Just lately, every day seems to bring more troubling stories of hacking issues on Switch; already this week we've seen Splatoon 2 players being forced to play with unreleased content by game hackers, as well as some rather bold movements from Nintendo itself to combat attempted piracy. This particular story is by far the most disturbing and upsetting so far, however.
As you will no doubt be aware if you own a Switch yourself, there are a limited amount of display pictures that you can choose from to set as your user profile picture. Ranging from Mii characters to Nintendo favourites like Mario and Link, these pictures are mostly just for your own profile purposes, but in some cases - such as in Super Mario Odyssey's Luigi's Balloon World game - they can also appear in-game.
Hackers have now found a way to use any custom image as a profile picture, therefore being able to display any imagery they like within Super Mario Odyssey itself. When you find another player's balloon, that user's display profile is very clearly visible and, sadly, hackers are taking advantage of this to display adult-themed imagery in the game.
Multiple users on Reddit (mostly parents) have been posting about the dangers of this with others, with one user stating that "there are multiple of these balloons all being made by the same user. This is obviously intentional, and made to upset children". It certainly is an awful manipulation of the system, and one that could cause upset for those innocently playing the game as intended. Super Mario Odyssey is rated as being safe for users aged 7 and up by PEGI, and as 'Everyone 10+' by ESRB, and parents should be safe in the knowledge that their children won't be subjected to such material.
As we've seen with other cases, we imagine Nintendo will be aiming to combat this as soon as possible. Hopefully something can be done swiftly to remove the offending content and prevent it from happening again in the future.
[source vooks.net, via reddit.com]
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This is why Nintendo is overprotective of online. Cool to see nudes in counterstrike tags when I was 12. Not something I expected in a Mario game.
That guy should be arrested.
Pictures, or it didn't happen. 😉
This is why we cant have nice things
Can we go a day without you guys promoting the hacking scene?
OFF WITH THEIR (Edited: Hackers) HEADS !!!
Seriously hackers? I'm fine when you're just screwing around with your own stuff for offline purposes. But stop forcing your crap on everyone else.
@XenoShaun there’s a difference between reporting and promoting. Promotion would be saying the whole thing was funny or encouraging it which the article clearly doesn’t . It’s very clearly reporting it in a negative light. If you don’t want it reported then fair enough but the use of the word promoting is wrong.
What a bunch of d***s
@Mr_Pepperami "There's no such thing as bad publicity". All this does is give more reason for hackers to do this in the first place, because media outlets gobble it up. It may not be the intent to promote such things but continually publisizing it does.
If something like this happened in an adult game like Call of Duty I don't think it would be a big deal, but the fact that this is a kid friendly game has me conflicted. This is why Nintendo will always be restrictive with online content.
@XenoShaun this is a Nintendo news site and this is stuff that’s going on in the world of Nintendo right now so it’s in their perview to report it. That’s like saying if the news reports a murder they are promoting murder. It’s not how it works. Also there is such a thing as bad publicity. If you read 5 reviews of the same game saying it’s pants you are hardly more inclined to buy it.
There's the usual people on reddit saying how it's fine and bodies should be shown as they're beautiful etc etc.
I really don't understand how anyone can not realise the difference between pornographic content, showing media based idealistic bodies and over sexual behaviour etc for the purposes of sexual excitment and a tasteful artistic representation of the human form and say everyone is a prude and it's fine for children/a family friendly game.
Seriously?! The mind boggles!!
With also zero thought to how,if this was commonplace throughout a childs life, how it would make them believe both the opposite sex and themselves should behave.
I just... Idk man, the internet I guess.
Now Nintendo will be even more strict with their censorship of shareable content.
Thanks, crevices.
just play the game, don't ruin it for the rest of us!
I hate these people. Why do these creeps want to do this kind of trash?
@DABYX totally. The people that do this kind of thing are just sad, empty people. Imagine if the only way you could derive pleasure was through knowing you’ve upset others. It’s disgusting and the world has too many people like that for my tastes.
@XenoShaun I'm very glad they put this up. I don't play Odyssey but my 8 year old son does. It's good to know that this kind of stuff is going on so I can keep an eye out for it.
@XenoShaun News is news and hacking will never go away.
I wonder if these sort of people know how painfully lame they are. Absolutely pathetic.
It's not funny to harm children. It makes you a pathetic, sick, demented a$$hole that contributes nothing to society. It's not funny and just shows how lousy their lives are. Instead of trying to improve themselves, they would rather just drag others into their abyss.
Don't bait others into starting a flame war, please!
@Joker13z totally agree with you! I love hacking my systems but this is a horrible thing to be doing!
And with that, I no longer care how draconian Nintendo gets with dealing with hackers. They've crossed the line into felony territory (exposing pornographic imagery to minors).
What kind of pictures, violent or lewd?
Those with children can understand how serious it is. I remember how yoshis wooly world use to have stupid miiverse images. It use to be shameful
@XenoShaun This is actual news and not promoting at all. The promoting articles are the ones that say "Hackers find cool way to change your image to something else other that the few presets that Nintendo gives."
There is is a line, this article doesn't cross it, but NL often does.
And this is why we can't have nice things. This is ultimately why miiverse went away and why Luigi's balloon challenge will also go away.
@Mr_Pepperami Your news report analogy was EXACTLY what I was going to use, until I saw it.
@Anti-Matter I dont think you should insult an entire ethnic group. I am Caucasian and had nothing to do with it. In my country this constitutes a felony, it`s called Racism.
@HobbitGamer great minds think alike😉
@Anti-Matter Ironic that you're so, so against violent video games and yet are the most violent one on this comment section for this article.
@1UP_MARIO I don't have children but I can grasp the basic concept of what's appropriate and what isn't and whether some things can not only upset people but shape the mindset and alter children's lives.
But that's probably because I'm not an ignorant twonk with zero empathy. (The hackers obviously)
@Anti-Matter Usually I give your comments some leeway because I understand not all languages and cultures are the same. But there are some universals, and using 'crackers' in a broad sense could make some disregard you entirely and view you in a dim light. It doesn't offend me, but my first reaction is obviously "Dude, what??". Just FYI
@MattFox
Racism what ?
I used quote from Queen Heart from Alice in Wonderland.
As a mod of the Switch subreddit... I've seen the pics. Not nice!
Why? Why be such a horrible human being?
@Deadlyblack
They did Too Far.
I used quote from Queen Heart to express my anger.
@XenoShaun I'm quite sure this article is doing more of a PSA for folks (especially those with young players in the family) than promoting the hacking scene. If this article makes you want to go learn how to do this, that's on you and not the article.
@Anti-Matter Did you mean off with the Hacker's heads?
@HobbitGamer
Last time, we deal to differ between Hacker & Cracker.
So, i used Cracker to describe the Evil peoples who manipulated contents with inappropriate things.
I'm a hentai/porn loving perv & even I don't approve of this.
@Knuckles-Fajita Pretty much. Time for the easy solution, rip the ability to have profile pics present in the game. One bad apple ruins the bunch and all that.
@Anti-Matter don’t know if you are aware but you wrote ‘crackers’ maybe instead of the word hackers. Crackers is a derogatory word that means white people. Just in case you didn’t know.
@HobbitGamer
If (I said if, not really want to do it) i am Nintendo CEO, I will "Off with their heads" or Bring them to the court and send them to prison forever.
@Anti-Matter I got ya! Some of us assumed you meant cracker = slur for white folks. I see what you meant though. Like a safe cracker, some one cracking a safe.
@Mr_Pepperami
Ow.....
Sorry.
Last time we deal to differ between Hacker and Cracker.
@DABYX yea. Sorry could of worded it better. I think this sort of hacking puts a massive hate towards the hacking community
@Anti-Matter yeah, figured you didn’t know as you seemed confused why people were coming at you. Thought I’d give you a heads up.
@Anti-Matter @Mr_Pepperami @MattFox
Came for the article, stayed for the multi-cultural/linguistic confusion! We all learned lessons this morning hahaha :)
@HobbitGamer hahaha so true.
@Anti-Matter @Mr_Pepperami MICROAGGRESSION: HIT HIM!! (South Park: TFBW reference, since I know A-M wouldn't have played that to know It's a satire of a common "political correctness" (thought police) thing in US universities.... )
Seriously though, while "cracker" is a racial slur against whites (in the 1970's anyway), however Anti-Matter used it correctly. "Hackers" and "Crackers" both refer to code breakers, and while there's technically no difference the type of "hacker" that doesn't commit crimes and likes to hack/tweak/mod/explore their own software for the sake of it tend to prefer the term "crackers" so as not to get confused with the media storm "hackers" that implies criminal behavior. You're both right, but the slur is kind of outdated, and Anti-Matter's application of hackers/crackers/code breakers is in fact correct (at least in American slang, it may not apply on the other side of the pond.)
@XenoShaun Meanwhile on NBC/ABC/BBC/CBS/CNN/FOX every large shooting gets 48 hours of non-stop coverage and a biography of the shooter's life story fed to every home in the country. Gee, I wonder why someone might go with a large shooting if they want to be recognized/important?
It's not that NL is doing journalism wrong. It's that they're doing "new journalism" right: A self serving tabloid to sell misery for money because people can't seem to not want to watch it.
@ryancraddock Thanks for this, Ryan. Will be sure to let my friend know tonight. I think she and her daughter play the Balloon World segment sometimes.
Is anyone aware if there is a privacy setting similar to Xbox Live in which user-created content would not be displayed? If there is, would a profile picture even be classed in that category?
@1UP_MARIO Nah, you didn't say anything wrong buddy I was just stating how you don't need have have children either to see it's wrong! Aka: These people are ignorant.
Sorry if I came across wrong
@NEStalgia yeah totally. Never said he was wrong just felt sorry for him as he seemed confused to why people thought he was being racist. Thought id help him out. Weirdly now I want to eat some crackers.
@NEStalgia I loved TFBW simply for all those ridiculous PC fights, and outside the school whenever you did "character selection choices". Cracker is still used around here in the Southeast US...Deep South.... But it's all about whether it's gonna bother you; doesn't hurt me, but makes me view someone who intentionally slings around that kind of attitude as narrow-minded and small.
@Mr_Pepperami Saltiiiiiiiiines
@HobbitGamer Such slurs are impossible! We live in an inclusive society now! I don't understand!
That's just sad it's not cool to do that to kids hacking is a gift I don't have I would put it to good use if I did
Lol this has to be one of the most entertaining comment sections ever. Glad everything came to an amicable and educational resolution.
@Mr_Pepperami I don’t blame you. Crackers are great with tea
Mario Kart DS all over again. Bet these folks with lvl 80 sense of humour wouldn't wear a tee with such stuff on it into broad public daylight. Even though here they're technically committing the same garbage.
"Online interactions not rated by ESRB" can feel like one of the most laconic yet eloquent statements about the internet and the ODE that some people end up singing to it (yes, that was an abbreviation there, and I've made far more horrible puns).
On a side note, I just learned of another meaning for "crackers". Turns out it's been around for centuries, too. God bless pejorative slang, the true champion of clarity in verbal communication.
@1UP_MARIO Is that why I'm always greeted when carrying tea??
@nhSnork Lol, yeah this article taught more than just what terrible things are in Mario!
@PuppyToucher It's truly been fun. It's the E3 chat all over again! In fact, most involved in the Great Cracker Dilemma were in that chat haha.
Could there possibly be a less appropriate word to describe this sort of imagery than "adult?"
That's what happens if you allow cross-play and eat pineapple pizza.
Ugh, it's hackers like these which is why we can't have nice things. Burn him in a fire pit.
@Octane
Pineapple pizza ?
Yeah the cesspool of humanity strikes again. How hard is it to keep your illness to yourself and respect others? I'm guessing it is life or death.
Hackers grow up !
You need to stop !
How dare some offending hacker would try to offend a bunch of 4 year olds that play I'm not playing again until this issue gets patched
@Ryu_Niiyama people seem happy just to get a rise out of others. This is what happens when we lose personal connections to other people.
@NEStalgia Yes that's what I was attributing similarities too. I'm having a failing of explaining things today. Though this is of course no where near the severity but has the same motivations.
Maybe I'm over interpreting due to the amount of glorifying NL does for the hacking scene.
I'm surprised this is possible. I would have expected the profile picture to be simply a code to generate the image locally, not an actual image file.
People who intentionally expose pornography to children should be treated as paedophiles by law. Slap that jerk on the sex offenders register.
Whilst im quite fed up with all these hacking exposés NL seems to enjoy sharing at least this article offers genuine value to parents on here.
Ridiculous. Doing ANYTHING online, sucks, because people just HAVE to ruin everything
See this is why the hackers aren't treated well by Nintendo. They're always up in arms about how it's their right to homebrew and modify and so forth, but in the end all we get are %#$ images and a lesser opinion of the hacking community. Respect goes both ways. They need to stop this childish behavior if they want to be viewed in a better light.
It's not really a criminal offence. At worst it's akin to going to a public forum and posting porn there. The games are used by people of all ages, so it can't be proven to be aimed specifically at minors. At best it's a violation of the Tos, which is not grounds fir any criminal liability whatsoever.
Cya
Raziel-chan
@Ryu_Niiyama For some reason we're gravitating more toward a primitive state of thinking than the past 200 years (even the big wars weren't primitive so much as ideological and economic, but within each faction was civility among peers) but these day's it's more primitive. Not just the internet but general interactions with people in real life too. A self importance over all others like caveman survival instinct. I imagine it's not long before it all collapses and everyone just goes back to open violence and factions.
Maybe that's why the obsession with zombie/apocalypse settings in entertainment. Deep down, we all know it's coming. Not the zombies, but the wasteland and survival aspect.
This is sad. No idea why people want to ruin the game/experience for others. If you like to hack/mod your system/games then go for it but pushing things into others games is awful. Hopefully Nintendo locks these people out of all online access
why are you making us the bad guys here, it's nintendo's fault that they added the devmenu
Not sure this even counts as hacking. These are just dirtbags who customize profile pics to be perverted in a children’s game.
Well this was by far the most entertaining Nintendo Life comment section yet.
gee thanks hackers for having a Reason for Nintendo to remove Luigi's Balloon World now.
@Razzy
Look I know how touchy everyone gets when it comes to internet censorship, but if someone were to run around town flashing their bits at people, it would be worse than just offensive. But if people intentionally throw crap like this at people online, especially in places populated by a majority of children, it’s just considered prankster stuff. Enough, already. If they are adults they should get jail time.
@Flipbot they change their icons via devmenu and they run it via hacking so it's technically hacking
Edit: here a video that proofs my point https://youtu.be/t1B2N7-6FXI?t=54s (they insert custom pictures to do this)
The people who do this and consider themselves adults really need to reevaluate that opinion.... Seriously. This is juvenile.
With each new articles about hackers (crackers) they become less and less favorable compared to last month where Nintendo was issuing accounts bans for "innocent" homebrew consoles. Meet the new low.
The troubling part is Nintendo would either cut out displaying icons for balloon runs or worse case, cut it out in general. Happened with Swapnotes, Kid Icarus uprising and several other games with online/miiverse interactions (also miiverse in general). Best case just ban the people doing it
Tell me again. Tell me about how good Homebrew is.
The whole homebrew/games argurment is pretty dumb as well tbh.
Any old console, no longer online or any PC can satisfy anyone's needs until the current gen is no longer viable.
Imo: if you want to hack/mod and feel like it's your 'right', do it when the next console arrives and wait.
@LUIGITORNADO this video explains everything https://youtu.be/77fJ4JHkvuw
These are the harmless hackers correct?
Jesus Christ...
now, THIS is messed up
I hope Nintendo will be humbled by all those issues they are having lately with the online gaming. I am rather pleased to see how they are being helplessly harassed by hackers since they are disrespecting us with their choices about the online service and the things locked behind the subscription. I hope they will not be as arrogant as they have been anymore
I wish Nintendo would stop focussing on banning hacked consoles and whatnot and just focus on banning the people that use them to cheat/alter games online. This really is despicable and disgusting.
@LuckyLand If anything they'll just close the doors more. They're more likely to stop offering online features completely.
You know, because harrasing someone is a excellent way to drive them away.
@Yosheel If they will stop offering online features they will sell again their Virtual console games instead of locking them behind the subscription and they will need to give the players the ability to backup their saved games manually using the SD card. I don't care about backups for every game, I just want to be able to backup The Elder Scroll saves so I don't care if they lock a few saves like Animal crossing. And I absolutely hate online gaming so for me is a good thing if they will completely stop online features. They will not be able to abuse of them like they are trying to do now that way.
@NEStalgia I just can't understand how anyone can spin this to say that this is justifiable in any way (and I'm already seeing it some in this comment section.). I'm not going to say humanity has ever been a bastion of decency as we tend to be "nice" in one area and atrocious in another, but what happened to manners and a basic level of human decency? I know we like to blame tech, but people are like this face to face, when driving, you name it. It is like our species has collectively decided to just quit trying to be better. Is being decent (I'm talking bare minimums here) that physically/emotionally taxing?
@Ryu_Niiyama It amazes me...and I don't know why, I should expect it, but it amazes me, on nearly every comment thread, to see the moral Twister so many people easily and confidently can perform to justify almost anything.
Yep, you got it exactly right with what I was talking about. And I don't actually understand it. I keep trying to figure out what changed that made society suddenly just stop civility (and even defend being uncivil as the true civility!) Something changed it. I don't now what. I would say "the internet"....but like we were saying, it applies face to face too.
I suppose parenting, radically changed...but that doesn't explain adults that dropped civility. It seems like a collective thing that one day (and I've noticed increasingly so year on year over the past 10 years or so) civility is seen as odd, and self importance is a virtue.
More worrysome is that this conversation makes us both sound like we're 85 out on rocking chairs, talking about "kids today"....and it honestly FEELS like that. I blame video games.
Doesnt take much to control mainstream opinion, does it... You guys don't even know it's happening. You've been groomed for so long it just feels like its your own personal view. There's no alternative allowed, you've felt this way from the start and of course its abhorrent. I mean, hackers are just reprehensible, always. I'm sure Nintendo thinks so for all sorts of reasons. Their bottom line the most, but yeah, I mean, look at these guys. Can you believe it? Hackers are just no good. Remember that kids, when they world flips. Wouldn't want you to forget what you've learned.
No. By all means, report this stuff. The different teams at Nintendo need to be alerted and see this stuff hitting the news. It gives them a job to do and a sense of urgency. If my baby brother or sister saw some junk playing a harmless Mario game, I’d be ready to slash heads and turn the game off until it’s fixed. If somebody wants to hack and mess with their own stuff for fun and hobby, its cool. I get it, I had a GameShark in the PSX era and I loved changing dialogue to lewd stuff. I was also 14, and it stayed on my PSX. Ruining the experience for other players, particularly children or adults who work hard and play by the rules, is not acceptable at all.
It's still pretty funny
@NEStalgia You know I used to give people a pass and say that because my parents had me later in life I'm an "old soul" and all that. That I was just "out of touch" with others my age...but this is just insanity at this point. I'll take the rocking chair please. If it is this bad and we are just in our adult years its going to be a warzone when we are actually old people.
I have seen a lack of responsibility taken in parenting, a pervasive belief that all behavior should be encouraged because to do otherwise is some sort of abuse. Lord of the flies. But I don't understand where the mindset comes from. You can introduce structure and promote decency with out beating the heck out of your kids. Cruelty, bullying, sexual obsession and extreme offense shouldn't have to be the default human reaction to everything.
Seriously, the thing that I don't understand about this self importance/snowflake movement is that it automatically defaults to harming/inconveniencing others. I'm a big fan of positive selfishness, as in I don't harm myself to please others, but that NEVER translates into intentionally hurting others to please myself. So I don't want to blame the ideal of self importance as a whole. I personally believe that you have to better yourself before you can help others, otherwise you are just in the way and helping no one (including yourself). I think that a person can work in their own interest and that doesn't preclude them from being neutral if not good people ...at the very least polite. The strangest thing though is the fact that these people that don't care who they hurt/offend/inconvenience, are the first to get upset when they are criticized.
Stand by your convictions. If you believe that your actions are acceptable and right, then you shouldn't mind any backlash, after all you are the one correct, not those that criticize you right? I think that bothers me more than anything. I can deem an unapologetic terrible person useless and ignore them, but it's when they demand acceptance for unacceptable behavior that I get headaches watching the mental gymnastics. Yeah let me go get my cane.
The worrying thing is what do companies do about this? People complain about Nintendo policing others...but when they don't you get this mess. Would these hackers rather we have no games to play? Is that the end goal? They are miserable so they won't rest until they drag others with them? Obviously there is no way to "stop" this type of behavior (the effort people put into being jerks could end world hunger) but instead products get shut down and limited.
Tldr: This is why we can't have nice things. There is no justification for being a jerk.
Enough with this hacker everyday news. We don't care NintendoLife how criminals act. We care about games.
- and change that paleolithic system of comments where my reply is number 167 for a comment that is number 14. Correct these important anachronistic issues NintendoLife and leave all these hackers news for the hackers' websites.
Hackers go away. Nobody likes you...
Nintendo needs an option to hide user created content, including their user names. The ESRB may not rate online interactions, but any game rated E should require the option to block all user created content.
Not enough stability on Switch
I have a niece who likes to play my Nintendo Switch & Wii U & likes to watch me play games (Doesn't matter the console). I definitely DON'T want her seeing that stuff.
Probably an aspie doing this.
I'm all for hacking devices like Nintendo Switch. Deconstructing these machines is the best way to preserve games that may one day be impossible to find, and it expands our understanding of the functionality under the hood, helping us to better appreciate how well-designed Nintendo's machines so often are. But this is a little too far. The only thing you're accomplishing by doing things like this besides the initial endorphin release is the exposure of young children to inappropriate pictures. Unless showing little kids nut shots is something these guys are into, and I'd like to presume that is not the case, they should stick to loading Debian and PlayStation 1 on the Switch.
@Ryu_Niiyama you know, this another of those threads I'll have to tag for replying later because there's about 5 text walls we'll write, and i don't have time to write it all.... Hopefully i won't forget to get back to it like i usually do!
Though we already talked about me, you, and thanos being the text wallers, but we all have been decimated by ralek.... Poor guy, i still haven't replied to yesterday's novella
@NEStalgia I've been sick so I still haven't even responded to the E3 comments. Perhaps one day NL will get a PM system so folks can stop writing novels in here. Ah well wouldn't be NL without needlessly detailed debates about life. Oh and video games.
@Flipbot Real life is not the Internet and vice versa. There may be a case if they posted photos of their own genitals.
And it'd be nice if the mods didn't delete the entire part of my post saying that it's not cool for them to do this due to a crude joke.
Cya
Raziel-chan
I hate humanity sometimes, I swear to God.
@Ryu_Niiyama ahh i wondered why you were scarce at all the e3 conversation. I figured you were just avoiding the drama like sane people would do but most of us did not
Pms don't give them"content". We're just the "undocumented staff writers"
There are many reasons that people may choose to behave in such a way.
On social media a person may choose to join a group and reinforce their sense of belonging and, therefore, their sense of acceptance by others - shared interest, shared values, reinforced sense of identity, a positive image of the self.
Another person or persons may dislike the group and what they stand for, criticise it/troll it and set themselves up as outside the group by virtue of their superior understanding, intelligence or any other quality they deem important. Each act of criticism etc reinforces the positive image of the self.
I would guess that the sharing of indecent images in a game is more about reinforcing self-image in some way - we're so clever, superior because we rebel ("those Nintendo gamers are so uptight, lets mess with them to show them how much we own them") etc. It probably has very little to do with the actual harming of children in their minds. The end goal is only to create the illusion of being "better/superior" by the very fact that they stand outside the group. Argument and rationalisation isn't needed. That's how it is possible to act outrageously, to ignore fact, to be deaf and blind to reason. Ego trip.
@NEStalgia nah I like E3 conversation quite a bit. The expectations and tears over a product never ceases to amaze me. Also since I have a three response rule to idiocy I avoid drama anyway. Plus I use the ignore button quite liberally as I come here to enjoy games and mostly lighthearted discussion. I don’t mind discourse but it is gaming...not that serious nor worth bearing insults from faceless paragraphs.
But I was running a very high fever during most of E3 and when I ‘m sick I can’t analyze and if I can’t attempt to make a logical argument then I’d rather not speak. I may not toss out sources when I comment but I do the research usually before I post. I detest brain vomit.
"Online interactions not rated", people... That's why parental controls exist.
Not saying this is okay tho
So what you guys are against hacking now. What happened with you guys glorifying hacking??
@Cosats Yes. The numbering system for comments is extremely important and should be corrected right away. The horror.
So, today I learned that in America 'cracker' is a term used as a racist slur, and I thought it was just something to eat with cheese. Every day is a school day. You learn a lot from these comments sections sometimes!
Crackers are specifically the ones who 'crack' the copy protection of software to make pirated copies possible.
Hackers dig into code to do all sorts of things, ultimately they're just good programmers or tool users.
So... Nintendo can look at the profiles of online users and ban accounts with a custom image, right?
Genuinely disappointed to reach the end of this thread. The cracker/hacker incident put a big smile on my face after reading about a disgusting act. Now if you’ll excuse me, time to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with the crust removed, a cold can of Tab, and a Twinkie. If you get that reference, you’re as old as me, or older.
Forcing stuff on innocent people is wrong, but Nintendo practically provoked this kind of behaviour with their restrictive policy in the first place.
Just open the Switch to everything and everyone and stuff like this probably won't happen
@shani Terrible idea for a company offering family-friendly experiences!
That is why I don't like the hacking scenes on consoles. Yes, you can do a lot of stuff with it that isn't bad, I understand that.
But the moment there is some kind of homebrew software or something like that, we run into this kind of problem together with the whole piracy thing...
While some people profit from it while doing (arguably) nothing bad, others are getting harmed without even wanting to have anything to do with it. It is just not worth it...
@thiswaynow Why? There are still parental controls.
No one needs Nintendo patronizing their users, especially with things like apps, profile pictures etc.
Besides, Nintendo's policies don't replace parenting. Parents still have to do their job.
Also, Nintendo's products are not only for children. In fact, their target audience are young adults.
@shani Of course it would still happen, you don't need to provoke anyone for stuff like that.
In fact it would happen far more often, because it would be more simple.
@Kirgo Nope, you seem to misunderstand the concept of hacking. The main motiviation is gaining freedom by circumventing restrictions. It's essentially a form or protest.
If there is full freedom, there is no need to hack anything.
So, if everyone could just choose their profile picture freely - as they can on any other online service - hackers wouldn't have had a reason to do this.
Problems like this is why hackers deserve to have their consoles permabanned
@shani And people would just use these kind of profile pictures for the fun of it...
Look around, you see that everywhere on the internet. Every site needs serious moderation and reporting features to fight this kind of stuff. Even with that, especially on bigger sites you see this kind of stuff from time to time anyway.
People on the internet don't need a reason to do something stupid.
Pretty sure whoever made this did not intend for this to happen that must stink
First of all, the way they set these pictures is with a propriety piece of software Nintendo gave to developers called devmenu, this was leaked which is why people are able to do this at all. The people doing this are NOT 'hackers', they are idiot 10 years olds who see that people have found a way to change profile pics to anything and go "HURR DURR IMMA SET IT TO PR0N LOLOL!". And rest assured, everyone who does this and goes online has a >99% chance of getting banned. Actual hackers don't do this or support this (mild profanity warning) https://twitter.com/Reisyukaku/status/1010543500776099844
WTF is wrong with people!
This is making Hackers look like sick Pedo freaks!!!
Pervs.
@Silly_G exactly, it's like how they shut down the SwapNote app on 3DS after a single pervert sent a nude pic of himself to a kid.
This is disgusting. The fact that people do this, on a game meant for all ages no less, is really sad. I have a nephew who plays the heck out of Super Mario Odyssey. I’m not sure if he has a Nintendo Account or not, but this makes me worried. I hope Nintendo patches this out really soon. This is something you wouldn’t expect on a Nintendo game.
The reason for this is simple.
Nintendo striked back first, normally hackers toy around with a system then when they totally crack it they move onto the next thing.
The difference this time being the Switches ease of hacking into meant it was happening more, not that it wouldn't have stopped.
But Nintendo decided to strike back and the strike back was and is particularly heavy handed - normally tech firms and hackers have this unspoken agreement in that hackers expose holes and the support team patches them. Normally the hacking is totally harmless and used as training.
This time the tech firm in question (Nintendo) wasn't playing friendly, they decided to ban hackers accounts, essentially costing a lot of time and money.
Many low level hackers will back off at this approach, unfortunately though the higher level hackers and the hackers who dont generally invest in Nintendo will double down and go above and beyond to mess around with Nintendo.
Nintendo is playing a dangerous game with these people... Look what they did to Sony...
@XenoShaun this also gives parents a heads up and hopefully this feature is able to be turned off.
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