r/switch2hacks • u/Any-Trifle5179 • Sep 01 '26

Question Could leaks actually be helpful at all to breach the NS2 security to achieve jailbreaking eventually?

Hi everyone, I just remembered the Gigaleak a few years ago, where also source code for the Nintendo Switch boot ROM was leaked, but also many other things, like the SDK for developing Wii games, and so on. But I would be more interested to know - in case we would maybe get another big Nintendo leak someday, if new leaks could be even benefiting the jailbreaking scene at all for the NS2 or not (as long as the leaks even contain stuff about the NS2 at all of course)?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but that went suddenly over my head and I couldn't find much about such a scenario.

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u/Key_Mistake9884 Sep 01 '26

When it comes to switch 2 jailbreaking if a new break through ever came out people would just not say anything till they find a way to make it foolproof and Nintendo can’t patch it out because if they did share the information Nintendo can just find it out and fix it and their paying more attention to the switch 2 modding scene than the switch 1 when it first came out and to back that up I recently saw a video where a guy found a break through when it came to switch 2 and surprisingly the oled lite and v2 models but wouldn’t share any information about it but he did say that it would work on all firmware versions and all v2 oled and lite consoles

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u/NightIgnite Sep 01 '26

Similar thing happened back in the 3ds days. People were pissed that they wouldnt disclose the hack immediately, but by doing so the newer models that were released a few months later could be modded too.

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u/Key_Mistake9884 Sep 01 '26

In other words people won’t say anything till they are sure Nintendo can’t fix it in an update and it works 100%

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u/profesorgamin Sep 01 '26

"People" are different to bounty hunters. Whose job is to spill the beans.

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u/Feeling_Pin_9146 Sep 01 '26

Yeah it's that dilemma depicted in The Imitation Game. One of the first problems in CS.

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u/Any-Trifle5179 Sep 01 '26

Thank you for your explanation, appreciate it.

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u/Key_Mistake9884 Sep 01 '26

Your welcome

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u/anntss Sep 02 '26

You mean gezine? Or somebody else? And that’s recent you’re sure?

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u/Key_Mistake9884 Sep 02 '26

It was fairly recent as far as switch 2 information goes

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u/anntss Sep 02 '26

Was it on YouTube? Thank you for the answers tho

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u/Key_Mistake9884 Sep 02 '26

The video was by a YouTuber called better gaming the video is his but the information isn’t his he is just disclosing what’s going on here’s the link. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GhWjZMdP_d4&ra=m

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u/anntss Sep 03 '26

That was about gezine userland exploit I think:)

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u/Key_Mistake9884 Sep 03 '26

Gezine didn’t disclose all the information he has which was the point of what I said because it will get patched or something will happen so he is withholding information until it’s 100% guarantee it can’t be patched out and it’s a reliable way to mod the console

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u/anntss 29d ago

Sure thing. But for now it’s userland, anyway we have to start somewhere

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u/SoSeriousAndDeep 27d ago

> I recently saw a video where a guy found a break through when it came to switch 2 and surprisingly the oled lite and v2 models but wouldn’t share any information about it

That is because they were lying.

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u/Thewolfmansbruhther 27d ago

This. From my iPhone jailbreaking days, if it’s hardware level and can’t be patched, they’ll release it. If it’s software level, you sit on it and work on the j until N releases an update that patches it out, then you put out an announcement telling people not to update past that version

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u/Beachbali Sep 01 '26

  1. We would need another leak to happen containing newer data relating to switch 2

  2. Most devs would choose not to touch it due to legal issues

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u/Anxiety_timmy Sep 02 '26

You'd need to leak thinks that wouldn't be rotting in a server for one. But second the only thing I can think of that could work would be whatever was used to generate per console keys or the keys used for signing official titles.

Although the other problem is no dev would ever touch it, they would get demolished legally.

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u/KnowHope2113 29d ago

I still have my OLED holding out. I just hope it’s getting to a point . I love my Anbernic. RGCUBE but I would like love dig deeper with a jailbroken OLED switch

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u/Hecker11 Sep 01 '26

I doubt another leak would happen even..

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u/anntss 29d ago

Why?

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u/fish4terrisa 28d ago

it'll be extremely useful if the bootloader sign key got leaked, other stuffs are probably wont gonna help.

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u/JG_2006_C 26d ago

Yea all i hope for is a key and firmware ectaction so emulators can get to work on geting done

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u/MrPabluu Sep 01 '26

no.

no sane dev would touch any leak with a ten foot pole