ROM Hack Help before she gets home ;( ... I failed a downgrade and lost everything...

[FutileSS]

I tried to downgrade my 11.0.1 switch to 10.0.1 so I could use ReINX. Unfortunately the first boot I had empty NSP's and the version was the same even though I used daybreak. Scratching my head and in a panic I tried to hekate emuemmc repair feature. After which I can't boot anything at all. I am not concerned about th NSP's as I can load them in again from originals but the saved files?! What do I do now I am concerned to try anything.

Thanks for any help ...

 

[BigOnYa]

Go buy some flowers, a diamond ring, and propose... she'll forget about the switch altogether

 

[FutileSS]

Go buy some flowers and a diamond ring, she'll forget bout the switch altogether

Already done that a number of times.. I think she's

Go buy some flowers, a diamond ring, and propose... she'll forget about the switch altogether

Ya know that is the right thing to do...

But anyways, I would like to try and recovery the saves ...

 

[BigOnYa]

First off don't use ReINX, it's dead. There's no reason to downgrade FW so go back to 11.0.1. Hopefully you have a backup of your NAND, and if so then you can simply restore it in hekate and go back to the state it was when you made the backup. After restoring, put fresh install of Atmosphere files on sd card, then install sigpatches, boot to hekate menu, select "payloads", then select "Fusee-primary" Good Luck
https://www.sdsetup.com/
https://github.com/ITotalJustice/patches/releases

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Unless you made save backups with a homebrew app like "Checkpoint" , you've most likely already lost them, sorry. Now go get them Flowers...

 

[FutileSS]

First off don't use ReINX, it's dead. There's no reason to downgrade FW so go back to 11.0.1. Hopefully you have a backup of your NAND, and if so then you can simply restore it in hekate and go back to the state it was when you made the backup. After restoring, put fresh install of Atmosphere files on sd card, then install sigpatches, boot to hekate menu, select "payloads", then select "Fusee-primary" Good Luck

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Unless you made save backups with a homebrew app like "Checkpoint" , you've most likely already lost them, sorry. Now go get them Flowers...

Well daybreak asked to migrate user or format. Of which I chose migrate. I do have the backup. But here's the thing I can mount the drive externally. using this / Hekate user backup under eMMC seems hopeful. Is there anything I can do to attempt recovery via these tools..

Thanks

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First off don't use ReINX, it's dead. There's no reason to downgrade FW so go back to 11.0.1. Hopefully you have a backup of your NAND, and if so then you can simply restore it in hekate and go back to the state it was when you made the backup. After restoring, put fresh install of Atmosphere files on sd card, then install sigpatches, boot to hekate menu, select "payloads", then select "Fusee-primary" Good Luck
https://www.sdsetup.com/
https://github.com/ITotalJustice/patches/releases

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Unless you made save backups with a homebrew app like "Checkpoint" , you've most likely already lost them, sorry. Now go get them Flowers...

Also I recall enabling an option to put save data in a common folder in Tinfoil

 

[BigOnYa]

Your NAND backup file should be about 32 GB file, quite large. Not sure about migrate inside Daybreak tho, don't think that has anything to do with your NAND, but that maybe your USER files, including the game saves.

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Also I recall enabling an option to put save data in a common folder in Tinfoil

I believe that is just save data that Tinfoil uses, it won't have your game saves.

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Maybe some else can chime in here and help you like @Draxzelex please....He's the man!

 

[FutileSS]

Your NAND backup file should be about 32 GB file, quite large. Not sure about migrate inside Daybreak tho, don't think that has anything to do with your NAND, but that maybe your USER files, including the game saves.

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I believe that is just save data that Tinfoil uses, it won't have your game saves.

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Maybe some else can chime in here and help you like @Draxzelex please....He's the man!

Hats off and much respect.. I am just lingering at that point where I am like should I wipe and retry or recon some files first... I think some folk may have an idea what I could do.. Daybreak probably shouldn't allow me to do what I did with no recourse, or at least I wouldn't think .. Anyways getting ready for an ass kicking..

PS : Reinx was showing images in Tinfoil mind you that was my reason.

 

[hippy dave]

PS : Reinx was showing images in Tinfoil mind you that was my reason.

Try telling the app developer to stop being a bellend.
ReiNX doesn't support emummc so you wouldn't have got very far that way.

 

[Inaki]

Hats off and much respect.. I am just lingering at that point where I am like should I wipe and retry or recon some files first... I think some folk may have an idea what I could do.. Daybreak probably shouldn't allow me to do what I did with no recourse, or at least I wouldn't think .. Anyways getting ready for an ass kicking..

PS : Reinx was showing images in Tinfoil mind you that was my reason.

Advice for the future: If you had money to buy her flowers and diamonds, you probably had/have money to buy her a switch so you have your switch each. Yes, sharing is caring, but sharing is dying a bit too ;P

 

[FutileSS]

Advice for the future: If you had money to buy her flowers and diamonds, you probably had/have money to buy her a switch so you have your switch each. Yes, sharing is caring, but sharing is dying a bit too ;P

I actually just wanted her switch to have images.. I really don't have that much time to play it.

I can mount the EmuMMC and see the folders what do I do with them though anyone?

 

[hippy dave]

There should be a way to get it fixed up and booting, but you can still recover the saves even without booting into Horizon. You can use hekate to mount your emmc or emummc as a USB drive, and tools on the computer to mount it and read the saves. You'll need your console keys. There should be a guide for all this somewhere in the forum, tutorial section probably.

 

[FutileSS]

There should be a way to get it fixed up and booting, but you can still recover the saves even without booting into Horizon. You can use hekate to mount your emmc or emummc as a USB drive, and tools on the computer to mount it and read the saves. You'll need your console keys. There should be a guide for all this somewhere in the forum, tutorial section probably.

I loaded in my keys and can access my full SD card with NxNandManager_x64.exe. How does one do a backup properly so I don't loose them while implementing to a new emuNand.

 

[FutileSS]

There should be a way to get it fixed up and booting, but you can still recover the saves even without booting into Horizon. You can use hekate to mount your emmc or emummc as a USB drive, and tools on the computer to mount it and read the saves. You'll need your console keys. There should be a guide for all this somewhere in the forum, tutorial section probably.

I loaded in my keys and can access my full SD card with NxNandManager_x64.exe. How does one do a backup properly so I don't loose them while implementing to a new emuNand.

 

[Inaki]

I actually just wanted her switch to have images.. I really don't have that much time to play it.

I can mount the EmuMMC and see the folders what do I do with them though anyone?

I am not the best to tell you...

0) I would do a sysnand backup with hekate, yes, ANOTHER one, but still save the one you already have. This is in order to have it in case you wan't to go back to the current state, god knows what for, but yeah, do that and keep it. Also, save all data partition files to some safe place too. It could be the case the saves are still there somewhere ( at least save the nintendo/emutendo/... whatever reinx uses for that, folder ) and could be extracted. You may also want to run lockpick and save your /switch/prod.keys and switch/title.keys if you don't have them already. These will work for decryting nand images and maybe extracting saves.

00) see the hekate+atmosphere howto guide, there's various guides, maybe a youtube video or so...

a) you have a full nand backup, right ?
b) in the current state of the SD card, do you have an emunand/emuMMC partition ? if so, you can restore your nand backup TO THE EMUNAND partition ( just don't touch sysnand, just don't; yes, I know it isn't necessarily a risk, but you don't need to do that so don't ). If you don't have that, repartition the SD and create an emuMMC partition, leave it at 29GB size ( just tap in the middle of the slider, do not slide, tap, and make sure it says 29GB ).
c) once you restore your nand backup to the emunand, enable emunand ( it will probably get autoenabled, but still )
d) boot CFW ( by default, with enabled emunand, it will use the emunand )

*) install Checkpoint and save all game saves, then copy /switch/checkpoint/saves folder to a safe place so the next time you will have the saves to restore everything.

Please, take note here, I am not responsible for anything that may go wrong ( with a nand backup and only restoring to emunand, you won't go worse ).

Good luck and good Valentine's Day

 

[Draxzelex]

What is the current state of the console? Does it not boot? Your first post is very unclear on what the situation actually is.

 

[FutileSS]

I am not the best to tell you...

0) I would do a sysnand backup with hekate, yes, ANOTHER one, but still save the one you already have. This is in order to have it in case you wan't to go back to the current state, god knows what for, but yeah, do that and keep it. Also, save all data partition files to some safe place too. It could be the case the saves are still there somewhere ( at least same the nintendo/emutendo/... whatever reinx uses for that, folder ) and could be extracted. You may also want to run lockpick and save your /switch/prod.keys and switch/title.keys if you don't have them already. These will work for decryting nand images and maybe extracting saves.

00) see the hekate+atmosphere howto guide, there's various, maybe a youtube video or so...

a) you have a full nand backup, right ?
b) in the current state of the SD card, do you have an emunand partition ? if so, you can restore your nand backup TO THE EMUNAND partition ( just don't touch sysnand, just don't; yes, I know it isn't necessarily a risk, but you don't need to do that so don't ). If you don't have that, repartition the SD and create an emuMMC partition, leave it at 29GB size ( just tap in the middle of the slider, do not slide, tap, and make sure it says 29GB ).
c) once you restore your nand to the emunand, enable emunand ( it will probably get autoenabled, but still )
d) boot CFW ( by default, with enabled emunand, it will use the emunand )

*) install Checkpoint and save all game saves, then copy /switch/checkpoint/saves folder to a safe place so the next time you will have the saves to restore everything.

Please, take note here, I am not responsible for anything that may go wrong ( with a nand backup and only restoring to emunand, you won't go worse ).

Good luck and good Valentine's Day

Free space is smaller than the backup size... for hekate eMMC RAW GPP backup though any suggestions ? THank you soooooooo much

 

[Inaki]

Free space is smaller than the backup size... for hekate eMMC RAW GPP backup though any suggestions ? THank you soooooooo much

Well, copy data partition files from the SD to a safe place first, ONLY THEN delete the nintendo folder and maybe the switch folder from the SD. Then do the backup.

 

[FutileSS]

What is the current state of the console? Does it not boot? Your first post is very unclear on what the situation actually is.

Thank you for your time, I used DayBreak and it asked to migrate data. After what appeared to be a success I rebooted and the emunand version did not downgrade. I was still 11.0.1 but also no items were installed and the launcher was empty of all my installed games and homebrew NSP. In a panic I attempted Migrate emuMMC. Now I cannot even boot the emuNand. From there I have been able to try reinstalling atmosphere and hekkate and others but also receive an error. Next I tried to load the the latest NxNAND manager and the item shows up and I loaded my backup keys.. but I am not certain what I should do from there. At least not to the degree of certainty required to wipe.

Thanks again, so much respect for the community..

Sincerely

 

[Inaki]

Thank you for your time, I used DayBreak and it asked to migrate data. After what appeared to be a success I rebooted and the emunand version did not downgrade. I was still 11.0.1 but also no items were installed and the launcher was empty of all my installed games and homebrew NSP. In a panic I attempted Migrate emuMMC. Now I cannot even boot the emuNand. From there I have been able to try reinstalling atmosphere and hekkate and others but also receive an error. Next I tried to load the the latest NxNAND manager and the item shows up and I loaded my backup keys.. but I am not certain what I should do from there. At least not to the degree of certainty required to wipe.

Thanks again, so much respect for the community..

Sincerely

I don't know if the saves will still be somewhere in the user partition of that emunand. You must be more detailed in telling us what you did, what those errors are and so on. You should also backup the emunand with NxNandManager BEFORE repartiotioning ( which, by the way, try not to first ). With HacDiskMount and your keys you can decrypt the user partition and maybe, maybe, still get the save data. Although I don't know how difficult will it be to use that for restoring saves. Also, I don't know, the mismatched user data may be gone/deleted by now... let's hope not...

 

[Draxzelex]

Thank you for your time, I used DayBreak and it asked to migrate data. After what appeared to be a success I rebooted and the emunand version did not downgrade. I was still 11.0.1 but also no items were installed and the launcher was empty of all my installed games and homebrew NSP. In a panic I attempted Migrate emuMMC. Now I cannot even boot the emuNand. From there I have been able to try reinstalling atmosphere and hekkate and others but also receive an error. Next I tried to load the the latest NxNAND manager and the item shows up and I loaded my backup keys.. but I am not certain what I should do from there. At least not to the degree of certainty required to wipe.

Thanks again, so much respect for the community..

Sincerely

Well for starters, did you boot Daybreak in emuMMC or sysMMC? If you booted it in sysMMC, it would not affect emuMMC.

 

[FutileSS]

Well for starters, did you boot Daybreak in emuMMC or sysMMC? If you booted it in sysMMC, it would not affect emuMMC.

I have been to afraid to venture out to the actual sysMMC so from the first day I have been simply running an emuMMC of the system with incognito with 90DNS... So I was utilizing latest atmosphere platform run through R button method to employ maximum resources. Next I launched AIO utility to collect firmware followed by DayBreak. DayBreak perhaps could have been a little more alarming if the potential of corruption is there. Due to the implement (migrate user data option) was available my trust was peaked and I jumped in. Perhaps it should have warned that I should have a backup .. Yes indeed that is always implied and yes indeed I took the risk in the end. It's just that in an effort to help others from this situation if it detects it and implys it is possible a warning for a backup would have actually helped me at 2 am when I thought I was doing something nice..

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Also I just noticed the "SD:\emuMMC\RAW1\Nintendo\save" folder is this useful via PC utility etc ? or am I dreaming..