{"id":48885,"date":"2018-09-20T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/hackers_are_already_uploading_additional_games_to_the_switch_nes_library"},"modified":"2018-09-20T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T01:30:00","slug":"hackers-are-already-uploading-additional-games-to-the-switch-nes-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/20\/hackers-are-already-uploading-additional-games-to-the-switch-nes-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Are Already Uploading Additional Games To The Switch NES Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d2c28d2f78804\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d2c28d2f78804\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Nintendo Switch Online Service Latest\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d2c28d2f78804\/nintendo-switch-online-service-latest.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d2c28d2f78804\/nintendo-switch-online-service-latest.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Switch Online Service Latest\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The NES library associated with Nintendo Switch Online has just been released and already hackers have found a way to upload additional titles to the service.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports from Kotaku, the NES emulators on the Switch and the NES Classic function in a similar way &#8211; making it possible for hackers with modified systems to easily add more NES games to the Switch service.<\/p>\n<p>It was a chain reaction of sorts, with one hacker uploading the opening of <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/battletoads\">Battletoads<\/a><\/strong> operating on the service, which inspired another hacker to share their own findings &#8211; revealing all existing games on the service could be replaced with other ROM files.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The opening of <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/kirbys_adventure\">Kirby&#8217;s Adventure<\/a><\/strong> has also been <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KapuccinoHeck\/status\/1042274968963301376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1042274968963301376&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fkotaku.com%2Fajax%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fid%3Dtwitter-1042274968963301376%26autosize%3D1\">shown<\/a> running on the NES service via a ROM located under the <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/river_city_ransom\">River City Ransom<\/a><\/strong> box art. One of the hackers warned Kotaku about the associated risks:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I would highly advise against anyone else doing it as I\u2019ve been told there\u2019s a lot of data from the app being sent to Nintendo and that it has a fair few legitimacy checks that occur at random.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The same hacker also noted how modified systems can put Nintendo accounts at risk &#8211; with the constant threat of being banned &#8211; and is of the belief Nintendo won&#8217;t be ironing out these vulnerabilities in the online NES library anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NES library associated with Nintendo Switch Online has just been released and already hackers have found a way to upload additional titles to the service. According to reports from Kotaku, the NES emulators on the Switch and the NES Classic function in a similar way &#8211; making it possible for hackers with modified systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}