Recently, Nintendo announced that Gary Bauser was sentenced to 40 months in prison for being accused of manufacturing and selling cracking devices and letting users play illegal cracking packages on consoles including Switch and 3DS. Bowser is part of a hacking group called Team-Xecuter, which began making and selling cracked devices that allow users to play illegal ROMs on consoles like Switch and 3DS in 2013.
The U.S. government said the group's criminal enterprises illegally earned tens of millions of dollars in sales, causing losses to the victim Nintendo for up to $150 million. In a Feb. 10 statement, Nintendo said, "Thanks to federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies for their tireless efforts to curb illegal activities around the world that have caused serious damage to Nintendo and the video game industry." ”
Bowser was arrested in September 2020 and appeared in court last October on 11 counts of felonies. He did not stand trial, but pleaded guilty to two charges and paid $4.5 million to Nintendo.
It is reported that the Team-Xecuter team has previously launched the for-profit SX Core, SX Lite and SX Pro crack kits, which can be directly cracked from the hardware to Switch, and after the player purchases the crack kit, they only need to install it themselves to run the TX homemade system, and play almost all of Nintendo's game content in the system, which has caused a lot of market impact on Nintendo.
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