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Switch 2’s First Jailbreak: What AI Actually Cracked

Illustration: a handheld gaming console silhouette on a dark desk at night, its screen glowing with code and circuit traces spilling past the screen edges

In brief Last checked October 24, 2026: Nintendo pulled SmileBASIC 4 from the eShop (Oct 23); the tethered ns2jb exploit targets firmware 23.0.1; Nintendo has not otherwise commented. On October 22, 2026, reports from Kotaku and Polygon confirmed the first working jailbreak for the Nintendo Switch 2, roughly 16 months after the console’s June 2025 … Read more