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[impeeza]

What Impezza said is correct

once in a while is good. he he he

Post automatically merged: Dec 30, 2024

Do you mean it's not possible to restore to ofw (remove cfw) without getting banned if you go online?

no, you can remove CFW WITHOUT need to restore a NAND backup, you simply change your bootloader and then everything is fine. but you should not restore a NAND backup for remove CFW.

 

[Yoshi_yogurt]

If you restore to a state that was earlier than the last time you were online and you go online you would get banned.

I see. Is it possible to do a backup now, and restore from that?
Or is the backup "dirty" then?

 

[impeeza]

hi folks,
i've modded a switch before and am genuinely at a loss trying to fix this error.

unknown pkg1 version
HOS version not supported
or emuMMC corrupt

trying backup bootloader
found pkg1
failed to launch HOS

anyone have ideas? nothing is seeming to work

Update Hekate and Atmosphere.

You using fusee or fss0?

Which method are you using for start your bootloader?

Post automatically merged: Dec 30, 2024

I see. Is it possible to do a backup now, and restore from that?
Or is the backup "dirty" then?

I explained on https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-switch-banning-hub-warning.508710/post-10443235 read that post and if you still have questions do not hesitate to ask again.

 

[Hayato213]

I see. Is it possible to do a backup now, and restore from that?
Or is the backup "dirty" then?

You can always do a backup for disaster recovery, as for going online you need a backup of the NAND that it was last previously online.

 

[Yoshi_yogurt]

once in a while is good. he he he

Post automatically merged: Dec 30, 2024

no, you can remove CFW WITHOUT need to restore a NAND backup, you simply change your bootloader and then everything is fine. but you should not restore a NAND backup for remove CFW.

Thanks!

Maybe a stupid question, but why would you want to make a backup of sysnand then?

 

[Hayato213]

Thanks!

Maybe a stupid question, but why would you want to make a backup of sysnand then?

Disaster recovery purpose, rebuild NAND can't go online.

 

[impeeza]

Thanks!

Maybe a stupid question, but why would you want to make a backup of sysnand then?

just answered by @Hayato213 above your question both post where almost at the same time
https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-switch-banning-hub-warning.508710/post-10443235

 

[CharlieB8KR]

@impeeza i am going through the hekate menu and selecting launch then emummc, i have modded a switch before and this problem is completely new to me even with the same methods

 

[Yoshi_yogurt]

Disaster recovery purpose, rebuild NAND can't go online.

just answered by @Hayato213 above your question both post where almost at the same time
https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-switch-banning-hub-warning.508710/post-10443235

Now it's clearer how it works, thanks for the help!

 

[Deleted member 731084]

What Impezza said is correct

I don't doubt it, but does wiping (almost) all saves actually clean your NAND? Has anyone actually looked at where telemetry data it stores and what's in there?

It looks like Daybreak might also be capable of doing that if you select factory reset, because it calls ResetToFactorySettingsForRefurbishment (also mentioned in the SciresM writeup) which I'd assume brings the switch to a real out of the factory state and not the half-reset state you can trigger from system settings.

(i know this is inadvisable even if it may work)

 

[impeeza]

wiping (almost) all saves actually clean your NAND? Has anyone actually looked at where telemetry data it stores and what's in there?

If you use the in-console «factory clean» procedure, TELEMETRY is not cleaned.

but if you manage to clean the Telemetry data, and you connect that NAND to the ninja servers, YOU WILL BE BANNED, because the telemetry on servers will not match to the one on your console and the only way to do that is break ninja rules.

 

[Hayato213]

I don't doubt it, but does wiping (almost) all saves actually clean your NAND? Has anyone actually looked at where telemetry data it stores and what's in there?

Wiping saves doesn't prevent a ban, I doubt they even care about save, Nintendo care more about if you were online on a higher firmware and then downgrade back to a lower firmware and go online again you would get flagged for a ban.

 

[Deleted member 731084]

If you use the in-console «factory clean» procedure, TELEMETRY is not cleaned.

but if you manage to clean the Telemetry data, and you connect that NAND to the ninja servers, YOU WILL BE BANNED, because the telemetry on servers will not match to the one on your console and the only way to do that is break ninja rules.

SciresM writeup says:

• A safer alternative would be to use a homebrew program to call the official code for resetting to factory settings ("ResetToFactorySettingsForRefurbishment"). If such a program is made in the future, I will add a link to it here.

The Microservice handling this apparently has 5 different reset procedures, of which 2 seem to be user-accessible (nsResetToFactorySettings and nsResetToFactorySettingsWithoutUserSaveData). I'm assuming ForRefurbishment would get rid of most system saves too. If you need to also need to have a new PRODINFO (refurb consoles do get new serials, prefix XAW9) would be interesting to know.

The Haku readme also claims that the absence of existing telemetry seems not problematic. I'd assume if you run your switch for years offline, eventually they'd run out of space and just treat it like a ringbuffer anyway, so that makes sense to me. Is it actually confirmed this gets you banned or is that your better safe than sorry opinion?

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Wiping saves doesn't prevent a ban, I doubt they even care about save, Nintendo care more about if you were online on a higher firmware and then downgrade back to a lower firmware and go online again you would get flagged for a ban.

Sorry, misnomer. Not literal saves. The Switch seems to store almost everything as a save (just a system save, not a user save), I don't think any variable data on the eMMC exists outside of saves, so telemetry is probably a save too. I think the entire `fs` service just lets you write to saves, and directly writing to the filesystem outside `fs` is a homebrew thing.

 

[notsu]

How do I sync Bluetooth controllers and headphones across stock HOS, sysMMC with Atmosphere and emuMMC?

 

[impeeza]

How do I sync Bluetooth controllers and headphones across stock HOS, sysMMC with Atmosphere and emuMMC?

has been introduced on Atmosphère since 1.5.1:
https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/releases/tag/1.5.1

instructions on:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/pairing-the-joy-con-on-emunand-and-sysnand.562519/post-10461487

 

[vmvazdynasty]

I formatted my switch sd and only copied the Nintendo folder and not my backup and now the console is not booting past the Nintendo switch logo in ofw or stock from Hekate

 

[1301semaJ]

So uh I heard something about the SX menu as a NRO for Atmosphere

Post automatically merged: Dec 31, 2024

So uh I heard something about the SX menu as a NRO for Atmosphere

How do I do it

 

[Yoshi_yogurt]

I formatted my switch sd and only copied the Nintendo folder and not my backup and now the console is not booting past the Nintendo switch logo in ofw or stock from Hekate

Can you launch into cfw? Do you have the latest Hekate and Atmosphere?
What firmware do you have on ofw and cfw?

 

[kantaroo]

Hi, I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
I am about to updated my original Switch (which I've had on custom firmware for many years) to the latest firmware. I am aware that the latest official firmware is 19.0.1. However, when I searched for the firmware online (by googling Darthst******) I only found firmware up to 19.0.0. I am a bit apprehensive about getting my sysMMC and emuMMC out of sync so I wonder if I should wait until a new release is out (but it seems that the official 19.0.1 came out in October so I'm surprised that 19.0.0 is still the last one I can download from that site).
Alternatively, when I look at this guide: https://switch.hacks.guide/extras/updating.html, it seems that it may no longer be necessary to source my own firmware, and that I can simply updated my sysMMC and then have the firmware read across for emuMMC purposes. Is that the way to go now, and I can forget about the Darthst****** website from now on?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Speeder7756]

This is probably been asked a million times at this point, but I need to be 100% certain. If I boot my Switch into OFW (via holding power button, selecting Power Off in Power Options, then rebooting without RCM), I can still play online whilst having EmuMMC/EmuNAND files present on my SD card but not loaded, correct? The Nintendo folder in the root of my SD card is untouched and I'm assuming that is the SysNAND? Only mods I have are for Smash and they don't load at all when I boot OFW, plus whenever I do use mods via Atmosphere any screenshots or replays I make are saved to the EmuMMC copy of the Ninendo folder.