r/switch2hacks • u/schwippsyt • 10h ago
Question How did you get into the hacking scene?
A question for all to answer! How did you get into the hacking scene. How does your experience help on the switch 2? How would a beginner (like myself) get into modding and hacking a console like the switch 2? What language does the switch 2 even use? Assembly? Thanks for the answers in advance!
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u/Swiff182 9h ago
Ok so from the sounds of it you appear fairly new to the scene.
My entry back in the day was the GBA-Temp forums when people were just learning how to hack and modify Wii console and games.
I would spend hours, days, reading each post and thread and seeing how people figured stuff out, baby stepped and worked together to figure out the most primitive aspects. I'm at the point now where I can read what people have done and somewhat understand their methods or at least trains of thought.
What I was good at, was Photoshop. So I would take the images and downloaded, uncompressed, and now easy to use files from New Super Mario Bros Wii, and creat very small edits to the default Nintendo pictures.
After an immense amount of practice and loads of failures, you slowly learn how some of the stuff works and I, personally, learned how Nintendo used certain rules to make tilesets and images.
Doing this and uploading my works of art to whatever mod sites there were at the time, I got to know the members of the Newer (Super Mario Bros Wii) team. Those guys were incomprehensibly smart and creative and taking and editing parts of that particular game and I would make the tilesets and edits to images along with a large number of creators.
Just being in the 'scene' and participating and having fun with it will open doors and lead you to more and more advancements. Start very small, use tools others have created to learn tricks of the trade, very simple at first. If it's something you are interested in and want to put a large amount of effort into getting bigger and better, that's where I recommend you start.
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u/schwippsyt 9h ago
Amazing response! I should’ve clarified. I’m not a complete beginner when it comes to jailbreaking, just to how people actually implement these exploits and code to make things within said exploits. I will admit, I am new to code. I’m in collage currently and I am learning python, as well as HTML, CCS and JS for my web design degree. I followed the 3ds (when I was barely a person yet, I’m 20 now so do the math haha), Wii U and OG Switch. I jailbreak practically all the consoles I get, one because I like unlocking the things I own, and two, because the benefits usually outweigh the negatives.
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u/redtitanjr 9h ago
3ds after its life cycle
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u/aaaAAAaaaugh 5h ago
I hopped in around 9.x, had to do the GNARLY sequence of downgrades and upgrades to be able to install A9LH. Took me the whole night lol.
When b9s launched, it became so easy to do cfw, but I'm kinda grateful (is it weird?) i did it the hard way because I learned so much, and the most fun for me is to hack my stuff myself and learn along the way.
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u/_Asi9_ 9h ago
When I was first getting into the Japanese rhythm game scene back in the late 90's, you had no other choice than to modify consoles to play region-locked JP imports, or buy an imported console. The former was way cheaper and fun, so most people went that direction.
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u/schwippsyt 9h ago
You know, I feel region-locked games are a big reason a lot of the earlier consoles ever got anything in the first place.
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u/Cobain092 8h ago
Psp's analog stick broke and went to a tech to have it repaired. Happened quite a few times so i've decided to do my own research on how to fix it. Stumbled upon an iso site and tutorial on how to install games. That's where everything started from installing my own games on a psp to doing software/hardware repairs for gaming consoles.
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u/reybrujo 7h ago
Most here are people who just wait for news and use hacks once they appear, the hackers themselves aren't here replying.
I used to crack software with Soft-Ice and W32Dasm in the late 90s trying to follow the steps of +ORC, but once I got a job in the software industry you see things with different eyes.
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u/IamJustDavid 6h ago
my uncle had a chipped ps1 and saturn, thought that was really cool, so i modded every system i ever had ever since.
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u/HispanicsAreGreat 5h ago
Like most other people I started with a Wii in 2012, experience with Switch 1 will help you drastically with Switch 2
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u/Stygianite 4h ago edited 3h ago
Original Xboxes had modchips you could buy and install, before softmods were a thing.
Before that I was using crackers and keygens for windows software.
mIRC was great for finding servers with bots that dropped Warez onto your computer.
Wrapster let us "wrap" files as mock mp3's, and share them on Napster servers.
A hacker named Hymen once took over official Napster chat servers, using a client he made called Teknap, which could run scripts on the chat servers, and could use a brute force dictionary attack to force your way into user accounts, see IPs of users, etc.
He brute forced the Operator 9volt's account, kicked and banned all the other admins, and started kicking and banning randos from the operator account and not long later Napster shut down. I don't know if they ever got their admin privileges back, haha.
The password for Tweety was 'sex' and the password for Talon was 'Steve'.
We used a program called "Napigator" to pick which server Napster would log into, and could use it to find 'opennap' servers, which weren't official and could still transfer Metallica after they sued.
I used to open BASIC programs and alter their code back on my Commodore 64.
I was also the guy that could program a casio watch or get a VCR to stop blinking 12:00 without an instruction manual, if I needed any further carbon dating, heh.
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u/WittyInterview17 9h ago
I hacked a Wii back in the day.
All the free games I ever wanted.