Homebrew Question Game cartridge reader not working

Mooosey · Jan 12, 2019

Hi all,

I have been playing around with a switch I bought off ebay - it is running 6.2.0 Atmosphere but I bought it with a "faulty game card reader". I bought a replacement, replaced it and it doesn't seem to be working still. I have double checked everything and the hardware looks clean and I can't see any damage, even when booting into stock firmware. After reading around I have seen something about disabling the game card reader for updating firmware? I have a suspicion that the previous owner has done something to disable it, but I don't know too much about the downgrading/upgrading scene to know. Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

Draxzelex · Jan 12, 2019

To disable the cartridge slot, you have to boot into a CFW that supports the 'nogc' patch (which SX OS is the only one to not officially support) but to boot into CFW, you have to send a payload which by the sound of it, is not what you are doing. However if you are booting a CFW and just forgot to mention it, you can check that by looking at whatever files are on the SD card. But if you aren't booting any CFW at all, something might still be broken somewhere else.

Goober0527 · Sep 22, 2019

If you are running CFW how can you fix the issue? I am running the latest atmosphere on FW 9.0.0 I just updated today. After updating today everything works except the game card reader. It was working before the update.

unvaluablespace · Sep 22, 2019

double check your touch screen works as well. i went through 3/4 board replacements until i found one that worked with my touchscreen. most games dont rely on it, but i needed the touchscreen so i could use choidujour nx to upgrade switch firmware, since it apparently only works via touchscreen.

White_Raven_X · Nov 20, 2019

My touchscreen and game cartridge don't work either in ofw. The touchscreen only works with hekate. I'm running 9.0.1 with hekate/fussee-gelee. The oem screen (badly scratched) works perfectly but the aftermarket screen only works in hekate. Any ideas?

aerios169 · Nov 20, 2019

I have find that sx emulation cartridge cause problems after use it, even when you return to original nand Like the game card cant be readed or is not recogniced

ELY_M · Nov 23, 2019

I had to add nogc = 0 on bottom of BCT.ini in my atmosphere folder for my game cart reader to work. atmosphere is only one that support nogc.

White_Raven_X · Nov 23, 2019

ELY_M said:
I had to add nogc = 0 on bottom of BCT.ini in my atmosphere folder for my game cart reader to work. atmosphere is only one that support nogc.

But did your game cart work when you launched ofw? Or was it only not working in cfw?

ELY_M · Nov 25, 2019

my ofw is on 6.2 and ofw crash if I left game cart in. I avoid booting ofw now.

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I need to test on another switch and see. I have been busy.

pcwizard7 · Nov 25, 2019

If u use fe 9.0 or higher u need to disable nogc to use your gc again

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