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title: "Someone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AI"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/someone-hacked-the-switch-2-by-using-an-old-game-and-ai-c8eb5392
published: 2026-10-22T17:21:31.000Z
byline: "Source: The Verge AI"
---

# Someone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AI

Source: The Verge AI · Published 2026-10-22 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/someone-hacked-the-switch-2-by-using-an-old-game-and-ai-c8eb5392

The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featuring new playable characters like Cinnamoroll, the red Angry Bird, Peter Griffin, and Steve from Minecraft. OpenAI's Codex helped make this "ns2jb" jailbreak, according to Sammy Hajhamid, aka "pepsipu." It's a \[\&\#8230;\]

## Sources

- [Read the original at The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com/games/1016862/nintendo-switch-2-jailbreak-ai)

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