Hacking Question Sxos emunand questions.

[starlitalpha]

I have sxos coming today and I have been doing research while waiting for it. The biggest problem I've found is that some info is incomplete or outdated and its muddying the waters a bit. Given where the os is now, I simply must ask some questions to make sure I'm getting this right.

1. I've heard some people say they have their emunand and their ofw on seperate sd cards. How in the heck does that work, and is this recommended? I have quite a few games as it is, so itd be nice to still access them now. If the sd card idea isn't the best, what would you suggest?

2. Do your saves carry over into the emunand? If so, can't I just install the game to emunand and carry on with my current progress and such?

3. Does sleep mode work in emunand? If not, what do you do when you're done? Just shut it off? I ask because I see conflicting info as to whether or not you can.

4. I saw there was an EXTREMELY helpful and clear guide here on how to setup emunand which I will follow religiously while setting up, but anything else I need to know before jumping headfirst into this?

Thank you in advance for your time!

 

[jajamundo]

1. You can have boths Nands on the same SD card. SXOS creates a nintendo folder and renamed to emutendo (this is all your saves and installed games on your emunand) and leaves the nintendo folder for your sysnand.

2. When you create a emunand is an exact copy of your sysnand. So you'll keep all your games on emunand and sysnand. (This means double the space on your SD Card). This is why I recommend to you to unlink your Nands and keep only originals on your Sysnand and all your non originals on your emunand and offline
3. Yes
4. There is a lot of tutos, but you can check the SX OS guides

 

[stewacide]

1. When emunand first launched you needed separate SD cards for emunand and to use with the OFW, but thats no longer necessary, although it's still probably a good idea.*
2. Saves are imported into your emunand when you create it but after that they're not tied at all.
3. Everything works.
4. No guide necessary, just boot into (the latest) SXOS and follow the prompts to create an emunand

You probably want the card you use with sysnand to be EXFAT since it makes it easier to copy XCIs on/off, but the emunand one to be FAT32 for stability

 

[starlitalpha]

1. When emunand first launched you needed separate SD cards for emunand and to use with the OFW, but thats no longer necessary, although it's still probably a good idea.*
2. Saves are imported into your emunand when you create it but after that they're not tied at all.
3. Everything works.
4. No guide necessary, just boot into (the latest) SXOS and follow the prompts to create an emunand

You probably want the card you use with sysnand to be EXFAT since it makes it easier to copy XCIs on/off, but the emunand one to be FAT32 for stability

Did you mean to reverse the exfat/fat32 there? I thought the major point of exfat was to allow larger files to be transferred without being split. Wouldn't that make exfat better for emunand since xci's are usually pretty large.

I may just stick to installing nsp's anyway.

 

[stewacide]

You can run (retail) XCIs on sysnand without getting banned, which allows you to grab updates from Nintendo.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

How do you update emunand? Like say when 8.0 support comes for emunand? How do we update?

 

[stick267]

Did you mean to reverse the exfat/fat32 there? I thought the major point of exfat was to allow larger files to be transferred without being split. Wouldn't that make exfat better for emunand since xci's are usually pretty large.

I may just stick to installing nsp's anyway.

You actually shouldn't use exfat under any circumstance. There are threads and info all over GBATemp detailing why. It causes corruption, and with USB NSP installation and XCI Splitting, 4+GB files are no issue with FAT32.

How do you update emunand? Like say when 8.0 support comes for emunand? How do we update?

You have to download the firmware files from Google and use the ChoidujourNX homebrew to update the emunand firmware.