Hacking What's the best FW to stay?

suzsuzuki

Well-Known Member
OP
Member
Joined
Aug 25, 2016
Messages
403
Trophies
0
Age
36
XP
471
Country
Brazil
I'm on 4.1 FW but I want to play some new games that I can't in the current FW. I'm thing about update without burn fuses to 6.0 but I hear somewhere here that this W has a lot of problems. Maybe it's better to go to 5.1?
 

thekarter104

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Mar 28, 2013
Messages
1,980
Trophies
1
XP
2,995
Country
United States
If you want to enter RCM Mode which require some slight hardmodding, you can use ChoijundourNX to install 6.0.0 without burning fuses. Otherwise there is no current way if you don't want to hardmod since the 4.1 soft mod exploit isn't out yet.

I see myself updating to 6.0.0 for Mario Party, and I assume it will be still not out then...
 
  • Like
Reactions: suzsuzuki

mesakagi

Well-Known Member
Newcomer
Joined
Sep 20, 2018
Messages
82
Trophies
0
Age
105
XP
501
Country
United States
Sorry for highjacking thread but I also want to ask the same question.

What are the cons and pros of 6.0? Is it now the best fw to update to compared to 5.1.0?
 

notimp

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Sep 18, 2007
Messages
5,779
Trophies
1
XP
4,419
Country
Laos
There is no such thing as "best".

There certainly is no such thing as "best" according to a consensus of four people still willing to cater their interpretations to people that ask for "best" for free.

There is though - a concept, where you ask those questions, and have people answer them on a whim, that makes others so mad, that they might pitch in with an actually viable answer.

This is not sustainable though.

And there is the first dozen of times, where thoughtful people give you an actual answer - just because you were lucky.
-

Back to the point where the angry voice that couldnt care less about you getting an actual answer, but very much about other people not thinking along the "best poll, today free, get yours in while you can" lines of modern education.

Four the tenth time, no joke:

<=3.0.0 has softmods to run HB
4.1.0 likely will get softmods in the future

Firmwares above those (to which you could downgrade, if you read this whole thread carefully, and started at one of those firmwares above), are only needed for you to play games. And for Nintendo "features". So what is best - directly is correlated to what is best game.

May I ask you what is best game?

The dev of retroarch is on 6.0.0
The dev of ChoiDujourNX is on 5.1.0
I am still on 3.0.0

Who of us is best?

There is one question you might ask though - and that is "what is most stable for HB?" sadly, we cant answer that either - because 90% of people cant troubleshoot, and usually report usererror as "stuff is broken". So we simply dont know. There is no authoritative data.
 
Last edited by notimp,

Bullseye

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Feb 22, 2016
Messages
553
Trophies
0
XP
1,291
Country
I did a research and found nothing conclusive. So that's why I'm asking.

The pros and cons have been written in a lot of posts. The conclusion is yours to do based on what you want.

So, in regards to your question the answer would be like:

- For possible coldboot the lowest possible the better
- For best gaming experience, so far 5.1, until 6.0 is better worked on.

EDIT: and always if you update do not burn efuses so you can revert back with a nand copy you should ALWAYS make

Read again and you will find this discussed
 

GeraltOfRivia

Well-Known Member
Newcomer
Joined
Jul 25, 2018
Messages
95
Trophies
0
Age
42
XP
854
Country
Italy
I'm on 4.1 FW but I want to play some new games that I can't in the current FW. I'm thing about update without burn fuses to 6.0 but I hear somewhere here that this W has a lot of problems. Maybe it's better to go to 5.1?
Hi there. I am on the same situation as you, ofmw 4.10 and asked myself same question time and again about "best firmware". I don't like autoRCM although is a very essential tool at the moment. I 've come to a simple conclusion: wait. Yes, wait for neverending release of atmosphere cfw and REAL emunand. Meanwhile,there could be a temporary solution of minor waiting: the Sx os "emunand". I' m waiting for next release of Sx os v. 2.1, because this current version seems to be very buggy. If the next one will be more stable and bugless I will do this way: stay on 4.1 in ofmw , setup a shadow nand and update it to latest firmware with choidujourNx, I like very much this scenario because updating Sx os "emunand" with the above mentioned tool won't need autoRCM. This way I can stay on lower stock ofmw and enjoy latest firmware in the "shadow nand". Just a little waiting for Sx os to update their cfw.
 

mesakagi

Well-Known Member
Newcomer
Joined
Sep 20, 2018
Messages
82
Trophies
0
Age
105
XP
501
Country
United States
I have decided to go to fw 5.1.0 and I will flash old nand 4.1.0 back when softmod comes out, Thank you peoples for the information.
 

HideoKojima

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Jan 17, 2018
Messages
1,107
Trophies
0
Age
27
XP
2,221
Country
United States
I'm on 4.1 FW but I want to play some new games that I can't in the current FW. I'm thing about update without burn fuses to 6.0 but I hear somewhere here that this W has a lot of problems. Maybe it's better to go to 5.1?
Just officially update to 6.0 and smell the fuses burn, you won't need them anyway.
 

DollyWhipDoll

Royalty & Unbothered. LMFAO!!! ;)
Member
Joined
May 18, 2018
Messages
451
Trophies
0
XP
991
Country
United States
I'm not going beyond 4.1.0. At least, nowhere in the, foreseeable, future.

I have softmod potential, video clips ability, and Official Native exFAT {official... regardless of you being able to add exFAT...} that I got from Nint before the 5.0.0 update.

Going to have to be something really tempting to get me to want to try out that Dujour update mod by Raj and nothing out, this year, does that for me.
 

lordpsycho

Well-Known Member
Newcomer
Joined
Oct 9, 2014
Messages
54
Trophies
0
Age
36
XP
1,093
Country
Peru
I'm currently on 3.0 and waiting for Coldbot/WebXploit/ProperEmuNand
As they said, the "best firmware" depends on what you want.
If you want newer games then update to 5.1 without burning fuses.
If you feel that's too risky, then 100% complete every game you can run now on 4.1 and wait for a more user-friendly way to play newer games
 

HideoKojima

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Jan 17, 2018
Messages
1,107
Trophies
0
Age
27
XP
2,221
Country
United States
I wonder where can someone find a legit fw backup to flash using Choixdujour. Wouldn't a wrong backup brick the console if used
 

Site & Scene News

Popular threads in this forum

General chit-chat
Help Users
    Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYzI76fwaM0