I work with Claude to port games to DOS and build new Classic Macintosh apps [1][2][3] using real hardware.

For a while I was doing the SDcard swap thing; but realized with a usb4vc[4] (hands), a vga/hdmi usb capture dongle (eyes/ears), an old Wemo switch (on/off/reboot) and ftp/appleshare (files/logs) I could have Claude do it all for me.

Claude made me vcctrl[5] that ties all of it together, including an mcp, skills and a webkvm.

1. https://github.com/ecliptik/doskutsu

2. https://github.com/ecliptik/flynn

3. https://github.com/ecliptik/talkip

4. https://github.com/dekuNukem/USB4VC

5. https://github.com/ecliptik/vcctrl

I'm working on a IoT device at work and have been the "hands in the lab" for my agent this week. It's been a really weird experience. Making changes to the update/recovery process, so I have to validate several permutations of fault injection (i.e.: abrupt power loss during update step X while on starting version Y).

I would love to give it unattended "hands". I just thought it was more time efficient to do it manually rather than spend days trying to figure out how to automate SD card pull/plug. X and Y are relatively small, and I expect this validation to be too costly to do at a regular cadence in CI. I can trivially use a MCCI USB-C switch for the power though.

Tips would be appreciated if anyone here has thoughts.

Short term the argument that 'piracy exists yet doesn't affect steam sales' holds true.

Long term when someone makes emulating Switch 2 on your Steam Deck a 1-click install I'm not so sure.

Tears of the kingdom on phone? Where’s that demo haha

Aren't Nintendo's lawyers second to none (maybe other than Disney)? Or do we think we're in a situation where the legality of it is moot? My gut is that we will see a response from Nintendo.

I'm working on a custom app for a camera that has a terrible Android app, and I'm working on a similar harness: AI is building both the 3D model and the parts list (basically, a Raspberry Pi, a webcam, and a few servos).

How about the other way around? With ARM Proton a thing now, how long until I can run Steam on my Switch 2?

I’m sure it can’t run AAA titles - but those from a few years ago? And even modern indie titles surely?

> Worth noting too that this would have easily fetched >$50k

More like $30k, no ("system processes allowing piracy")?

no shortage of answers to this question but the common/short explanation is

- it says codex but not what model, it could have been an abliterated model or something more open to this sorta thing

- convince the model youre not doing the thing youre doing (a bunch of ways to go about this, some short and some long)

its probably possible to convince any model to do any thing if youre clever enough about your approach, kinda just the way this stuff works. General intelligence = infinite ways to direct it.

I think "I want to do stuff to hardware I own", without potential for remote anything, is probably a much easier sell.

I suppose we can let AI write the entire blogpost :)

They won’t. Execs have no idea how to deploy AI. At best they think it means they can give a junior dev $20/month and make them a principal.

Existing companies will fold. Hyper AI companies will eat their lunch.

They are tradeable and resellable which is a very important property for poorer gamers instead of rich collectors like us.

Edit: Switch 2 is also biggest proponent of SD Express. Any supporter of SD cards coming back to phones and other devices should appreciate the stance taken here. Nintendo could've gone the Google/Apple route and just sold 512GB and 1TB models. Instead this effort, like Sony's Xperia phones, are completely unrecognized.

GKCs aren't perfect, but both PS5 and Xbox Series consoles have had games where the disc is near useless too, either with only part of the game on the disc (e.g., Oblivion Remastered) or virtually none of the game on the disc (Indiana Jones). GKCs are at least upfront and clear on the packaging. I wish they had banned the practice of codes in a box. THOSE SUCK.

And just yesterday I had to use my modded 3DS to rescue a physical 3DS cart that wasn't booting. Luckily I was able to but there's no guarantee a physical game will last forever either.

Game key cards are cheaper to make because normal cartridges with the full game cost a fortune right now. And guess why? AI data centers buying up all the memory chips.

On the physical games part, Nintendo still puts their own games on full cartridges, so I don't think they're the ones that deserve the backlash here.

> Game keycards keep the appearance of physical ownership without delivering what people expect from a cartridge.

How's that? Can't you buy & resell them on the used market? That seems like the only thing a physical cartridge gets you, and not shipping the outdated-on-day-one bits on the cart saves some money, too. Seems like win-win?

options for switch1, ps5, xbox: Disc or code in box.

options for switch 2: Full game on cartridge, switch 2 edition (including switch 1 support), Game Key Card (half physical), Code in the box.

I don't see why should nintendo be blamed for providing more options. if anythng you should blame the publishers for chosing "Code in the box" (looking at you diablo) when GKC would do. or GKC when full cartridge would do.

Well then the cost of physical has to go up. We can guess what your opinion on that is.

The Nintendo cartridges contain the full playable version of the game.

Third party publishers often just put the key on it. So blame them for that

The flicker in question is switchbot, I have plenty of them I use for.. things.

The chances of getting banned for this are extremely high. The Switch 2 has plenty of mechanisms to detect tampering. Even if you were completely offline during the process and then reset the Switch afterward, there are logs. People have already been banned for using the MIG Switch to play backups of Switch 1 games on the Switch 2.

I jailbroke my Switch 1 the day I bought it, was banned from Nintendo Online the next day. The only games I bought were physical. I was told this would happen, so it wasn’t an issue at all.

I’ve told my friends if you plan on playing online on it, definitely don’t jailbreak.

never go online and even if you reset the console afterwards , assume the console will get banned when connect to the internet as they know to look for markers of customer firmware.

Switch 1 hacks bypass this by copying ofw from flash onto the microSD card and patching it there to my crude understanding, so that unsigned code never touches the firmware on the system memory.

Something like this definitely will be needed again for the Switch 2 so I'd only do this if you don't care about being banned.

EDIT: ofw = OFW = official firmware

No doubt we will soon enough get de-Nintendo’d alternatives that service jb’d devices

(I'm interested in Homebrew, and I'd love to port my self made game dev framework on Switch 2, but I'm afraid of losing everything)

Yes, you will get banned.

Not your account but the Switch. That’s how it works in Switch 1

Definitely a risk.

Yes, this is true of all jailbreaks.

In my experience, you can often get around this by trying again. I've had prompts that were rejected, but as soon as I started a new session, it worked.

This exploit requires an eShop only game.

Ive only bought 1 thing recently from Nintendo within the last year: a Switch Pro controller.

Why the controller? Cause Switch emulators. They work wonderfully. I dont have to pay a cent for games. I can download the games and their updates. And there's quite a few Switch emulators.

Im not going to pay a company to automate my own abuse.

Might be a bit offtopic, but I really like that it feels like a real human wrote this blog post. I'm reading way too many blog posts, along with GitHub PRs and Issues, that just seem AI generated. This style of writing is just nice

This works on the latest firmware, until they patch it, you can buy even new consoles that are vulnerable.

written at the top: current 23.01 version (i did get the sw2 on first day because you never know but...)

Don't need to buy the game.

Make a JP Nintendo account and download the demo (not available globally) https://store-jp.nintendo.com/item/software/D70010000010547

I remember having to buy GTA Liberty City Stories to jailbreak the PSP. Then there was the infamous Cubic Ninja jailbreak which caused the game to become worth hundreds of dollars.

Almost every console jailbreak required the use of a specific game, going all the way back to the original Xbox. PS1 and 2 required a specific disc or swapping in a legit disc. Even the NES required a real game cart alongside your third party carts.

It turns out that opening locks is a hell of a lot easier when you have a key.

Console hacking has been like that for a very long time. But usually after the first exploits are found and hackers can start playing with things, many more follow. Though Nintendo has been stripping down the OS every new console so there’s less interesting stuff to exploit outside of games.

This gives visibility to a lot more unencrypted code, so just give it time. More bugs will be found quickly now that the code is inspectable.

Reminds me of the Playdate

how do you figure the steam deck "sells" that many "games"?

most of the top steam charts are free to play.

about 1/5th of all active players on Steam are playing Valve's first party titles.

it sells games, yes. but is it selling games the way a switch does? no.

For those who don’t know: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aet8rWKs-A0

Basically, since it wasn’t possible to extract the files from Switch 2 games, fans who wanted to listen to the Mario Kart World soundtrack outside of the game would record the audio output from their console and exploit glitches in-game to prevent sound effects from playing and phase-cancel overlapped recordings of the same song with each recording being interrupted in different parts to isolate the music then crossfade the remaining segments into the complete track.