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by ReverseCold 2082 days ago
They make mod chips for the Nintendo Switch that let you load arbitrary games without protection. Compared to the actual Homebrew community, which doesn’t actively advertise or support features like that.

They were probably first to market, but then the community found the RCM bug and now Xecutor is pretty irrelevant.

Side note: “So long Gary Bowser“
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jsheard 2082 days ago
> They were probably first to market, but then the community found the RCM bug and now Xecutor is pretty irrelevant.

Well, irrelevant for people who own a Switch that's vulnerable to the RCM bug. Nintendo fixed that in a hardware revision around two years ago so there's a lot of Switches out there which cannot be hacked by the open source methods, but can with Team Xecuters hardware mod. RCM was patched before the launch of the "Switch 2.0" and Switch Lite, so the only way to get homebrew along with the improved battery life of the 2.0 or greater portability of the Lite is via that hardware mod.

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girvo 2082 days ago
Are there open source versions of the new hardware mod for those patched consoles? The open nature of the simple GameCube drive chip (I forget the name) was neat — you can still buy them today for about $8 AUD, or even pretty easily make your own with a PCB printing shop and some time!

Edit: XenoGC!

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jsheard 2082 days ago
Not yet, for now the proprietary Xecuter modchips are the only game in town.

IIRC the XenoGC was originally proprietary too, but open sourced by the designer after a few years.

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numpad0 2082 days ago
They were not the first. IIRC they stole RCM exploit as soon as it went public, and started selling it along their “operating system” which was reskinned original Nintendo firmware.
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29athrowaway 2082 days ago
Super Mario 64 reference.

I think they changed it for Super Mario 3D All Stars.

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jsheard 2082 days ago
It wasn't really changed for 3D All Stars, rather they based 3D All Stars on the 1997 Japan-exclusive re-release which never had that line to begin with.

That version added rumble support and fixed some bugs, but being intended for Japan where Bowser is called King Koopa they used a different voice line.

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