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...

I tried updating and now I get an error

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Alright guys, I'm not an expert on this, just an old guy trying to play some games.
I originally had SXOS and upgraded to atmosphere when that died, everything was working fine for awhile but I haven't touched my switch in awhile. I tried installing Zelda and it had installation errors through dbi which left an empty game icon with an endless loading circle. I wanted to just do a fresh install (I don't have any saves/games I care about).

-I formatted my SD card, 128GB. The youtube guy did exFAT and I remember something about needing fat32. Is this still the case? How should the card be formatted?
-In the root I put atmosphere 1.5.3
-In the root I put hekate_ctcaer_6.0.4_Nyx_1.5.3
-I copied the sigpatches to the root and replaced files when prompted. Hekate+AMS-package3-sigpatches-1.5.4-cfw-16.0.3
-I kept a copy of hekate_ctcaer_6.0.4.bin to boot
-I put fusee.bin in the bootloader > payloads

If I boot I see the atmosphere logo and then it goes into the menu. When I try to boot from fusee I get a black screen of critical error.

Can you tell me what steps I might have missed or what I did wrong?

I appreciate any feedback and thank you.

I tried updating and now I get an error

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