Hacking How does SX OS Emunand work?

[Euphonique]

I don‘t know how it exactly works but what if I update emunand from 5.1 to 6.0 and boot into the normal 5.1 sx firmware or the original 5.1 one? Won‘t it burn fuses if I do, because the versions mismatch?

 

[Cubuss]

Its a Christmas miracle,

 

[JoeBloggs777]

Hm, I would have imagined that this thread would be crowded a lot more just like the other SX OS threads...

well like json said, real facts, not something they can argue about. thou some of them will be along soon saying its not a proper emunand or its stolen code.

 

[Valery0p]

If that is how it works, I don't understand why they simply didn't add the option to create the files on the SD card, and why they added the GTP fix option, if they don't touch it...
Can we have a screenshot with the dimensions of the various NANDxx.bin, please?

 

[mowsie]

Hm, I would have imagined that this thread would be crowded a lot more just like the other SX OS threads...

The SX hate train is actually the vocal minority. Notice how even in their own circle jerk 20 page blog posts their polls show support for TX.

 

[ghjfdtg]

This is a "NAND copy-paste hackjob".

 

[Bakugo]

No you can't remove the microSD before booting because in this scenario your emunand would live on microSD, and pulling it out would mean the system cannot boot.

EDIT: You're talking about booting OFW. Sorry, you're right. For OFW, you can always remove microSD. But then.. you'd never have microSD in OFW boot. That's really bad.

If you need to install OFW games on a microSD, you could just get a different one and use that. This is the price of avoiding bans. Still much better than having to restore nand backups.

 

[mowsie]

This is a "NAND copy-paste hackjob".

This twitter thread says the exact same thing op said albeit with a slight hint of bias.. what's your point?

 

[nWo]

Great work, boy. You actually took the bullet and looked inside the mouth of the wolf, instead of throw shit everywhere. Thank you. So, as far as I can tell, I can use the emunand without problems? Already have 2.0 on the SD.

 

[ghjfdtg]

This twitter thread says the exact same thing op said albeit with a slight hint of bias.. what's your point?

The point is they didn't even put much effort into it. This is just for the sake of beeing first to boost sales.

 

[Deleted User]

If that is how it works, I don't understand why they simply didn't add the option to create the files on the SD card, and why they added the GTP fix option, if they don't touch it...
Can we have a screenshot with the dimensions of the various NANDxx.bin, please?

Sure, here is my little analysis tool showing the contents of the USER partition (dumped from my Switch backup after emunand was created):

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

They could probably hide the NAND bin files inside the FAT table (just marked as used clusters), but it would need to store the starting cluster somewhere else where Ninty can't detect it.

In fact they probably could move all the meta data to microSD, and it would be for all intents and purposes undetectable.

I hope you're taking notes here TX!

 

[DJ-Yoshiman]

This detectable point is actually moot, because with EmuNAND stored on the microSD, Nintendo would be able to detect it too if they actively start to do so.

This part made me actually laugh out loud. It's very sad, meaning emunand just might not be a possibility for Switch for either some time, or at all. It is, however, hilarious, because the amount of people in the other topic bantering back and forth between SX users and free-solution users about this sort of thing was all pointless anyways.

 

[Slartibartfast42]

You could just remove the SD before going back to OFW to avoid this.

The game you want to play in ofw may need the sd card. So then you'd need two cards.

 

[Deleted User]

This part made me actually laugh out loud. It's very sad, meaning emunand just might not be a possibility for Switch for either some time, or at all. It is, however, hilarious, because the amount of people in the other topic bantering back and forth between SX users and free-solution users about this sort of thing was all pointless anyways.

Well 2 reasons:
1) Nintendo has never done so in the past, so why start now?
2) Even if Nintendo does start trying to detect it, it will be possible to circumvent it. And then Nintendo will need a new way to detect it and so forth. It'll turn into a cat and mouse game which Nintendo will lose and they probably know this

 

[Budderbandit]

Too bad SX 2.0 doesn't work on firmware 3.0 right now. Lazy Team Xecuter

 

[yadspi]

Need help...posting here as making a new thread is gonna fill up with TX haters. So I made an "emuNAND" everything works but for some reason the NES games and The Messenger wont boot, in OFW it says software error, in SX OS they try to load but the the same error, uninstalled both, reinstalled, nothing, redownloaded the NES games directly from Ninty, now they work in SX OS but not in OFW (it's legit as I have Online payed), The messenger just won't work (it's not legit). So Uninstalled "emuNAND", same thing.

Also autoRCM is broken, dunno if it's a SX OS 2.0 issue or my issue.

 

[ssrpgvita]

dumb question so if we make 15gb partition i only have 9gb left to install nsps?
so bigger partition u make less space u have install games or the more im confused

 

[whyyes]

dumb question so if we make 15gb partition i only have 9gb left to install nsps?
so bigger partition u make less space u have install games or the more im confused

You can install nsps on your sd card. You're not forced to install in that 9GB area.

 

[kkcheong]

No you can't remove the microSD before booting because in this scenario your emunand would live on microSD, and pulling it out would mean the system cannot boot.

EDIT: You're talking about booting OFW. Sorry, you're right. For OFW, you can always remove microSD. But then.. you'd never have microSD in OFW boot. That's really bad.

Then you swap in clean microSD in OFW.

 

[thaikhoa]

confirmed. "sysnand" partitions are exactly the same as before and after installing "emunand".
In "sysnand" it shows full nand size. So don't worry about NANDTotalSize telemetry.

only 2 files nand00.bin and nand01.bin are created.

I did install 5GB "emunand" it took about ~20-25 minutes.