Oof. Guess you hacked yours before they had sorted out the DNS settings and the module that blocks connections to Nintendo servers? That sucks.
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nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 3 months agoIt was similar for me, except that Nintendo made the decision to prevent me from purchasing (or downloading) any game from the eShop. Not entirely unexpected since I also hacked mine in order to dump my games and transfer saves for games I owned on PC and Switch.
Still, since Nintendo apparently didn’t want to have a customer and the SteamDeck was announced shortly after I jumped ship day one and only turned the Switch on once again to transfer my saves back.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 3 months ago
Yeah, I pretty much hopped on it as soon as it was hacked so there wasn’t much knowledge of what could lead to bans. Granted, at that point I was already a bit dissatisfied with the Switch, so I went in fully aware of the risks and not really being afraid of the risk. I even had a preorder running that I got locked out of, though luckily enough, that got a PC port not soon after.
averyminya@beehaw.org 3 months ago
How did you get banned? Or why do you think, I mean. I was worried about that too but I took all the precautions and I’m still able to use it today if I want to. I do have a 1.0 switch though so it’s just the rcm jig.
The only issue I had in the whole process was animal crossing. Every other save seemed to transfer over fine which was cool.
Also to be more honest - only like 85% of my switch emulated games were perfect, but over time these games are just getting better and better. My go to example was at launch of all of this, Marvels Ultimate Alliance 3 was pretty broken, it worked but the textures were all wonky. Just a few months later it was way better, and by now it’s basically perfect. I’ve almost completed my playthrough of that game (how many years later…)
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 3 months ago
It was the early days of homebrew when there wasn’t much information out there and the tools were much less advanced. I didn’t really care about the risk either, so it could’ve been anything. I wasn’t immediately banned either. Took about half a year or so.
But yeah, emulation can pretty run all the relevant titles, meaning the exclusives, much better than the Switch itself.
averyminya@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Ah yeah I see, I only finally hacked my Switch once I got my Steam Deck, long after it had all been pretty refined. It was fun reliving the days of hacking my Wii when I did it, even felt basically the same lol.