Restore our old Switch saves

[Grianfan90]

I dropped our old Switch into too much water. My fault. But, I was the only one with Switch Online, so I'm the only one with any old save data. The thing is, I still have the memory board from the old one, but basically no info from it other than the fact that I wouldn't have been able to softmod it because it was one of the most recent models. If anyone knows how to get our old saves back, or how to find a place that can, I'd much appreciate it.

 

[thesjaakspoiler]

Get a USB to emmc adapter from Aliexpress.
Then you should be able to mount it on a PC with hacmountdisk.
There should be a USER partition which contains your account(s) and that is where your save files are.
On the new Switch, you can import those files with all kinds of homebrew tools.

 

[master801]

It's gone unless you can fix the Switch it came out of.

You need the keys from the console (they're per-console keys) in order to decrypt the eMMC.

If it were the other way around, the eMMC being broken and having no previous backup, you could use a modchip to get it booting with a new eMMC but forever have to use it offline since it's no longer a valid console.

This is a stupidly complicated method, but if you can find someone that can transplant the SoC from the broken Switch -assuming the SoC is still fine- to a working donor board, you would be able to dump the keys and decrypt the eMMC. Or just use it as-is lol