OP couldn't have known about this any other way, since it was only discovered a while later, and he does describe picking up the joycons in their grip, by which he could very well have mimicked Iwata's "direct to you" motion accidentally.Not sure I believe OP got it to work given the dates, but yeah, okay -- my bad, sorry.
Guess I failed to consider "hardcoded" as a ROM location, heh.
As for the date: there is some date mismatch going on here, but that can probably be explained somehow, and I'd actually like to try and figure it out. It wasn't a vanilla Switch, since OP mentioned having used the eShop a while earlier. Could it be a simple misremembering of the date by one week?