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Bowser sentenced to 40 months for Team Xecuter’s console hacking

Enlarge / A prototype SX Core device soldered to a Nintendo Switch motherboard. (credit: Team Xeceuter) Gary Bowser, a member of the notorious Team Xecuter group of console hackers, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for his role within promoting and selling devices inside the SX OS line of piracy-enabling devices for the […]

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Nintendo wants admitted Team Xecuter pirate jailed for five years

Enlarge / It’s-a me, the long arm of the law. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Nintendo / Getty Images) Nintendo says a prominent member of the notorious Team Xecuter hacking group— known for the “SX OS” line of Switch hacking devices —should serve 60 months in prison after pleading guilty to piracy-related charges in November . […]

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Modder pleads guilty to piracy charges, will pay Nintendo $4. 5 million

A prototype SX Core device soldered to a Nintendo Switch motherboard. [credit: Team Xeceuter ] Gary Bowser will plead guilty to two federal felony charges related to his work with Team Xecuter, the maker of the “SX” line of Switch modding devices and other tools Bowser now admits were “predominant[ly] and primar[ily] design[ed]… to allow […]

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Nintendo sues Bowser (not that one) over Team Xecuter’s Switch hacks

Enlarge / A prototype SX Core device soldered to a Nintendo Switch motherboard. (credit: Team Xeceuter) Months after his arrest on 11 felony counts last year, Nintendo has filed a civil lawsuit against Gary “GaryOPA” Bowser, the leader of notorious Switch hacking group Team Xecuter, in a Seattle federal court. The suit (as obtained by […]