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Hacking the Mario Kart 8 Online Track Selection

2024-10-04 by Yannik Marchand

Suspicious feelings When Nintendo released the DLC packs for Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U, the new tracks also became playable online. In case you are not familiar, every player can either vote for one of three options, or vote for an unknown track: After every player has made … Read more...

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Hacking Hundreds of Wii Us at Once

2024-05-26 by Yannik Marchand

There used to be a flaw that could be used to gain code execution on hundreds of consoles at once. Almost all 3DS, Wii U and Switch games with online features depend on a single library for online play: NEX. This library happened to be vulnerable to a stack overflow … Read more...

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Nintendo's Game Server Protocols

2024-03-20 by Yannik Marchand

Reverse engineering Nintendo's game server protocols has been one of my favorite and long-lasting projects so far. Since I started the project around 7 years ago, it has led to a popular open source repository, several bug bounties and more than 150 pages of documentation. This article provides an overview … Read more...

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