Hacking SWITCH NOOB PARADISE - Ask questions here

[masagrator]

This is the big question, i have a fair few backups (and im sure the guide i followed would have tld me to backup the nand) but this is the earliest backup i have......

It's not complete, so it's useless. We need full eMMC RAW backup.

Have you ever connected to internet with Switch without 90DNS or other way to block Nintendo servers? If yes, then backup won't help you.

 

[lettuce]

It's not complete, so it's useless. We need full eMMC RAW backup.

Have you ever connected to internet with Switch without 90DNS or other way to block Nintendo servers? If yes, then backup won't help you.

I have this backup from slightly later....

I don't believe (or though cannot remember tbh) i have ever tried to connect to the internet since i had a cfw on the system

 

[masagrator]

I have this backup from slightly later....

I don't believe (or though cannot remember tbh) i have ever tried to connect to the internet since i had a cfw on the system

Yeah, this is it.

 

[lettuce]

So its there a guide for getting back to stock?

 

[masagrator]

So its there a guide for getting back to stock?

Use tool that you have used to dump it to load it back.

 

[lettuce]

Use tool that you have used to dump it to load it back.

Its a simple as that?

Now i need to remember what tool i used!?

 

[GCS]

Its a simple as that?

Now i need to remember what tool i used!?

You may have used Hekate before and you can also restore the backup with Hekate.

 

[masagrator]

You may have used Hekate before and you can also restore the backup with Hekate.

hekate has different naming scheme (rawnand.bin, not nand.bin) plus it needs to be pasted to correctly named folders.
nand.bin was used by ReinX toolkit

 

[HiruleLink]

Hi! I have a banned modded switch and a regular one. I want to update a game on the banned one through local communication. Are there any risks for the regular switch? Is it safe to update this way?

 

[masagrator]

Hi! I have a banned modded switch and a regular one. I want to update a game on the banned one through local communication. Are there any risks for the regular switch? Is it safe to update this way?

No risks as this is done via local network.

 

[lettuce]

hekate has different naming scheme (rawnand.bin, not nand.bin) plus it needs to be pasted to correctly named folders.
nand.bin was used by ReinX toolkit

ah yes your are right i was using ReinX back then!

i noticed the guide im looking at mentions BOOT01 & BOOT02 files and my backup doesnt have these just nand.bin files, did the ReinX toolkit not use BOOT files for its backup process??

 

[Taquito]

I've updated my ipatched 4.1 Switch from 9.2 + Kosmos to 10.0.4 + Atmopshere.
I've added all sigpatches and everything like on my old Switch (it was also 9.2 + Kosmos updated to 10.0.4 + Atmosphere, working correctly with the same files).

After updating the ipatched unit, some games show as corrupted and Switch prompts to repair and search game files but it does not work.
I've uninstalled one of the corrupted games and Goldleaf shows "invalid NCA" error while trying to install it again (I've installed before without issues).
How can I fix this?

 

[OnlyTugBoat]

Hey everyone, I have a question!

I've restored my switch to an old, clean dump on firmware 4.1.0 but am no longer able to boot through hekate or fuse-primary. Booting either CFW sysMMC or Stock sysMMC give me this error.
"Unknown pkg1 version. HOS version not supported!"
I've re-installed hekate and atmosphere but still the problem persists.
Any suggestions?

 

[jucaa]

I have one question.
Since the begining i hacked my switch with atmosphere + hekate, because all the guides said so.
But what exactly does hekate do? Is there any reasons to keep it and not use just atmosphere?

I use an Emunand.

 

[masagrator]

I have one question.
Since the begining i hacked my switch with atmosphere + hekate, because all the guides said so.
But what exactly does hekate do? Is there any reasons to keep it and not use just atmosphere?

I use an Emunand.

Without hekate you can't easily switch between emummc and sysmmc, you can't create emummc, you can't use custom boot profiles, you can't make backups and restoring backups, etc. If you never plan to switch back to sysmmc or you think editing manually config files on sdcard is enough for you, then you don't need hekate.

 

[reddead95]

Hi, I'm using atmosphere + hekate and injecting hekate_ctcaer_5.3.3.bin as payload. It will load the payload boo'd up so I can hit then after it shows the atmosphere logo an the black screen, when it's in the black screen mode I have to hold down the power button to reset it to boot up as a normal mode without the atmospere.... I was work the last time i played my switch was over 2 months I have updated everything. Right now I'm currently getting a new SD card seeing if maybe it's been corrupted if anybody has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it

 

[Draxzelex]

ah yes your are right i was using ReinX back then!

i noticed the guide im looking at mentions BOOT01 & BOOT02 files and my backup doesnt have these just nand.bin files, did the ReinX toolkit not use BOOT files for its backup process??

It does but those have to be dumped separately because they are not part of your eMMC.

Hey everyone, I have a question!

I've restored my switch to an old, clean dump on firmware 4.1.0 but am no longer able to boot through hekate or fuse-primary. Booting either CFW sysMMC or Stock sysMMC give me this error.
"Unknown pkg1 version. HOS version not supported!"
I've re-installed hekate and atmosphere but still the problem persists.
Any suggestions?

Are you using the latest Hekate and Atmosphere?

Hi, I'm using atmosphere + hekate and injecting hekate_ctcaer_5.3.3.bin as payload. It will load the payload boo'd up so I can hit then after it shows the atmosphere logo an the black screen, when it's in the black screen mode I have to hold down the power button to reset it to boot up as a normal mode without the atmospere.... I was work the last time i played my switch was over 2 months I have updated everything. Right now I'm currently getting a new SD card seeing if maybe it's been corrupted if anybody has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it

How is the SD card formatted?

 

[reddead95]

It does but those have to be dumped separately because they are not part of your eMMC.

Are you using the latest Hekate and Atmosphere?

How is the SD card formatted?

Its fat, then I've been using atmosphere for almost like 8 months and I had no issue until just recently.
Ps so I runing looking up to make sure my switch checks out still an it saying my switch version has been patched?! I was just paying 2 months ago with no problem.

 

[Draxzelex]

Its fat, then I've been using atmosphere for almost like 8 months and I had no issue until just recently.
Ps so I runing looking up to make sure my switch checks out still an it saying my switch version has been patched?! I was just paying 2 months ago with no problem.

"Fat" what? FAT32 or exFAT?

 

[Mr_P]

So guys, looking for a little help here:

The switch was working fine playing a game and was turned off just by pressing the power button im guessing whilst game wasnt closed from main menu. The SD card was removed in order to add some more games to it which was done. However, on putting the SD card back into the system and loading up the following message appeared:

pkg2 decryption failed
is sept updated
failed to launch HOS
press any key to continue.....

After which it boots back to the hekate menu.

Honestly I will try and answer as much as I can regarding setup, but this is what I have and what I have done since.

I first setup the switch a long time ago using this guide https://nh-server.github.io/switch-guide/user_guide/getting_started/ and using SDsetup.com as well.

I power on switch using TegraRcmGui, selecting hekate 5.2.1, choose "CFW (emummc) and this was followed by an "Atmos" logo, then a "sept" logo and it would boot into CFW.
I believe I have the lateset atmosphere and firmware.

I had tried the following:
1 - updating hekate to 5.3.3 as well as using the "update reboot 2 payload" when doing so.
2 -adding / updating sigpatches to see if its that.
3 - Booting using fusee-primary but that gives me a black screen and doesn't boot
4 - Deleted the added games after
5 - Ran Fix Archive Bit and it set 2 items at first now its none
6 - If i go into "more configs" on bootloader screen it says "no ini or boot entries found" if that may be relevant?

Looked into maybe having to delete the whole atmosphere folder and replacing but didnt as I dont know if that will affect anything else such as the "PRODINFO" for hiding the ip etc that you can do

Think that's about it but wanted to avoid a clean install and lose games for now so thought id ask here. I appreciate any help you might be able to provide and if you need some file info from the system loaded you may need to say where to find that info please

UPDATE:
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1 - image attached from logs
2- here is my hekate.ipl
[config]
autoboot=0
autoboot_list=0
bootwait=3
backlight=161
autohosoff=1
autonogc=1
updater2p=1


[CFW (emuMMC)]
emummcforce=1
fss0=atmosphere/fusee-secondary.bin
icon=bootloader/res/icon_payload.bmp

[Stock]
emummc_force_disable=1
fss0=atmosphere/fusee-secondary.bin
icon=bootloader/res/icon_switch.bmp
stock=1

UPDATE 2:
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Put in my old SD card from when i upgraded and it all works fine other than saying the nyx is old. Sooo...... would I just be able to replace select folders and get it up and running and if so do I then just update atmosphere etc?

thanks again