 So this is one of those stories where I I'm reporting on it just because it's extremely interesting and I know a lot of you guys are Going to want to know about this, but it's not necessarily something that I suggest anybody does So you guys have seen the title of this video homebrew now works on Nintendo switch That is right hackers have been able to make the homebrew Application run on Nintendo switch now for those who don't know what homebrew is it is essentially a hack of a System in this case the switch that allows you to install Applications that you normally could install and sort of sometimes this would include things you might find on like a Google Play Store or Custom-created games that don't have to go through Nintendo's approval process or what it's most popular and most commonly known for Allowing people to install specific emulators on the system, which can then be used to play old games You can even emulate technically like I'm 3ds homebrew with 3d with using homebrew on 3ds You can illegally emulate 3ds games on the 3ds So again, it's not something that I'm a big supporter of But I am not gonna lie. I played around with homebrew back during the wee days. So Here is how it works I'm getting this report from Nintendo life who condensed a longer report that was over at Wolow low net so I'll have a link to both in the Nintendo life and wallow low net But I'm gonna stick with Nintendo life because they did a better job condensing it when I looked at the original report It gets a little too technical So the let's just get to the basics here says it's not like to switch as any shortage of amazing quality games But that never stops homebrew enthusiasts from trying to get Experimental with Nintendo hardware after all the Wii U and 3ds were eventually opened up to play homebrew So it was only a matter of time before an exploit was found on switch Over on the wall a little homebrew community It has been reported that following several months of tinkering the Pega switch toolkit has now made it possible to run homebrew on switch However, there is a caveat. It must be running firmware 3.0.0, which is a problem because most switch owners are updated to 4.0.1 by now however For those with firmware lower than version 3.0.0 It is recommended that you use Poken tournament DX to get up to date with the desired firmware Basically you put the game in and that's the firmware that it will require you to install to play the game It says right now. It doesn't sound like there are any homebrew games available as such But the team behind retro arc seems to think their emulator will be running on the switch soon So that's basically the gist of it. You have to have this older version of The OS to run it So it's not it's not like a full homebrew was able to be hacked like on Wii U and 3ds on almost every single version out there and but that's not the case here and and The reason that this matters is because if you do You know reflash your your switch somehow Factory reset it back to below The firmware update or whatever the case maybe you do what you can to get back to it or you have an older firmware update You can't play Super Mario Odyssey because Super Mario Odyssey requires 4.0.1 This is something that I think Nintendo has smartly done To combat piracy and took a bat hacking of their system is sure through an older version of their OS You're able to run homebrew However Nintendo is requiring that their new games always require the latest firmware Patches and now you might complain. Oh, I don't have internet access. So I can't get the latest firmware. I get it It sucks, but see that's why the games sometimes come with the patch It's come with the firmware included with it. So that's how Nintendo is working around that and yeah I mean in general, you guys probably know my stance by now, but I stand against Modifying and hacking Your consoles especially Well, okay, let me let me run that back a little bit I'm not against you modifying your console and hacking it and seeing what you can do with the hardware What I am against is doing it in a method that allows people to install emulators to play games illegally And I understand that that stance isn't necessarily popular There's plenty of people out there that will tell me that emulation is valid and should be allowed and blah blah blah blah Even if that emulation is of literally Nintendo switch games Which means you're stealing games Because if you owned the game on Nintendo switch, you wouldn't need to run an emulator to run the game on Nintendo switch So it's it's a very sticky situation to me I Disavoid the whole mess There's multiple things that happen when you homebrew your system one it Invalidates your warranty So if anything happens to your switch while it's under warranty which all Nintendo switches are right now You just invalidated it and you can't get it replaced either by GameStop or Walmart or Amazon or wherever you got it or by Nintendo themselves And to Nintendo severely frowns down upon this so When you're looking to get newer switch games if you want to buy them You can't get them and it's potential that you might never be able to emulate them either even if they release an emulator for them Just because of not being able to match up OS level Updates so it's definitely going to be interesting to see how this progress is moving forward Nintendo has definitely learned how to combat homebrew a lot better than they have in the past as I said I fully used homebrew on Wii for a couple weeks and I Understood some of the benefits. It was kind of neat getting some applications and getting some emulators on my system that I couldn't normally have I mean on my Wii. I was emulating SNES games it The thing is is I Times of change I guess of me right ever since I got busted legally like legally busted by my ISP and by the FBI for Downloading and a legal copy of a game. I've kind of just been against it saying that you know what I know my my getting busted is Such a rarity, but It's just not worth the risk. There are so many ways to play these games now So many legal ways to play these games I know that there's no virtual console yet on switch that could be to turn up But there is virtual console on Wii U. There is virtual console on switch. There's SNES classic out there You could still buy the old system and go the old-school retro gaming route if you don't want to get the old system There are new retro systems that play multiple different systems. You can just go buy the cartridges There's even still used like mom-and-pop shops around here that sell like SNES games and NES games and blah blah blah blah blah blah and they're not usually that expensive so I Don't know you guys let me know what you think about this in the comments below Do you plan to use homebrew? Have you been waiting like knowing that this was going to take the 3.0 0.0 update because we knew that This whole time that they were working on making homebrew work with 3.0 0.0 There that was stated a while back that seemed to be where hackers were getting in That's how hackers were able to access like the web browser and how we found out about the golf game and blah blah blah Everything seemed to be happening on that version of the OS So you guys let me know what you think about all of that In the comments below your thoughts on emulation in general your thoughts on homebrew If this is a positive or negative thing or just to hate whatever it exists. It happens people are gonna do this Let me know what you think about all this in the comments below Anyways folks, I am Nathaniel Ruffles Jants from Nintendo Prime and if you liked this video Well, you know what to do and if you dislike the video hit that dislike button There is still time to enter our Nintendo switch Triple a three-pack giveaway. We have a gleam. I only down in the Description below if you would like to enter that it the contest ends at the end of the what's not even contest The giveaway ends at the end of the month. I'll select a winner and you will perceive those three games being LA noire doom and Skyrim for Nintendo switch Happy and said folks. I will catch you in the next one