Reliable leaker and podcaster, Nate the Hate, announced on his podcast that the Switch 2 will be announced this Thursday, 16th January. Meanwhile, Tom Warren of The Verge corroborated on X that a S…
So the Switch uses an Nvidia Tegra X1 chip to power it, which isn’t the only device nor the first that it was used for. The Nvidia Shield TV and Google Pixel C (tablet) used it too. On those devices holding down a certain button at boot would put it in a special mode that let it boot from code sent over USB.
The Switch simply did not have this button, but by shorting those pins you send the same signal.
This is a very low level hardware feature so Nintendo couldn’t ever patch it with an update. They had to make new hardware to fix it.
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So the Switch uses an Nvidia Tegra X1 chip to power it, which isn’t the only device nor the first that it was used for. The Nvidia Shield TV and Google Pixel C (tablet) used it too. On those devices holding down a certain button at boot would put it in a special mode that let it boot from code sent over USB.
The Switch simply did not have this button, but by shorting those pins you send the same signal.
This is a very low level hardware feature so Nintendo couldn’t ever patch it with an update. They had to make new hardware to fix it.
Ah okay, thanks for taking the time. That’s the answer I was after. That’s pretty crafty.