Hey everyone, a newbie here in the switch hacking scene.
I have setup my unpatched switch with the latest Atmosphere 0.19.1 (as of writing this question, 2021-04-29), hekate and with an emunand running 11.0.1 by following this guide: https://switch.homebrew.guide
11.0.1 Sigpatch has been applied by using Awoo installer too.
I have tried installing some NSPs and was glad some are working as expected.
Now unto the question:
1) I found out some NSPs, without updating with the latest firmware, will not run.
It will show a message saying Software could not be executed. Please return to Home menu and retry again, or somewhere along that line.
From this, is it safe to assume higher firmware does not necessarily mean we could run NSPs which require lower firmware? (non-backward compatible?)
Eg: NSPs such as Pokemon Lets Go Pikachu requires 8.1.0. Such basically, I will have to downgrade my emunand to 8.1.0, together with my sigpatch, in order to run NSPs like this case?
2) I have done some research and it some threads pointed to DevMenu. Is that something which is required for the above cases? Is everyone else using that tool to "bypass" such firmware checks?
3) I have read Tinfoil seems to have some sort of function which allows the bypassing of "soft" firmware check. As mentioned, I am using Hekate and it seems Tinfoil does not support it, so I am out of option on this/ I would prefer the analog way of transferring NSPs through USB using ns-usbloader. Is Tinfoil the only way to achieve what was mentioned for my first point?
Sorry for all the newbie questions, and thank you all, the community, for building such great forum to bring the common interests of minds together in place.
I have setup my unpatched switch with the latest Atmosphere 0.19.1 (as of writing this question, 2021-04-29), hekate and with an emunand running 11.0.1 by following this guide: https://switch.homebrew.guide
11.0.1 Sigpatch has been applied by using Awoo installer too.
I have tried installing some NSPs and was glad some are working as expected.
Now unto the question:
1) I found out some NSPs, without updating with the latest firmware, will not run.
It will show a message saying Software could not be executed. Please return to Home menu and retry again, or somewhere along that line.
From this, is it safe to assume higher firmware does not necessarily mean we could run NSPs which require lower firmware? (non-backward compatible?)
Eg: NSPs such as Pokemon Lets Go Pikachu requires 8.1.0. Such basically, I will have to downgrade my emunand to 8.1.0, together with my sigpatch, in order to run NSPs like this case?
2) I have done some research and it some threads pointed to DevMenu. Is that something which is required for the above cases? Is everyone else using that tool to "bypass" such firmware checks?
3) I have read Tinfoil seems to have some sort of function which allows the bypassing of "soft" firmware check. As mentioned, I am using Hekate and it seems Tinfoil does not support it, so I am out of option on this/ I would prefer the analog way of transferring NSPs through USB using ns-usbloader. Is Tinfoil the only way to achieve what was mentioned for my first point?
Sorry for all the newbie questions, and thank you all, the community, for building such great forum to bring the common interests of minds together in place.