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  • The race to reverse engineer Team Xecuter's piracy CFW

    Team Xecuter released their "SX" Custom Firmware a few days ago: allegedly, the hacking team's CFW makes it very easy to load pirated Switch games, which are already widely available on the usual warez and torrent sites.

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    A Race to reverse engineer SX CFW

    Multiple hackers have shared scripts and tools to help with reverse engineering Team Xecuter’s custom firmware. But not everyone has the same goals: some hackers have already called out that they don’t want Team Xecuter to profit from piracy and might be willing to get the thing reverse engineered in order to kill their business, while others are probably looking to replicate the backup loading functionality from their custom firwmare.

    A few veteran hackers from the Switch scene have shared a few tools to help those who want to reverse engineer the code from Team Xecuter. Naehrwert for example has shared a script to unpack the custom firmware, and that script was later updated by Hexkyz for version 1.1 of Team Xecuter’s software. There has also been a stream of announcements from multiple people claiming they were close to decrypting the custom firmware. None of these seem to have led to anything concrete (a public release) yet.

    The issues with SX CFW

    A few people have warned against using the SX custom firmware. An early version of their custom firmware has been reported to burn the fuses on the console in some cases, which is an irreversible change. Although Team Xecuter states that they have now fixed the issue, this confirms once again that running unverified hacks on your console can lead to bad outcomes.

    Note: For obvious reasons I am not linking to threads or sites that explain how to pirate games on your Nintendo Switch. As always, thanks for your understanding.

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    Last edited by dlevere; 06-22-2018, 10:54:28 AM.
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