Nintendo's Switch 2 made it just over a year before somebody cracked it — and the hack's entry key is a $25 app that was, until this week, just sitting on the eShop.
A developer going by pepsipu built the first Switch 2 jailbreak with a little help from OpenAI's Codex. The recipe: buy SmileBASIC 4, a legit game-making tool on Nintendo's own store, then trip a bug hiding in its code. The proof is glorious.
The receipts: Mario Kart World running Peter Griffin, Hatsune Miku, and Cinnamoroll as playable racers. Yes, Peter Griffin is technically in a Nintendo game now.
The target: Nintendo's fastest-selling console, opened up by code delivered through its own store. The exploit runs homebrew, mods games, and backs up save files on current firmware.
The catch: it's tethered — one reboot and the hack is gone. And since the whole thing rides on a single store listing, Nintendo can pull the plug with one click. Which it probably will.
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