Switch Hacking FAQ, Updated

trying to use emuMMC and failing hard. takes 5 mins to boot and it loves to freeze.on firmware 3.0 with a 256GB sd formatted fat 32. anything i might be doing wrong? i also cant seem to access the homebrew menu.

solved it. needs to be a partition on your sd card of 32GB in fat 32 with an alocation table of 32.

ok i've been trying to figure out how to not have my switch freeze while loading the homebrew menu.

 

I'm having a issue with retroarch crashing in the settings. I seen somewhere that I just gotta use full ram by using a title instead of album but it's not working spite me having the newest version of atmosphere it just opens the title

 

Okay, today I updated my Hekate/Atmosphere things to v15.6/v12.0, then tried to inject the payload. However, for the first time, I got the error:
"Error while injecting payload (RC=-50)"

What does this mean?

 

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so I'm a huge handheld guy and have been playing around with the idea of just buying the switch lite, I have no need for the dock, so I my question is do these hack methods work on the switch lite? thanks.

Sorry if it's been asked already.

 

So it is true then. I've been reading around since my post here, and it sounds like they not only remade the switch lite; well, lite - but also retooled the OS or something to that effect. Some have even said its a completely different OS, not sure how true that is though lol.

So curiosity, why hasn't the lite been hacked yet? I figured custom firmware would be have been up and running on the lite by now or at least easier to softmod then the switch.

Thanks for the help.

 

thank u

 

Great info! thank you!

 

Hello everyone, I need a little help updating my Switch OS...
Usually, I follow this:

It's been a while since I did it, so...
My FIRMWARE folder already has files in it. Do I delete those files or add to it with the new files?
I also have a folder called UPDATE, I don't remember what that one is for.
I'm on SX OS 3.0.4
I'm trying to update Switch OS to 10.1.0 via ChoiDuJour

Thanks in advance.

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Thanks!!

 

Thanks to everyone contributing to this thread - so much useful information to be found here!

 

i installed cfw on my switch but it got updated accidently to 10.1.0 does this mean my cfw will no longer work?

 

Similar problem here. I was on FW 9.X when I first ran Atmosphere. I was not very carefull and got banned a few weeks later but I could still play offline and I have a second switch to play online. I thought as long as games don't need a newer FW, I just don't update and keep my config as is. Now my kids accidently updated to FW 10.1.0 and games no longer boot. Any advice?

 

The exploit used by unpatched consoles relies on a hardware vulnerability. In other words, the firmware is irrelevant. CFW however needs to be updated to support the newer firmware versions.

Try using the latest version of ReiNX.

 

Thanks. I tried ReiNX. The switch does not start when I inject the Reinx.bin. I prepared the SD card. When I inject another payload with Tecra, it wants to boot REINX but gives an error about an outdated version of some sort.
I tried deleting all folders except the Nintendo and then it does not even boot to the error whatever payload I select.
Very annoying and frustrating all this.
I also tried sigpatches for 10.1.0 I found in an older post, nope, same error about network functions unavailable.
I might be doing something wrong, it all changes so fast.

EDIT: Managed to get it to work after re-initializing my switch, formatting and following the guide for Atmosphere. Any tips on getting my old saves? I still have the old files on the SD card.

 

Thank you so much! alot of helpful information!