Switch 2 factory firmware spotted in the wild

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ooh shiny,,,,
skids be like: DOES THIS MEAN HOME BREW FOR SWITCH @@@22?!?no
but I love aging tests. I love when the age gets tested

Just... How did this happen? >.>

Some little Vietnamese kid is going to get Nintendo Ninja'd 🥷

Just... How did this happen? >.>

same way the Startup Disk Wiis got out into the wild; lazy employee not checking for the update properly

I highly doubt this will lead into anything since we can't really dump it right now (even more so since all it seems to be able to do is read json files, which you can't do too much with anyways), nor would we even be able to gleam much of any value since all you can do looks like just having the Aging tests done on loop and anything you can write for it will only work for any Switch 2 that just so happens to be in the same situation as this unit here.

I highly doubt this will lead into anything since we can't really dump it right now (even more so since all it seems to be able to do is read json files, which you can't do too much with anyways), nor would we even be able to gleam much of any value since all you can do looks like just having the Aging tests done on loop and anything you can write for it will only work for any Switch 2 that just so happens to be in the same situation as this unit here.

we might get a 3dsque homebrew where you downgrade (somehow, maybe by editing the firmware to change fuse? but that would ruin the key. confusing) to this version to get homebrew, then re-upgrade to the latest version (or just Pre-Day1/Day1) to get homebrew on latest version.

unlikely but might happen.

reminds me of the Wii startup disk

That would be a Nintendo Switch 2™ QA unit. :switch2:

Bro needs to drop this on ebay and make some money.

If Switch 2 gets hacked, so EVERYONE on this forum is going crazy and congratulate the accomplishment. Switch 2 sale will go up by 500% and most of customers are members of GBATemp.

Also, what next? OG Switch gets full hacking that allow members to replace the Horizon with Windows, so look at someone use Windows OS on Switch screen. It is painful surgery for OG Switch lol.

Bro needs to drop this on ebay and make some money.

Me when I don't fully read the post before replying to it

Someone send this to Gary Bowser in prison, let him cook.

This is actually really neat.

I hope someone's poking around with that.... Don't reboot! 😂

Someone send this to Gary Bowser in prison, let him cook.

Gary aint been in prison for quite some time, served his time.
Plus he wont touch anything Nintendo related, and has gone full retro

Let the games begin!

Nintendo be like: a snitch on a hacker gets a switch 2. :switch2:

Time to run DOOM from a JSON file. Don't ask how, dark magic I guess.