Hacking Discussion Do you care about emunand?

[RHOPKINS13]

If you care about playing online and not getting banned, emunand is a must! Anybody here that doesn't care about emunand either doesn't care about online play, or maybe they're already banned, or they're ignorant and missing the point.

The Switch sends a lot of telemetry data to Nintendo, and we don't know all of it. If you're installing NSPs to your system for software you haven't bought, it's been said over and over again that you're going to get banned. Even if you don't play these pirated games while you're online, it's possible that the Switch is sending an activity log whenever you go online. Maybe that activity log even includes the certs for the games that were played, I don't know.

BUT with emunand you essentially have a second system. That way you can keep your NSPs installed on that second system, and keep it in airplane mode to prevent it from going online. OR maybe they'll come out with a way of doing console cert spoofing, so you can go online with either no cert or an already banned cert and not worry about your "good" cert getting banned.

Without emunand, if you want to play pirated games and prevent Nintendo from seeing it when you play online, the only safe way of doing so is to make a NAND backup before installing and playing these pirated games, and then restore said NAND backup when you're done and ready to go online. You'd also want to use separate microSD cards. That's a huge hassle in comparison to what emunand would allow.

 

[BL4Z3D247]

They voted no because they don't have the efuses, and if they can't have it no one can.

That's their own fault. I've been telling anyone who would listen not to update and sit tight as we don't know what the future holds for certain things. EmuNAND, ability to coldboot and a software hax are examples.

 

[Seelbreaker]

What is currently missing for having an emumand?
I mean:
1. We need a Partition on the SD-Card (which means sd-card has to be 64GB+)
2. The Switch micro-SD Reader needs to be able to load big micro sd card (there is in one Firmware the update-file for that - right?)
3. a Tool to write the NAND into an image file (which we have already) a tool which can write the NAND-Content to the micro-sd partition (which could be done trough etcher i think...)
4. A command/function which will mount the partition from the \\sd-card instead of \\NAND before booting horizon?

Which means Point 4.
Because we don't know how to access the micro-sd card and it's NAND Partition while/before booting?
Shouldn't it be possibly to make an addon which lets the CFW or hekate or CTCaer mod search and "just" replace the path like \\NAND\ with \\micro-usb0\?

*Disclaimer:
This is not meant in a bad way against the devs or anybody, i just would like to know why it can't work

 

[Rune]

What is currently missing for having an emumand?
I mean:
1. We need a Partition on the SD-Card (which means sd-card has to be 64GB+)
2. The Switch micro-SD Reader needs to be able to load big micro sd card (there is in one Firmware the update-file for that - right?)
3. a Tool to write the NAND into an image file (which we have already) a tool which can write the NAND-Content to the micro-sd partition (which could be done trough etcher i think...)
4. A command/function which will mount the partition from the \\sd-card instead of \\NAND before booting horizon?

Which means Point 4.
Because we don't know how to access the micro-sd card and it's NAND Partition while/before booting?
Shouldn't it be possibly to make an addon which lets the CFW or hekate or CTCaer mod search and "just" replace the path like \\NAND\ with \\micro-usb0\?

It sounds simple, right? I'm just assuming we can't do it because "they can't get it working".

 

[Seelbreaker]

It sounds simple, right? I'm just assuming we can't do it because "they can't get it working".

It wasn't meant in a bad way. I'm just interested to know why it can't work :-)

 

[Rune]

It wasn't meant in a bad way. I'm just interested to know why it can't work :-)

Sorry, didn't mean it in a bad way. I mean, sometimes I ask questions like you just did. But I just trust the devs and hackers to have already thought about those things and would've already delivered them if they could.

 

[Seelbreaker]

Sorry, didn't mean it in a bad way. I mean, sometimes I ask questions like you just did. But I just trust the devs and hackers to have already thought about those things and would've already delivered them if they could.

jep and thats why i just put exactly those minds out into this Thread before opening a new one ;-)

 

[Rune]

For example I was thinking yesterday, what if we can redirect the different ports on the Switch, so like maybe have the cart port accept payloads instead of the USB C at the bottom? Then it would just be a case of making a small trinket style payload injector in the size of a game cart that will always sit in the port.
Then we end up with a seemingly tetherless, clean looking exploit that works from cold boot, futureproof, and also a non permanent solderless solution.

But I'm just assuming someone might have already thought of that.

 

[solitaire4eva]

Emunand is for people who want to play Splatoon 2, Mario Kart, Smash Brothers, Arms, and Mario online. If I'm online gaming its either a PS4 or PC.

 

[souler92]

i want emunand for backup offline and sysnand for online use

 

[aerios169]

i want emunand for backup offline and sysnand for online use

I am doing the same, also I want to play monster Hunter xx online

 

[Rune]

I guess if you care about online and/or only have one Switch device, then you want emuNAND.

 

[souler92]

since fortnite came out im addicted to it.... call me stupid but fortnite keeps me from hacking my switch.

glad i only did some minimal things in the beginning with homebrew and haven't been banned

 

[hippy dave]

Sorry, didn't mean it in a bad way. I mean, sometimes I ask questions like you just did. But I just trust the devs and hackers to have already thought about those things and would've already delivered them if they could.

Naewhert isn't going to deliver them because he's still being a little bitch. Reswitched will deliver them along with the rest of their stuff once Atmosphere is finished. Still plenty of scope for someone else to figure it out in the meantime tho.

 

[Armadillo]

Don't care. Dongle/RCM is good enough for me, don't care about getting banned.

 

[yacepi15]

I care about online gaming and i try to buy genuine games. But also, I don't like to buy games without trying them unless they are from a developer i trust. So, yes, I'm waiting for emunand before modding my switch.

 

[DJravingMonkey]

I want a clean nand for online gaming and so on. And a emunand that can be banned for homebrew piracy and so on.

 

[8BitWonder]

I want a clean nand for online gaming and so on. And a emunand that can be banned for homebrew piracy and so on.

If you're emuNand is banned, then so is your clean Nand.
They both use the same console certificate.

 

[DJravingMonkey]

If you're emuNand is banned, then so is your clean Nand.
They both use the same console certificate.

But I can stay offline with the unclean nand. Sorry iwas unclear with that

 

[jt_1258]

I personally think emunand will quickly become obsolete similar to the 3ds emunand

Well, an emunand would be a nice place to sandbox homebrew and stuff in a way that your normal switch nand doesn't have any of those error codes so you don't have to worry as much about connecting your main nand to the web