Nintendo Switch back plastic getting very hot

[thebigC]

I was messing around for a while trying to figure out how to update smash ultimate on emummc which, if there is a good solution for, please let me know and the back of my switch was hot enough to burn you if you kept your finger there for long enough. It smelled like hot burning plastic. Most of the heat was where my picofly modchip was with my emmc attached. I immediately shut down my switch and took it apart to see if there was any obvious damage to the internals. I didn't see anything obvious, but I am still nervous about what possibly went wrong. If any additional context could be helpful, feel free to ask.

 

[linuxares]

Did you happen to know where it got hot? Like over the modchip or the fan?

 

[thebigC]

it was over the modchip specifically, which also had the emmc storage attached to it

 

[linuxares]

it was over the modchip specifically, which also had the emmc storage attached to it

Emmc attached to the Modchip? You mean the cable coming from the emmc? I would urge you to open the back and run a game again. See if you can feel where it gets hot. Might be that the chip is failing

 

[thebigC]

Emmc attached to the Modchip? You mean the cable coming from the emmc? I would urge you to open the back and run a game again. See if you can feel where it gets hot. Might be that the chip is failing

I wasn't even running a game I was just in hekate and I have a v1 switch so the modchip has the emmc attached to the actual chip itself in the back of my switch. my main concern was the possible damage that could come from running a chip that hot especially because it was right next to my emmc storage that i dont want to lose.

 

[hippy dave]

Idk about the hardware stuff (except that much heat = bad), but to update Smash you just download the latest update from wherever you usually pirate games, and install it using the installer of your choice (DBI)

 

[thebigC]

Idk about the hardware stuff (except that much heat = bad), but to update Smash you just download the latest update from wherever you usually pirate games, and install it using the installer of your choice (DBI)

Thanks for the reply but I don’t pirate games so I don’t know where I would even begin to looks for those files

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I was more looking for a legal way to rip the data from sysmmc and put it onto emummc if that is easily possible.

 

[hippy dave]

Thanks for the reply but I don’t pirate games so I don’t know where I would even begin to looks for those files

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I was more looking for a legal way to rip the data from sysmmc and put it onto emummc if that is easily possible.

Gotcha. When I've wanted to dump from sysmmc, I've used a different SD card with a minimal Atmosphere setup, no sigpatches nothing shonky installed, and the dumping homebrew which iirc is called NXdumptool. If you didn't want to change SD cards, you could move stuff around on your usual card so only the minimal clean stuff is active, nothing that could trigger a ban. I believe it might also be possible to dump using PC tools with the sysmmc mounted via Hekate, but it's a lot less straightforward to know which title is which etc.

 

[thebigC]

Gotcha. When I've wanted to dump from sysmmc, I've used a different SD card with a minimal Atmosphere setup, no sigpatches nothing shonky installed, and the dumping homebrew which iirc is called NXdumptool. If you didn't want to change SD cards, you could move stuff around on your usual card so only the minimal clean stuff is active, nothing that could trigger a ban. I believe it might also be possible to dump using PC tools with the sysmmc mounted via Hekate, but it's a lot less straightforward to know which title is which etc.

That was very helpful thank you so much for the reply. I am going to look at my switch some more and hope there is no damage then I will try to use those tools. I think I could run cfw on sysmmc as long as it is offline and restored from a backup before I used cfw right?

 

[hippy dave]

That was very helpful thank you so much for the reply. I am going to look at my switch some more and hope there is no damage then I will try to use those tools. I think I could run cfw on sysmmc as long as it is offline and restored from a backup before I used cfw right?

Yes, plain Atmosphere with no sigpatches or pirated games or game mods or custom avatars etc is actually considered safe to use online, but you're right that backing up sysmmc before booting cfw on it offline and restoring the backup afterward would be the very safest approach.

 

[thebigC]

Yes, plain Atmosphere with no sigpatches or pirated games or game mods or custom avatars etc is actually considered safe to use online, but you're right that backing up sysmmc before booting cfw on it offline and restoring the backup afterward would be the very safest approach.

ok i did that to dump my update data and it worked. thank you very much for your replies and help!