Hackers Create A Way To Replace Models And Text In Switch Games

Likely the only way people will see mods for Skyrim on the Switch

Have they hacked off Mario's board shorts yet?

As a debauched nudist, I find his relatively puritanical attire quite distasteful.

As deplorable hacking is, that’s honestly pretty cool.

Pathetic...

This is why modding this stuff is so awesome, seeing how people can take games to a new level.

@Anti-Matter You may not know this, but modding games is perfectly fine. Especially as Skyrim was mentioned: Bethesda releases modding tools themselves and promotes modding community (though recently they also tried to profit off of it). Switch owners lose out on a lot by not having access to mods in Skyrim.

And because this article mentions Mario as well:

The problem with this is the potential abuse in online games. I have always felt that people should be able to do whatever they want in single player games - hack and cheat to your hearts content, it's a game and it's meant to be fun. But as soon as you start cheating in multiplayer games and ruining other people's fun, then it's gotta stop.

But with hacking even if you aren't going to cheat online, another person might.

@SmaggTheSmug that looks super

@Anti-Matter Boi...

Local mods are fun and good. Even I made one once, replacing Ryu's voice in Smash Bros. with his voice from Street Fighter 1. I will port it to Ultimate the minute it becomes viable.

Erm... it's not just a mod tool, people are using LayeredFS to load 'backup' games.

Yes, games that someone backup on the internet and you download it and play for free type of backup.

I love how every security breach of a private online infrastructure is defended as "but modding is good!" Yeah, some people are interested in the actual modding (but most of the interested people are on PC to begin with), but lets not pretend that the #1 point of most of these hacking groups is to open piracy and/or cheating.

It's lose-lose, everything has to be hacked rather than just modded by hobbyists because companies obsessively lock things down. Companies excessively lock things down because the moment they don't pay attention someone enables mass pirating and defends it as their right.

We don't care what hackers do. Out with the criminals and thieves getting front-page headlines everyday from NintendoLife.

Mods are best left to PC games.

I really don't understand the appeal of hacking consoles (which are closed-garden platforms) and essentially trying to turn them in to PC's. Way too much effort and risk involved.

@Cosats They changed the Moon collectible to a Shine Sprite?

What a crime!

All this stuff to mod Skyrim on Switch? Guess someone's save file glitched really bad. XD

goes back to collecting all stray post-fight weapons and storing them om corpses and in nearby wardrobes

@Cosats inb4 "Nintendo Defense Force!!!"

@AlexOlney I made a mod too
https://gamebanana.com/gamefiles/6946

Always fine with mods as long as its a cosmetic thing that only you can see. The second it's cheating I want the person banned xD

@Voldemort807 that's _gator_boi to you.

Ah, finally a NL comment section where not literally everyone screams out their hate of hackers! I thought I’d never see the day...

@TheSunCat Hey I did too

All I'd ever want to do is substitute the female character models in Skyrim with something that doesn't look like it was mauled by an ice troll and rolled through its dung. Bethesda seems incapable of making attractive looking characters in their games... I know such mods exist on PC but I prefer console gaming.

@Dualmask I liked Fallout 4's character models.