Hacking SWITCH NOOB PARADISE - Ask questions here

Sparky076 · Dec 29, 2018

farenheit said:
Having read so many posts, I'm now even more confused! Lol
Got my daughter a switch, 4.10 out of the box (patched serial), however it won't let me link the console, login online or even play Mario party without first updating it! (Currently updates blocked via DNS)
Damn thing is so frustrating, literally won't let you do anything without first updating it!
Do I update to 6.20, link console etc and then block updates or is there something I'm missing that I could do now?
Not even sure you can back nand on a virgin switch.

You can backup the NAND using Hekate. If you update it via official means (Change the 90DNS DNS configurations back to default), it will burn fuses on the inside, making it impossible* to downgrade (may be wrong. I think they came up with a way to downgrade it via hacking that wouldn't check the fuse count). You can still hack it on 6.2.0 (latest firmware) though.

But yes, if you want to go online, you have to update it, either officially, or unofficially through the means of ChouDujourNX. Even then, I don't know if its safe to go online after unofficially updating it via the ChouDujourNX program.

Edit: Best practice is to have 2 consoles. 1 to do your hacking on, and one to play online.

Adran_Marit · Dec 29, 2018

farenheit said:
Having read so many posts, I'm now even more confused! Lol
Got my daughter a switch, 4.10 out of the box (patched serial), however it won't let me link the console, login online or even play Mario party without first updating it! (Currently updates blocked via DNS)
Damn thing is so frustrating, literally won't let you do anything without first updating it!
Do I update to 6.20, link console etc and then block updates or is there something I'm missing that I could do now?
Not even sure you can back nand on a virgin switch.

Not currently until pegaswitched is updated for the newer systems which should be soon (since you have a patched serial) Use 90DNS to block connections

DO. NOT. UPDATE. - Pegaswitch only works up to 6.0

(source)

Sparky076 said:
You can backup the NAND using Hekate. If you update it via official means (Change the 90DNS DNS configurations back to default), it will burn fuses on the inside, making it impossible* to downgrade (may be wrong. I think they came up with a way to downgrade it via hacking that wouldn't check the fuse count). You can still hack it on 6.2.0 (latest firmware) though.

But yes, if you want to go online, you have to update it, either officially, or unofficially through the means of ChouDujourNX. Even then, I don't know if its safe to go online after unofficially updating it via the ChouDujourNX program.

Wrong. He has a patched console.

farenheit · Dec 29, 2018

Sparky076 said:
You can backup the NAND using Hekate. If you update it via official means (Change the 90DNS DNS configurations back to default), it will burn fuses on the inside, making it impossible* to downgrade (may be wrong. I think they came up with a way to downgrade it via hacking that wouldn't check the fuse count). You can still hack it on 6.2.0 (latest firmware) though.

But yes, if you want to go online, you have to update it, either officially, or unofficially through the means of ChouDujourNX. Even then, I don't know if its safe to go online after unofficially updating it via the ChouDujourNX program.

Thanks, so just to get this right, I can back up the nand on a patched switch using Hekate?
Is there really any benefit to downgrading right at this time? Currently there's not a lot i can do on it without updating which is really annoying! I can't believe it won't let me use an sdcard without updating. What a farce!

Adran_Marit · Dec 29, 2018

farenheit said:
Thanks, so just to get this right, I can back up the nand on a patched switch using Hekate?
Is there really any benefit to downgrading right at this time? Currently there's not a lot i can do on it without updating which is really annoying! I can't believe it won't let me use an sdcard without updating. What a farce!

see my reply just above

farenheit · Dec 29, 2018

Adran_Marit said:
Not currently until pegaswitched is updated for the newer systems which should be soon (since you have a patched serial) Use 90DNS to block connections

DO. NOT. UPDATE. - Pegaswitch only works up to 6.0

(source)

Wrong. He has a patched console.

That's what I was thinking. So my original question stands, should I update to 6.2 in order to set console up, registering, linking etc and then block updates for future?
Obviously I'd burn efuses in the process.

Adran_Marit · Dec 29, 2018

farenheit said:
That's what I was thinking. So my original question stands, should I update to 6.2 in order to set console up, registering, linking etc and then block updates for future?
Obviously I'd burn efuses in the process.

No. I wrote it in big red text lol.

Do Not Update.

Sparky076 · Dec 29, 2018

Adran_Marit said:
Wrong. He has a patched console.

Oh. Yeah. Patched console is an issue. My bad.

farenheit · Dec 29, 2018

Adran_Marit said:
No. I wrote it in big red text lol.

Do Not Update.

Thanks lol
Guess I'll have to break the news to my daughter that she can't play Mario party.
Wish me luck. (Gets padded up!)

Adran_Marit · Dec 29, 2018

farenheit said:
Thanks lol
Guess I'll have to break the news to my daughter that she can't play Mario party.
Wish me luck. (Gets padded up!)

give it time. The new hack is coming soon. Not sure what can be done with it. But good luck

Tekimoto · Dec 29, 2018

Draxzelex said:
Well you didn't tell me if you see the Hekate logo or not when you send Hekate as a payload.
Check to see if AutoRCM is still enabled with either Hekate or briccmii.
Strangely, you're not the first with this unit. But since we've never heard about XFL units up until yesterday, we don't know. Although given they are most likely a recent appearance, they are probably patched.

So any Idea how I can fix this? Its really hiting me on mely nerves having to inject reinx twice evry single time eich means disconect from pc and conect twise

Draxzelex · Dec 29, 2018

leafeon34 said:
Does this modchip allow for coldbooting into CFW?

https://gbatemp.net/threads/simple-...simple-operation-no-confusing-folders.526607/

Yes.

MonkeyBallseye said:
Hello everyone,

I have just landed here and i couldnt be more confused about how you play backups on a switch. The only thing i know is that the games come in xci or nsp format and that is all.

Can you please guide on what is the safest way/safest software and the best practices to not be banned.

Much appreciated
Thanks

https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-switch-banning-hub-warning.508710/

Tekimoto said:
So any Idea how I can fix this? Its really hiting me on mely nerves having to inject reinx twice evry single time eich means disconect from pc and conect twise

What program do you use to send payloads?

LuigiXL · Dec 29, 2018

I just picked up R4S dongle, how do i make it use SX OS payload? thanks!

Ozisis · Dec 29, 2018

What's a good place to buy a jig to get the Switch into recovery mode? I understand I can make my own, but it just seems simpler to have a jig and call it a day.

Draxzelex · Dec 29, 2018

LuigiXL said:
I just picked up R4S dongle, how do i make it use SX OS payload? thanks!

Their website has pre-converted payloads for usage with their dongle but the latest for SX OS is V2.2. If you open their manual, it has instructions on how to convert any payload which you could use for the latest SX OS version or any other version you want.

Ozisis said:
What's a good place to buy a jig to get the Switch into recovery mode? I understand I can make my own, but it just seems simpler to have a jig and call it a day.

eBay and AliExpress are the places I hear for buying anything related to Switch hacking.

twistedominoes · Dec 29, 2018

Does a patched console mean i can't use any homebrew or cfw?

Lacius · Dec 29, 2018

twistedominoes said:
Does a patched console mean i can't use any homebrew or cfw?

You cannot use CFW with a patched console.
Pegaswitch (userland homebrew) might work if you're on a low system version.

KuroTheBang · Dec 29, 2018

I am in vacation with a friend of mine, and we want to play SSBU together. Is there a way to extract my version of installed SSBU and install it somehow to his switch? like NSP packer or something

Draxzelex · Dec 29, 2018

KuroTheBang said:
I am in vacation with a friend of mine, and we want to play SSBU together. Is there a way to extract my version of installed SSBU and install it somehow to his switch? like NSP packer or something

You can just share the game with your account. Just add the account linked to the game on his console and then have his console download the game from the eShop. If you want to do it with CFW, you can either dump the game yourself with SD to NSP (contrary to the name, you can dump from the NAND) or find one of those illegal copies floating on the web.

Wrig · Dec 29, 2018

When I do a full nand backup, do i need to back up the gpp partitions aswell?

Draxzelex · Dec 29, 2018

Wrig said:
When I do a full nand backup, do i need to back up the gpp partitions aswell?

The raw eMMC GPP is comprised of two partitions, eMMC SYS and eMMC USER. SYS is basically the System 32 of your console while USER is your actual free space to install content. For people who are conscious of space, it might be worthwhile to only dump eMMC SYS because it is much smaller than the eMMC GPP (about a 26 GB difference) but in doing so, you'll lose all of your progress and games when you restore the eMMC SYS.

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