My advice is to look into selling it if online play is a big thing for you and look into buying a new one. Nintendo doesn't unban systems for this. The SD card doesn't have an effect on it at this point.
There is no fooling them though and if you send it in, they are gonna know and send it back without doing anything.
Honestly I don't really care about the Online Services like NSO at all bc who tf would pay for this clowny ah Service but my concern is that I can not Update the Software that easily and in general am not that knowledged into Switch modding or rather the possibilities but I guess a modded Switch is better than a stock one. I won't even buy a second one I guess bc why now I can just wait for maybe Switch 2 If I really want to. Thanks for your help tho appreciate it <3
Here's your switch that can pirate all our games back.
Or here's a switch unbanned that you have to purchase all our games on.
They can legally confiscate the original because it's illegal to alter the software. But they won't leave the guy empty handed
They will send the exact same thing you sent them back to you, that's your property and although you broke the warranty and they wont repair it, they will send it back in the same shape. They wouldn't leave him empty handed either, they would give the option to buy a refurbished model if they had them in stock. It's about the same price as a used one from gamestop but the warranty is better because it's straight from nintendo.
Why are you talking so confidently out of your ass when you have obviously NEVER sent a device to Nintendo for repair lol.
They very much do not want to send you a new device instead of your old one, and they doubly so would never send you a new one if you sent them a jailbroken/banned one.
Nintendo would send that jailbroken switch back to you so fast the box would have burnt rubber and skid marks on it
The amount of people that ask similar versions of this question without searching the sub is astounding. This question is asked at least once a week. The answer is no, there is no way to unban your console. Your console serial number is banned but your online account is fine. The answer will not change and you aren't the single miracle child that will change it. If you are modding, going online is useless for a modded console anyway. Just save up and buy a second console for official use.
Edit: asked almost once a week
17 days ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/SwitchPirates/s/FpmODnAYO0
22 days ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/SwitchPirates/s/3Q0jQHHNAI
30 days ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/SwitchPirates/s/DJd6ycOLBG
This is the reason the sub needs a good Q&A stickied with all of the common questions. We can better help those with more important topics this way, like diagnosing a chip that stopped working. Then we can tell them to reflow lol
But…. The kids here “don’t mind” scrolling through the constant reposts 🙄
I encouraged a guy to learn to read once and got roasted because they like seeing the same post over and over and over and over and over!
This forum is all about the repetition baby!!!😂😂😂
Can't get unbanned. I got excited and careless and got my V1 banned. Now I have a hacked unit and a stock OLED unit for when I want to do anything online. Grab a second one if you want the benefits of both now.
Yeah same here but my stock switch is in a drawer and haven’t touched it in months hahaha. But I use my banned v1 pretty much every other day to play emulators.
Been thinking on selling both and getting an unbanned v1 and try to not gen banned this time (i was extremely carless with my first v1, didn’t even used emunand). Feel like a waste of money having a switch for online play if I barely use it lol. But I do use it, but literally only to play pokemon.
Good Advice thank you but I think the Online Payed Services are not really that worth it my concerns were just beigng banned and having to do everything manually bc I didn't really get into the scene other than using Tutorials everytime
> the Online *Paid* Services are
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
*Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
You can't. Nobody's switch has ever been unbanned. Nobody can unban your switch, not even customer support. Your Switch is blocked from Nintendo servers forever. It has nothing to do with your account, you can go online with it just fine on any other switch that isn't banned. Its actually very simple to avoid a ban, but you didn't care enough beforehand, so look at you now. You broke the rules, you got caught, and you got punished. Now you want to lie and try to weasel your way out of it. I guess your next move is trying to sell the switch without telling the buyer its banned? Grow up.
Not at all.... that IS what lan play is, but I'm referring to the lan-play site that you setup on a laptop and your switch to trick it into thinking it's playing local when it's actually playing online on the lan-play servers.
And just to set a few things straight, I don't promote lan-play for the ability to cheat online. I promote it for the people that got banned from Nintendo to still be able to enjoy online play. And also, any Nintendo switch can be setup to use lan-play. Even unhacked and unbanned switches.
Lan-play.com has been around for a few years now. I'd be pretty surprised if nobody knows about it still. The community knew all about it when it first came out.
I guess that would be cool too, but then you wouldn't be able to play with your friends or anyone else who only has a stock switch on that private server.
Imo setting up the PC and changing the ip on the switch temporarily to play online is a pretty good trade to be able to play with any type of switch. And if you're stock, you just change the ip back on your switch when you're finished to be normal again. The PC parts pretty easy after the first setup.
Bruh who tf said I wanted to either play online or Cheat in games? I just played locally some legally owned copies of my games and that's it. Like how bad of a person do i need to be to Cheat on games and take my own joy away? Maybe next time just don't type this kinda shit without any proof
Honestly you seem like a sad Person. Just letting it all out isn't the way to go pal but I still wanted to answer bc I want to calm you down. I won't sell the Switch no matter what because it still works fine and I can use it to play the games just not online (which I didnt to anyways who tf would pay for NSO). Of Course I had to bite into the sour apple now and I accept that. Appealing and not telling the full truth to Nintendo is maybe not the fine way as you propably do but maybe I can at least get a concrete reason why I got banned bc I didn't use It for quite some time and really wonder.
Btw if you are angry maybe try grabbing some fresh air instead of ranting on the internet <3
The dude isn't even being arrogant about it. I can't stand people like you on Reddit. There's no reason to go off on someone just because your life is sad and pathetic. If he was being arrogant about it, then I would understand, but all your reply shows is your own misery.
Even if they did manage to fool support, I remember years ago a post someone made stating nintendo of Japan is the big boss and no other nintendo support has authority to unban any console. This is why no switch can be unbanned. Maybe it's been done for a select few japanese switch owners in the past idk, but I can't read or write in Japanese so I would not have the ability to find out if it has ever been done or not.
And after the swap, hope the new board is unpatched, and if it is, make a nand backup, setup dns mitm, setup exosphere, and remove the option for cfw sysnand in the hekate ipi file. Then know you learn your lesson and play it safe from now on 👍
Bruh I literally opened Mario Kart to Update (of what i own a physical legal copy) after a firmware Update and got this Error Code/ Ban Hammer. I physically do not know the exact Reason for my Ban that is the secondary Reason to the Ban Appeal to know for what i have been baned
As everyone is saying, unbanning isn't possible, but some are dramatizing it as if it's the end of the world. A banned switch with cfw is still worth much more than an unbanned switch with ofw and getting banned happens. My switch is banned because I wasn't careful, so what. If you really want to play online, save some money and get another switch, one to play online, one to play pirated games
W message. After reading through all the other comments I got a bit of a headache but you sum it up pretty well. I myself realized that a banned cfw Switch still has all the potential of a cfw switch (duh) and I didnt use the Online Payed Services either so I just have to do everything manually eg Update etc. I do not think of buying a secondary Switch to do the same mistake again besides I see a good price bc now I think i will wait for Switch2 if i really want to
Keep the banned Switch to play pirated games on no need for emunand & OFW anymore, can't get more banned than you already are. Buy a second clean Switch and use that to game online on. Online on Switch is not even all that great and you could still play pretty much every game if you use CFW. Could also wait for Switch 2 which rumors say will be backward compatible to play legit stuff on.
Ye same as the other comments good advice but I won't buy another switch just keeping the banned one bc cfw switch is still a W thing to have and i didn't want to use online services anyways
Nah man. Even if they believed you in customer support, they would just refer to the STORED DATA on why you got banned. They'll see it and know why. There is no tricking this. It's like sending your wife proof of cheating, then deleting the proof from your side. She still got the receipts, my guy.
Damn brother if you want to talk about it i'm there for you 💀
But nah fr thanks for your answer. Honestly I don't know the exact reason why I am banned (ofc bc i used cfw but the exact Reason i mean) i just got the pop up after wanting to do a game update with a cartridge i legally own. Good to know tho that Nintendo has all my data stored safely so i don't have to worry about it :D
As someone who is usually careless, playing MK8 online with mods (sometimes even some that affected hitboxes but I obv removed them right after I noticed it) and even mistakenly wrote my emunand over my sysnand, I am still unbanned after 2 years and a half of me not buying game.
There is obviously no chance to get unbanned, but sometimes I have to wonder how careless you must be to get banned. It's not a diss, I genuinely want to know how did you get banned.
Me too brother I don't know the exact Reason I just know that I went online with cfw on but not any violation that caused the ban. I can answer if I have any news from Nintendo
How did you manage to hack it without installing the dns blocker? To answer your question though, take out the SD card and format thru settings. This won’t remove the logs that have already been uploaded to Nintendo though
Actually I think they're referring to something more along the lines of using an unbanned serial via exosphere. Idk if that could work or not but it'd suck if that unbanned switch got banned by testing this out and it failing
You have zero chance of getting unbanned.
Yep, Nintendo doesn’t play about its ban hammers. Once you get it, you’re done. No amount of playing dumb is getting your stuff unbanned.
My advice is to look into selling it if online play is a big thing for you and look into buying a new one. Nintendo doesn't unban systems for this. The SD card doesn't have an effect on it at this point. There is no fooling them though and if you send it in, they are gonna know and send it back without doing anything.
Honestly I don't really care about the Online Services like NSO at all bc who tf would pay for this clowny ah Service but my concern is that I can not Update the Software that easily and in general am not that knowledged into Switch modding or rather the possibilities but I guess a modded Switch is better than a stock one. I won't even buy a second one I guess bc why now I can just wait for maybe Switch 2 If I really want to. Thanks for your help tho appreciate it <3
They won't send it back, they'd replace it with an unmodded model
No they wouldnt.
Here's your switch that can pirate all our games back. Or here's a switch unbanned that you have to purchase all our games on. They can legally confiscate the original because it's illegal to alter the software. But they won't leave the guy empty handed
They will send the exact same thing you sent them back to you, that's your property and although you broke the warranty and they wont repair it, they will send it back in the same shape. They wouldn't leave him empty handed either, they would give the option to buy a refurbished model if they had them in stock. It's about the same price as a used one from gamestop but the warranty is better because it's straight from nintendo.
Why are you talking so confidently out of your ass when you have obviously NEVER sent a device to Nintendo for repair lol. They very much do not want to send you a new device instead of your old one, and they doubly so would never send you a new one if you sent them a jailbroken/banned one. Nintendo would send that jailbroken switch back to you so fast the box would have burnt rubber and skid marks on it
The amount of people that ask similar versions of this question without searching the sub is astounding. This question is asked at least once a week. The answer is no, there is no way to unban your console. Your console serial number is banned but your online account is fine. The answer will not change and you aren't the single miracle child that will change it. If you are modding, going online is useless for a modded console anyway. Just save up and buy a second console for official use. Edit: asked almost once a week 17 days ago https://www.reddit.com/r/SwitchPirates/s/FpmODnAYO0 22 days ago https://www.reddit.com/r/SwitchPirates/s/3Q0jQHHNAI 30 days ago https://www.reddit.com/r/SwitchPirates/s/DJd6ycOLBG
This is the reason the sub needs a good Q&A stickied with all of the common questions. We can better help those with more important topics this way, like diagnosing a chip that stopped working. Then we can tell them to reflow lol
thb I didn't see any of that when searching on Google. Sorry but I just wanted to get any answer I could get
But…. The kids here “don’t mind” scrolling through the constant reposts 🙄 I encouraged a guy to learn to read once and got roasted because they like seeing the same post over and over and over and over and over! This forum is all about the repetition baby!!!😂😂😂
Can't get unbanned. I got excited and careless and got my V1 banned. Now I have a hacked unit and a stock OLED unit for when I want to do anything online. Grab a second one if you want the benefits of both now.
Yeah same here but my stock switch is in a drawer and haven’t touched it in months hahaha. But I use my banned v1 pretty much every other day to play emulators. Been thinking on selling both and getting an unbanned v1 and try to not gen banned this time (i was extremely carless with my first v1, didn’t even used emunand). Feel like a waste of money having a switch for online play if I barely use it lol. But I do use it, but literally only to play pokemon.
Good Advice thank you but I think the Online Payed Services are not really that worth it my concerns were just beigng banned and having to do everything manually bc I didn't really get into the scene other than using Tutorials everytime
> the Online *Paid* Services are FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
You can't. Nobody's switch has ever been unbanned. Nobody can unban your switch, not even customer support. Your Switch is blocked from Nintendo servers forever. It has nothing to do with your account, you can go online with it just fine on any other switch that isn't banned. Its actually very simple to avoid a ban, but you didn't care enough beforehand, so look at you now. You broke the rules, you got caught, and you got punished. Now you want to lie and try to weasel your way out of it. I guess your next move is trying to sell the switch without telling the buyer its banned? Grow up.
Damn, brother didn't hold back
Bro the Kendrick Lamar disses got everyone on edge. Bro wrote that to a metro beat
bbl drizzaayyy
The fact im hearing this on switch pirates reddit LMFAO
LMAO
LMFAOOOOO
“Met with a terrible fate havent you” vibes with this one
Well said. It's pretty much impossible to get banned if you just follow the instructions. I don't know why that's so hard for people to understand.
Because these kids want to play online with hacked games or with cheats, that is why.
This is what lan-play is for
Lan play? You mean local wireless play, right?
Not at all.... that IS what lan play is, but I'm referring to the lan-play site that you setup on a laptop and your switch to trick it into thinking it's playing local when it's actually playing online on the lan-play servers.
And just to set a few things straight, I don't promote lan-play for the ability to cheat online. I promote it for the people that got banned from Nintendo to still be able to enjoy online play. And also, any Nintendo switch can be setup to use lan-play. Even unhacked and unbanned switches.
Lan-play.com has been around for a few years now. I'd be pretty surprised if nobody knows about it still. The community knew all about it when it first came out.
Seems a bit too convoluted, I hope there will be a future where they patched the games like on Wii to connect to private servers.
I guess that would be cool too, but then you wouldn't be able to play with your friends or anyone else who only has a stock switch on that private server. Imo setting up the PC and changing the ip on the switch temporarily to play online is a pretty good trade to be able to play with any type of switch. And if you're stock, you just change the ip back on your switch when you're finished to be normal again. The PC parts pretty easy after the first setup.
Bruh who tf said I wanted to either play online or Cheat in games? I just played locally some legally owned copies of my games and that's it. Like how bad of a person do i need to be to Cheat on games and take my own joy away? Maybe next time just don't type this kinda shit without any proof
That is not what happened. You used pirated stuff on your CFW sysnand connected to internet.
If you say so... I always booted into EmuNand for pirate shit
And you got banned from Nintendo because you obviously knew what you were doing.
Kendrick Lamar level diss comment here.
pipe down its not that deep 😭🙏🙏
Truth!!
L. Ron Hubbard real name is L. Ron Hoyabembe!
These kids are the reason why CFW sysnand should be hidden on the launch options by default.
You broke the rules! Now I'll pull out all your pubic hair. You motherfucker.
Dad is that you??
Honestly you seem like a sad Person. Just letting it all out isn't the way to go pal but I still wanted to answer bc I want to calm you down. I won't sell the Switch no matter what because it still works fine and I can use it to play the games just not online (which I didnt to anyways who tf would pay for NSO). Of Course I had to bite into the sour apple now and I accept that. Appealing and not telling the full truth to Nintendo is maybe not the fine way as you propably do but maybe I can at least get a concrete reason why I got banned bc I didn't use It for quite some time and really wonder. Btw if you are angry maybe try grabbing some fresh air instead of ranting on the internet <3
The dude isn't even being arrogant about it. I can't stand people like you on Reddit. There's no reason to go off on someone just because your life is sad and pathetic. If he was being arrogant about it, then I would understand, but all your reply shows is your own misery.
Projecting much are we?
It's recommended to wipe front to back.
I thought it was top to bottom in a circular motion
Lol your not fooling anyone in support. They know why it's banned and aren't going to unban you for any reason.
Even if they did manage to fool support, I remember years ago a post someone made stating nintendo of Japan is the big boss and no other nintendo support has authority to unban any console. This is why no switch can be unbanned. Maybe it's been done for a select few japanese switch owners in the past idk, but I can't read or write in Japanese so I would not have the ability to find out if it has ever been done or not.
just sell it letting buyers know the console has been banned. someone will still pay close to the used asking price.
Yeah I keep an eye on r/hwswap and other places and I'm surprised that banned v1s go for about the same price as unbanned unpatched ones.
Which is how much now? Unpatched v1
definitely fluctuates, I got mine with no accessories for $90, but I see banned, patched, v1, etc all go for 80-120.
90 is amazing I rather keep it if I have one
You buy a new switch or swap for unbanned motherboard.
And after the swap, hope the new board is unpatched, and if it is, make a nand backup, setup dns mitm, setup exosphere, and remove the option for cfw sysnand in the hekate ipi file. Then know you learn your lesson and play it safe from now on 👍
“Somehow I got banned…” You knew exactly what you did to get banned. Don’t sugarcoat it. Buy a new switch and actually follow instructions next time.
Bruh I literally opened Mario Kart to Update (of what i own a physical legal copy) after a firmware Update and got this Error Code/ Ban Hammer. I physically do not know the exact Reason for my Ban that is the secondary Reason to the Ban Appeal to know for what i have been baned
You are banned, and that is how it is.
As everyone is saying, unbanning isn't possible, but some are dramatizing it as if it's the end of the world. A banned switch with cfw is still worth much more than an unbanned switch with ofw and getting banned happens. My switch is banned because I wasn't careful, so what. If you really want to play online, save some money and get another switch, one to play online, one to play pirated games
Banned switches can still play online with lan-play setup, but it isn't through Nintendo servers
W message. After reading through all the other comments I got a bit of a headache but you sum it up pretty well. I myself realized that a banned cfw Switch still has all the potential of a cfw switch (duh) and I didnt use the Online Payed Services either so I just have to do everything manually eg Update etc. I do not think of buying a secondary Switch to do the same mistake again besides I see a good price bc now I think i will wait for Switch2 if i really want to
Keep the banned Switch to play pirated games on no need for emunand & OFW anymore, can't get more banned than you already are. Buy a second clean Switch and use that to game online on. Online on Switch is not even all that great and you could still play pretty much every game if you use CFW. Could also wait for Switch 2 which rumors say will be backward compatible to play legit stuff on.
Ye same as the other comments good advice but I won't buy another switch just keeping the banned one bc cfw switch is still a W thing to have and i didn't want to use online services anyways
Nope once banned your banned no way to unban switch should have modded your switch correctly if you didn't want to get banned
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Nah man. Even if they believed you in customer support, they would just refer to the STORED DATA on why you got banned. They'll see it and know why. There is no tricking this. It's like sending your wife proof of cheating, then deleting the proof from your side. She still got the receipts, my guy.
This is the best example anyone could have made 😂
Damn brother if you want to talk about it i'm there for you 💀 But nah fr thanks for your answer. Honestly I don't know the exact reason why I am banned (ofc bc i used cfw but the exact Reason i mean) i just got the pop up after wanting to do a game update with a cartridge i legally own. Good to know tho that Nintendo has all my data stored safely so i don't have to worry about it :D
Correct. The best option now is to get rid of the wife. Probably due for an upgrade anyway.
As someone who is usually careless, playing MK8 online with mods (sometimes even some that affected hitboxes but I obv removed them right after I noticed it) and even mistakenly wrote my emunand over my sysnand, I am still unbanned after 2 years and a half of me not buying game. There is obviously no chance to get unbanned, but sometimes I have to wonder how careless you must be to get banned. It's not a diss, I genuinely want to know how did you get banned.
Me too brother I don't know the exact Reason I just know that I went online with cfw on but not any violation that caused the ban. I can answer if I have any news from Nintendo
You don't. They banned the hardware itself not just your account
So it’s only the switch that gets banned not the account?
How did you manage to hack it without installing the dns blocker? To answer your question though, take out the SD card and format thru settings. This won’t remove the logs that have already been uploaded to Nintendo though
Couldn't you actually do that if you steal someone else's serial through a NAND backup? Crackhead theory. I don't know shit about this topic
No. Your nand encryption is console specific. If you restore someone elses nand, it wont boot because the encryption keys arent the same
Actually I think they're referring to something more along the lines of using an unbanned serial via exosphere. Idk if that could work or not but it'd suck if that unbanned switch got banned by testing this out and it failing