[Pfhreak]

No clue. And I'm not sure your post even makes sense?

Like, what are even hoping to achieve? Aren't modders and the like probably already trying to do what you are trying to do?

And why do you think $10k is a significant amount of money to anyone who could achieve what you want done?

[abnercoimbre]

Wait, isn't $10k a seriously meaningful amount to hobbyists? E.g. Cleanly reverse-engineering SM64 was done by clever folks in their spare time.

[adventured]

What difference would $10,000 make? That's the primary question.

You can buy a decent engineer's spare time for two or three months, if they're being generous about it and particularly want to help. Where would one place $10k that it would meaningfully accelerate reverse engineering the Switch?

You either do it for anything but the money, or the money has to be a lot larger than $10k.

[NRinc]

"Like, what are even hoping to achieve?"

I am hoping that Nintendo attempts to stop me from doing this.

[tubularhells]

That would be via lawyers, not private eyes.