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...

My switch is stuck on safe mode now won't absolutely Turn on

Robmane77

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Apr 4, 2020

Hey guys so basically I've been working on my nintendo switch for months now just got back to it so basically weeks back none of the CFW worked on switch tried dongle, tergra software, and now my buddy recommended this guy and we would do it over a safe mode so now for my switch to boot up I would need Tegra to send it. But basically at this point every CFW on safe mode that he had made sent to me none of them loaded everything was a error code and he had made so many of them that he just eventually gave up and now I don't know what to do cuz my switch is now forever on safe mode. Like at this point is there just a way to just go back to normal reset everything or is there. Way to fix this I have searched more months got help from people nothing worked . I hope now that I have let couple months passed maybe something would work now?

thanks so guys
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