Hacking Question Why did you switch from Reinx to Atmosphere?

nanchan · Apr 22, 2019

7.01 FW - Reinx has been great, but decided to switch over to atmosphere a few days ago just to see what Atmosphere is about. The conversion is pretty straight forward and painless by simply loading Kosmos, Atmosphere release, and sweet patches in that order.

Two reasons for my switch over
1. I cannot play Hellblade Senua until after the switch
2. I am dying to test Edizon ram search. Been using Nswitchdebugger with Reinx

I have not encounter issues with games not working or corrupted SD (using exFat) so far.

What are your reasons for the switch?

BaamAlex · Apr 22, 2019

Atmosphere is the original cfw for the switch. The updates are fast when a new firmware comes out. More features imo.

nanchan said:
I have not encounter issues with games not working or corrupted SD (using exFat) so far.

It is recommended to use fat32 with 32k cluster. exFAT can corrupt the files within a read or write process afaik. I never had any problems with exfat. But nintendos drivers are crap.

SomeGamer · Apr 22, 2019

Never used ReiNX. Atmosphére is more feature-rich, not to mention it's the fastest at supporting newer firmware versions.

spotanjo3 · Apr 22, 2019

nanchan said:
7.01 FW - Reinx has been great, but decided to switch over to atmosphere a few days ago just to see what Atmosphere is about. The conversion is pretty straight forward and painless by simply loading Kosmos, Atmosphere release, and sweet patches in that order.

Two reasons for my switch over
1. I cannot play Hellblade Senua until after the switch
2. I am dying to test Edizon ram search. Been using Nswitchdebugger with Reinx

I have not encounter issues with games not working or corrupted SD (using exFat) so far.

What are your reasons for the switch?

Yes, you can play Hellblade Senua on ReiNX now. They have already been fixed it. That's why I have two CFWs.. Two are better than one.

Pipistrele · Apr 22, 2019

Because it simply doesn't provide me with anything Atmosphere doesn't do just as well (or better), updates are slower, and at this point there's not much of value in it aside of arbitrary connection to anime fandom.

toxic9 · Apr 22, 2019

I used to use reinx... I loved it, until 7.0 came out.
reinx updates are very slow imo.
I also switched to atmos and I'm very happy with it.

AshenWolf · May 25, 2019

Did installed games get corrupted after switching?

BaamAlex · May 25, 2019

AshenWolf said:
Did installed games get corrupted after switching?

As long as you have signature patches, no.

spotanjo3 · May 25, 2019

Nothing. ReiNX and atmosphere are doing the great job. I choose atmosphere for no reason. They both are great CFWs anyway. No competitive. I don't believe in competitive. Just preference, that's all.

Kubez · May 25, 2019

nanchan said:
7.01 FW - Reinx has been great, but decided to switch over to atmosphere a few days ago just to see what Atmosphere is about. The conversion is pretty straight forward and painless by simply loading Kosmos, Atmosphere release, and sweet patches in that order.

Two reasons for my switch over
1. I cannot play Hellblade Senua until after the switch
2. I am dying to test Edizon ram search. Been using Nswitchdebugger with Reinx

I have not encounter issues with games not working or corrupted SD (using exFat) so far.

What are your reasons for the switch?

Uh why tf are you using exfat lol

BaamAlex · May 25, 2019

Kubez said:
Uh why tf are you using exfat lol

Maybe he is too lazy to switch the file system xD

Kylecito · May 25, 2019

Switched to SX masterrace because I couldn't take being offline anymore. So far immensely enjoying the online from a pre-hack clean NAND

smf · May 25, 2019

BaamAlex said:
Maybe he is too lazy to switch the file system xD

I still use exFat for partly that reason, but also because supposedly fat32 has the same issue & it just doesn't show up as much because of randomness.

BaamAlex · May 25, 2019

smf said:
I still use exFat for partly that reason, but also because supposedly fat32 has the same issue & it just doesn't show up as much because of randomness.

Already since the start of the homebrew scene, the switch is warned against the use of exFAT for microSD cards, as this leads to long-term data loss. The reason is that Nintendo's FAT driver is flawed and constantly changes files and folders, even in simple reads. The changes are never properly synchronized with the file system, which means that improperly terminating an application / reboot / shutdown causes the file handlers to be lost and then missing from the File Allocation Table. This happens also with FAT32. Since exFAT, unlike FAT32, does not have a second Backup File Allocation Table, the data and folders are irretrievably lost. And this is a good reason to switch to fat32 with 32K cluster size.

smf · May 25, 2019

BaamAlex said:
does not have a second Backup File Allocation Table, the data and folders are irretrievably lost.

The only time FAT32 switches to the backup is with a media error, the backup file allocation table doesn't save you as there is no mechanism to determine which one is good or not. It's just a random guess why FAT32 doesn't seem to corrupt more often.

It's more likely because exFat doesn't use the file allocation table to determine what blocks have been used, it has a seperate bitmap. Once they are out of sync then until you run chkdsk then any new data you write can corrupt your card.

AshenWolf · May 26, 2019

BaamAlex said:
As long as you have signature patches, no.

How to know if the games have signature patches? I bought this switch with Reinx and games already installed...

nanchan · May 26, 2019

I never switched over to FAT32 because of laziness. So far, I have no corruption yet. Fingers and toes crossed

BaamAlex · May 26, 2019

nanchan said:
I never switched over to FAT32 because of laziness. So far, I have no corruption yet. Fingers and toes crossed

Sooner or later it will catch you. Change the file system to be on the safe side.

AshenWolf said:
How to know if the games have signature patches? I bought this switch with Reinx and games already installed...

Here on gbatemp is a thread where you can download these signature patches

Jayro · May 26, 2019

Neither. I bought TX's SX OS. Very happy with it, and the support we get.

BaamAlex · May 26, 2019

Jayro said:
Neither. I bought TX's SX OS. Very happy with it, and the support we get.

I bought it too. But I switched to hekate+atmosphere, because there is nothing on SX OS that Atmosphere or ReiNX couldn't do.

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