Hacking Question Playing online question

[Arkyo]

I have an unpatched switch that hasn’t been hacked before, not even tried sending payload. Now just like others. I’d like to play some games online while some other games offline with home brew. However, I also want to keep the sysNAND as low as possible so one day a cold boot solution can be used.

I think for the offline & homebrew part, I can use emuNAND, disable WiFi, and use Choi for firmware updates.
But what about online play? Do I boot sysNAND without Hekate, and update OFW in the Settings(burning fuses)?
Or can I create a clean emuNAND, boot into it with Hekate and update in the Settings?

 

[Hayato213]

You would have to be on the highest available firmware to play online, emunand partition would be used for your hacking/backup stuffs, while sysnand for online. There are no fuse/firmware preservation if you want to play online.

 

[Arkyo]

You would have to be on the highest available firmware to play online, emunand partition would be used for your hacking/backup stuffs, while sysnand for online. There are no fuse/firmware preservation if you want to play online.

So I must boot normally and update

then I think my steps are:
Disable WiFi & auto update
Hekate-> create emuNAND
Shutdown -> normal boot -> connect to WiFi -> update if needed

then whenever I want to play with homebrew, I just Hekate->boot into emuNAND?

 

[Hayato213]

So I must boot normally and update

then I think my steps are:
Disable WiFi & auto update
Hekate-> create emuNAND
Shutdown -> normal boot -> connect to WiFi -> update if needed

then whenever I want to play with homebrew, I just Hekate->boot into emuNAND?

Correct, as long you don't boot into CFW on sysnand you should be good.

 

[Arkyo]

Correct, as long you don't boot into CFW on sysnand you should be good.

Do games force you to use the latest firmware?
Also, what if I CFW sysNAND, use Choi, then uninstall CFW, is it still “safe”?

 

[Hayato213]

Do games force you to use the latest firmware?
Also, what if I CFW sysNAND, use Choi, then uninstall CFW, is it still “safe”?

If you don't use update blocker tool like Icognito there is a good chance your unit would get system update prompt and you can accidentally update it. Don't run CFW if you want to play online on that nand.

 

[Arkyo]

If you don't use update blocker tool like Icognito there is a good chance your unit would get system update prompt and you can accidentally update it. Don't run CFW if you want to play online on that nand.

I’m sorry, what I meant was ‘is it safe to play online’

 

[Hayato213]

I’m sorry, what I meant was ‘is it safe to play online’

No if you ran any CFW/homebrew stuffs on the NAND you intended to use online.

 

[LeMageFro]

I have an unpatched switch that hasn’t been hacked before, not even tried sending payload. Now just like others. I’d like to play some games online while some other games offline with home brew. However, I also want to keep the sysNAND as low as possible so one day a cold boot solution can be used.

I think for the offline & homebrew part, I can use emuNAND, disable WiFi, and use Choi for firmware updates.
But what about online play? Do I boot sysNAND without Hekate, and update OFW in the Settings(burning fuses)?
Or can I create a clean emuNAND, boot into it with Hekate and update in the Settings?

If you use autoRCM you can update your sysNAND without burning fuses, and thus if a coldboot solution is made available in the future you'll be able to downgrade your sysNAND to its curent version and hopefully enjoy the coldboot (assuming the current FW you have is compatible). It will require temporarily booting CFW on your sysNAND to update it, but many of us have been doing it without getting banned, if you have a European account with telemetry disabled you should be safe.

 

[Deleted User]

To my experience, Using the switch, psvita, wii, and ps3 running all custom firmware with homebrew, playing online, doing e-shop, no problems. Never used cheats and backup but the wii at the time because I was young and stoupid (I say for me only).

edit:
- wii used to be hacked with hackmii and all the ios things
- psvita running henkaku, enso
- ps3 running rebug something
- switch is currently running atmosphere