

Apparently, however, some users are reporting that a small number of Odyssey players have changed their profile pictures to porn, and these avatars went on to show up in-game for other Mario fans. These balloons show the profile picture of whoever set them - normally, this would be an avatar vetted by Nintendo. Mario Odyssey, the best-selling game on the Switch, has a “balloon mode” where players set platforming challenges for one another by placing balloons in hard-to-reach areas. This small modification is inadvertently causing problems in the wider Switch landscape thanks to a few bad actors who are abusing the power.

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Specifically, Switch tinkerers are using developer software to set custom profile pictures, like so:

The excitement around being able to do nearly anything on the console is less theoretical now: people are messing with online games, getting banned by Nintendo, and even locking each other’s consoles over piracy.Īs reported by Polygon last week, one of the most visible consequences of Switch hacking is that a small number of players are running into indecent content in first-party Nintendo games. For the last few months, fans have been clamoring about an unpatchable hardware exploit that allows people to jailbreak the Nintendo Switch.
