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[daikon1]

Hi Everyone!

I am on 18.1.0|AMS 1.7.1|E but want to play a game with a base requirement of 21.0.0.

Do I need to only upgrade Hekate Atmosphere and Sig patches?
Or do I need to update firmware with Daybreak also?

Additionally, should I use the Hekate Atmosphere and sig patches released for 21.0.0 or should I use the latest? I seem to remember drawbacks to upgrading at different firmware levels.

Thank you for any help you can offer!

 

[Hayato213]

Hi Everyone!

I am on 18.1.0|AMS 1.7.1|E but want to play a game with a base requirement of 21.0.0.

Do I need to only upgrade Hekate Atmosphere and Sig patches?
Or do I need to update firmware with Daybreak also?

Additionally, should I use the Hekate Atmosphere and sig patches released for 21.0.0 or should I use the latest? I seem to remember drawbacks to upgrading at different firmware levels.

Thank you for any help you can offer!

You need to update atmosphere/ hekate/ syspatches along with firmware update.

 

[redalchemy]

Hi Everyone!

I am on 18.1.0|AMS 1.7.1|E but want to play a game with a base requirement of 21.0.0.

Do I need to only upgrade Hekate Atmosphere and Sig patches?
Or do I need to update firmware with Daybreak also?

Additionally, should I use the Hekate Atmosphere and sig patches released for 21.0.0 or should I use the latest? I seem to remember drawbacks to upgrading at different firmware levels.

Thank you for any help you can offer!

I highly recommend installing sys-patch as well. I tried the latest sigpatches and still had errors when going from 17.0.0 to most recent. Sys-patch has kind of replaced sigpatches.

 

[Blythe93]

Do I need to only upgrade Hekate Atmosphere and Sig patches?
Or do I need to update firmware with Daybreak also?

Additionally, should I use the Hekate Atmosphere and sig patches released for 21.0.0 or should I use the latest? I seem to remember drawbacks to upgrading at different firmware levels.

Check this guide. Additionally, instead of the official Atmosphere, you can try this fork with the built-in patches.

 

[daikon1]

Last questions - should I just do the version I need, or should I do the latest? Not sure if there is a downside to going to latest, or if it is all the same once I hit v21 or v21+

Thank you all!

 

[redalchemy]

Last questions - should I just do the version I need, or should I do the latest? Not sure if there is a downside to going to latest, or if it is all the same once I hit v21 or v21+

Thank you all!

You might as well just be fully updated. One thing you need to know tho, that I did not when I did my update, is that pretty much no older NROs work past v21. You need to individually replace them all with the newer version. You will see an error message on them when viewing the app in HBMenu and they will crash when opening. You can find updated versions for pretty much everything on the HB App Store as well as the forum post that saved me SO much time and effort below:

Thread 'Preliminary list of updated homebrew apps and tools for FW 21.0.0 | AMS 1.10.0 | Please add your findings!!!'

Nov 17, 2025

UPDATING TO NEW FIRMWARE 21.0.0 IS NOT RECOMMENDED. THERE ARE COMPATIBILITY ISSUES WITH A LOT OF HOMEBREW APPS.

UPDATED APPS for new firmware 21.0.0 (download the MODDED files if there is no official release for FW 21.0.0). USE the modded files with CAUTION. Not all modded apps have been tested.

YOU CAN USE THIS TOOL TO AUTOMATICALLY PATCH your NRO and OVL files to support FW 21.0.0

MAIN TOOLS:
Hekate: Here.
Atmosphère: Here.
sys-patch module: Here.

OTHER TOOLS:
Ultrahand Overlay: Here.
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Be aware some have not been updated, but you can manually update them with the patcher from the list. I had to manually patch my VNDS-Love NRO, and it's working fine now. Other NROs still don't work after patching tho.