Hackers at the 34C3 hacking conference in Germany have demonstrated how the security in the Nintendo Switch’s NVIDIA Tegra X1 GPU can be defeated, leading the way to unofficial programs and games for the console. While the actual exploit will not be released, a homebrew launcher is coming.



One of the highlights of the presentation is how the hackers leveraged the fact that the Nintendo Switch uses an “off the shelf” NVIDIA Tegra X1: a GPU that is well documented, and for which debugging hardware can also be officially acquired at reasonable prices. The X1 documentation, in particular, gave the hackers detailed information on how to bypass some security of the SMMU (System Memory Management Unit).

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