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incognito
Wipes personal information from your Nintendo Switch by removing it from prodinfo.

purpose
a) So your switch can go online without worrying about a ban or using random dogdy DNS servers that are also likely to get you banned.

b) so malicious homebrew applications cannot steal your personal certificate.

disclaimer
Always have a nand backup. I am not responsible for any bricks or bans. Use at your own risk, experimental.

This application backs up your prodinfo to the SD root, you should keep this backup in a more secure location, and not leave it on the SD card where malicious applications can read it.

https://github.com/blawar/incognito

edit: atmosphere blocks writes to CAL0, so you must use ReiNX or SX OS to install this. Once installed, you can switch back to atmosphere.

 

[hippy dave]

Factory reset doesn't clear logs, there's a procedure explained somewhere to make a new nand with Choidujour if you want a genuinely clean one. Are you saying you used incognito on sysnand, because then how would online work?

I know this far. That's why I thought Incognito would clean them but after reading your post and reading OP again it makes sense.
So Incognito alters the prodinfo in a way that the Switch can't communicate with Nintendo (which is bad if you want to play online) but that also gives us hope, that the Switch is not banned yet (since it didn't communicate with Ninty) and the error codes are only appearing because it can't access the eShop and so on, correct?
At least I created a NAND backup (he was on 8.1.0 when he gave me his Switch).
So what would be the steps right now?
Incognito has an undo function, right? At least it created a backup of the prodinfo iirc.
Would I have to "re-activate" the prodinfo backup? If yes, how?


Ah, that specific downgrade tutorial. I remember seeing it as well. Unfortunately ChoiDujour is a pain (compared to ChoiDujourNX) but we should be thankful that it even exists. Hopefully that'll help and it's not too late already. Thx.

Yeah, if you got error messages trying to access Nintendo's online servers while incognito was installed, then that's the intended effect. If you didn't at any point successfully connect to N's online stuff without incognito, then you shouldn't be banned.

Yes I believe incognito has a restore function. I don't think you'd have to do anything to "reactivate" it after restoring.

But yeah if you want a guaranteed clean nand then you should do the Choidujour process, the end result should be ready to go online as is (after updating to current FW version). I haven't done that myself so can't be more help there, but all the info you need should be available.

 

[lordelan]

Yes I believe incognito has a restore function. I don't think you'd have to do anything to "reactivate" it after restoring.

Yes, already wrote blawar about this and he told me that (just have to get my friend's Switch back so I can do it).

But yeah if you want a guaranteed clean nand then you should do the Choidujour process, the end result should be ready to go online as is (after updating to current FW version).

Although I'm pretty sure I saw that tutorial as well, I can't seem to find it.
Can you help me?

 

[hippy dave]

Yes, already wrote blawar about this and he told me that (just have to get my friend's Switch back so I can do it).

Although I'm pretty sure I saw that tutorial as well, I can't seem to find it.
Can you help me?

https://switch.homebrew.guide/usingcfw/manualchoiupgrade

Good luck!

 

[lordelan]

View attachment 173996
https://switch.homebrew.guide/usingcfw/manualchoiupgrade

Good luck!

Thx.
I went through Raj's guide with ChoiDujour because I wanted to update my Switch back then right before ChoiDujourNX was released. However I'm not sure which exact step would involve cleaning the log file and I don't need to go through all the steps (that I'm still a bit familiar with luckily). So I throwed shchmue a PM on Discord and hopefully he will take on me.
At least it's a cool thing to know how to delete logs - for anyone.
I know most people either have a clean NAND backup or went online at least once so they won't benefit from that (as there would be a log stamp mismatch on Ninty's server leading to a ban) but if others that have never been online need this, it might be helpful.
Let's see what (and if) he replies.

Edit: Okay you already showed it in your screenshot (shchmue replied to me on Discord). Just mount SYSTEM and USER without up- or downgrading the FW (obviously) and delete anything in there, that's it. Will try that when I got my friend's Switch back.

Edit 2: While deleting everything in SYSTEM, don't delete the file 8000000000000120 in SYSTEM:/save/ or the Switch won't boot! So that's the only file that needs to be left there. Everything else in SYSTEM has to be deleted.

 

[metaljay]

Just to let you guys know, it seems (I only wrote it seems!) that Incognito wasn't able to prevent a super ban!
Here's what happened:

1. I took a friend's Switch that was never connected to the internet at all!
2. This friend had NSPs installed and used CFW for quite some time without having a clean NAND backup. That's exactly what Incognito should help with if I'm not wrong?
3. I created an emuNAND (which boots just fine).
4. Then I did a factory reset on the sysNAND and used Incognito to remove all tracks from prodinfo.
5. Then he went online with that "clean" sysNAND and got super banned.

Your emunand was built from your dirty sysNand, factory resetting doesn’t clear logs.

If he installed incognito on sysNand then it doesn’t make sense why he was banned unless he didn’t install correctly

 

[lettuce]

So is it advised to disable incognito before you do a nand dump or doesnt it matter?

 

[hippy dave]

So is it advised to disable incognito before you do a nand dump or doesnt it matter?

Up to you really, as long as you know which backup is incognito'd or not, it'll be the same state when you restore it. Just make sure you keep your prodinfo backup safe at all times.

 

[CheddaGuap]

So whats the point of incognito again? So far what i understand is that if you install incognito your able to go online without any of your information being sent to Big N but you cant access nintendo servers which mean you cant play online through wifi? I have games i downloaded from eshop that i play with wifi and then i have NSP files that i play on Atmosphere with airplane mode on. What benefits would i gain from installing this?

 

[Hayato213]

So whats the point of incognito again? So far what i understand is that if you install incognito your able to go online without any of your information being sent to Big N but you cant access nintendo servers which mean you cant play online through wifi? I have games i downloaded from eshop that i play with wifi and then i have NSP files that i play on Atmosphere with airplane mode on. What benefits would i gain from installing this?

It meant to be used as a way to block communication between your switch and Nintendo server, so no online gaming.

 

[CheddaGuap]

It meant to be used as a way to block communication between your switch and Nintendo server, so no online gaming.[/QUOT

oh ok thank you

 

[ColorBoyKent]

Can I use incognito instead of emummc to get back the space you lose from emummc?

 

[Rahkeesh]

It doesn't work that way at all. Incognito stops you from connecting to Nintendo servers so you can do dirty things, but any leftover traces of those will be broadcast to Nintendo the moment you remove Incognito and go online. If you want to play Switch games online, you need a copy of nand that is fairly clean, to complement your second nand running incognito doing the dirty stuff.

 

[ColorBoyKent]

It doesn't work that way at all. Incognito stops you from connecting to Nintendo servers so you can do dirty things, but any leftover traces of those will be broadcast to Nintendo the moment you remove Incognito and go online. If you want to play Switch games online, you need a copy of nand that is fairly clean, to complement your second nand running incognito doing the dirty stuff.

So if that’s the case then

It doesn't work that way at all. Incognito stops you from connecting to Nintendo servers so you can do dirty things, but any leftover traces of those will be broadcast to Nintendo the moment you remove Incognito and go online. If you want to play Switch games online, you need a copy of nand that is fairly clean, to complement your second nand running incognito doing the dirty stuff.

but 90dns does that so what’s really the point of thought you get back the space emummc take cause ik you can run incognito with emummc but I’m saying can you run with out to get space back and when want to play online use hekate to restore nand

 

[Rahkeesh]

Incognito basically lets you do the same thing as 90DNS without needing a DNS. That's it.

If you want to reflash nand everytime you go online instead of using emummc you can do that. The prodinfo that Incognito wipes (or restores) is part of a full nand backup. But so are the DNS settings for 90DNS so its going to be about the same process either way.

 

[ColorBoyKent]

Incognito basically lets you do the same thing as 90DNS without needing a DNS. That's it.

If you want to reflash nand everytime you go online instead of using emummc you can do that. The prodinfo that Incognito wipes (or restores) is part of a full nand backup. But so are the DNS settings for 90DNS so its going to be about the same process either way.

Incognito basically lets you do the same thing as 90DNS without needing a DNS. That's it.

If you want to reflash nand everytime you go online instead of using emummc you can do that. The prodinfo that Incognito wipes (or restores) is part of a full nand backup. But so are the DNS settings for 90DNS so its going to be about the same process either way.

so I can’t get more space by just using incognito and not emummc and just restore nand to go online

 

[TieMonkey]

just curious if i follow the guide hippy dave replied with and get a clean nand from it, would that nand have the correct prodinfo (like regenerated) or is gone =gone forever (my hard drive killed itself) (live and learn if so lol)

 

[ColorBoyKent]

Can I use incognito instead of emummc to get back the space you lose from emummc?

So can I

 

[hippy dave]

just curious if i follow the guide hippy dave replied with and get a clean nand from it, would that nand have the correct prodinfo (like regenerated) or is gone =gone forever (my hard drive killed itself) (live and learn if so lol)

If you don't have the original prodinfo to start with, you can't regenerate it, sorry.

 

[veekay]

Does this no longer let you backup the prodinfo by pressing B? Without applying things, I can only verify.

 

[TieMonkey]

If you don't have the original prodinfo to start with, you can't regenerate it, sorry.

thats what i figured, o well ill be getting the lite anyways so thatll be my online play so no worries