The Reswitched team has started teasing ‘fusée gelée’ as a proof-of-concept coldboot execution hack capable on the Switch. To put that into simpler terms, it sounds like they have discovered a pretty serious exploit in the Switch’s Nvidia chip.
The team at Reswitched, which focuses on hacking the Nintendo console to allow homebrew software, publicly shared their discovery, so there’s no doubt that the teams at Nvidia and Nintendo are currently racing around exploring the exploit.
The real bombshell of the discovery is that apparently it cannot be resolved with a software patch. Nintendo could make some adjustments at the hardware level for future, but it sounds like there is no way to roll out a fix for consoles that have already shipped. That’s a pretty big uh-oh and, if reliable, the hack could give console owners the ability to run all kinds of emulators on the machine.
We’ll keep an eye out for a response from Nintendo and be sure to post any updates on the situation.
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Source: Reswitched
