Hacking Question Difference between playing games on OFW and CFW

[Barrytoo]

Hi all,

I was wondering whether I do have to boot into CFW all the time to play installed games given that I'm connected to Wi-Fi with this DNS defined to not connect to Nintendo's servers:
Primary 163.172.141.219
Secondary 45.248.48.62

Since I'm kinda offline, are there any negatives to booting into the original firmware with this DNS and play these games offline?

Thanks

 

[NFates]

You cannot play illegitimate games on OFW, as you don't have the needed permissions.

And since you're offline, why wouldn't you use CFW?

 

[Barrytoo]

You cannot play illegitimate games on OFW, as you don't have the needed permissions.

And since you're offline, why wouldn't you use CFW?

Didn't know about the permissions, I guess this settles it.

I just wanted to avoid having to go through RCM and inject Heckate after every power off of the Switch, needed mainly to remove the SD card.

 

[NFates]

Sounds like AutoRCM and maybe a dongle is something for you.

 

[Barrytoo]

Sounds AutoRCM and maybe a dongle is something for you.

I have both, but I just wanted to skip going through that every time.

 

[NFates]

If you're deadset on this, coldboot is a possibility, but it will require some soldering work.

 

[Kubas_inko]

I have both, but I just wanted to skip going through that every time.

If you're using ams, you can skip most of it. Just plug the dongle on every boot. That's all you need to do with ams and autorcm. Sleep mode works, shutdown works, reboot reboots back to cfw. So you only need the dongle when you boot from a shutdown state.

 

[tomi1578]

why would you remove your sd card?

 

[Barrytoo]

If you're deadset on this, coldboot is a possibility, but it will require some soldering work.

I don't think I'll go that far, but thanks for the suggestion (y)

If you're using ams, you can skip most of it. Just plug the dongle on every boot. That's all you need to do with ams and autorcm. Sleep mode works, shutdown works, reboot reboots back to cfw. So you only need the dongle when you boot from a shutdown state.

That's my best bet right now, I just wanted to make it one less step. Not too bad as it is anyway so I'm sticking.

why would you remove your sd card?

Modifying files on PC, repair in case of errors, use it as a flash drive for other purposes, etc. It'll be needed eventually.