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Fusee Gelee Tutorial for OSX Users

Wanted to do a quick write up for people on OSX. I had to ask around a lot on IRC today and wanted to share how I managed to get everything working:

Step One: Install Python 3

Step Two: Install Brew

Step Three: Install libusb in Terminal ('brew install libusb')

Step Four: Install pyusb in Terminal (sudo easy_install pyusb) (if this doesn't work try sudo python3 -mpip install pyusb)

Step Five: Download Fusee.bin and https://github.com/reswitched/fusee-launcher
https://github.com/reswitched/fusee-launcher

Step Six: Get your Switch into recovery (I had best luck stripping both ends of a decently thick copper wire I had around, like in the Fail Overflow image, and attached it to pin 10 (furthest away from the screen with the right joycon removed, and the other end attached to the metal of the fan housing at the top of the console). Power the system down and then hold volume +, press power. If you don't see the Nintendo logo you did it correctly. There won't even be a backlight. If you did it wrong keep trying.

Step Seven: Run the Python payload command in terminal after you navigate to the directory you have it in, AKA sudo python3 ./fusee-launcher.py fusee.bin

And you should be good to go.
 
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Same here. Get a jig


No...I refuse to get a jig when people are saying it can be done with things you can find around the house....especially when you know eventually, that jig is going to be nothing useful once future developments are made (who knows, there could be another method to get into recovery we just don't know about)
 

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No...I refuse to get a jig when people are saying it can be done with things you can find around the house....especially when you know eventually, that jig is going to be nothing useful once future developments are made (who knows, there could be another method to get into recovery we just don't know about)

You're an a enthusiast right? What's 10 compared to the cost of a switch? If not then wire the joycon!

You know those things that cost 70

Stop being so petulant
 
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You're an a enthusiast right? What's 10 compared to the cost of a switch? If not then wire the joycon!

You know those things that cost 70

Stop being so petulant

"petulant?"....as if saying "get a jig" several times isn't being a bit petulant? according to your post, you have reference a jig MULTIPLE times in a 4 page thread....i'm not trying to sound like an ass or anything, but I am a little aggravated that I can't get this to work...even though, I can't really do much with it if I DID get it working.....
 

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I've tried a speaker wire, i've tried phone cable (land line type) and some random piece of wire I found laying around the house....all varying thicknesses

The wire in my video is probably .6mm in diameter so you need something wider. As I said in my other thread, I got into recovery with a large paperclip ONCE, but it was way too difficult to replicate so I got something wider. And keep trying. It takes patience and many tries. Once you get the hang of it you'll be able to do it reliably.
 

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Can you help me? I'm having trouble with the last step.. i'm typing the thing in but it's not running. it gives me
sudo python3 ./fusee-launcher.py fusee.bin
Password:
sudo: python3: command not found
 
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Can you help me? I'm having trouble with the last step.. i'm typing the thing in but it's not running. it gives me
sudo python3 ./fusee-launcher.py fusee.bin
Password:
sudo: python3: command not found
Dealing with Python can be complicated because there are still 2 maintained versions. Do you have Python 2 installed? It not, Python 3 might have just installed as "Python" for the shell command. Try running it as "Python" not "Python3".
EDIT: wait, if you're on macOS don't run it as ./fusee... just run it as `python3 fusee-launcher.py fusee.bin`

The wire in my video is probably .6mm in diameter so you need something wider. As I said in my other thread, I got into recovery with a large paperclip ONCE, but it was way too difficult to replicate so I got something wider. And keep trying. It takes patience and many tries. Once you get the hang of it you'll be able to do it reliably.
FWIW, I stripped a cat5e cable and used that. It's extremely tiny and it still works. I'm very confident that it's just the type of metal that some people are using that is giving them trouble.
If you can't get it to work, get a cheap ethernet cable and strip it. It works extremely reliably.
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In addition, I didn't use sides of the Switch nor the prongs in the joycon, I'm using the soldering pins on the joycon (the red and green dots on this image).
It's a bit messy for now, but I'm hoping to find a way to permanently make this (tiny soldering, anyone?) and have a joycon that can just be a quick Fusee launcher.

I'm a bit hesitant to bend the prongs because some people on the R:S discord have said it impairs the joycon's ability to work in handheld mode.
 
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@gbazone make sure you see this post. At the very least don't use easy_install, use pip.
or maybe here's something even easier for setup:
  1. Install brew via https://brew.sh
  2. Install Python 3 and libusb: brew install python libusb
  3. Install pyusb: python3 -mpip install pyusb
Python via brew is good enough unless you need multiple versions. Also don't use easy_install, there is no guarantee it points to 3 or 2.
 
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I got it to work with a speaker wire....not sure how thick it is, but it ended up working. I currently have it wrapped around my spare USB-C cable waiting for something good to be released (Atmosphere, emulators, "other things")
 

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