Hi,
After putting myself in a situation where nothing is working anymore I am desperate for help. I have run sysnand CFW for several years. The goal now was instead to achieve emunand on SDcard and OFW on sysnand. Also hopefully without having to reinstall games or loosing any saves. I want sysnand OFW for being able to play online.
Setup before begining:
Unpatched switch.
exfat formated sd-card
Firmware 10.1.0
Atmosphere 0.13.0
The error message about game cart slot appearing now and then.
Auto RCM
Probably some burnt fuses
So this is how it went down. I hope I remember to write all the crutial steps and the order which i did them in.
1. I located the necessary rawnand.bin, boot0 and boot1 for making the nand restore. This is a backup I made before going CFW. I dont know what firmware version I was on when I made this backup but I can see that the files are dated december 2017.
2. I downloaded hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2_Nyx_0.9.3 and put the bootloader folder on the SD card root.
3. I transferred a copy off all my SD files to my computer.
4. I started hekate by using hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2.bin.
5. I used "partition SD Card" in Hekate and created a HOS (FAT32) and emuMMC (RAW).
6. I created emuMMC SD Partion in Hekate and it says Enabled!.
7. Copied back all the backuped SD card files to the root off the SD card.
8. Tried to launch by entering RCM-mode and injecting fusee-primary.bin. It worked and I checked system firmware and saw that I was on E (emunand).
9. Tried going in to hekate again to launch from there but at first it did not work. Tried a bit and I think what got it working was when I added fusee-primary.bin to the payloads folder in bootloader folder (it was empty before) and also adding code to the hekate.ipl.ini. The code I added was some lines found in a forum thread. One for starting CFW (EMUNAND) and one for Stock (SYSNAND).
10. Renamed the hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2.bit to reboot_payload.bin and overwrote the file in the atmosphere folder (for being able to reboot to hekate).
11. Copied the backuped Nintendo-folder to emuMMC\RAW1 and comfirmed that my installed games was working again on emunand.
12. Now when emunand was working I was convinced it was safe to restore my nand backup. I followed this guide https://suchmememanyskill.github.io/guides/nandrestore/ and did not get into any trouble.
13. Entered RCM-mode and injected (the same) fusee-primary.bin as before sysnand restore but now nothing happens. The screen is black and TegraRcmGui shows that it is ready to inject again after like 2 seconds.
14. Trying to inject hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2.bin again and it works.
15. Trying to launch CFW (emunand) through Hekate exactly as I did before restoring the sysnand. Now it seems to start up, it shows the Atmoshpere logo, it shows the Nintendo Switch logo, it shows the battery status symbol and then for a short moment the sleep screen (the screen where you have to press a button 3 times for it to wake up) but then the Switch goes to black screen and I see that Tegra rcmGUI shows that it is ready to be injected again.
Usually the error about the game cart slot comes up when the switch starts up so I was thinking that it might have something to do with nogc. But I tried fiddling a bit with the .ini-code turning it off and on but it does not seem to make any difference. The console keeps crashing.
When trying to boot sysnand trough hekate I get Unknown pkg1 version. Hos version not supported! Failed to launch HOS". But I have not yet looked in to this any further. Step 1 seems to be to get emunand CFW working again.
So what happend? I can't understand how I could go from from working emunand to not working emunand just by restoring sysnand. Any thoughts and recommendations for further troubleshooting are highly appreciated.
Please tell me if you need to know the ini-file code or anything else.
After putting myself in a situation where nothing is working anymore I am desperate for help. I have run sysnand CFW for several years. The goal now was instead to achieve emunand on SDcard and OFW on sysnand. Also hopefully without having to reinstall games or loosing any saves. I want sysnand OFW for being able to play online.
Setup before begining:
Unpatched switch.
exfat formated sd-card
Firmware 10.1.0
Atmosphere 0.13.0
The error message about game cart slot appearing now and then.
Auto RCM
Probably some burnt fuses
So this is how it went down. I hope I remember to write all the crutial steps and the order which i did them in.
1. I located the necessary rawnand.bin, boot0 and boot1 for making the nand restore. This is a backup I made before going CFW. I dont know what firmware version I was on when I made this backup but I can see that the files are dated december 2017.
2. I downloaded hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2_Nyx_0.9.3 and put the bootloader folder on the SD card root.
3. I transferred a copy off all my SD files to my computer.
4. I started hekate by using hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2.bin.
5. I used "partition SD Card" in Hekate and created a HOS (FAT32) and emuMMC (RAW).
6. I created emuMMC SD Partion in Hekate and it says Enabled!.
7. Copied back all the backuped SD card files to the root off the SD card.
8. Tried to launch by entering RCM-mode and injecting fusee-primary.bin. It worked and I checked system firmware and saw that I was on E (emunand).
9. Tried going in to hekate again to launch from there but at first it did not work. Tried a bit and I think what got it working was when I added fusee-primary.bin to the payloads folder in bootloader folder (it was empty before) and also adding code to the hekate.ipl.ini. The code I added was some lines found in a forum thread. One for starting CFW (EMUNAND) and one for Stock (SYSNAND).
10. Renamed the hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2.bit to reboot_payload.bin and overwrote the file in the atmosphere folder (for being able to reboot to hekate).
11. Copied the backuped Nintendo-folder to emuMMC\RAW1 and comfirmed that my installed games was working again on emunand.
12. Now when emunand was working I was convinced it was safe to restore my nand backup. I followed this guide https://suchmememanyskill.github.io/guides/nandrestore/ and did not get into any trouble.
13. Entered RCM-mode and injected (the same) fusee-primary.bin as before sysnand restore but now nothing happens. The screen is black and TegraRcmGui shows that it is ready to inject again after like 2 seconds.
14. Trying to inject hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2.bin again and it works.
15. Trying to launch CFW (emunand) through Hekate exactly as I did before restoring the sysnand. Now it seems to start up, it shows the Atmoshpere logo, it shows the Nintendo Switch logo, it shows the battery status symbol and then for a short moment the sleep screen (the screen where you have to press a button 3 times for it to wake up) but then the Switch goes to black screen and I see that Tegra rcmGUI shows that it is ready to be injected again.
Usually the error about the game cart slot comes up when the switch starts up so I was thinking that it might have something to do with nogc. But I tried fiddling a bit with the .ini-code turning it off and on but it does not seem to make any difference. The console keeps crashing.
When trying to boot sysnand trough hekate I get Unknown pkg1 version. Hos version not supported! Failed to launch HOS". But I have not yet looked in to this any further. Step 1 seems to be to get emunand CFW working again.
So what happend? I can't understand how I could go from from working emunand to not working emunand just by restoring sysnand. Any thoughts and recommendations for further troubleshooting are highly appreciated.
Please tell me if you need to know the ini-file code or anything else.
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