Running Mario 35th anniversary.
Could it be that it's stuck in RCM mode? Try holding power button for about 20 sec or so and release it afterwards. Your Switch will be powered down. Then you can try getting into RCM again.
As far as I'm aware of both Hekate and Atmosphere have support for 18.0.0 so I don't think there should be a problem down the road, but wait for someone else to confirm as well. I personally keep my sysNAND firmware the lowest possible on my hacked Switches.
Huh? The post says that RCM is not detected. I'm wondering if the serial number was actually checked to see if it's a patched Switch.
That's literally the whole point of emuMMC. Well, kind of but in reverse because the purpose of emuMMC is for it to be on the latest firmware instead of sysMMC but the same logic applies; sysMMC and emuMMC operate independently of one another. They can be on totally different firmware versions because they act like separate consoles with the only similarity being the hardware that they share. Although personally I don't see any reason in updating to firmware 18.0 as no content requires it aside from online play.
Those are needed for the connection tests to work. That's the last screen you see when you set up a WiFi connection through the console settings, where it checks if the connection is working, and loopback won't be enough for that, it has to connect and get a reply back. Otherwise you can't finish setting up a WiFi properly.
I didn't know about that. So I looked into it a bit more, and certainly seems you are right. If so, one would assume there's no need for those two DNS MITM entries, but probably doesn't hurt to have them as a fallback.
You would need to hack your console and run homebrew in order to replace save files. The "saves" that you see on your SD card are not actually save data. Save data is stored internally within the Switch and cannot be accessed under normal means.
