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You guys who pay for convenience how is tx more convenient than other options? You still need some technical ability, as well as the ability to download roms.
Sure all this stuff is easy but for the real outsiders who see tx how does it make it even easier for them? They have to download a thing put it on a thing put the thing back into the other thing after sending and receiving some file back and forth. There's like 3 extra steps attached to this process by tx based on the fact that they license it.
Where is the convenience in this over reading some thread or master guide for n00bs post?
Sure all this stuff is easy but for the real outsiders who see tx how does it make it even easier for them? They have to download a thing put it on a thing put the thing back into the other thing after sending and receiving some file back and forth. There's like 3 extra steps attached to this process by tx based on the fact that they license it.
Where is the convenience in this over reading some thread or master guide for n00bs post?
Convenience comes in the form of the USB dongle.
It automatically loads the payload, which saves the required use of having a device to send the payload from, and also saves you the required use of a USB-A to USB-C cable as well.
Is also more user friendly once it is already verified, simply drop and go for the ROMs.
And to be honest, anyone who gets into this to pirate stuff is already well known in where to get the games from, that part does not count into convenience sake.
Btw, I'm no SX user (yet), so I am speaking from what others have said.
Well, the dongle and SX should be considered separate things. SX can be bought without the dongle, and the dongle can be used to boot any CFW in boot.dat format (you can get hekate in boot.dat format, for example).
I think the ‘simplicity’ comes from the fact that is can be used without having to figure out which of the various different SDfiles/stash/whatever packs to use. This is a false claim because ReiNX can be used without having to download any extra files, but at the time SX was launched things were more confusing. These assumptions die hard.
I think the ‘simplicity’ comes from the fact that is can be used without having to figure out which of the various different SDfiles/stash/whatever packs to use. This is a false claim because ReiNX can be used without having to download any extra files, but at the time SX was launched things were more confusing. These assumptions die hard.
I get the value in the dongle. I'll also acknowledge they were the first to make one. But now the value in the dongle is that of cost for parts. However tx makes the most convenient switch piracy dongle. If other dongles had that marketing power of tx they could be in the hands of newbs as well.
I think it's easy to obtain roms as well. But a lot of new members here or people only familiar with what tx puts out does not explicitly stated where to aquire them.
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When I first started investigating this stuff, switch.hacks.guide told me I needed to wait for a CFW called atmosphere to be finished before I could hack my switch. On gbatemp there seemed to be a few different CFWs that were based off atmosphere (wasn't that not even done yet?), but at the time only one of them could support playing NSPs, and thats only if I was able to find some zip files with something called sigpatches on some discord because it wasn't allowed to be posted here or something.
Oh wait, I can just pay $40 for something with straightforward instructions that just works and comes with a dongle? Sign me up.
This is exactly the post i was looking for. I really am curious if the outside perspective on this.
This train of logic makes sense until it comes to finding roms. Once you start looking for roms how can one not pick up how to do every thing by osmosis.
Those dot.guide sites really are a new wave in this. It's nicer to look at a fancy html5 website then a notepad doc yet both provide the same exact stuff. It's like ordering at McDonalds you can either use words or point at pictures
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All CFWs can now play backups without those illegal patches and even when you needed them, you could get them just by asking for them in a discord server. You didn't even have to apply the patches yourself as it was already done for you. These aren't the days when you had to compile everything yourself. They literally spoonfeed you what you need.
With your logic, why pay $40 when you could pay a lesser price for any other dongle and use a free CFW that's just as easy to get running as SXOS is?
It's all up to preference now and many people prefer to save money. Some will still buy TX's product and that's good for them. I never said it's a bad decision to do so, I just stated what's no longer exclusive to TX's product.
There's a reason why they don't advertise roms sites and such.
TX does not explicitly indicate their SX products is for piracy... (Even though everyone knows it was created for that purpose). If you look at their website, it says "Using the SX OS Launcher you can easily boot into the normal Nintendo Switch firmware to enjoy your original games."
I'm guessing it's for legal reasons.
Tx seems to have dropped any and all notion for legitimate uses of their product. They roll their eyes at the prospect of Homebrew and game mods and believe people are being disingenuous when inquiring about it. They verified that bbb xci dumps were compatible with their product they are a goofy bunch of backyard mechanics.
My perspective is the information tx gives out to me doesn't make it more or less comprehensive than other material out there.
If you made this far to be in this sub section of this forum but hit a road block because you had to join that anime dudes discord in order to download the cfw than ok tx made it easier. But now you can have the same functionality and download whateverNX and then you'd be going through the same process as tx users when it comes to nsps.
I found a list of torrents for every physical switch release in xci format. Haven't wanted to play anything that wasn't on that list yet.
If I were starting this endeavor today I might consider doing so with the R4 dongle; however, I really do like the smaller size and the use of caps in the SX dongle.
Oh yeah that's the other big thing about all this is that damn rcm exploit.
Nobody gets that rcm stuff, the battery issue, the stupid dongle, not being able to tell the difference between crashed black screen and rcm mode. Autorcm even confuses them more.
You see constant post about bricked switches and broken dongles but a good portion of those people have no hardware issues at all they just aren't familiar with stupid intricacies of all this stuff. Tx makes that no easier to grasp.
Switch battery is dead,
It's not in rcm mode just cracked black screen
The dongle battery died.
The troubleshooting for this is off the chain.
Nobody gets that rcm stuff, the battery issue, the stupid dongle, not being able to tell the difference between crashed black screen and rcm mode. Autorcm even confuses them more.
You see constant post about bricked switches and broken dongles but a good portion of those people have no hardware issues at all they just aren't familiar with stupid intricacies of all this stuff. Tx makes that no easier to grasp.
Switch battery is dead,
It's not in rcm mode just cracked black screen
The dongle battery died.
The troubleshooting for this is off the chain.
Yeah like that has not happened yet. Stop hoping for cracks, it's not happening. Get cfw and nsp or buy SX for xci.
Why hasn't anyone reverse-engineered the XCI loader into a CFW yet? That's literally the only thing they have going for them, and the only feature I use
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