Hacking [HOW TO] Successfully downgrade from 7.0.1 to 6.2

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I did the downgrade from 7.0.0. to 6.2.0. without factory reset and everything worked perfectly. Why is it strongly advised?
I still did not power off the switch since I downgraded and now I'm planning to create EmuNAND 6.2.0. and then restore my NAND backup from before the downgrade to avoid any more fuses getting burned.

when downgrading there are thing that can mess up if you don't. I've seen mixed cases with 7.0.x down to 6.2 of working and not working
 

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Ok so at least I've been a lucky fool...
but creating EmuNAND on 6.2. and restoring NAND backup with 7.0.0. to sysnand should work?
 

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I'm on 6.2 system nand.I wanna play 7.0.1 games.should I backup my nand and make a emunand for 7.0.1 I have sxos.what'd you suggest I do thanks.
 

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I'm on 6.2 system nand.I wanna play 7.0.1 games.should I backup my nand and make a emunand for 7.0.1 I have sxos.what'd you suggest I do thanks.
install and ignore firmware version should work for most of them, right now there are about half a dozen that require it. but if so then yes
 

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Yeah I see your point.7.0.1 isn't fully established.I found out tho that games like blaster Master zero 2 and a couple others force you to update to 7.0.1 plus if I do the emunand do I gotta transfer the save files or will almost everything work?
 

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Yeah I see your point.7.0.1 isn't fully established.I found out tho that games like blaster Master zero 2 and a couple others force you to update to 7.0.1 plus if I do the emunand do I gotta transfer the save files or will almost everything work?
You can ignore the firmware requirement when installing, though that won't work if the game actually uses 7.x encryption.
When you make an emuNAND everything is transferred, but it uses a different folder "Emutendo" on the SD card, so you have to copy/rename the Nintendo folder for it to be recognized in emuNAND. What most people do with SX is just use the emuNAND for CFW and leave the sysNAND untouched.
If you have a clean NAND backup I suggest restoring it to your sysNAND after you set up emuNAND that way you can have a clean legit NAND for online.
 

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Yeah the game I'm trying to play (blaster Master zero 2) gives me only 2 choices update or close.I know most games will give you the three options but I have came across a game that did the same thing when I was on 5.1 then I was stuck with 6.2 and couldn't use it for weeks till xecuter fixed it.

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Im.on 6.2 now and I never backed up my nand file.how much space does the nand require I forgot and If switch over to emunand after backing up how do you safely update the emunand?? Do you just update thought the Nintendo update?? Like a regular update or do you have to update it A different way??I remember 3ds you would just update emunand using the Nintendo servers.
 

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Yeah the game I'm trying to play (blaster Master zero 2) gives me only 2 choices update or close.I know most games will give you the three options but I have came across a game that did the same thing when I was on 5.1 then I was stuck with 6.2 and couldn't use it for weeks till xecuter fixed it.

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Im.on 6.2 now and I never backed up my nand file.how much space does the nand require I forgot and If switch over to emunand after backing up how do you safely update the emunand?? Do you just update thought the Nintendo update?? Like a regular update or do you have to update it A different way??I remember 3ds you would just update emunand using the Nintendo servers.

nand backup is ~29gb

backup nand
create emunand from current sysnand
boot emunand
update emunand?

Pretty sure thats the process
 

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nand backup is ~29gb

backup nand
create emunand from current sysnand
boot emunand
update emunand?

Pretty sure thats the process

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Thanks for your help!I will do this later on.im gonna use another sd card since I have my game data backed up "thanks to corrupted micro sd card from doing cheat searches".ill let you know how everything goes later thanks
 

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I'm gonna try it.I tried YouTube but it seems allot of the stuff on the games that are for 7.0.1 to work on 6.2 videos are in a different language bummer
 

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