Hacking My Switch won't reboot to payload. It just restarts Atmosphere. Please Help

Johnmariozelda99 · Apr 12, 2021

Basically titled. Ever since I updated to 12.0, my switch will not reboot to the payload, it just restarts my Switch. On 11.0, everytime I installed a new game, I would convert it to an NSP, reboot to the payload, which is Hekate, and transfer the fule through USB to my computer. Without being able to reboot to Hekate through Atmosphere, I will have to compeltely turn off my switch, take out the SD card, and then copy the contents, which is a hasle. Does anyone have any idea why this is doing this? Any idea on how to fix it?

Edit: I forgot to say. My CFW is working perfectly. I can install NSPs and play games. It just wont reboot back to the payload

awesomelink234 · Apr 12, 2021

Under your atmosphere folder on your SD card, you should see a file called "reboot_payload.bin". Copy your Hekate payload to that folder and rename it to "reboot_payload.bin" (deleting whatever file was originally called that, if any).

Johnmariozelda99 · Apr 12, 2021

awesomelink234 said:
Under your atmosphere folder on your SD card, you should see a file called "reboot_payload.bin". Copy your Hekate payload to that folder and rename it to "reboot_payload.bin" (deleting whatever file was originally called that, if any)

Thank you very much. Fixed my probelm! I didnt have to do that when I installed CFW so I had no idea that it was needed.

Draxzelex · Apr 19, 2021

Johnmariozelda99 said:
Thank you very much. Fixed my probelm! I didnt have to do that when I installed CFW so I had no idea that it was needed.

That is probably because if you download Atmosphere from its GitHub page, the reboot_payload.bin file it comes with is just fusee_primary. If you download Atmosphere from a site that doesn't bundle the CFW with reboot_payload.bin as fusee, such as SDSetup, you won't encounter this issue.

Tibolegends · Dec 23, 2021

I had the same issue and that post was soooo helpful. Thanks a lot!

KB0MB · Sep 29, 2022

awesomelink234 said:
Under your atmosphere folder on your SD card, you should see a file called "reboot_payload.bin". Copy your Hekate payload to that folder and rename it to "reboot_payload.bin" (deleting whatever file was originally called that, if any).

I did everything 3 times redowloaded heckate but it still doesn't boot into heckate just automatically atmosphere

randy_w · Sep 29, 2022

Just FYI, I noticed if I load atmosphere with fusee.bin this would happen, when rebooting it skips hekate and loads atmosphere directl. If I load atmosphere with package3 then it reboots to hekate.

Also this is on original unpatched unit only

Draxzelex · Oct 6, 2022

KB0MB said:
I did everything 3 times redowloaded heckate but it still doesn't boot into heckate just automatically atmosphere

It sounds like you have autoboot enabled. Hold the minus button when you restart the console to launch into the Hekate menu instead to disable it.

dankonion · Jan 3, 2024

awesomelink234 said:
Under your atmosphere folder on your SD card, you should see a file called "reboot_payload.bin". Copy your Hekate payload to that folder and rename it to "reboot_payload.bin" (deleting whatever file was originally called that, if any).

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