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by jsheard 2089 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 2088 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 2088 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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