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Try doing a fresh installation of Atmosphere. This means wiping everything from your SD card, downloading the latest Atmosphere from here, and placing it on your SD card. If you have any games installed to your SD card, backup the Nintendo folder before wiping your SD card.

I do this 4/5/6x .... :/
 

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Hi, what is wrong or what wrong i do.... Tinfoil + sigpatches + fusse. I want to download a game like Dragon's Dogma, WRC and instalation fails.
But Hollow Knight, Worms work fine... Its look like "big" games dont wanna install and INDIE works fine. Any solution?
 

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I do this 4/5/6x .... :/
Have you tried seeing if SX OS boots?

Hi, what is wrong or what wrong i do.... Tinfoil + sigpatches + fusse. I want to download a game like Dragon's Dogma, WRC and instalation fails.
But Hollow Knight, Worms work fine... Its look like "big" games dont wanna install and INDIE works fine. Any solution?
Try another title installer such as Awoo Installer.
 

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I'm having a hard time finding an answer for this,
Is there any advantage to keeping the OFW on sysmmc on a low FW like 3.1.0?
At the moment I do everything offline on emummc CFW, but I'm thinking about doing normal stuff like a normal person... But I'd still like the option to do stuff offline on the emummc CFW.
This is with a non patched unit
 

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Im using for now jits shop from tinfoil.
And I'm saying it might be an issue with "tinfoil" which doesn't even sound like the real Tinfoil. I've never had any issues with Awoo Installer but I always see people posting issues with not-tinfoil.

I'm having a hard time finding an answer for this,
Is there any advantage to keeping the OFW on sysmmc on a low FW like 3.1.0?
At the moment I do everything offline on emummc CFW, but I'm thinking about doing normal stuff like a normal person... But I'd still like the option to do stuff offline on the emummc CFW.
This is with a non patched unit
The answer is none of the above. There is no advantage at keeping it on that firmware but you can keep retain a fuse count of 3.1 by updating without burning fuses. I should also mention that there is no advantage to burning fuses as no one has been banned yet for a mismatched fuse count.
 
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And I'm saying it might be an issue with "tinfoil" which doesn't even sound like the real Tinfoil. I've never had any issues with Awoo Installer but I always see people posting issues with not-tinfoil.

So u are saying to gets nsp from www and then transfer to switch?
 

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It's that time of the year again where I'm itching to hack my Switch but don't know if I'll do it :P I have a launch-day unit and ran Android a few times but that's it.

A couple of questions I have regarding Atmosphere and Hekate:

- I'm currently running 11.x OFW completely unmodded and I really want my Switch to stay that way, if I use Atmosphere with emuMMC on a separete SD-card it's literally impossible to get banned aslong as I keep the emuMMC offline, right?

- I can just make an emuMMC with Atmosphere on a extra SD and once I reboot my Switch with my normal SD in sysNAND it will be like nothing has happened right?

- Anything I should look out for? I just want to dump my physical games for emulator usage and maybe make a custom-theme or two
 

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switch is on version 6.2.0, atmosphere 0.16.2,
i hacked it yesterday and created a backup and also an emunand. everything went right when i created the emunand and i followed the guide in switch.homebrew.guide
when i try to launch the emummc i can see the atmosphere logo, then the switch logo, then nothing happens.
the controllers seem to connect to it though so i think the problem is that i just get no visual. might be wrong, im a complete noob.
any suggestions?
 

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It's that time of the year again where I'm itching to hack my Switch but don't know if I'll do it :P I have a launch-day unit and ran Android a few times but that's it.

A couple of questions I have regarding Atmosphere and Hekate:

- I'm currently running 11.x OFW completely unmodded and I really want my Switch to stay that way, if I use Atmosphere with emuMMC on a separete SD-card it's literally impossible to get banned aslong as I keep the emuMMC offline, right?

- I can just make an emuMMC with Atmosphere on a extra SD and once I reboot my Switch with my normal SD in sysNAND it will be like nothing has happened right?

- Anything I should look out for? I just want to dump my physical games for emulator usage and maybe make a custom-theme or two
While its nearly impossible to get banned in the scenario you presented, unless you are running out of space on your current SD card, you don't need a second SD card.
switch is on version 6.2.0, atmosphere 0.16.2,
i hacked it yesterday and created a backup and also an emunand. everything went right when i created the emunand and i followed the guide in switch.homebrew.guide
when i try to launch the emummc i can see the atmosphere logo, then the switch logo, then nothing happens.
the controllers seem to connect to it though so i think the problem is that i just get no visual. might be wrong, im a complete noob.
any suggestions?
How is the SD card and partition formatted?

oh no ~ never use sx os before... i try

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How exactly did you update your firmware?
 

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Hey everyone. I just downgraded to 4.1 and want to clean my Sysnand with a backup before going online for the first time. My question is, If I clean nand it will also delete all the logs on the console?. My idea is to delete any traces of CFW and start playing paid games legit on the switch with out being banned.
 

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Hey everyone. I just downgraded to 4.1 and want to clean my Sysnand with a backup before going online for the first time. My question is, If I clean nand it will also delete all the logs on the console?. My idea is to delete any traces of CFW and start playing paid games legit on the switch with out being banned.
You cannot clean your console because as you said, doing so would delete any logs on the console which can get you banned. The only way to clean your console is restore a clean eMMC backup.
 

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You cannot clean your console because as you said, doing so would delete any logs on the console which can get you banned. The only way to clean your console is restore a clean eMMC backup.
I have a Nand backup that I made before start using cfw, it's complety clean. Also, I had never conected my console to the internet.
I read somewhere that you can only get banned cleaning logs after use online services because nintendo compare the old logs registered on their servers with the one you just cleaned. That why I want logs clear before use nintendo servers. So, if I clean nand with my backup I'm ready to go online? or after use backup I will have to manually clean logs or do something else?
 

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I have a Nand backup that I made before start using cfw, it's complety clean. Also, I had never conected my console to the internet.
I read somewhere that you can only get banned cleaning logs after use online services because nintendo compare the old logs registered on their servers with the one you just cleaned. That why I want logs clear before use nintendo servers. So, if I clean nand with my backup I'm ready to go online? or after use backup I will have to manually clean logs or do something else?
You misunderstand. You can get banned for clearing logs regardless if you were online or not. The reason is because the console can track if logs were cleared. This is why the tool to remove logs was depreciated because it did the opposite of what it was intended for. Restoring a clean eMMC backup technically does not remove logs because what it really does is return the console to the state it was in when the backup was made. I also noticed you downgraded to 4.1 before restoring your clean backup which was a complete waste of time. Not only would restoring your backup return your firmware to 4.1 anyway but downgrading is a tricky process that could lead to more issues. Its too late not but next time, there is no point in downgrading before restoring a clean backup.
 

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While its nearly impossible to get banned in the scenario you presented, unless you are running out of space on your current SD card, you don't need a second SD card.

Hmm you say nearly impossible, what would be the last remaining pitfalls to look out for?

Basically from my understanding it works like this right?

- We boot into Hekate to clone the sysNAND to a emuMMC

- sysNAND is never touched/altered

- to boot the emuMMC we use Hekate thus completely bypassing the sysNAND same way when booting Android

- the sysNAND will never be aware that the emuMMC exists and emuMMC and sysNAND live side-by-side completely detached

- as soon as I reboot the Switch everything will be reset same as with Android and the Switch just boots normally off sysNAND

- By removing all WiFi prior to cloning the emuMMC never even has a chance to phone home

That's my understanding of the process, do I have any misunderstandings?

If not, what's the remaining chance to get banned? I also sometimes see people talking about messing with their sysNAND and downgrading and whatnot, why would you do any of that?

I'm not trying to be snarky I just try to understand :P

As for using the same SD card, since I only have a 64gb one it would get rather crowded if I use the same and for my peace of mind I would rather use a separate one. Nintendo wouldn't dare to scan the SD contents would they?

I might eventually spring for a 256gb card then as I really don't want to wear out the SD slot.

And thanks for the response and helping! :)
 

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Hmm you say nearly impossible, what would be the last remaining pitfalls to look out for?

Basically from my understanding it works like this right?

- We boot into Hekate to clone the sysNAND to a emuMMC

- sysNAND is never touched/altered

- to boot the emuMMC we use Hekate thus completely bypassing the sysNAND same way when booting Android

- the sysNAND will never be aware that the emuMMC exists and emuMMC and sysNAND live side-by-side completely detached

- as soon as I reboot the Switch everything will be reset same as with Android and the Switch just boots normally off sysNAND

- By removing all WiFi prior to cloning the emuMMC never even has a chance to phone home

That's my understanding of the process, do I have any misunderstandings?

If not, what's the remaining chance to get banned? I also sometimes see people talking about messing with their sysNAND and downgrading and whatnot, why would you do any of that?

I'm not trying to be snarky I just try to understand :P

As for using the same SD card, since I only have a 64gb one it would get rather crowded if I use the same and for my peace of mind I would rather use a separate one. Nintendo wouldn't dare to scan the SD contents would they?

I might eventually spring for a 256gb card then as I really don't want to wear out the SD slot.

And thanks for the response and helping! :)
The reason I say nearly impossible is because "to err is to be human". That is to say, accidents can happen whether they are from your or your cat. In theory, its basically impossible to get you banned as long as you never go online with the partition that you use CFW/homebrew with and never use CFW/homebrew with the partition you go online with. I also mentioned the bit about the SD card because I wasn't sure if you were using a second SD card due to the misconception that Nintendo can scan SD card contents which wouldn't work due to multiple reasons. Saving wear and tear on your SD connector is another good point because that thing tends to break easily.
 
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The reason I say nearly impossible is because "to err is to be human". That is to say, accidents can happen whether they are from your or your cat. In theory, its basically impossible to get you banned as long as you never go online with the partition that you use CFW/homebrew with and never use CFW/homebrew with the partition you go online with. I also mentioned the bit about the SD card because I wasn't sure if you were using a second SD card due to the misconception that Nintendo can scan SD card contents which wouldn't work due to multiple reasons. Saving wear and tear on your SD connector is another good point because that thing tends to break easily.

Alright thanks again! Yeah of course, I was just trying to poke for things I might overlook :P But so I'm correct in my understanding of how all this works?
 

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hello community, im new in the switch world, i got a mariko switch v2 and got it hacked by sx modchip, the guy who hacked it for me installed retrorelaoded, it have ofw & atmosphere but not enabled (no emunand for it) and sx os (emunand), so im asking what to do and from where to start ?
-i want to update hekate to latest version and update atmosphere to 0.17.0 when it releases
so i have multiple cfw and boot what i want
-install lakka ubuntu and android if possible ? (do i need to get another sd card for this, mine is 256gb and already full)
-i installed homebrews from album app in sx os but they wont work and shows a message a run app from game mode or something like that

forgive me for being too dump and a total noob, im new to the switch world and already a huge amount of hack materials is there
TIA
 

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