Excuse me. I know it is bad to use exfat, That is why I am using a 64gb sd card formated to Fat32. My question is : is it also bad to have the exfat switch support update installed and use a Fat32 sd card?
No there's no real downside to it. It's like having drivers for 3 different printers on your Windows PC although you're just using one of them.
I will receive my SX Pro in the mail by next week. I wonder wether there is a detailed tutorial floating around somewhere, that instructs what to do. I read you should backup NAND first.. but honestly... while I am fully aware on how to perform this on a Wii U and a 3DS, I have no idea in regard to the switch. Do you have any ideas on where to start? I am reading about "fuses" all the time.. no idea what that is either. Thx!
Well using SX Pro is pretty easy and it's written on their website:
https://sx.xecuter.com/#usage
However I really recommend doing a NAND backup first.
Put
hekate on your SD card (along your SX OS files). While booting with Jig and SX Pro hold down VOL+ and you should end up in SX OS' boot menu. From there choose "options" and "launch payload". Then load hekate. After that do a NAND backup from there.
It's the first two options in the backup menu in hekate. One is for BOOT and the other for a full raw nand dump. The first one takes a few seconds, the other around 1 or 2 hours. Be sure to go through
both of them.
Fuses are burnt the more, the higher FW you're on. A burned fuse cannot be "unburned". So if there's too many fuses burnt and you try to launch an older firmware, your Switch won't boot ... but only if you boot it the "normal" way (without any payloads/hacks/CFW/homebrew/whatever). The stock bootloader is the "guy" who does the fuse checking (and the fuse burning in case it's needed).
To prevent that guy from doing anything you can skip him aka lock him completely out your house by using hekate to boot.
With hekate you can boot into CFW or original firmware (stock) but it never does the fuse check.
To update to newer firmwares
without burning fuses, use
ChoiDujourNX.
Do you still need a lakka for retroarch still? I've been avoiding it with the whole battery issues that it brings.
No you don't. It still has some benefits like PSP (as far as I know) but the RetroArch homebrew is at a pretty well state now so use that instead.
I'd like to mention though that the battery issue has been fixed for ages. Potential screen burns and no audio (without bluetooth) are the only bad things left on lakka.
Hey-- made an account just to ask this question.
So, I'm currently running a copy of RajNX on stock FW 5.1.0. (For pirating Smash early.) I had updated to 6.1.0 prior, so i had to backup my NAND and force backdate and all, won't boot w/o TegraRCM, etc.
I was wondering if it would be feasible to delete pirated content on my switch + SD card, boot into Stock FW instead of CFW, and update to latest firmware? Would this cause a brick and/or ban?
Alternatively; My GF and I have 2 switches between us-- lots of modding seems to be on 5.1.0 and I am definitely still interested in modding my system. Would it be best to leave mine modded, and just play stock games on the other?
Thanks in advance for helping my dumb gay ass!
If you're lucky enough to have two Switches, keep one unhacked and the other hacked (and never go online with the hacked one).
There's no garantuee you won't get banned with a Switch where you did any CFW related things with. That's why it would have been wise to make a NAND backup before you even started hacking.
However, once the emunand feature of Atmosphère comes out a "hacked Switch" might be usable for both, hacking
and going online with a stock firmware.
What happens if you install a 6.2 required game or update to your switch? Will it update the switch or harm it in any way? Or will the game itself just don't strart?
Worst thing is the game won't start but it won't install a FW update unless you're booting into XCIs using SX OS that contain a FW update but even then you would be asked to do it and can cancel out that popup window.
hi,
Currently I’m using my switch in ofw. And probably will install the cfw in the future.
In that condition, what if I run rcm only to backup my nand, will i got flagged/banned by nintendo?
Is it necessary or it is just a dumb idea?
It's the best idea you could come up with before (!) you plan anything else with it.
Doing things from hekate like a NAND backup shouldn't
touch your log files at all so give it a go.