Nintendo Switch 2 Jailbroken: AI and Old Games Unlock Homebrew Potential

10/23/2026

A software-only Switch 2 jailbreak runs homebrew on firmware 23.0.1 via a SmileBASIC bug that OpenAI's Codex helped find in two weeks.

10/23/2026

Nintendo responds by delisting a Switch title.Nintendo appears to have removed the programming software SmileBASIC 4 from the eShop following the supposed discovery of a Switch 2 jailbreak.The...

10/22/2026

The Nintendo Switch 2 has reportedly been jailbroken with help from OpenAI's Codex, opening the door to homebrew and game modding, but limitations remain.

10/22/2026

The Nintendo Switch 2's first public jailbreak is now in the wild. Unfortunately, anyone who hasn't already bought the coding tool SmileBASIC 4 for the Switch is out of luck, as it has already...

10/22/2026

While the current methods are convoluted and complicated, it's bad news for Nintendo

10/22/2026

Sammy Hajhamid, a security researcher who goes by pepsipu online, has released ns2jb, a software-only jailbreak for the Nintendo Switch 2 that runs on the latest 23.0.1 firmware. To show it off,...

10/22/2026

A little over one year after its debut, and a few months after the discovery of a universal exploit, the Nintendo Switch 2 has been hacked, with the first jailbreak option allowing users to mod...

10/22/2026

Following in the footsteps of the PlayStation 5, the Switch 2 has officially been jailbroken by persistent users (and a hefty dose of AI, perhaps unsurprisingly).An anonymous – understandably –...

10/22/2026

A security researcher has demonstrated a software-only partial jailbreak of the Switch 2, gaining "userland" access that he says "lets us run homebrew, reverse engineer and mod Switch 2 games,...

10/22/2026

The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featuring new playable characters like Cinnamoroll,...