Check if your switch is a V1 model or a V2. If it is a switch V2, Lite, or Oled, you need a modchip. If it is a V1, you only need an RCM jig for like $3-7 (or some tin foil if you're risky, extremely not recommended, do you prefer to save $3-7 but chance frying your $300+ switch) and a usb cable.
If you have a V2, you need to get ahold of a PicoFly modchip, which is a Rasperry Pi Pico RP2040 flashed with https://github.com/Ansem-SoD/Picofly which you can DIY (or there are other ones, but they're expensive or hard to find) and solder it into the motherboard, and then follow the guide.
I counter this, I have a V1 and have only used the foil DYI method and it works flawlessly every time I needed to do it again.
I guess that's fair, still worth the warning though
True, it is not worth the risk. But if this person is not in a country where you can easily get a jig legally then they can at least try the foil method.
Check if your switch is a V1 model or a V2. If it is a switch V2, Lite, or Oled, you need a modchip. If it is a V1, you only need an RCM jig for like $3-7 (or some tin foil if you're risky, extremely not recommended, do you prefer to save $3-7 but chance frying your $300+ switch) and a usb cable.
If your Switch model number starts with XAW, you have a switch V1, in which case just follow this guide https://rentry.co/SwitchHackingIsEasy
If you have a V2, you need to get ahold of a PicoFly modchip, which is a Rasperry Pi Pico RP2040 flashed with https://github.com/Ansem-SoD/Picofly which you can DIY (or there are other ones, but they're expensive or hard to find) and solder it into the motherboard, and then follow the guide.
I counter this, I have a V1 and have only used the foil DYI method and it works flawlessly every time I needed to do it again.
I guess that's fair, still worth the warning though
True, it is not worth the risk. But if this person is not in a country where you can easily get a jig legally then they can at least try the foil method.
No jig? Use a paperclip