Hacking SWITCH NOOB PARADISE - Ask questions here

[Dominator211]

If you delete the ticket, you cannot play the game. You need a fake ticket to play a game you don't own.

If you use a FAT32 SD card, you will just dump the NAND in parts. And corruption when using exFAT only really occurs when you're using homebrew, not dumping the NAND. The only thing that would make a bad NAND dump is a fake SD card.

For clusters, the default setting is sufficient but if the formatter you have doesn't have a default option, choose 32 for FAT32 and 128 for exFAT.

Lastly, to minimize corruption, never exit a homebrew application using the Home button; use the homebrew's built-in exit function.
You cannot, this is how the Switch functions.

so how am i gonna get into rcm mode???!
if it boots in regular mode when plugged in

 

[Draxzelex]

so how am i gonna get into rcm mode???!
if it boots in regular mode when plugged in

You can only enter RCM when the console is off. You cannot enter RCM while the console is on.

 

[Dominator211]

You can only enter RCM when the console is off. You cannot enter RCM while the console is on.

I don't even think its the switch anymore I think its my FUCKING JIG

 

[Draxzelex]

I don't even think its the switch anymore I think its my FUCKING JIG

Yeah entering RCM is not easy. I use a paperclip myself and it once took me around an hour to successfully do it. You can also try using tinfoil since you can bend it more than a jig or paperclip.

 

[Dominator211]

Yeah entering RCM is not easy. I use a paperclip myself and it once took me around an hour to successfully do it. You can also try using tinfoil since you can bend it more than a jig or paperclip.

last time i did tin foil i thought i bricked, i mean ill post some pictures but all i keep getting is stock recover mode

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Yeah entering RCM is not easy. I use a paperclip myself and it once took me around an hour to successfully do it. You can also try using tinfoil since you can bend it more than a jig or paperclip.

double post i know but im fed up already lol. the problem im getting now is that there is nothing coming from the switch but when i plug it in it boots into OG firmware

 

[erk]

Is boot.dat on the root of your SD card?
Install them using SX OS' built in title-installer or use Tinfoil.
Basically the Switch has pretty bad exFAT drivers that when combined with homebrew make corruption an inevitability. The corruption can occur with FAT32 as well but because it has a backup, you will never notice it on the Switch but your computer may pick up on it. If you want to avoid corruption as much as possible, only close homebrew applications by using their respective exit buttons; do not exit homebrew by using the Home button.

• You can backup the NAND with or without games installed into the internal system memory. The only difference is that if you try compressing the NAND after you dumped it with content installed, it will be slightly larger than if you had no content installed.
• Not sure what you mean by risk. It is completely safe to do a NAND backup regardless of whatever content is on the NAND.

Firmware updates only update the SYS partition of the NAND. The only other difference between a normal system update and one with ChoiDujourNX is that official system updates remove AutoRCM while ChoiDujourNX lets you re-install it after the firmware is updated.

Correct as long as you are using AutoRCM to turn off the console because booting into non-RCM OFW will burn fuses.

Hekate is a payload that doubles as a bootloader. Once in RCM, you cannot turn on the console by normal means hence the need for a bootloader. CFW are files on an SD card that cannot be loaded by themselves; they need a bootloader to patch the firmware so it reads those files. Hekate can also now load any CFW you put into it besides Atmosphere either by configuring it under launch configurations or by using Hekate to launch their respective bootloader to load their CFW (e.g. ReiNX or SX OS).
If you don't mind having the second console risk a ban, there is no problem.

I do have the boot.dat..

How can I tell CFW is running? When going to the album it loads back to home screen. When holding L button it loads screenshots. Does this mean I'm on CFW? Giving me a message about needing a system update to use SD card?

 

[Draxzelex]

I do have the boot.dat..

How can I tell CFW is running? When going to the album it loads back to home screen. When holding L button it loads screenshots. Does this mean I'm on CFW? Giving me a message about needing a system update to use SD card?

Oh now I see what you did. You're trying to load CFW using an exFAT formatted SD card on a console that doesn't support exFAT. You have 3 options:

1. Format the SD card to FAT32 and use that instead
2. Insert the exFAT formatted SD card and accept the prompt to update to the latest firmware so your console can obtain the exFAT drivers officially
3. Format the SD card to FAT32 then use the homebrew application ChoiDujourNX to install exFAT on any firmware except 1.0 after downloading the firmware files you wish to install elsewhere

 

[erk]

Thank you- I'm going to update from 5.1.0 and hope for the best!

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Updating to 6.0.1 didn't help much- black screen on loading CFW from SX OS home screen. Console will not power off or boot with/without SD. So I'm bricked?

 

[Draxzelex]

Thank you- I'm going to update from 5.1.0 and hope for the best!

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Updating to 6.0.1 didn't help much- black screen on loading CFW from SX OS home screen. Console will not power off or boot with/without SD. So I'm bricked?

You didn't read my post. The latest firmware doesn't automatically support exFAT.

Oh now I see what you did. You're trying to load CFW using an exFAT formatted SD card on a console that doesn't support exFAT. You have 3 options:

1. Format the SD card to FAT32 and use that instead
2. Insert the exFAT formatted SD card and accept the prompt to update to the latest firmware so your console can obtain the exFAT drivers officially
3. Format the SD card to FAT32 then use the homebrew application ChoiDujourNX to install exFAT on any firmware except 1.0 after downloading the firmware files you wish to install elsewhere

 

[Dominator211]

I did a backup it finished but now my SD card is write protected... what happened

 

[Draxzelex]

I did a backup it finished but now my SD card is write protected... what happened

A micro SD card cannot be write-protected but if its inserted into an adapter that has the slider set to lock, then it'll act as if the SD card is write-protected.

 

[Dominator211]

A micro SD card cannot be write-protected but if its inserted into an adapter that has the slider set to lock, then it'll act as if the SD card is write-protected.

must be the apdter i guess ethier way it says it write protected

 

[scorpweb]

hi all,

hope someone can answer a question for me.

looking at getting the SX PRO so i can test a few games before purchase.

i have some online games like Splatoon 2 and MK8 ...if i get SX Pro can i play retail games online with no risk? or does is there risk involved even if the game is legit? i saw the ban post and just wanted to check see what the options are. is it safe to do this or is it a case of i'd need to never be able to connect it to WIFI to be safest?

Cheers

 

[Draxzelex]

hi all,

hope someone can answer a question for me.

looking at getting the SX PRO so i can test a few games before purchase.

i have some online games like Splatoon 2 and MK8 ...if i get SX Pro can i play retail games online with no risk? or does is there risk involved even if the game is legit? i saw the ban post and just wanted to check see what the options are. is it safe to do this or is it a case of i'd need to never be able to connect it to WIFI to be safest?

Cheers

People have been banned for going online with games they own after using SX Pro.

 

[scorpweb]

ahh crap! is it just a ban from the game or is it like the console is bricked?

 

[Draxzelex]

ahh crap! is it just a ban from the game or is it like the console is bricked?

If the console became bricked after a ban, Nintendo would be hit with more lawsuits than you could count on your two hands...

 

[scorpweb]

cool so you're just banned from playing online? ...i'll weigh up the options then. thanks for the quick reply

 

[Dominator211]

IM LOSING MY FREAKIN MIND HERE!!! im tryign to dump keys. i used this tutorail here

but when i tried to launch the software in homebrew menu it crashes the switch.
I tried to load up the payload used in the video but that didn't work either for some reason.

then i started to follow this tutorial
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-get-switch-keys-for-hactool-xci-decrypting.506978/
i was up to section 3 untl CMD as great as it is cant find the folder and im about to blow a fuse. so if someone could please help me before i pass out.

 

[Vieela]

What did 6.0.0/6.0.1 break? Asking because it would make installing CFW easier for me (not having to install 5.1.0 + exFAT using Choi)

 

[Quantumcat]

IM LOSING MY FREAKIN MIND HERE!!! im tryign to dump keys. i used this tutorail here

but when i tried to launch the software in homebrew menu it crashes the switch.
I tried to load up the payload used in the video but that didn't work either for some reason.

then i started to follow this tutorial
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-get-switch-keys-for-hactool-xci-decrypting.506978/
i was up to section 3 untl CMD as great as it is cant find the folder and im about to blow a fuse. so if someone could please help me before i pass out.
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it is because you're starting in c:/windows/system32 and there's no folder called Desktop in there. Go to Windows Explorer, and go to the hactool folder. Copy the whole address from the address bar, and paste that in for the cd command. It'll be something like C:\Users\your_user_name\Desktop\hactool.

When something isn't working, it is a good skill to have to be able to remain calm, and look at all the evidence you have to find out what is happening. In this case, you can see that the path begins with C:\Windows\System32 so it should occur to you that it is trying to find the Desktop folder in there, and maybe you need the entire path.