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> despite Nintendo being much more secretive and litigious

Eh, kind of? Nintendo has never interfered with solely modding your Switch, or the tools to do so, and will not ban you for loading CFW. Install CFW, overclock your Switch, even cheat in offline games, no interference.

Their lines in the sand for years have been changing your profile image to something arbitrary (and possibly NSFW), installing a pirated game, cheating online, or tampering with system logs. That’s when the ban hammer hits; and the tools for doing those get targeted.



They were never particularly competent about it (from the technical side, anyway), but https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel#Changelog is a pretty sad/hilarious read.




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