PSA: Online Hacking has been confirmed, unfortunately

[NWPlayer123]

Well I think I got the effect I wanted, gg.

 

[toadster101]

Well I think I got the effect I wanted, gg.

Congratulations, you streamed yourself hacking to win online. You must feel proud of yourself.

 

[NWPlayer123]

Congratulations, you streamed yourself hacking to win online. You must feel proud of yourself.

You're right, I am proud. These exploits are over a year's worth of work, and now I can finally tell Nintendo to get their head out of their *** and fix this, and the only way I'm gonna get that reaction is like this.
This was a one time thing for a reason.

 

[TheMH]

Well, yeah, you got us aware about hacking in Splatoon, which is probably not the worst thing... as long as you (and your team?) won't release this stuff to public, I'm not concerned too much yet. But as you can see a lot of people are worried or even mad at you, so I'd like to see a little more detailed answer.

EDIT: Ok, I wrote this before you posted. If you want to inform Nintendo about possible countermeasures it's justified in my opinion.

 

[NWPlayer123]

Well, yeah, you got us aware about hacking in Splatoon, which is probably not the worst thing... as long as you (and your team?) won't release this stuff to public, I'm not concerned too much yet. But as you can see a lot of people are worried or even mad at you, so I'd like to see a little more detailed answer.

EDIT: Ok, I wrote this before you posted. If you want to inform Nintendo about possible countermeasures it's justified in my opinion.

I've detailed it in other places but I guess I'll post here too. Basically, the Octolings I was able to do with a few string edits in memory with TCPGecko, and the modded weapons I edited a few .params text files that define how all the weapons work, and loaded it through my router, only I have to reboot the game every time I wanna change something. I limited the insta-cover to 3 matches for a reason, and in 2 of them half the room was my friends who wanted to see how it was. The rest were with my custom "Aerospray Pro" (which still needs some damage tweaking).

This was also to see how stable online is. From what some of the people playing with me told me, it shows the modified blobs even on their end, so my weapon does actually sync with everybody else. Still not sure how they do that, I still somehow doubt they send data for each blob. The Inkstrike spam was a little overkill, but most of those matches were still mostly against my friends and some online people who wanted to get in on the fun.

If you're thinking I'm going to try to hide this, nah, I'm even uploading those streams to YouTube. Never again, though. It's much more fun to poke at unused stuff and do stuff like make custom maps (working on a GUI thing called SplatMap to edit, it's how I moved Callie and Marie and did the resizing on my Twitter).

 

[toadster101]

You're right, I am proud. These exploits are over a year's worth of work, and now I can finally tell Nintendo to get their head out of their *** and fix this, and the only way I'm gonna get that reaction is like this.
This was a one time thing for a reason.

You could have made your "point" without cheating. This just opens the door for copycats and potential leakage.

 

[NWPlayer123]

You could have made your "point" without cheating. This just opens the door for copycats and potential leakage.

Go big or go home.

 

[Calamari]

It requires an OLD firmware... and usually it's VERY unsafe to "downgrade" your firmware on hardware like this, usually bricking the console. The exploit ONLY exists on that firmware as far as I know, and I believe the exploit itself is currently private.

You could have made your "point" without cheating. This just opens the door for copycats and potential leakage.

Do you mean leakage as is leaking new content?

 

[TheMH]

You could have made your "point" without cheating. This just opens the door for copycats and potential leakage.

The problem is, a lot of people won't listen as long as there is no actual proof of concept.

Thanks for the explanation, NWP.

 

[Betelgeuse]

time to get to work on that patch Nintendo

 

[ShinyGirafarig]

I'm just worried for Splatfests. Or finding out ahead of time which is the popular team.

 

[NWPlayer123]

I'm just worried for Splatfests. Or finding out ahead of time which is the popular team.

Don't worry, we're the only ones who really know what we're doing, and stuff won't be ready to release for a while. I don't even think I can access that kind of stuff for statistics :\ it's probably all kept on their servers before being deployed at the end for results.

 

[Friendan]

So were the other people able to see the hacker playing as an Octoling, or was it client-sided?

 

[1o2]

I'm not particularly concerned, all of the software used to even hack is exclusive to the hacker and his fellow hacker friends. Nintendo probably has picked up on the streams/vids and are working on some sort of patch. But again I don't think it's even a top priority, as I doubt this software is even available to 10 people.

 

[NWPlayer123]

So were the other people able to see the hacker playing as an Octoling, or was it client-sided?

Octoling is client side, since I just replace a string for the model to load. Since they're not meant to be playable (yet) it'll just read as Inkling on other systems.

 

[Pivi]

Gotta admit this is some pretty nifty stuff to look at. NWPlayer is being really chill about it so I don't see the need for an uproar. Even if hacks somehow become widespread, remember we have NNIDs which I'm sure Nintendo can lock if they get reports of hacking. I really don't see this as much of an issue and more of an opportunity to see what people can do with Splatoon mods, like, have you seen what people have done to MK8?

That being said, keep on keepin on, this could be major if a whole subgroup gets into tinkering with the game.

 

[Manta]

IThe Inkstrike spam was a little overkill, but most of those matches were still mostly against my friends and some online people who wanted to get in on the fun.

I wanna get in the fun :P almost every day I'm checking gbatemp to see if there's any new news that you and MN1 have.

 

[Green inker]

I feel like I'm the only person here that likes PM. Sure on the outside it looks like vandalism, but on the inside, its doing things right. I feel this hacking problem can only be solved with one solution. We move the problem to a custom server. That way we'll be able to still love and play normal Splatoon, while modders well be playing on a modded server. Please tell me you understand.

 

[Manta]

I feel like I'm the only person here that likes PM. Sure on the outside it looks like vandalism, but on the inside, its doing things right. I feel this hacking problem can only be solved with one solution. We move the problem to a custom server. That way we'll be able to still love and play normal Splatoon, while modders well be playing on a modded server. Please tell me you understand.

are you referring to Project M? If so, you are by far not the only one.

 

[NWPlayer123]

I feel like I'm the only person here that likes PM. Sure on the outside it looks like vandalism, but on the inside, its doing things right. I feel this hacking problem can only be solved with one solution. We move the problem to a custom server. That way we'll be able to still love and play normal Splatoon, while modders well be playing on a modded server. Please tell me you understand.

Or, like someone suggested to me, wait until the August update and do it in a private room with friends.