Hacking SWITCH NOOB PARADISE - Ask questions here

[binkinator]

How do i check this? As the thread of tesla did not mention this. I downloaded all the files and put them into the root and the overlay files in the right folder. Do i have to install some other stuff for tesla? As i mentioned i never used it before so i guess i forget/missing sth. Ty for your patience!

oh, never mind. I see it in your pic here:



You’re good.

Next, please make sure you have the following folder:

/atmosphere/contents/420000000007E51A/

this is nx-ovlloader

it will Look something like this:



if you have that, reboot your Switch.

once it’s up, press the following combination all at the same time:

left shoulder button (L) + the down dpad button (D) + press down the right joystick button (RS)

 

[Kunzel]

There’s nothing bug related that would prevent these tools from working perfectly in FW 15.0.0/AMS 1.4.0

Check out the main docs here and double check your work.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-the-nintendo-switch-overlay-menu.557362/

one departure from the docs is you should use this updated version of the Edizon overlay:

Please see this for the solution:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/after-t...and-i-cannot-open-tesla.621963/#post-10001862

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it‘s totally fine to back up this emunand. The big thing that’s retained in *nand are game saves. I always protect those no matter what. The games themselves are typically stored on the SDCard unless you specifically told the installer to put it in System memory. Doing a backup just makes sure we can get back to where you are now should something go sideways.

This will take a little time but as long as we have backups there is zero risk.

Lets start by going into Hekate and making a backup of current emunand.

Here’s a quick writeup on how to do that with Hekate:

https://rentry.org/BackupRestoreNAND

very important: the instructions are for backing up Sysnand and we want to flip the setting that allows us to backup emunand instead.



No worries. Let’s keep moving to the next phase.

Oh hey, that worked! My games aren't there, I may have done something wrong but that's not really a problem as I mentioned. Thank you so much for your help!

 

[brkun]

is there a safe way to get the saves from emunand to sysnand without getting banned or something like that?
i want to get my Fire Emblem Engage from the Emunand to my legit physical copy to sysnand so I can play online.

 

[binkinator]

Hi. A game I was playing suddenly froze (but I could still navigate back to the Switch home menu), so I closed the game and restarted the system. However, ever since I keep getting an error saying 'fatal error occurred when running Fusee. Failed to identify FS' (see picture). I can boot into Hekate, but when I try to launch Atmosphere the logo just briefly pops up before I get the error (and pressing power to reboot doesn't fix it).

I have already tried deleting all the files on my SD card except for the emuMMC and Nintendo folders (as they are huge) to copy over the latest atmosphere, fusee.bin, sigpatches etc as per the Rentry guide to see if I can get Atmosphere to load. It didn't work. I also tried copying the files from an older SD card backup (Oct 2022), which also didn't work - I keep getting the same error.

Anybody now what went wrong and if there is a fix please? I haven't done any Atmosphere updates for at least 2-3 months. And I have an older erista/unpatched switch.

Sounds like your SDCard has corruption or your SDCard reader has failed. Let’s test via Hekate. Inject Hekate and Go to Tools USB inside Hekate and your sd card, plug in a USB cable from your PC to your Switch and attempt to manipulate the files on the SDCard.

Post automatically merged: Jan 21, 2023

is there a safe way to get the saves from emunand to sysnand without getting banned or something like that?
i want to get my Fire Emblem Engage from the Emunand to my legit physical copy to sysnand so I can play online.

if you have zero nsp or xci (piracy) installed on your switch and are only running Atmosphere and JKSV the risk is extremely low (nothing is 0% except for a 100% unhacked Switch)

does that match your situation or do you have some questionable items installed that we need to consider?

 

[Rayth]

I tried to connect to pc via Hekate + usb but nothing happens (it makes a sound but I don't see the drive). I've never connected that way before though (usually use a SD card reader or DBI). Is there perhaps a driver I need to install or something?

Post automatically merged: Jan 21, 2023

Just noticed there is a UMS device that references a Hekate SD Raw USB device. But I don't see anyting in Windows explorer

 

[binkinator]

I tried to connect to pc via Hekate + usb but nothing happens (it makes a sound but I don't see the drive). I've never connected that way before though (usually use a SD card reader or DBI). Is there perhaps a driver I need to install or something?

I’m assuming the sound you’re referring to is your PC acknowledging you’ve connected a USB device.

Do any new devices show up in Disk Manager?

if you happen to have another SDCard you can format, we can try to mount that one instead (I‘m thinking your SDCard file system might be corrupt)

E: was your SDCard formatted as exfat or fat32?

Post automatically merged: Jan 21, 2023

Just noticed there is a UMS device that references a Hekate SD Raw USB device. But I don't see anyting in Windows explorer

E2: how large does it say that is? 30G? Or is it larger/smaller?

 

[Rayth]

I think I might have an old SD card in a cellphone somewhere, so will try see if its big enough to try set that up. I'm assuming if that works we know the current SD card is corrupted? And if it doesn't, it possible the Switch's SD card reader failed? The card was FAT32. And I can see a new device pop up, but can't seem to find a size
My power is going down now for ~2 hours due to South Africa loadshedding. So I'll try again later tonight. Thank you for the help so far

 

[binkinator]

I think I might have an old SD card in a cellphone somewhere, so will try see if its big enough to try set that up. I'm assuming if that works we know the current SD card is corrupted? And if it doesn't, it possible the Switch's SD card reader failed? The card was FAT32. And I can see a new device pop up, but can't seem to find a size
My power is going down now for ~2 hours due to South Africa loadshedding. So I'll try again later tonight. Thank you for the help so far

No worries. There’s no need to set the alternative card up. Just need to see if it exports a file system properly. This will confirm our mounting methodology and if the old card won’t mount with a confirmed working methodology as proved by the alt card then we know 100% there is an issue with the old card. Make sense?

if the old card is indeed corrupt we will need to format it to fat32 using the partition tool inside Hekate.

but, before you format anything….

If you have critical game saves we can try to mount your emunand and see if we can export them and save the,...it’s worth a shot.

 

[Rayth]

No worries. There’s no need to set the alternative card up. Just need to see if it exports a file system properly. This will confirm our mounting methodology and if the old card won’t mount with a confirmed working methodology as proved by the alt card then we know 100% there is an issue with the old card. Make sense?

if the old card is indeed corrupt we will need to format it to fat32 using the partition tool inside Hekate.

but, before you format anything….

If you have critical game saves we can try to mount your emunand and see if we can export them and save the,...it’s worth a shot.

Aah I see. Thanks. Will try that later when the power's back on (I'm typing on my cellphone now). The SD card was still reading fine via a card reader earlier, so I think I should be able to copy what I need. But will test first and give feedback

 

[brkun]

Sounds like your SDCard has corruption or your SDCard reader has failed. Let’s test via Hekate. Inject Hekate and Go to Tools USB inside Hekate and your sd card, plug in a USB cable from your PC to your Switch and attempt to manipulate the files on the SDCard.

Post automatically merged: Jan 21, 2023

if you have zero nsp or xci (piracy) installed on your switch and are only running Atmosphere and JKSV the risk is extremely low (nothing is 0% except for a 100% unhacked Switch)

does that match your situation or do you have some questionable items installed that we need to consider?

All of my games are on the Emunand (I unlinked and deleted my Nintendo account from it too, the user that boot the games doesn't have any Nintendo Account linked).

Don't have any unlegit stuff installed on the sysnand.


Enviado do meu iPhone usando Tapatalk

 

[Rayth]

Hi. I'm back. I managed to get the Hekate USB connection working. Seems it was a driver issue. If I disable and reconnect the UMS device driver on my pc it works. But I need to go through the process every time otherwise my pc doesn't want to read it. Anyways, I tested both my current and an old SD card and my pc can read both. Any suggestions on what to try next?

 

[binkinator]

Hi. I'm back. I managed to get the Hekate USB connection working. Seems it was a driver issue. If I disable and reconnect the UMS device driver on my pc it works. But I need to go through the process every time otherwise my pc doesn't want to read it. Anyways, I tested both my current and an old SD card and my pc can read both. Any suggestions on what to try next?

great, we don’t need your cellphone SDCard anymore so go ahead and put it back.

let’s double check yours SDCard w/ h2testw. It will take a while to run but will confirm/deny if there are any issues with the card.

https://3ds.hacks.guide/h2testw-(windows).html

 

[Rayth]

running h2testw now. it did warn it can only test ~4gb of ~459gb (it's a 512gb card) for what it's worth.

I actually also did a basic new setup on the old card just now (using the Rentry guide) to see what happens. It launches into atmosphere + emulated firmware. so I guess that should at least indicate it's something to do with the new card and/or the files on it, and not the switch hardware?

Test done. Card seems okay:
Warning: Only 3789 of 459024 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 4.99 MByte/s
Reading speed: 90.8 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

 

[binkinator]

running h2testw now. it did warn it can only test ~4gb of ~459gb (it's a 512gb card) for what it's worth.

I actually also did a basic new setup on the old card just now (using the Rentry guide) to see what happens. It launches into atmosphere + emulated firmware. so I guess that should at least indicate it's something to do with the new card and/or the files on it, and not the switch hardware?

Test done. Card seems okay:
Warning: Only 3789 of 459024 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 4.99 MByte/s
Reading speed: 90.8 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

Wild. I was really hoping to find a smoking gun, but everything is coming back good. At least you won’t have to buy a new card!

At this point we should consider just formatting the SDCard with Hekate creating a new Emunand. Do you have game saves you want to retain and if so, how many do you have?

 

[Rayth]

Okay thanks. I do have saves yes. I'm guessing there's probably quite a lot given that I've had the switch for a number of years (but obviously many of them won't be essential). Is there an easy way to copy them over? I seem to recall that they all manged to copy over when I migrated to a new SD

I'm starting the wonder of that game crash didn't mess things up. As the only thing that is still remaining on the card is the emummc folder (all the atmosphere and other files I have since replaced). Any idea if there is a way to find and delete the specific game folder and save to see if that works? (as my overall emummc is ~400gb)

 

[binkinator]

Okay thanks. I do have saves yes. I'm guessing there's probably quite a lot given that I've had the switch for a number of years (but obviously many of them won't be essential). Is there an easy way to copy them over? I seem to recall that they all manged to copy over when I migrated to a new SD

I'm starting the wonder of that game crash didn't mess things up. As the only thing that is still remaining on the card is the emummc folder (all the atmosphere and other files I have since replaced). Any idea if there is a way to find and delete the specific game folder and save to see if that works? (as my overall emummc is ~400gb)

Yes, the issue is file system resilience. If you were in the middle of a write and the system crashes it can leave garbage in the part of the file system that tracks where everything is. If it happens on your PC you will see it recommend running scandisk. It runs a process that cleans up all the shrapnel but even then there might be a few files that are orphaned. Journaling helps with this in that a file isn’t considered complete until it’s noted in the resilient journal, unfortunately FAT32 isn‘t a journaled Filesystem so you can end up where we are right now. unfortunately it’s the best we have on Switch because the exfat drivers are garbage and even more susceptible to corruption! Anyway, I’m rambling…here’s an article about it if you want to know more:
https://www.howtogeek.com/177529/ht...ble-drives-still-using-fat32-instead-of-ntfs/

Here’s a tut I wrote about recovering game saves from emunand (works w/ Sysnand as well) so you can see what ’s needed and the mildly tedious process to restore them after you reformat.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/recovering-games-saves-from-nand-using-nxnandmanager-and-jksv.620758/

Now in to the rabbit hole with you and good luck! Come back here if you get stuck.

 

[Rayth]

understood. thanks for all the help!

 

[regnad]

I just got a new PC, and TegraRCMGui and Goldleaf/Quark don't recognize it. This wasn't a problem on my previous PC. The Switch isn't showing up as a device now.

Do I need to install a driver on the new PC or something?

 

[guily6669]

I just got a new PC, and TegraRCMGui and Goldleaf/Quark don't recognize it. This wasn't a problem on my previous PC. The Switch isn't showing up as a device now.

Do I need to install a driver on the new PC or something?

Never used it but everywhere they say to install driver so new PC need driver installation...

I always used my phone and don't even understand why ppl use a PC unless you have a non compatible phone.

all my android devices gratefully support it, I have used Nvidia Shield tablet, Sony Xperia Z2 and my current TCL 10 Pro, as a bonus the phone always go with you already everywhere and if you take the switch just put a USB OTG cable in it's carrying bag and bam it can send payload everywhere less underwater while swimming


Also on the phone don't need to install custom drivers or anything other than the .APK, as soon as I put the cable even with the app forced close it automatically sends the payload right away without needing to even open the app or press anything.

 

[regnad]

Never used it but everywhere they say to install driver so new PC need driver installation...

I always used my phone and don't even understand why ppl use a PC unless you have a non compatible phone.

all my android devices gratefully support it, I have used Nvidia Shield tablet, Sony Xperia Z2 and my current TCL 10 Pro, as a bonus the phone always go with you already everywhere and if you take the switch just put a USB OTG cable in it's carrying bag and bam it can send payload everywhere less underwater while swimming


Also on the phone don't need to install custom drivers or anything other than the .APK, as soon as I put the cable even with the app forced close it automatically sends the payload right away without needing to even open the app or press anything.

I want primarily to be able to install via USB using Goldleaf/Quark. That app is telling me I'm not connected to my PC.