Hacking Update Advice Needed

Gumdoc · Jun 18, 2021

Hi All,

I modded my Switch around 2 years ago and as I'm running out of space on my SD card, I had a few questions. I'm using the RCM Loader with the jig on my V1 Switch:

1. If I just want to use a larger SD card, is it a simple matter of just copying all the files over?

2. I'd like to update my Atmosphere but it's not clear what the steps are and whether I will create incompatibilities. The RCM has two payload files, a payload.bin and Atmosphere Hekate Payload.bin, not sure which of these is being used and whether these need to be updated. I downloaded the latest Atmosphere from their Github (0.19.4). It seems to have mostly the same files and folders that I see on my existing SD card, do I just copy these and overwrite?

My biggest concern is that I may create incompatibilities, I've been reading on here about people that updated their firmware and then needed to update sigpatches, it's all a bit confusing. Do I have to update my firmware or can I just update Atmosphere and be done with it?

Sorry for all the questions, it's literally been 2 years since I looked at all this.

Thanks for any help.

Draxzelex · Jun 18, 2021

I recommend using the Switch Noobs Paradise instead.

wiiNinja · Jun 19, 2021

Gumdoc said:
Hi All,

I modded my Switch around 2 years ago and as I'm running out of space on my SD card, I had a few questions. I'm using the RCM Loader with the jig on my V1 Switch:

1. If I just want to use a larger SD card, is it a simple matter of just copying all the files over?

2. I'd like to update my Atmosphere but it's not clear what the steps are and whether I will create incompatibilities. The RCM has two payload files, a payload.bin and Atmosphere Hekate Payload.bin, not sure which of these is being used and whether these need to be updated. I downloaded the latest Atmosphere from their Github (0.19.4). It seems to have mostly the same files and folders that I see on my existing SD card, do I just copy these and overwrite?

My biggest concern is that I may create incompatibilities, I've been reading on here about people that updated their firmware and then needed to update sigpatches, it's all a bit confusing. Do I have to update my firmware or can I just update Atmosphere and be done with it?

Sorry for all the questions, it's literally been 2 years since I looked at all this.

Thanks for any help.

If you're worried about messing up during the upgrade, backup the currently working uSD card, or if you already bought a new card, experiment using the new card and keep the old card intact. That way, you can be certain that you can always revert back to a working condition.
1. If you didn't use emuNand before, on a different partition, then you can just copy all the files over to the new card.
2. Upgrading will involve copying Atmosphere, Hekate and the sigpatches. In my experience, copying over existing files have always worked for me, but if that doesn't work for you for some reason, start clean. Again, you have that backup to go back to if things didn't work out, and you can ask more questions after that.
Regarding if you should upgrade your firmware, people are split over this. For me personally, I've always just update to the latest firmware. Good luck.

Tomato123 · Jun 20, 2021

You also will have to update your homebrew apps as the 0.19.0 version of Atmosphere on 12.0.0 of the Switch firmware had to break compatibility with already compiled apps. This is just a case of looking at what you used and Googling to see if a newer compiled version is available to use.

Draxzelex · Jun 20, 2021

wiiNinja said:
If you're worried about messing up during the upgrade, backup the currently working uSD card, or if you already bought a new card, experiment using the new card and keep the old card intact. That way, you can be certain that you can always revert back to a working condition.
1. If you didn't use emuNand before, on a different partition, then you can just copy all the files over to the new card.
2. Upgrading will involve copying Atmosphere, Hekate and the sigpatches. In my experience, copying over existing files have always worked for me, but if that doesn't work for you for some reason, start clean. Again, you have that backup to go back to if things didn't work out, and you can ask more questions after that.
Regarding if you should upgrade your firmware, people are split over this. For me personally, I've always just update to the latest firmware. Good luck.

Tomato123 said:
You also will have to update your homebrew apps as the 0.19.0 version of Atmosphere on 12.0.0 of the Switch firmware had to break compatibility with already compiled apps. This is just a case of looking at what you used and Googling to see if a newer compiled version is available to use.

This question was already addressed in the Switch Noobs Paradise.

Litvinkov · Jun 20, 2021

Tomato123 said:
You also will have to update your homebrew apps as the 0.19.0 version of Atmosphere on 12.0.0 of the Switch firmware had to break compatibility with already compiled apps. This is just a case of looking at what you used and Googling to see if a newer compiled version is available to use.

I've been meaning to ask, how did it turn out? I remember reading about that in changelog and thinking how much of an inconvenience it is since a lot of homebrews have not been updated for a long time and possibly never will. So did people massively switch to 0.19.0 and how much homebrew is still unusable because of no updates?

Draxzelex · Jun 26, 2021

Litvinkov said:
I've been meaning to ask, how did it turn out? I remember reading about that in changelog and thinking how much of an inconvenience it is since a lot of homebrews have not been updated for a long time and possibly never will. So did people massively switch to 0.19.0 and how much homebrew is still unusable because of no updates?

Well if you want to use higher firmware versions, you will have to update your CFW accordingly so there isn't much to debate here. You need higher firmware versions to play newer games and I think most people would choose games over homebrew.

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