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Re:Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023 by gjsman-1000 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:18AM (#39028857)
This also helps for when an exploit is found, like say the issue with Firmware 4.51 and lower.

It's super easy to fix then - cook up a new DRM and encryption scheme (or modify the current one) that, without access to the internals, is impossible to figure out. Doesn't take much - probably just a generic encryption key that gets swapped out. Then, roll that out in an OS update. Finally, make new games use that encryption scheme and thus that firmware level.

Sure, games that run on 4.51 or lower are cracked. New ones? Uncrackable, until a new jailbreak is found.

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Re:Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023 by rolltrunhert on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:17PM (#39030554)
> Sure, games that run on 4.51 or lower are cracked. New ones? Uncrackable, until a new jailbreak is found.

The PS4 scene is full of downgrade patches. Many games targeting 10.x for example didnt make use of newer syscalls and it was discovered how to patch the game for 9.0 (the 9.0 firmware has a jailbreak).

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