down some GC pads this week
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Apr 24, 2018 21:07
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peter gabriel posted:Sweet! Even if that's all you're interested it's an excellent emulation machine, plus it can output 240p
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Apr 24, 2018 21:11
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Why did other consoles refuse to output 240p? Like why not just have the option?
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I have no idea what this LCD supports, but it looks legit
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Apr 24, 2018 21:21
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The Wii is, no joke, probably the best home brew console still to this day.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:The Wii is, no joke, probably the best home brew console still to this day. The only thing that beats it is hacked vWii on a Wii U.  Although you lose the ability to output to 240p on Wii U so that’s one downside.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Modded Wii U is a godlike console Being able to play everything the Wii can plus overclocking PSX and N64 emulators, and on the gamepad is amazing
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Yeah, a hacked WiiU is like, the king of modded consoles. Only reason why I have my regular Wii around is because the gamecube controller adapter doesn't work for GBAs
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420 SWAGLORD posted:I think we would be friends irl. Hack the planet, amirite? I have "hack the planet" written on the side of my Wii.
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