emuMMC is available with Atmosphere, and it's highly recommended if you meet one or both of these conditions:
- You have a patched system, and your sysNAND is on 4.1.0. You will create an offline emuNAND that you can update to 8.1.0 with ChoiDujourNX to use all of your homebrew and backups with.
- You plan on using online play. You need another emuNAND (or sysNAND, if a person's Switch is unpatched) that is updated and untouched by hacks.
If you use an offline emuNAND for hackery and a clean emuNAND for online play, you should be fine. On the dirty emuNAND for hackery, you can also install 90DNS and/or Incognito to reduce the risk of a ban if it were to accidentally connect to the internet.
Ah, so I'll get it together when I install (?) Atmosphere, gotcha. Like I said in the topic title, it's a patched 4.1.0 console so it looks like it's a necessity in my case. I'm lucky enough that I'm no longer locked out of hacking due to having a patched console I guess. Though I also haven't seen anyone claim they managed to get everything working successfully online just yet? Hope it does work the way it's been promised.
So if I want to go online AND play backups on a patched console, I need two emunands, gotcha. Are they both installed simultaneously, or do I back them up elsewhere (say, on my HDD) and switch whenever I need the other one? Confused how that works.
I'm in the same boat, so chipping in with my experience and keen to hear others.
New iPatched 4.1.0 unit which has now been warmbooted via Caffeine/Hekate. Backed up Nand/Boot sectors/keys etc.
I'm now stuck trying to get EmuMMC to boot anything. Essentially I want to keep my sysnand totally clean and literally not touch it unless I have to. Then with EmuMMC or similar, upgrade to the latest firmware etc.
Unfortunately Atmosphere appears to have a bug with the version shipped with SDSetup, which looks to have been fixed yesterday, so hoping to check that out tonight.
Good to see another person doing the same thing I've been doing, though I still need to take the first step - going to buy the Micro SD card (32 GB was the suggested minimum iirc) that is needed for the installation tomorrow morning first, and then try to get as much accomplished as possible.
Curious how it goes for you, seeing how you're ahead of me, and I already begin to worry about things working out when you mention the problem with Atmosphere. SDSetup is something you get while following the firmware guide I linked, correct? Do they really update it regularly?
Seeing how fresh the homebrew setup for patched consoles is, I imagine a lot of things are still undiscovered, or people aren't aware of them yet. Hope we pull through!