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ZenoArrow 37 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for ne...

You're partially right, only the first revision of the Switch 1 could be hacked without modchips, but those early revisions can't have a software patch as the exploit relied on a hardware bug (some design flaw in the NVIDIA Tegra SoC if I remember correctly).

mghackerlady 36 days ago [–]

I don't count that as a soft mod. I was referring to a webkit based exploit in early versions of the system software

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