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Some information that needs to be addressed:

• SX OS and Atmosphere now supports proper LayeredFS, instructions for using it has changed since this tutorial was made
• Supported Firmware information is out of date
• LFSKit needs to be updated to properly support non 5.x.x firmware
• Compatability chart needs to be re-made

-PRAGMA

WARNING

• DO NOT GO ONLINE WHEN DOING THIS (YOU WILL BE BANNED)

How to use LayeredFS for Backup Loading

Firmware Supported: ONLY 5.x.x
Use the PRAGMA LFS Kit below.

PRAGMA's LFS Kit

DOWNLOAD
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• Go from NOTHING in your SD Card to playing a game backup in a few clicks!
• Decrypt .XCI -> romfs/exefs folder with main.nmpd auto edited aswell as folder's name auto renamed to donor titleid
• Download NOTHING except LFSKit!

ENJOY!

Picking a Donor Title and getting Donor TitleIDRunning Game Backups!

1. 
   
   1. A donor title is the application we will run to open the backup.
      Pick a game you don't care about (Download a Demo or a free game from eShop, for example Octopath Demo)
      saves are something no one knows much about, we don't fully know where or how they are stored.
      They might overwrite the donor titles save, so seriously pick a game you DONT care about, not a game you rarely play.
      
      
   2. I also recommend picking a donor title/game combo that has been tested and reported working just so you know if YOU did something wrong or not.
   3. Find the TitleID of the donor title you chose from http://nswdb.com or http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=Title_list/Games
      Region must be the same, choose the TitleID for the base-game NOT for the update title, even if your updated.
2. 
   
   1. Once again, boot into Hekate-IPL (Step 1).
   2. Enter "Launch firmware" and select "RomFS".
   3. Your now in your system's home menu.
   4. Open the Donor Title you set the TitleID of on that folder and .npmd file earlier.
   5. The game will load up flawlessly.
      If you opened the Title lets say, Fortnite, and Fortnite booted, the titleid of the folder in sd:/atmosphere/titles/{fortnitetitleid} doesnt exist, or doesnt start with 0100.
      If it gives you an error screen, either you didnt edit the main.npmd properly, or its an incompatible title/donor combo.
   To see which games work and which dont using which donor titles, look below.
   If you notice that you used a combination of Game and Donor title that isnt in the list below, post in the thread and I will add it. (look under to see what I need to add to chart).
   

Troubleshooting

• Black Screen/Infinitely Loading
  Leave it for around 5 minutes then press the home button and go back into the game without closing it. Often this can do the job.
• Freeze when Loading
  Close the game and try again, its a common occurence, you may have to try up to 4-5 times before getting it to work, sometimes you may even have to reboot between retries.

 

[Stoned]

my save for odyssey is 19.3mb

Thanks.

 

[d4nielr]

Thanks.

19.2mb sorry just checked again thats even whenyou start a new game, so it must be the size of all saves

 

[maruuu07]

Can someone test Xenoblade Chronicals 2 with Rocket League as Donor?
A friend told me he got it to work.

 

[RAGEMODE]

i have some tiltles id i can't find, how do you get theses title ids ? the sites given aren't complete.

world of goo downloaded game
snipperclips downloaded game (i have tried the ids given on the sites not the same obviously)
lost sphere demo
robonauts demo
nine parchments demo
the bridge demo
dragon quest builder demo
green game downloaded game
panpan downloaded game


all that in european console

Robonauts Demo 010005d0079f8000

 

[AlphaSapphire]

your all gonna get banned

 

[maruuu07]

your all gonna get banned

Oh nooooo, how ever am i gonna play Fortite online again

 

[AlphaSapphire]

Oh nooooo, how ever am i gonna play Fortite online again

wait so what ever title you use to play u cant use it online

 

[Zumoly]

wait so what ever title you use to play u cant use it online

And you will get banned for only coming here

 

[Deleted User]

your all gonna get banned

Might as well do myself a favour and not have to pay $20 a month

 

[Indariver]

Might as well do myself a favour and not have to pay $20 a month

It's $20 per year but imo still not worth

 

[Sandmann]

Donor (all Demos) - Game - ID
*Fortnite: Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze - 010025400AECE000
*Pokemon Quest: Kirby Star Allies - 01005D100807A000
*Fallout Shelter: Bayonetta 2 - 010043500A17A000
*Disgaea 5 Complete: Schlag den Star - 0100E67003A86000
*VOEZ Demo: Little Nightmares - 01008D00062C2000
*Oceanhorn: Monopoly - 010090B005150000
*Happy Birthday Demo: Max The Curse of Brotherhood - 010069700AF9C000

All Save works

 

[d4nielr]

hs anyone figured out why some games just crash and dont boot yet? surely there must be a way to get games to boot on any title... like when i run skyrim it crashes with donor mario od but thts only when you make a new save file... so it must be something to do with save files maybe?

 

[Zumoly]

hs anyone figured out why some games just crash and dont boot yet? surely there must be a way to get games to boot on any title... like when i run skyrim it crashes with donor mario od but thts only when you make a new save file... so it must be something to do with save files maybe?

If you don't delete the save for the first time this might happen. Always delete the save.

 

[d4nielr]

If you don't delete the save for the first time this might happen. Always delete the save.

i deleted my save still did the same thing unfortunately.

 

[chowyunfatt]

I think there is a bit more going on with the backups.
Had DDKTF running yesterday with fortnite, created a new user with no nintendo account. I couldn't start the game full stop, probably because it's online only? I tried another online account and it launched even tho Im in airplane mode so the game is only starting with a nintendo account.

I've had my switch in sleep mode over night and tried launching fortnite again to start DK and it just black screens, yesterday it was working fine, today black screen and I haven't touched any files and I'm still in CFW
EDIT: just reset switch and back into cfw, DK boots straight away. Wont start without a online associated account tho.

 

[Zumoly]

The premise is that you are only allowed to launch One (1) game per reboot with LayeredFS.
If you launch the donor game and quit then try to launch your console might crash or experience the black screen you're describing.
So after launching a title, if you want to launch another one (or even do homebrew) you'll have to reboot!

I think there is a bit more going on with the backups.
Had DDKTF running yesterday with fortnite, created a new user with no nintendo account. I couldn't start the game full stop, probably because it's online only? I tried another online account and it launched even tho Im in airplane mode so the game is only starting with a nintendo account.

I've had my switch in sleep mode over night and tried launching fortnite again to start DK and it just black screens, yesterday it was working fine, today black screen and I haven't touched any files and I'm still in CFW

 

[bodyXY]

Hey All

i create a tutarial in German, for beginners (for everyone),

for a english version is my english to bad

 

[d4nielr]

so according to someone on discord the games sometimes dont work because there not the same SDK as the donor game? so if we changed the sdk could this work? hm.

 

[Lunatics]

The premise is that you are only allowed to launch One (1) game per reboot with LayeredFS.
If you launch the donor game and quit then try to launch your console might crash or experience the black screen you're describing.
So after launching a title, if you want to launch another one (or even do homebrew) you'll have to reboot!

I have found that I can launch EACH of my games once before the system crashes. IE, boot it up, decide to play Donkey Kong so I launch that first, play it for an hour or two and decide I want to play skyrim, so I quit DK and I launch Skyrim (Fallout Shelter and Pinball FX3 respectively) and have no issues, play skyrim for a couple hours. System will go to sleep wake up no issues etc. If I then go back and try to quit skyrim and go to Donkey Kong, that is when the system crashes. I think you can play multiple games, but you can only launch each game once per boot (currently anyway) which is not a huge huge deal but can get a little annoying.

 

[Zumoly]

I have found that I can launch EACH of my games once before the system crashes. IE, boot it up, decide to play Donkey Kong so I launch that first, play it for an hour or two and decide I want to play skyrim, so I quit DK and I launch Skyrim (Fallout Shelter and Pinball FX3 respectively) and have no issues, play skyrim for a couple hours. System will go to sleep wake up no issues etc. If I then go back and try to quit skyrim and go to Donkey Kong, that is when the system crashes. I think you can play multiple games, but you can only launch each game once per boot (currently anyway) which is not a huge huge deal but can get a little annoying.

Yeah! Maybe will be sorted out once layeredFS is ironed out from all bugs.