Hackers Find Nintendo Switch 2 Exploit Day After Launch — Minor Hack Enables Custom Code Execution on OS

Alright, so here’s the deal. I stumbled upon this wild story about the Nintendo Switch 2. So, imagine this: hackers — yep, already on it — have found a sneaky way into the freshly released console. Some dude named David Buchanan, over on Bluesky (yeah, never heard of it either until now), decides to show off his digital wizardry. He figured out you could mess with the console’s shared library. Sounds like tech magic, right?

Hold up—what’s this nonsense they call it? A userland Return-Oriented… something? It’s like waving a wand and saying some gibberish. Basically, Buchanan can tweak a program’s return address, redirecting it to do, well, something else. In his case, he made the console show a weird checkerboard graphic. Not your average gaming experience, huh?

And there’s this picture, a snapshot of his little escapade. No clue why it’s fascinating, but it is. I guess it’s like seeing a digital graffiti artist at work.

Now, before you think you can turn your Switch 2 into a super device, slow down. This trick only messes with the surface – user level, they say – and doesn’t dive deep into the inner core. So, no sending your console on some epic jailbreak adventure. Buchanan himself mentioned there’s no big purpose here, just messing around.

The funniest bit? He can’t even prove it’s a real exploit and not just some YouTube prank. But hey, other tech geeks say it’s legit, so guess we gotta take their word for it.

Oh, and Nintendo, bless their protective corporate heart, isn’t playing around. They’ll apparently brick your device if you start tinkering where you shouldn’t, like messing with their holy Nintendo Account Services. Nintendo’s got this iron grip on their rules—makes you think twice about even sneezing near their hardware without permission.

This whole thing’s fresh, and who knows how long before someone cracks it open further. Could be ages. Imagine the showdown if someone does manage to jailbreak this beauty and slap on a homebrew OS. Nintendo vs. the hackers—grab your popcorn.

That’s the scoop, more or less. Follow Tom’s Hardware if you want the real tech talk. Me, I’m still trying to wrap my head around what half these terms mean.