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...

Nintendo switch 15v 0a not turning on

Ob3l1x

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Aug 30, 2023

Hi all,

I have one nintendo switch that had short on emmc (2 caps where shorted) i've removed nand chip reballed and solder back and short is now gone. But switch is still not turning on. There is no short on board (i've checked all caps near m92t36 also p13, max+ ic's, bq, ....everything looks fine. I've also made backup of boot0, boot1 and rawnand with mmbcklnx board.

When i connect only board (no battery) i'm getting 15v and 0a (sometime it jumps to 0,025a)

When i connect battery it takes 15v and 0,4a stable (but there is nothing on the screen)

I take off cpu shield and find out there is one cap on the cpu in the bottom left corner shorted all other caps on cpu are ok

Does anyone have any suggestion what should i check next ?

Thank you

Post automatically merged: Aug 30, 2023

I've connected switch to windows pc but the is no sign that it's in RCM so i expect that it isn't

Last edited by Ob3l1x, Aug 30, 2023