Comment by heavyset_go | Hacker News Reader

Comment by heavyset_go | Hacker News Reader

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> Nintendo has finally sued too many smart people, and shut down too many fan projects. I can no longer support their bad behaviour so I can't support the Switch. I know they've been bad actors in that space for a long time but I guess I've just gotten old enough to see past my nostalgia.

For reference, Nintendo stalked Neimod and compiled a dossier on him[1][2], tried to get him to incriminate himself online[2], and then dangled a job opportunity in front of him in exchange for information about his 3DS exploits[3].

From here[4]:

> Nintendo had run background checks on the hacker, knew where he lived, where he worked, and where he graduated from. To make the story even more creepy, the gaming company was allegedly spying on the man, knew everything about his typical day, his usual activities, friendships, times he left his residence, restaurants he liked to visit, and more.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25580861

[2] https://twitter.com/forestillusion/status/134123063191354163...

[3] https://twitter.com/orcastraw/status/1341178144708059136

[4] https://www.technadu.com/nintendo-spying-3ds-hacker-neimod-t...

Is it known how they got this info? Typically this would've required hiring some private investigator for a few weeks to follow them and gather intelligence, but now it seems they could have simply ran his name to get all this information from a background check agency (in my experience these background checks are typically very detailed including employment and income information).

[2] has a Nintendo document with a bullet point starting with "Surveillance didn't reveal...". The other stuff mentioned in this section also required surveillance, not just a background check.

They stalked the guy as part of their operation they named "Belgian Waffle".

The leaked slides include these bullet points:

- "Surveillance didn't reveal any friends or visitors entering or leaving the residence"

- "Only additional activity included a trip to the bank and a restaurant (alone)"

This reenforces my decision to jailbreak my Switch Lite. It's been sitting unused for 2 years, I don't like it, gives me cramps, and the store prices are ridiculous when used to the convenience and sales offered by Steam. And I have to pay for the Nintendo Online subscription to install a NES and SNES emulator. Yeah, no.

Any good Switch jailbreak resources? I'm comfortable doing it, I don't know what's the latest and most effective hack these days.

For the lite, you will have to install a modchip. These are currently hard to find or very expensive. But if you still want to do it, there are many tutorials online. A few keywords you can use are "Mariko" (Codename for newer switch models like the lite), "CFW" (custom firmware) and atmosphere (the most popular CFW)

https://nh-server.github.io/switch-guide/ is the recommended guide for Switch. However, there’s currently no way to run a custom firmware on the Switch Lite.

It's surprising that no one in the community takes retaliation, in one form or another. If you don't have the ability to harm others you are sheep in the jungle.

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