As reported earlier this month, Hacker Group fail0verflow had tweeted a picture showing that they had managed to run Linux on Nintendo Switch. That was February 6; now, 12 days later, they have released a video on their account, providing proof of the same.
The video shows a Switch console running a Linux-based desktop environment KDE Plasma, with full touchscreen support and a web browser, something which the gaming console did not originally have.
While usually people hack into gaming consoles to play cracked versions of games, some people just enjoy running whatever kind of software they want on them. This seems to be one of those cases.
Fail0verflow is a hacking group that focuses its hacking efforts on gaming consoles and has recently taken up Nintendo Switch, as have many others.
While the hacking group has still not made public their exact method and code, it reportedly involves exploiting a flaw in the boot ROM of the Switch’s Nvidia Tegra X1 chip. As they revealed last time, the video maintains that the flaw can’t be patched up by Nintendo on current devices but allegedly can be discussed in future production.
The video shows a Switch console running a Linux-based desktop environment KDE Plasma, with full touchscreen support and a web browser, something which the gaming console did not originally have.
Code execution is all the rage these days, but can your Switch do *this*? ;-) #switchnix pic.twitter.com/NMnBq61tOM— fail0verflow (@fail0verflow) February 17, 2018
While usually people hack into gaming consoles to play cracked versions of games, some people just enjoy running whatever kind of software they want on them. This seems to be one of those cases.
Fail0verflow is a hacking group that focuses its hacking efforts on gaming consoles and has recently taken up Nintendo Switch, as have many others.
While the hacking group has still not made public their exact method and code, it reportedly involves exploiting a flaw in the boot ROM of the Switch’s Nvidia Tegra X1 chip. As they revealed last time, the video maintains that the flaw can’t be patched up by Nintendo on current devices but allegedly can be discussed in future production.