Game cartridges no longer work

Hi guys, not sure if this is the right forum for this.

If not, mods feel free to move it.

Anywho, about a week ago, my son went to play a game on my Switch. I think I was on 10.1, and I've told him numerous times don't update, just say "start software".

Well, he accidentally hit update, and now I'm on 11.0.1.

I installed the latest atmosphere, and downloaded games play just fine, but now every time I try to play a cartridge, it does the whole "checking if this game can be played" thing and then says I can't play the game.

I've googled and everyone says it's because of a Nintendo account and a primary Switch, but I only have the one Switch, so I don't think that's it. And the games worked perfectly fine before it got updated.

Even if I boot it normally without atmosphere, it still doesn't let me play the games.

Ideas?

 

Yeah that's basically my only option at this point is just dumping the cartridges I have and playing them that way.

Nothing else seems to work.

My SD card isn't big enough, though, so I'll have to get a bigger one.

But speaking about that, how do you install game updates? I have the Pokemon Let's Go: Eeevee cartridge and I downloaded the latest update .nsp for it, but I don't know where to put it. Is it as easy as just dropping it in the NSP folder or do I have to do something else?

 

I'm not sure if atmosphere 16.2 supports hekate, but I'll check and try if it does.

And thanks for the tip, I'll try using one of those to install the update.

EDIT: Yeah, booted into hekate 5.5.1 and turned autonogc to off, rebooted into atmosphere, and cartridges still don't work. And now neither do any of my installed games.

Not sure what happened since I just copied the contents of the hekate bootloader folder to my switch bootloader folder, but I think I'm going to back up my SD card and just reformat the switch and the SD card and start over.

EDIT 2: Nevermind, just Tinfoil and Goldleaf don't work now, and Tinfoil at least worked a couple days ago before I tried booting into hekate. Super weird....

 

1: Not anymore. The slot worked fine on 10.1, but now that it's been updated, even in stock mode, I can't play games. It detects that a game is inserted or not inserted, but won't boot.

2: I downloaded some "updated" sig patches, but I'll look into the ones you posted.

Haven't checked the pins in the slot, but since it actually detects a cartridge, and the only thing that's changed is the fact that the system was updated, I'm not too worried about the physical cartridge slot. I haven't had time to back everything up and reformat, so no status update yet.

Hopefully after Christmas I'll have time to reformat and start fresh.

Thanks for the help so far, everybody.

And if I'm not back before the 25th, Merry Christmas!

 

STILL haven't had a chance to back everything up and start fresh.

But it's on 11.0.1.

I've added "nogc = 0" to the BCT file, but it still didn't change anything.

It's so weird, the only thing I can think of is wiping everything and starting fresh, all the usual fixes don't seem to work.

The only cartridges I own are Super Mario Odyssey, Pokemon Let's Go Eevee, and BotW, and even though they're all fairly old, none of them work.

So I agree, it seems like a gc fuse issue.

Is there a program that checks fuses and allows you to "burn" them so that they match OFW?

 

No, I use atmosphere and fusee primary, so I edited the BCT.ini file.

I've got time now, so I'll try editing the Hekate.ini file and if that doesn't work, I'm going to just start fresh.

EDIT: I don't even have a Hekate.ini file, lol. I downloaded the latest Hekate and it doesn't have that file. Tried googling, but can't seem to find any info on it.

EDIT 2: Nevermind, I went straight to the github and found the info.

 

I've tried adding "nogc=0" to the BCT.ini file for Atmosphere and that didn't work.

I tried setting autonogc to 0 in the hekate_ipl.ini and booted into hekate, and then booted into Atmosphere and that didn't work.

I've tried just manually turning off autongc in hekate, saving options, and then booting into Atmosphere and that didn't work.

Not sure what else to do.

I got a 2TB sd card for Christmas, so I'm in the process of setting that up nice and fresh.

If THAT doesn't do it, then I don't know, I'm just going to install the cartridges to the sd card. I don't know what's going on.

 

Nope, never used daybreak. Didn't know what it was for, lol.

My son updated it to 11.0. It wouldn't read cards, but still said there was an update, so I updated it to 11.0.1.

Still doesn't read cards.

I added the nogc bit to the BCT.ini, but I'll try doing what you said.

EDIT: So I downloaded the 11.0.1 firmware update and installed it with Daybreak. Rebooted. Still can't play cartridge games.

Deleted the BCT file from /config, copied it from /config folder templates/ and added "nogc = 0" right after the line:

; To force-disable nogc, add nogc = 0

Still can't play cartridges.

I really don't think wiping the Switch for a fresh start is going to do anything.

And the SD card that my sister-in-law got me was a phony 1tb card. Anything past 5gb of files vanishes when I remove it from the computer, so I can't test installing the games to the card.

Not sure what else to do.