Hacking [RCM Payload] Hekate - CTCaer mod

[kingraa777]

ok so ive formatted to exfat and it keeps getting stuk but reformatted to fat 32 and now im on %14 fingers xrossed

 

[Boblitz]

Whenever I try to boot into Atmosphere, I receive an error stating the following:
Error: No Fat/Fat32/exFat filesystem
Failed to mount SD card (FatFS Error 13).
<Make sure that a Fat type partition exists>

I've tried 4 different Micro SD Cards: A 4GB Toshiba, 8GB SanDisk, 32GB SanDisk, and a 64GB PNY. I've tried multiple different cluster sizes and such, to no avail however. Help would be appreciated!

 

[GyTe]

Depends.
My Samsung 128GB Evo+ (version /w U3) takes around 28 minutes with verification on and 75GB free space.
U3 and free space play a big role.

1. What do you mean exactly? All of them should be different from anything else. sm.bin and warmboot.bin are included in pkg_decr.bin and all of them are included in BOOT0. The fuses are from your SoC.
2. Ofcourse. BOOT0 and BOOT1 are not included in rawnand.bin. They are from different eMMC physical partitions. Your eMMC has 4 partitions, as I wrote in OP, BOOT0, BOOT1, RPMB (unused) and GPP (rawnand.bin).
Lastly, the GPP has 10 logical partitions (user, system, safe, etc).

EDIT:
Anyway, from all of these you just want BOOT0, BOOT1 and rawnand.bin to have the complete eMMC backup.

Hi, thanks for your interested on my post. For the dump time isn't a big issue even because the whole isn't something that you do everyday. Anyway the issue can be even the FAT32 filesystem. I'm quite sure in exFat is faster.

Your reply below :

1) I mean, my understanding is that if you dump, for example, Boot0 3 times and you compare with FC command, if they were identical, you should be always the same files. Same applied to other file like Boot1 and so on...

2) Ok sure even because they were dumped separately (I mean Boot0 and Boot1).

Anyway... Today I'll perform, just because I've time, the third dump of everything and keep with the other backup. I'm quite sure will be better to have another set of backup instead of one less.

Thanks for your big offer in that payload!!!

 

[CTCaer]

Whenever I try to boot into Atmosphere, I receive an error stating the following:
Error: No Fat/Fat32/exFat filesystem
Failed to mount SD card (FatFS Error 13).
<Make sure that a Fat type partition exists>

I've tried 4 different Micro SD Cards: A 4GB Toshiba, 8GB SanDisk, 32GB SanDisk, and a 64GB PNY. I've tried multiple different cluster sizes and such, to no avail however. Help would be appreciated!

Where do you try to format all these cards?

Hi, thanks for your interested on my post. For the dump time isn't a big issue even because the whole isn't something that you do everyday. Anyway the issue can be even the FAT32 filesystem. I'm quite sure in exFat is faster.

Your reply below :

1) I mean, my understanding is that if you dump, for example, Boot0 3 times and you compare with FC command, if they were identical, you should be always the same files. Same applied to other file like Boot1 and so on...

2) Ok sure even because they were dumped separately (I mean Boot0 and Boot1).

Anyway... Today I'll perform, just because I've time, the third dump of everything and keep with the other backup. I'm quite sure will be better to have another set of backup instead of one less.

Thanks for your big offer in that payload!!!

BOOT0 changes on reboot. The only change is a ~40 byte pseudorandom data and increment at 0x184000. No biggie, it's normal.

 

[crazyxelite]

Does this work on 3.0.2? Also what homebrew is compatible? Can't find any info on it. Thanks

 

[Azel]

yes, it works on 3.0.2.
VBA Next and pFBA work for example.

 

[crazyxelite]

yes, it works on 3.0.2.
VBA Next and pFBA work for example.

Cool did you test anything else?

 

[coned_miro]

Cool did you test anything else?

I got retroarch for 5.0.2 to work (I'm on 3.0.2) and boot SNES games, but didn't load any other cores

 

[Azel]

Cool did you test anything else?

lot of the other stuff didn't work for me, but I don't think that's really relevant, most of the stuff is going to be recompiled in the comming weeks to work on every fw.

 

[Boblitz]

Where do you try to format all these cards?

I've tried both Windows Explorer and MiniTool Partition Wizard.

 

[CTCaer]

I've tried both Windows Explorer and MiniTool Partition Wizard.

Try this one first:
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/index.html

It will fix the partition offset automatically. After that, if you want to format the card again, use windows explorer.

 

[Boblitz]

Try this one first:

It will fix the partition offset automatically. After that, if you want to format the card again, use windows explorer.

Just tried it, getting the same error unfortunately.

 

[Deleted User]

Does this version of Hekate run a version of HB Menu that works on 5.1.0? People are reporting hangs when trying to use a modified HB Menu on 5.1.0 plus the creator said only his version from Atmosphere works.

 

[CTCaer]

Just tried it, getting the same error unfortunately.

Wait a little bit for the new version. It has some extra error messages in FatFS and we can learn what goes wrong.

Does this version of Hekate run a version of HB Menu that works on 5.1.0? People are reporting hangs when trying to use a modified HB Menu on 5.1.0 plus the creator said only his version from Atmosphere works.

You misunderstood. hbmenu has nothing to do with hekate and atmosphere.

It's homebrew that launches homebrew.

Everything is on the atmo files (sm.kip1 and loader.kip1).
If these are the latest, compatible with hekate and compatible with 5.1.0, everything is OK.

The problem with the current sdfiles.zip is that they are almost a month old.
People don't even use the latest hbemenu btw.

Anyway. If the creator* said that only his custom atmosphere runs, that means that these files will work with upstream hekate and hekate ctcaer mod.
*Who is this creator?

 

[M7L7NK7]

SciresM

 

[CTCaer]

SciresM

I thought so.
But if he said the name I would have a different answer:

SciresM runs atmosphere with fusee, not hekate (which for some reason all are thinking he does).

Fusee is tailored to atmo. That means it can boot alsmost every atmo commit.
So if you want homebrew in 5.1.0, you need the latest atmo, modified to work with hekate, like before.

Anyway, I'll look into this, and I may provide the newest possible sdfiles.zip (hbmenu latest commit + touch, latest atmo commit, etc).


EDIT:
And btw I forgot to ask.
Did any of these people that have problem with launching hbmenu, tried any latest build?
For example I have in OP, one from may 29.

 

[chrishinji]

You misunderstood. hbmenu has nothing to do with hekate and atmosphere.

It's homebrew that launches homebrew.

Everything is on the atmo files (sm.kip1 and loader.kip1).
If these are the latest, compatible with hekate and compatible with 5.1.0, everything is OK.

The problem with the current sdfiles.zip is that they are almost a month old.
People don't even use the latest hbemenu btw.

Anyway. If the creator* said that only his custom atmosphere runs, that means that these files will work with upstream hekate and hekate ctcaer mod.
*Who is this creator?

I learned yesterday about the exploit and I right printed a 3D Jig on my Switch 5.1.0 which was up to date. I successfully booted in RCM and started a CFW, however when I go to the album I have a black screen. I found somewhere that with the last update the SD support was broken and I was suggested to wait for a new release. However, based on what you said as I am using an old version for the sdfiles.zip that's the reason I can't use hbemenu. But is there any alternative that you are aware about for 5.1.0 system ?

 

[M7L7NK7]

5.1.0 is a day old, you have to wait

 

[CTCaer]

... I found somewhere that with the last update the SD support was broken...

What update broke sd support?

Btw, you tried https://gbatemp.net/attachments/hbmenu-20180529-7z.126654/ ?
It's the one I have in OP.

 

[Darthsternie]

What update broke sd support?

Btw, you tried https://gbatemp.net/attachments/hbmenu-20180529-7z.126654/ ?
It's the one I have in OP.

I built the latest commit yesterday for myself and hbmenu still didn't boot on 5.1.0 :/