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    Switch Lite softmod in 2021/2022

    Nobody is going to risk soft mod on the Switch whilst it is Nintendos current console, when the next gen comes out then maybe it will happen. Nintendo are way too lawyer happy at the moment and will likely sue whoever releases it into oblivion! There is already somebody sitting in jail from mod...
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    Hardware Others Need HELP troubleshooting solid Blue screen Nintendo Switch BSOD

    Yeah my gut feeling is the SoC as have seen similar BUT a reball fixed them as it was just some of the connections to the board not being properly connected. Could be RAM same reason, poor connection causing missing graphical data as well, I would only certify dead after a reball personally as...
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    Hardware Others Need HELP troubleshooting solid Blue screen Nintendo Switch BSOD

    You could try reflowing and seeing what happened, I always reflow the RAM chips first before the main SoC and it does work normally to bring the console back to life, the issue is there is no guarantee how long it will last which is why I normally reball nowadays. reflow is great for proving the...
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    Hardware Others Need HELP troubleshooting solid Blue screen Nintendo Switch BSOD

    BSOD is normally CPU/RAM being the issue. Take the back off, push down on the CPU and hold it whilst booting, does the BSOD go and likely come back when you let go? If not try the 2 RAM chips 1 at a time with the same method if it boots then there is your cause. You then need to reball or...
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    Tutorial How to flash the HWFLY Clone chips

    It just might be being worked on.... Tearing down these chips as well as working out their inner workings is being done by several people right now. FPGA is not an easy thing to just reproduce, that and worse still it is also quite dangerous for whoever produces it as they might face the wrath...
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    Tutorial How to flash the HWFLY Clone chips

    The "glitch settings" are stored in the MCU, there is no training though sadly as they have crippled the MCU memory area so it is read only so can't store the timings. Flashing the GD32 MCU won't affect that side of things but installing an unlocked MCU will, but apparently once flashed...
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    Tutorial How to flash the HWFLY Clone chips

    I wonder why the SX Coreis $28 more than OLED, it has less PCBs etc...and costs less to produce! Such scams these lot, just makes me more determined to crack this even more!! Quicker we can open source these chips the better!
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    Tutorial How to flash the HWFLY Clone chips

    Not really this page has several thousand views now, generally you will only find the people who are having problems will post!! So there might be hundreds who flashed and not reported anything here. The process used in the opening post is sound, I was looking at a similar thing myself with...
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    Tutorial How to flash the HWFLY Clone chips

    I believe so yes. It us with the locked out chips that are the issue, I have a couple of the GD32 chips on their way over from China and hoping to get late next week fingers crossed and swap it out. Going to have a play with them then and see if I can flash and get it working, the only thing I...
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    Tutorial How to flash the HWFLY Clone chips

    So without 3.3v you get a red light? WHat happens with 3.3v?
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    Hacking So should I give up?

    I just bought a broken switch off eBay, half the price A V2 should be never mind a V1! going to fix it, put it in a new shell (existing looked poor) and then use that. It is a V1 unpatched so exactly what you want. Why don't you do something like that, take it as a learning experience to fix...
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    Tutorial How to flash the HWFLY Clone chips

    What is the normal behaviour out of interest when you turn it on? Mine went a solid red for a couple of seconds and then went off. Just wondered if that was the correct thing to happen?
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    Tutorial How to flash the HWFLY Clone chips

    Any Pi will work I used a Pi 4+, just chek the pinout for your model, they are the same but you want to be sure you don't reverse it or similar so use your models.
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    Tutorial How to flash the HWFLY Clone chips

    Yes I was discussing doing similar on here last weekend, that is my plan as well (waiting for the parts to arrive from China still about a week out from arriving), I mean we can try flashing official 0.1 on to it, hopefully it will work but I am not convinced from what I have read on here and...
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    Tutorial How to flash the HWFLY Clone chips

    Possibly, although it looks like you can glitch the GD32 in to level 1, which will re-enable to the SWD interface, then apparently if you attempt a read, you can then glitch the read out command and corrupt it so that you can read out the firmware from what I have been investigating. I am...
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