Hello! I'm hoping to be pointed in the right direction. I know this is probably been covered at length in many places but I'm having problems getting started. I bought a v1 switch with a sxos modchip several years ago, not sure what I have exactly, but I can hold Volume+ Power to start SXOS 3.0.5, which boots into emunand.
I have a 512GB microSD card with an Emutendo folder that's 32G, but I also have a sxos folder so I'm not exactly sure if I have the filesystem emunand vs hidden partition emunand. When people say hidden partition are they referring to the disk level partition you can see in a partition manager? Because I don't see that.
I run MacOS so if I make any changes to the sd card I have to run the following commands otherwise I get a black screen after the SXOS screen.
What's strange is I see that in DiskUtility it shows my TXNAND sd card as Windows_NTFS. I was not expecting that. The SD card I'm using is really cluttered and I want to start fresh. It looks like there are failed artifacts from when I messed with it before: several years ago before I upgraded SXOS successfully I thought I needed atmosphere so there are a bunch of atmosphere artifacts floating around.
I think I can save my saved games. I've also backed up my XCIs. I'm curious how I backup the installed games, or I guess maybe I don't need to if they're available again in the hbg shop.
I want to keep OFW untouched and run atmosphere in CFW (holding Volume+ Power to boot into it). It looks like I have access to SXOS boot menu so I can do things like CREATE EmuNAND and Delete EmuNAND though I'm a hesitant to start messing around here since I don't have a dongle or jig; not sure if I need them.
So, I want to set up a fresh 512gb micro sd with atmosphere. I don't think I need to dual boot sxos vs atmosphere but I guess it would be nice to maybe go back to SXOS if I wanted to mess around with it. Do I need to use hekate to make a new emunand and point the sxos loader to that?
I have several other homebrew consoles I set up myself but I need a little help with this one. Thanks!
EDIT: my current CFW SXOS version is 10.2.0
I have a 512GB microSD card with an Emutendo folder that's 32G, but I also have a sxos folder so I'm not exactly sure if I have the filesystem emunand vs hidden partition emunand. When people say hidden partition are they referring to the disk level partition you can see in a partition manager? Because I don't see that.
I run MacOS so if I make any changes to the sd card I have to run the following commands otherwise I get a black screen after the SXOS screen.
Bash:
dot_clean -m /Volumes/TXNAND/
sudo chflags -R arch /Volumes/TXNAND/
sudo chflags -R noarch /Volumes/TXNAND/Nintendo/
What's strange is I see that in DiskUtility it shows my TXNAND sd card as Windows_NTFS. I was not expecting that. The SD card I'm using is really cluttered and I want to start fresh. It looks like there are failed artifacts from when I messed with it before: several years ago before I upgraded SXOS successfully I thought I needed atmosphere so there are a bunch of atmosphere artifacts floating around.
I think I can save my saved games. I've also backed up my XCIs. I'm curious how I backup the installed games, or I guess maybe I don't need to if they're available again in the hbg shop.
I want to keep OFW untouched and run atmosphere in CFW (holding Volume+ Power to boot into it). It looks like I have access to SXOS boot menu so I can do things like CREATE EmuNAND and Delete EmuNAND though I'm a hesitant to start messing around here since I don't have a dongle or jig; not sure if I need them.
So, I want to set up a fresh 512gb micro sd with atmosphere. I don't think I need to dual boot sxos vs atmosphere but I guess it would be nice to maybe go back to SXOS if I wanted to mess around with it. Do I need to use hekate to make a new emunand and point the sxos loader to that?
I have several other homebrew consoles I set up myself but I need a little help with this one. Thanks!
EDIT: my current CFW SXOS version is 10.2.0
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