Hello guys, this is my first post here! I just got a MIG Switch card out of curiosity and I was tinkering with it. For those who don't know, it's used by placing XCI dumps as well as other game specific bin files in the sd card of the MIG Switch, and are obtained from the original cartridge by using an app like nxdumptool. Two of these bin files are mandatory to get the game to boot: Initial Data.bin and Certificate.bin. They stay the same for every cartridge of a specific game. Now, if you want to use an XCI dump from a shady website it's impossible to get it to work without those files. By using the Certificate.bin from another game it has no problem, but this does not count for the Initial Data.bin. So I looked for a way to obtain this Initial Data from an XCI file and read a bit of the XCI file documentation from switchbrew dot org. Here's what I understood so far: The Switch checks if the cartridge is valid by doing a challenge–response authentication on the Initial Data. The Package ID is contained both on the XCI and the Initial Data, on positions 0x110 and 0x0 respectively. The Initial Data hash is on the XCI at position 0x160. It is calculated by doing a SHA-256 hash on the full Initial Data content. So I was wondering, is there a way to to construct a functional Initial Data file starting from an XCI dump? I also tried a reverse approach by editing the Package ID in the Initial Data from another game, generating the Initial Data hash and putting it in the XCI file but is not enough to get the Switch believe it's a real game. Sorry if this may seem stupid but let me know what you think.

mig switch not working/updating??

stickybit · 2024-03-28T19:59:51+00:00

just got my mig switch and followed instructions to the T to update it and all im getting is a red light and then a message saying cart not recognised, all im trying to do is update it to the latest firmware, it says it should flash blue when...

Hacking Homebrew Tutorial Updated

getting rewards and twitch drops on a cfw/banned switch

edit: I forgot to put in the title that this is referring to the game No man's sky

hii, so I think I figured out how to get expedition rewards and twitch drops on cfw and banned switch.
In short, I performed a backup of the switch nms save and edited it with notepad++ on pc, but what I added was based on item id's (most id's i get from pc save) and I need to find out the id of the unique ship to "unlock" the same goes for multitool.
at the moment I reached a dead end, if any one figure out i appreciate.

to get the rewards and drops (i use a tutorial of the indiefaq to figure out some item id's and edition)

1 you need to backup your save, then you transfer to your pc .

2 after that you will edit the file "savedata00.hg" in specially you need to locate in the file the word “d4U” following by square brackets (for the expedition rewards) and the word “<5B” following by square brackets (for the twitch drops).

3 you will need place the id's in inside the brackets (i get the id's from a save on pc but i'm not sure if i can post here so if you need dm me.

(and if you could share this tutorial to help as many people as possible I would be happy too )

4 after this you will save the changes and restore the save modified on switch and get the rewards.

Last edited by Thundermofocat, Mar 25, 2023