Nintendo goes to court to stop sale of new Switch hacking tech
Enlarge / An SX OS menu screen showing multiple pirated games, as seen in Nintendo court documents. (credit: Team-Xecuter)
Nintendo is going to court to stop a number of retailers that allegedly sell a Switch modification device that allows users to play pirated games on older versions of the system. But the console maker is also using those lawsuits to warn retailers away from taking pre-orders for an impending hardware hack designed to work on more recent Switch consoles, including the Switch Lite.
The lawsuits—obtained by Polygon after their filing in Ohio and Seattle courts on Friday—focus on websites that sell products from hacking collective Team-Xecuter. That group currently manufactures the SX Pro, a simple USB device which allows users to install a custom "SX OS" operating system on the Switch from a memory card. With SX OS installed, users can "play virtually any pirated game made for the Nintendo Switch, all without authorization or paying a dime to Nintendo or to any of the large number of authorized game publishers making games for Nintendo Switch," according to the filings.
The SX Pro only works with the roughly 20 million Switch consoles released before June 2018, which were susceptible to an unpatchable exploit in their Nvidia Tegra CPUs. The 35 million Switch and Switch Lite systems since then sport an updated chipset that cannot be hacked using that exploit.
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