Hacking How do you reboot to hekate? And several other questions.

[miss_nakano]

Its been a while since I played my switch. I've just updated the firmware, ams, hekate, etc to the latest version by doing fresh install(deleted almost all old config files). For some reason, when I reboot to payloads, the switch seems to reboot to ams immediately whereas before I did these fresh updates, it would reboot me to hekate menu(which is what I want). How do you set reboot to payloads to hekate instead of ams?

Its been a while.. how have mariko, lite and ipatched hacking scenes progressed? Can these be hacked easily now? or is the unpatched switch still the best switch for hacking purpose?

Thanks!

 

[Dust2dust]

In the atmosphere folder, there is a file called reboot_payload.bin. Delete it and replace with the latest hekate payload (hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2.bin), and rename that as reboot_payload.bin. Problem solved.
Unpatched Switch still the best. The others need a modchip installed.

 

[miss_nakano]

In the atmosphere folder, there is a file called reboot_payload.bin. Delete it and replace with the latest hekate payload (hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2.bin), and rename that as reboot_payload.bin. Problem solved.
Unpatched Switch still the best. The others need a modchip installed.

Thanks for your help! Didnt know about that perhaps it was kosmos that did it for me before. I see that unpatched is still the best..I'd hope to buy another switch(mariko for the better battery) as back up because I fear that my unpatched will become rare. Using Modchip.. is it hard mod? Is it expensive? Will it force you to use sx os?

Thanks again.

 

[Dust2dust]

Head to Switch - Backup Loaders & Modchips
Lots of threads about it. Mariko and Lite need to run SXOS. Old patched Switch can run Atmosphere with the modchip, from what I read.

 

[Lacius]

A patched Switch on 4.1 that has never connected to the internet can run CFW without a modchip. All other patched systems, Mariko units, and Lites require a modchip.

 

[miss_nakano]

Thanks guys for the consoles infos. Mariko or ipatched?such dilemma! Perhaps I can find another unpatched but very doubtful about it.

 

[FrienemyStand]

In the atmosphere folder, there is a file called reboot_payload.bin. Delete it and replace with the latest hekate payload (hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2.bin), and rename that as reboot_payload.bin. Problem solved.
Unpatched Switch still the best. The others need a modchip installed.

Does it matter if the renamed hekate payload is capitalized? for some reason it wont let me NOT capitalize the file name.

 

[Dust2dust]

Does it matter if the renamed hekate payload is capitalized? for some reason it wont let me NOT capitalize the file name.

Absolutely no idea, as I never tried. That's a weird issue. I would just rename it on the computer, and then copy the file to the SD card.

 

[FrienemyStand]

Ok, so I just tried to copy my cfw sysnand to a cfw sysnand and back up the sysnand, but it failed saying the boot files werent found even though I put them in sd card\backup\f263ba14. What do I do?
Edit: I didnt have them in the correct folder, all good! How do I delete this?

 

[FrienemyStand]

I'm trying to convert my sysnand to emunand so I can go online without getting banned, but when I try booting into hekate, I get an error message saying to update my bootloader folder. I had it working perfectly before I partitioned my sd card. What am I doing wrong?