Hacking SWITCH NOOB PARADISE - Ask questions here

[Adran_Marit]

I need some help if possible.

my main board on my switch is starting to fail and now and again my SD card stops being read. I have tried installing a new SD card reader but it’s still the same so my question is.

is there any other way I can boot to AMS?

Not a short IMO, but rather a busted pin, this has happened to myself and several others, it is possible to fix and to fix properly by replacing the connector, maybe a mobile phone repair store can do it, or, there are members of the community who can do it

 

[carlcromwell]

Hello folks
I m totally new to this.
I installed atmosphere yesterday on my Switch and could access the homebrew through the albums folder.
Today when I started the Switch again it was all gone. Any ideas? Thanks

 

[Draxzelex]

Hello folks
I m totally new to this.
I installed atmosphere yesterday on my Switch and could access the homebrew through the albums folder.
Today when I started the Switch again it was all gone. Any ideas? Thanks

I think you have a misunderstanding. You do not "install" Atmosphere. Atmosphere is just some files you slap onto your SD card. And your console won't read those files unless you perform the entire exploit which is sending a payload while the console is in RCM. No part of that exploit is permanently applied to the console and the exploit has to be repeated everytime the console is turned off. There is also no way to make the exploit permanent because of the limitations of the exploit itself.

 

[Deleted member 514822]

Yes,it's an xci i heard people say they are bad do you think this is the problem?

XCI require separate patches from clean nsps, the issue is most likely what drax alluded to: you have up to date sigpatches, but for the wrong bootloader. Es patches work independently of the loader, so they work for your signed nsps, but your fs patches are not working and therefore neither is the xci.

 

[carlcromwell]

I think you have a misunderstanding. You do not "install" Atmosphere. Atmosphere is just some files you slap onto your SD card. And your console won't read those files unless you perform the entire exploit which is sending a payload while the console is in RCM. No part of that exploit is permanently applied to the console and the exploit has to be repeated everytime the console is turned off. There is also no way to make the exploit permanent because of the limitations of the exploit itself.

Ok thank you! Is there another cfw without this issue?

 

[Draxzelex]

Ok thank you! Is there another cfw without this issue?

Like I said, you are misunderstanding the situation. This has nothing to do with CFW. All CFW no matter what console you are discussing are just files on an SD card and need to be loaded via an exploit. The exploit on the Switch just so happens to require sending a payload while the console is in RCM and no part of that exploit can be made permanent. Therefore switching CFW will have no effect on the permanence and the only way to change that is by discovering an exploit that can be made permanent.

 

[petspeed]

Yes,it's an xci i heard people say they are bad do you think this is the problem?

Do you have cheats for that game on the SD card? If you do try to remove them.

 

[everyonesweird]

So as of todays date, What modding can i do with my V2 Mariko Switch? and should i modchip it? But where do i buy modchip from?

 

[smudgester]

I think I have a corrupted SD card when everything was working fine when I was last used it last week. This is a hackable Switch which, until now, has been running Atmosphere [ through an RCMLoader jig ] fine.

So I opened Tinfoil - about an hour go - and when I closed it, the Switch it had to do a firmware update which it said it completed successfully and was restarting. Ever since I have been getting

"[ERROR[ Fatal Error [NXBOOT] Unable to identify package!!
Press POWER to reboot"

and, one time it even came up with a big red "boot.dat" icon (though I could have been trying to inject the wrong payload at this point)

I have already tried replacing the atmosphere and sept folders on the SD card but it is still erroring. It doesn't even be attempting to load the payload off the RCMLoader

Does this sound like a corrupted SD card ? TBH IIRC I think I had the same issue a few weeks ago but replacing the two folders solved it that time ]. If it is a corrupted SD, is it worth trying to rescue the games off the SD card ? And if so which folders (on the SD card do I need to backup) ?

 

[Draxzelex]

So as of todays date, What modding can i do with my V2 Mariko Switch? and should i modchip it? But where do i buy modchip from?

You can only hack Mariko Switches with the SX Core modchip but it is hard to find and unless you have soldering experience, even harder to install or find someone to install it for you. Unless you're 100% confident you can find and solder the modchip yourself, you're better off buying an unaptched unit.

I think I have a corrupted SD card when everything was working fine when I was last used it last week. This is a hackable Switch which, until now, has been running Atmosphere [ through an RCMLoader jig ] fine.

So I opened Tinfoil - about an hour go - and when I closed it, the Switch it had to do a firmware update which it said it completed successfully and was restarting. Ever since I have been getting

"[ERROR[ Fatal Error [NXBOOT] Unable to identify package!!
Press POWER to reboot"

and, one time it even came up with a big red "boot.dat" icon (though I could have been trying to inject the wrong payload at this point)

I have already tried replacing the atmosphere and sept folders on the SD card but it is still erroring. It doesn't even be attempting to load the payload off the RCMLoader

Does this sound like a corrupted SD card ? TBH IIRC I think I had the same issue a few weeks ago but replacing the two folders solved it that time ]. If it is a corrupted SD, is it worth trying to rescue the games off the SD card ? And if so which folders (on the SD card do I need to backup) ?

No, your SD card is not corrupted. The issue is you updated your console to firmware 12.0 which is not supported by Atmosphere. Next time, don't have Wi-Fi settings on a hacked console. Not only do you put yourself at risk for getting banned but you also risk updating to a firmware not yet supported by CFW.

 

[smudgester]

No, your SD card is not corrupted. The issue is you updated your console to firmware 12.0 which is not supported by Atmosphere. Next time, don't have Wi-Fi settings on a hacked console. Not only do you put yourself at risk for getting banned but you also risk updating to a firmware not yet supported by CFW.

Hmm - I am sure the Switch had WiFi disabled Or at least I was using 90dns.

So it's just a case of waiting for Atmosphere to catch up ?

 

[Draxzelex]

Hmm - I am sure the Switch had WiFi disabled Or at least I was using 90dns.

So it's just a case of waiting for Atmosphere to catch up ?

Yes or if you cannot wait to use CFW and want to take a risk, you can try downgrading.

 

[smudgester]

Yes or if you cannot wait to use CFW and want to take a risk, you can try downgrading.

Thanks.

Don't want to take even more risks It sounds like a 12.0.0 friendly version of Atmosphere is only about a week away. I'm just glad the 200GB card isn't screwed.

 

[korax]

Hey everyone im new here and also kind of new to the jailbreaking scene, I have been trying to upgrade my sd card for weeks now and have tried multiple threads with no help. I have a 128gb exfat sd card running atmosphere and i am trying to use a new 512gb also exfat card. A simple copy and paste results in “fatal error failed to stat stage2 (atmosphere/fusee-secondary bin)” The only way i can get the card to boot and run games is by creating an imo file of the 128 card then restoring to 512 card but then I cannot extend partition to use full gb of card i have tried multiple programs please help.

 

[carlcromwell]

Like I said, you are misunderstanding the situation. This has nothing to do with CFW. All CFW no matter what console you are discussing are just files on an SD card and need to be loaded via an exploit. The exploit on the Switch just so happens to require sending a payload while the console is in RCM and no part of that exploit can be made permanent. Therefore switching CFW will have no effect on the permanence and the only way to change that is by discovering an exploit that can be made permanent.

Ok gotcha. Thank you so much!

 

[GustavBizio]

Well have you tried reinstalling it?

Do you have cheats for that game on the SD card? If you do try to remove them.

i installed an nsp and it worked thanks

 

[petspeed]

Hey everyone im new here and also kind of new to the jailbreaking scene, I have been trying to upgrade my sd card for weeks now and have tried multiple threads with no help. I have a 128gb exfat sd card running atmosphere and i am trying to use a new 512gb also exfat card. A simple copy and paste results in “fatal error failed to stat stage2 (atmosphere/fusee-secondary bin)” The only way i can get the card to boot and run games is by creating an imo file of the 128 card then restoring to 512 card but then I cannot extend partition to use full gb of card i have tried multiple programs please help.

It's most likely because you are using a partition based EmuMMC. That can't just be copied to the new sd card.
Follow this guide: https://nh-server.github.io/switch-guide/extras/transfer_sd/

Another thing you should not use exfat. It has a bigger risk to be corrupted. Fat32 is recommended.

 

[korax]

It's most likely because you are using a partition based EmuMMC. That can't just be copied to the new sd card.

Another thing you should not use exfat. It has a bigger risk to be corrupted. Fat32 is recommended.

well the reason i use exfat is because most of my games are over 4gb and i cant put those files on the Fat32 can i follow the guide above if i stay exfat or is there a way to put the bigger games on a fat32

 

[petspeed]

well the reason i use exfat is because most of my games are over 4gb and i cant put those files on the Fat32 can i follow the guide above if i stay exfat or is there a way to put the bigger games on a fat32

Yes you can follow the guide and choose exfat if you like.
There are different ways to solve the issue with big games. Either split the nsp og xci file or install via network or USB. Most installers support that.

 

[kwall24]

Question, cleaning up my SD card and I've got two folders. emuMMC(~95GB) and Nintendo(~45GB) folders. I imagine I need to leave both of them alone, but inside the emuMMC is a separate Nintendo folder (\emuMMC\RAW1\Nintendo).

Realizing as I type this that I'm probably right, but is the \Nintendo\ folder from sysMMC and \emuMMC\RAW1\Nintendo from the emuMMC?