Hacking Question Is Emunand really interesting if you only play games offline and don’t plan to downgrade?

[snoofly]

The current atmosphere allows you to update officially without burning fuses, so you could just use atmosphere for updating and get fuse preserving practically for free (if you use AutoRCM), and you wouldn't have to manually enable AutoRCM again

(Btw: I think you mean latest gc firm, because how would you update if you are offline all the time?)

I can update system firmware online even when superbanned

 

[Maupiti]

Can I use Atmosphere on an SX emunand?

Yes

 

[Tigran]

Yes

Sweet. I'll try to look up how to do it in a bit. Thank you very much.

 

[Maupiti]

The good thing with Emunand, is that you can keep sysnand safe from bricks...you can have « almost « a 1:1 copy of the sysnand...so space on sd is not « wasted « as you can install nsps or xci’s...on Emunand...The only thing I do regularly...being on exfat...is backuping my game ´s saves...in case of corruption...

Also, I use Emunand with xci’s external usb hard disk...and no speed issues...everything works well...

 

[silent_eve]

I'm on EmuNAND Offline for my dirty stuff and SysNAND for my legit stuff, online, etc.. not banned.

But on a serious and curious note, for us SX OS users, when on SysNAND, how easy is it for Nintendo to simply put a little code to check your SD CARD? If it sees you have boot.dat and license.dat then your flagged for ban while when it connects online? Trying not to jinx everyone but can they and will they? Or will this breach some privacy act of some sort.

If you are using emunand, do you have to restore your real Nand everytime you want to play online with your legit games?

 

[xs4all]

If you are using emunand, do you have to restore your real Nand everytime you want to play online with your legit games?

SysNand and EmuNand are separate, they don't talk or see each other, EmuNand sits on the SD CARD, if you want to go online and play legit games just reboot your Switch normally, this will boot normally into SysNand, here you do all your legit stuff. If you want to go back to EmuNand, just insert the SX OS dongle and RCM jig and boot into EmuNand. No need to restore anything, as long as your SysNand is clean and not touched anything CFW related. At the moment Nintendo isn't checking SD CARD content to see if you have anything dodgy.

 

[Arkangelshadow]

Emunand is worth only if you buy games.

 

[Trunks101]

I have recently just set up my Emunand and I was wondering how do I transfer newer games that I downloaded on the SYSNAND to the EMUNAND after I already made an Emunand from SysNand before I bought the new game.
Do I have to do the whole process again, or is there an easier way?

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I have recently just set up my Emunand and I was wondering how do I transfer newer games that I downloaded on the SYSNAND to the EMUNAND after I already made an Emunand from SysNand before I bought the new game.
Do I have to do the whole process again, or is there an easier way?

Are you using Atmosphere?
By default Atmosphere loads from the Nintendo folder located in emuMMC\RAW1 instead of from the root. So you just have to move the Nintendo folder there.
In SX OS it loads from Emutendo instead of Nintendo.

 

[Trunks101]

Are you using Atmosphere?
By default Atmosphere loads from the Nintendo folder located in emuMMC\RAW1 instead of from the root. So you just have to move the Nintendo folder there.
In SX OS it loads from Emutendo instead of Nintendo.

Thanks for the quick reply. I am currently using SX OS, so do i just copy all the contents in the Nintendo folder to the Emutendo Folder?

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Thanks for the quick reply. I am currently using SX OS, so do i just copy all the contents in the Nintendo folder to the Emutendo Folder?

Rename it, unless you want your games taking up twice as much space. The idea is to keep all your pirated stuff on emuNAND only.

 

[pcwizard7]

if you have a clean nand backup and are careful then no if u are in case

 

[Massive20]

On a patched switch, you need to stay on 4.1.0 to use caffeine and have a emummc with higher firmware to play newer games

 

[pcwizard7]

On a patched switch, you need to stay on 4.1.0 to use caffeine and have a emummc with higher firmware to play newer games

oh forgot about that, yes if you have a patch switch then a emunand is necessary