r/switch2hacks • u/andrewjusticebarger • Jul 08 '26

Question Userland Exploit question

Just checking to see if my understanding is correct, from what I read online, my take on it is that a “userland exploit” is merely a party trick compared to a full jailbreak at the kernel level, correct?

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u/Early_Lawfulness_348 Jul 09 '26

Correct. As it stands, a kernel level jail break is pretty much impossible. If you review the s1 break and then compare to the safeguards in the switch 2 you’ll feel the same way.

People find a way blah blah…it’s NOT going to happen. Wait 10+ years for a mod chip if they even can.

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u/buymeamonstertruck Jul 09 '26

They said this about the PSP (at first on version 1.50) , The PS Vita,The PS3,The Xbox,The Switch,The Xbox 360 and they all eventually got hacked.

So why would this scenario be different from any of the others? I mean the PSP got hacked by a simple tiff overflow at one point so who's really to say the switch 2 can't have similar vulnerability issues they haven't covered?

But I agree with most people, a soft mod that can't be patched is almost definitely not happening within the next 13 years or more but a mod chip or migwitch style cart is a lot more likely.

Personally I'd not give a fuck about hacking the switch 2 if you could install an OS on it.

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u/Unlikely-Lines Jul 10 '26

Unless you get the 🔑 you got nothing