Questions about setting up an SD card

[Gorkensnorkel]

Hey, its been a while and I am trying to set up a new SD card for my OLED switch that is chipped with HWFLY.

1. I see HATS is taken down. Is there another location its hosted? Or an alternative for a CFW pack/download? Someone recommended rentry.org but it seems fairly technical compared some of the other guides, having me make a bunch of ini files that should just be downloadable. Also, it doesn't go over backing up your nand and prod keys, etc. Is this what everyone is using?

2. Should I update to 18.0 or 17.1?

3. What is Erista?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

[thesjaakspoiler]

1. s this what everyone is using?
I don't use any package like HATS.
Just Hekate and Atmosphere work fine.
Whatever you do, make a backup of your keys.
With those you should be able to recover your Switch if everything goes wrong.
A full NAND + keys backup would be better.

2. Should I update to 18.0 or 17.1?
Depends if everything is working fine or not. Usually pirates upgrade because of the minimum version requirements for certain pieces of software they obtain in a less legal way.
If you're fine with your current version, no need to update because it won't make your Switch 5 times faster.
Most firmware updates now are rather minor updates.

3. What is Erista?
That is the second generation Switch models like the Lite and the OLED.
Mariko was the first batch op Switch models that were hackable without anything like a hwfly/picofly.

 

[Deleted member 702243]

3. What is Erista?
That is the second generation Switch models like the Lite and the OLED.
Mariko was the first batch op Switch models that were hackable without anything like a hwfly/picofly.

Other way around

Erista is switch v1 soc, there are patched and unpatched units

Mariko is v2 and lite soc, more efficient in power consumption. oled is also mariko

 

[Gorkensnorkel]

1. s this what everyone is using?
I don't use any package like HATS.
Just Hekate and Atmosphere work fine.
Whatever you do, make a backup of your keys.
With those you should be able to recover your Switch if everything goes wrong.
A full NAND + keys backup would be better.

The "keys" are just prod keys right? I forgot how to dump title keys.