Hacking Any way to edit profile and fake link account?

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I am using a hidden partition EMU and the SD was formatted to fat32. I just have a general Idea of how this works but my understanding is that this should work with a vanilla setup of ATMO or SXOS. You just need to download the Kefir Updater in the link that I gave, copy it to your switch folder where your other nro files go. Then go into the SX manu, run Ketir Updater and add account.

Again as stated before you need to make sure to backup your saves, then delete them from ALL the accounts that you currently have. Then after your done withe Kefir recreate the accounts and restore the saves.

I am currently recreating my emunand. Once it completes I will upgrade it to the latest version and then try kefir first and see what happens. I will update you guys shortly.

Just FYI, 512GB Samsung Micro SD. Freshly formatted though the SXOS emunand set up. Hidden emunand partition.

So, I have created my emunand. which is on 5.1.0. Upgraded it to 8.1.0. Ran the kefir updater. It reports as successful. I then reboot in to sxos and select to boot my emunand and I still only have my profile within my emunand originally. What am I doing wrong?
 
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So folks what I don't understand is why am I running into this issue on the games previously mentioned (mk11, etc) when I have my nintendo account in my switch? I currently have two games I bought from the eshop awhile back, dkctf & gekido. I never signed up for the pay to play online membership so can that be why I experience the "updating game data" screen on mk11 latest version patch?
 

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does this work if applied on emummc with atmospher with ES patches ??
i am planning to do a nand backup then replcae with hacdiskmount then build the emummc.bin and dd it to the memroy card and boot it via hekate / atmos
 

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does this work if applied on emummc with atmospher with ES patches ??
i am planning to do a nand backup then replcae with hacdiskmount then build the emummc.bin and dd it to the memroy card and boot it via hekate / atmos
As long as it mounts properly with hacdiskmount then yes it should do. SXOS emunand worked according do a previous poster.
 

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Alright. I have to completely rewrite this post after learning a lot from reading this topic and tinkering with the files.

The key to add a linked account offline is replacing contents in the 8000000000000010 file or the file itself.
The easiest method for doing this, especially considering the current state of Atmosphere emuMMC seems to be by using the KefirUpdater. You install it like any other homebrew, then with the press of a button it does everything automatically for you.

HOWEVER KefirUpdater is a closed source program with account info from someone you might not trust and therefore it's likely some will not prefer this method.

I've tried to tinker with KefirUpdater to see what it actually does and discovered the following:
- The program is downloading a zipfile called su.zip containing the linked account files.
- It unzips these files to sdmc:/switch/kefirupdater/su
- Then it opens and save the 8000000000000010 and 8000000000000011 files. Injection happens here and I'm not sure what goes in 8000000000000011.
- Finally it reboots to RCM using the reebot to payload method. (At least that's what happens for me)

Furthermore I've tried to provide modified files manually but the program will always try to download the new files anyway.

These are the downloaded contents unzipped (same as post #88)
Code:
su/avators/*.jpg
su/avators/profiles.jpg
su/baas/*.dat
su/cache/
su/nas/**.dat
su/nas/**_id.token
su/nas/**_refresh.token
su/nas/**_user.json
su/registry.dat
* unique string generated only for this account
** another unique string generated only for this account

Lastly, a probable way to trick this program to use your own files would be spoofing the address it's looking for by making your custom DNS. But in that case it'd probably be easier to dump emuNAND, use hacdiskmount and recreate your emuMMC again.
 
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is there a way to do this MANUAL account linking directly in emuMMC? as i understand kefir would also work in emummc, but to do it manually if dont even know how to mount the emuMMC (HacDiskMount will not mount the emuMMC)
 

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is there a way to do this MANUAL account linking directly in emuMMC?
I thought the same but even if it is possible it would be too much of an hassle (at least for me) to achieve enough knowledge to be able to do it atm. You're better of just taking the easy way out with kefir in this case. Afaik kefir seems safe enough. The other option is to edit the game you want to play to not ask for a linked account. That option is also better documented on the forums (I think there's a tutorial for it).
 
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I thought the same but even if it is possible it would be too much of an hassle (at least for me) to achieve enough knowledge to be able to do it atm. You're better of just taking the easy way out with kefir in this case. Afaik kefir seems safe enough. The other option is to edit the game you want to play to not ask for a linked account. That option is also better documented on the forums (I think there's a tutorial for it).

ok, but kefir seems to do a lot of unknown things, not really safe for me. with "the other option" i think u mean nsc_builder, which can patch several games to not ask for a linked account. unfortunatly it doesnt work for all games and especially not for an "in-game"-wanted-linked account like in stardew valley: it doesnt want a linked account at the start of the game, but when u start a local wifi game. this seems to be NOT patchable with nsc_builder

so im still looking for a manual solution based on emummc
 
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Wow, it was a snap using Kefir Updater, but first I thought the app was broken, took me a while to figure out it was touch only interface
 

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Okay, a little complication. I successfully created a fake Signed in user account using Kefir Updater. But I can't get my old savegames in this account. I backed everything up before I went on using Hekate (full system/nand backup) and also made save backups with Checkpoint and EdiZon. Now I have my new Signed in user account (hooray!) but when I open EdiZon I don't see the backups I made. When I open Checkpoint I can restore my saves, but when I launch a game afterward it doesn't seem to pickup the savegames.

What is the way to go with this?
 
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Let me answer my own question after fiddling around with it, just in case someone else stumbles upon this looking for clues:

In the new user account, all the games you want to restore save games for have to be ran at least once for EdiZon to recognize them. Once you've ran a game, it will show up in EdiZon and will allow you to restore from the mass backup.

You can not restore save data of games that are not ran in the user account, so putting save data in place of games currently not on the system is impossible (for now).

I was told that a future release of EdiZon will be able to generate the save filesystem for you, which would make this possible.
 
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