Check if your switch is a V1 model or a V2. If it is a switch V2, Lite, or Oled, you need a modchip. If it is a V1, you only need an RCM jig for like $3-7 (or some tin foil if you’re risky, extremely not recommended, do you prefer to save $3-7 but chance frying your $300+ switch) and a usb cable.
If you have a V2, you need to get ahold of a PicoFly modchip, which is a Rasperry Pi Pico RP2040 flashed with https://github.com/Ansem-SoD/Picofly which you can DIY (or there are other ones, but they’re expensive or hard to find) and solder it into the motherboard, and then follow the guide.
True, it is not worth the risk. But if this person is not in a country where you can easily get a jig legally then they can at least try the foil method.
Check if your switch is a V1 model or a V2. If it is a switch V2, Lite, or Oled, you need a modchip. If it is a V1, you only need an RCM jig for like $3-7 (or some tin foil if you’re risky, extremely not recommended, do you prefer to save $3-7 but chance frying your $300+ switch) and a usb cable.
If your Switch model number starts with XAW, you have a switch V1, in which case just follow this guide https://rentry.co/SwitchHackingIsEasy
If you have a V2, you need to get ahold of a PicoFly modchip, which is a Rasperry Pi Pico RP2040 flashed with https://github.com/Ansem-SoD/Picofly which you can DIY (or there are other ones, but they’re expensive or hard to find) and solder it into the motherboard, and then follow the guide.
I counter this, I have a V1 and have only used the foil DYI method and it works flawlessly every time I needed to do it again.
I guess that’s fair, still worth the warning though
True, it is not worth the risk. But if this person is not in a country where you can easily get a jig legally then they can at least try the foil method.
No jig? Use a paperclip