“you can have Linux, but no piracy” was the message (Atmosphère is definitely not designed for piracy, and is primarily made for Homebrew, but piracy is made easy once you have CFW). GBATemp Member Rehius then provided his own firmware for the device in early March, but without plans to support Atmosphere booting. There might have been different sources for the original work, as once it was made clear that using a cheap chip instead of an FPGA was a good idea, multiple teams probably got to work on it around the same time. An (encrypted) firmware designed to run with the chip leaked in January, as well as test videos confirming left and right that the chip was indeed real and working. The picofly works in similar ways as the SX Modchips or HWFly: The tiny device is glitching the Switch CPU to make it fail a check, which allows booting from an unsigned payload that will then run higher level software such as Hekate (which itself lets you launch Atmosphere, Linux, etc…).Ī lot has happened on the thread over at GBATemp since December, when the picofly was first discussed. It’s possible HWFly sellers are aware of the sudden competition brought to them by the Picofly, and are quickly lowering their prices in an attempt to remain appealing. If you think that price is expensive, know that it used to be almost twice that about a year ago. Until now, the only way to hack a Nintendo Switch (except for the early, unpatched V1 models) was through other, expensive hardware modchips: the (now out of production) SX chips by infamous team Xecuter, or their multiple clones known as HWFly, which can today be found for about $70. Picofly was rumored last year as a potential “DIY” solution for Nintendo Switch hacking, using a RP 2040 Zero, a microcontroller that literally costs $3 on electronics retailers. What is the Picofly, and why is it a big deal for Nintendo Switch modding?

This is huge when you think that the competition, namely the HWFly chips, still cost anywhere between $60~$100. If you have the soldering skills, you can now technically hack any Nintendo switch for less than $10. After some significant work from the modding community, lots of rumors, leaks, and confirmation videos, the Picofly (or pikofly), a hardware hack for the Nintendo Switch relying on cheap off-the-shelf components, is now available.

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