Hacking Question Still on firmware 3.0 and 2.3

[mjones1175]

Here's my question, I currently have 2 switches that have never been used before. I bought them brand new and only opened them to check firmware. Is there any reason to stay on the lower firmware anymore? I've been meaning to hack at least one of these and never got around to it. Its been a few years of owning these and my daughter has expressed interest in playing a game online so any advice as to what I should do would be appreciated. Regardless I will update one so she can do so. Thanks in advance!

 

[Lacius]

If you are content with using the RCM exploit, then there's no reason not to update to 9.0.0. You can update while preserving fuses using something like ChoiDujourNX if you want to preserve the ability to downgrade. You could also use an updated emuNAND without updating your sysNAND.

 

[mjones1175]

If you are content with using the RCM exploit, then there's no reason not to update to 9.0.0. You can update while preserving fuses using something like ChoiDujourNX if you want to preserve the ability to downgrade. You could also use an updated emuNAND without updating your sysNAND.

Can you go online with an emunand? Think I’ve seen you can be banned.

 

[charlieb]

Sysnand for online and sysnand for homebrew.

That does mean an updated sysnand and blown fuses.

Better to have one clean online unit and one homebrew seeing as u have 2

 

[Lacius]

Can you go online with an emunand? Think I’ve seen you can be banned.

The safest setup is to use a clean sysNAND for online play and a dirty emuNAND for all hackery. You can connect your emuNAND to the internet, but you should install 90DNS and/or Incognito to it so the dirty emuNAND cannot connect to Nintendo's servers and get you banned.