His CFW is open-source and can be compiled by anybody so there is nothing to release. Its being actively worked on and anyone can contribute or use his code for their purposes.
did you say ''OPEN source'' and anyone can access his code?? did TX 's cfw had anything in ''common'' with Atmosphere?
Since TX has not released the source code for their CFW, we cannot say for certain. It may be reasonable that they borrowed some of Atmosphere's code because it is open-source after all. If they did, then they must give the proper credits otherwise their CFW is liable. Anyways, we won't know until either they release their source-code or someone reverse engineers their CFW.
moreover, since Atmosphére is distributed under GPLv2 license, if TX were to use its source code (even some parts) they would need to keep the same license (GPL is copyleft)
They are located in the Tutorial section. To save you some time, I'll link them below:
He says in there it could result in a ban. Any way to avoid this? Will Atmosphere have a way of avoiding it and installing exFat? I can wait on this if it means setting it up right.
Not really. It's not confirmed to ban you, but theoretically, Nintendo could see that you have the update installed, but you didn't request it from their servers
I don't think that a ban is likely, there's always a possibility though.
If you have the exfat update on your switch, it'll be fine. But if you don't, it will ask you to update before you can use it
There's not a public backup loader yet
In the first tutorial, Method 2 is much safer because it'll only install the exFAT update when you are using CFW and since using CFW itself presents a ban-risk, it introduces the same precautions. If you want to be safe, you never go online with a CFW in the first place. His first method is more dangerous because the exFAT update is permanently applied to the Switch, outside of CFW.
Rather than buying a second Switch, it might be better to wait for either SX OS or Atmosphere to implement EmuNAND support. That way, you can play backups safely offline in SysNAND and play Splatoon 2 online via EmuNAND without getting banned.
FAT32 is the format the Switch supports by default however if you don't want to update to the latest firmware and want the exFAT update, you can follow one of the following tutorials:
With a Windows PC, you can use USB 2.0. Not familiar with the USB requirements for Apple devices.
The best comparison if you wanna know what Atmosphere will be capable of and look like is the Luma CFW for the 3DS. It will have full online capabilities as well as EmuNAND so you will not have to update your SysNAND to use it or to enjoy the benefits of being on the latest firmware. Unfortunately, with the way the Switch handles downloads from the eShop, we cannot make it safe because it requires our console unique certificate. This leads to the high unlikelihood of Freeshop ever making a return but we may be able to change that someday. Also, while the goals of this CFW is to ensure as low as possible a ban-risk as realistic as possible, utilizing a CFW inherently presents risks to getting banned as you can never truly hide the modifications you have made or are running.
