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[Gobracket]

hi,

Currently I’m using my switch in ofw. And probably will install the cfw in the future.

In that condition, what if I run rcm only to backup my nand, will i got flagged/banned by nintendo?

Is it necessary or it is just a dumb idea?

 

[lordelan]

Excuse me. I know it is bad to use exfat, That is why I am using a 64gb sd card formated to Fat32. My question is : is it also bad to have the exfat switch support update installed and use a Fat32 sd card?

No there's no real downside to it. It's like having drivers for 3 different printers on your Windows PC although you're just using one of them.

I will receive my SX Pro in the mail by next week. I wonder wether there is a detailed tutorial floating around somewhere, that instructs what to do. I read you should backup NAND first.. but honestly... while I am fully aware on how to perform this on a Wii U and a 3DS, I have no idea in regard to the switch. Do you have any ideas on where to start? I am reading about "fuses" all the time.. no idea what that is either. Thx!

Well using SX Pro is pretty easy and it's written on their website: https://sx.xecuter.com/#usage
However I really recommend doing a NAND backup first.
Put hekate on your SD card (along your SX OS files). While booting with Jig and SX Pro hold down VOL+ and you should end up in SX OS' boot menu. From there choose "options" and "launch payload". Then load hekate. After that do a NAND backup from there.
It's the first two options in the backup menu in hekate. One is for BOOT and the other for a full raw nand dump. The first one takes a few seconds, the other around 1 or 2 hours. Be sure to go through both of them.

Fuses are burnt the more, the higher FW you're on. A burned fuse cannot be "unburned". So if there's too many fuses burnt and you try to launch an older firmware, your Switch won't boot ... but only if you boot it the "normal" way (without any payloads/hacks/CFW/homebrew/whatever). The stock bootloader is the "guy" who does the fuse checking (and the fuse burning in case it's needed).
To prevent that guy from doing anything you can skip him aka lock him completely out your house by using hekate to boot.
With hekate you can boot into CFW or original firmware (stock) but it never does the fuse check.
To update to newer firmwares without burning fuses, use ChoiDujourNX.

Do you still need a lakka for retroarch still? I've been avoiding it with the whole battery issues that it brings.

No you don't. It still has some benefits like PSP (as far as I know) but the RetroArch homebrew is at a pretty well state now so use that instead.
I'd like to mention though that the battery issue has been fixed for ages. Potential screen burns and no audio (without bluetooth) are the only bad things left on lakka.

Hey-- made an account just to ask this question.

So, I'm currently running a copy of RajNX on stock FW 5.1.0. (For pirating Smash early.) I had updated to 6.1.0 prior, so i had to backup my NAND and force backdate and all, won't boot w/o TegraRCM, etc.

I was wondering if it would be feasible to delete pirated content on my switch + SD card, boot into Stock FW instead of CFW, and update to latest firmware? Would this cause a brick and/or ban?

Alternatively; My GF and I have 2 switches between us-- lots of modding seems to be on 5.1.0 and I am definitely still interested in modding my system. Would it be best to leave mine modded, and just play stock games on the other?

Thanks in advance for helping my dumb gay ass!

If you're lucky enough to have two Switches, keep one unhacked and the other hacked (and never go online with the hacked one).
There's no garantuee you won't get banned with a Switch where you did any CFW related things with. That's why it would have been wise to make a NAND backup before you even started hacking.
However, once the emunand feature of Atmosphère comes out a "hacked Switch" might be usable for both, hacking and going online with a stock firmware.

What happens if you install a 6.2 required game or update to your switch? Will it update the switch or harm it in any way? Or will the game itself just don't strart?

Worst thing is the game won't start but it won't install a FW update unless you're booting into XCIs using SX OS that contain a FW update but even then you would be asked to do it and can cancel out that popup window.

hi,

Currently I’m using my switch in ofw. And probably will install the cfw in the future.

In that condition, what if I run rcm only to backup my nand, will i got flagged/banned by nintendo?

Is it necessary or it is just a dumb idea?

It's the best idea you could come up with before (!) you plan anything else with it.
Doing things from hekate like a NAND backup shouldn't touch your log files at all so give it a go.

 

[brickmii82]

Hey guys just hacked my switch today on Reinx, Im using the latest nightly of reinx.
I have updated the switch via choidujournx to 6.0.0-5.0, I allowed the switch to format my 128 gb exfat sd card.
I now have the issue where I cannot launch the homebrew menu on albums after booting into Reinx anymore.
I keep trying to launch albums and it just shows screenshots
No idea what Im doing wrong.

Delete the screenshots and make sure you have the 010000000000100D folder and files in the correct location. Should be in SD:ReiNX/titles/(folder goes here) iirc.

 

[chaos447]

Having issues with my SX OS going into sleep mode. I have AutoRCM set to off, btw.

Whenever my Switch goes to sleep mode on its own, the light stays on but it's just a black screen. Nothing works, so I have to shut down.

Also, whenever I'm in docked mode and I turn my TV off, the same thing happens. Am I doing something wrong or is this a regular bug?

I'd like to point out that manually going into sleep mode doesn't have this issue, and that the issue persists with the TV even when auto sleep is turned off.

 

[brickmii82]

Having issues with my SX OS going into sleep mode. I have AutoRCM set to off, btw.

Whenever my Switch goes to sleep mode on its own, the light stays on but it's just a black screen. Nothing works, so I have to shut down.

Also, whenever I'm in docked mode and I turn my TV off, the same thing happens. Am I doing something wrong or is this a regular bug?

I'd like to point out that manually going into sleep mode doesn't have this issue, and that the issue persists with the TV even when auto sleep is turned off.

Are you on 6.2 OFW?

 

[chaos447]

Are you on 6.2 OFW?

No. I think it's the one before 6.1

 

[brickmii82]

No. I think it's the one before 6.1

Are you on the latest stable version of SX? How long has this been happening? Was anything changed? Can you remember doing anything different?

 

[chaos447]

Are you on the latest stable version of SX? How long has this been happening? Was anything changed? Can you remember doing anything different?

Yes. It's been happening so long as I can remember. I never really used my Switch in dock mode until recently when Smash came out. Now I see that it's an issue.

 

[Hevu]

I'm on a somewhat peculiar situation I think, sorry for the potential wall of text.

So, a bit of a background: I'm only interested on hacking my Switch because Checkpoint, which has saved my ass multiple times on the 3DS side, exists. I'm not paying for NSO because I rarely play online and cloud saving is useless for me because it doesn't support the only game I'm interested in keeping a backup save of. (yes, it's Pokémon) Switch crashed a few days ago and couldn't get it to boot for a while, but managed to eventually. I've been considering the idea of hacking it since, and even ordered a jig in case I decide to go through. So here are my questions:

-Is it possible to chainload homebrew without going full-blown CFW? Something like going into RCM > hekate > Checkpoint or something similar.
-Failing that, any way to stealthly load homebrew, like Rosalina on 3DS?
-Failing THAT... Could I do something like, load CFW while offline (I'd probably go with Atmosphère, if it matters), use Checkpoint, reboot, and load OFW online?

I'd only use Checkpoint and sporadically, so I'd like to still be able to go online and be able to use the eShop. How much of a ban risk would the last point be?

Sorry if any of this sounds stupid and/or flat out impossible; I've been out of the loop and I'm still trying to catch up.

 

[brickmii82]

Yes. It's been happening so long as I can remember. I never really used my Switch in dock mode until recently when Smash came out. Now I see that it's an issue.

Yes that’s certainly a concerning bug. I’ve heard of the broken sleep mode from the 6.2 update, but I can’t say I’ve heard of problems in anything lower. I’d assume there’s some corruption on the SX files or you’re missing something.

 

[chaos447]

Yes that’s certainly a concerning bug. I’ve heard of the broken sleep mode from the 6.2 update, but I can’t say I’ve heard of problems in anything lower. I’d assume there’s some corruption on the SX files or you’re missing something.

I've been updating from Wi-Fi. You think that has to do with it?

 

[brickmii82]

I've been updating from Wi-Fi. You think that has to do with it?

I suppose it’s possible, but I couldn’t say for sure. If it’s not the 6.2 CFW break, I’d just try reinstalling SX or reverting to a previous version. Also, you mean updating SX right? Not updating the OFW?

 

[chaos447]

I suppose it’s possible, but I couldn’t say for sure. If it’s not the 6.2 CFW break, I’d just try reinstalling SX or reverting to a previous version. Also, you mean updating SX right? Not updating the OFW?

My OFW is on 6.1. I just checked.

SX OS has the system FW at 5.1.0

 

[brickmii82]

My OFW is on 6.1. I just checked.

SX OS has the system FW at 5.1.0

Ok I think I know what your issue is. You’re using emunand on 5.1 for SX, but your OFW is 6.1 so the wake up fusecheck isn’t correct. You’ll have to get the system FW in SX to be on 6.1 also. Not sure how to do that but I’d bet it’ll fix your problem. That’s my guess.

 

[chaos447]

Ok I think I know what your issue is. You’re using emunand on 5.1 for SX, but your OFW is 6.1 so the wake up fusecheck isn’t correct. You’ll have to get the system FW in SX to be on 6.1 also. Not sure how to do that but I’d bet it’ll fix your problem. That’s my guess.

Yeah I'm not sure how to do that either lol

 

[brickmii82]

Yeah I'm not sure how to do that either lol

I’m fairly certain it’ll be with ChoiDujourNX but you’ll have to google around, and I’d suggest checking TX’s forum for any stickies on updating procedures for SX with emunand.

 

[dreambottle]

Can hekate 4.2 make and restore a NAND backup on 6.2 OFW? I have a new switch with OFW 4.1, not sure what exactly 6.2 breaks and if it is worth updating it.

Also, is there any data I should dump from RCM mode, before upgrading to 6.2 OFW, which won't be accessible any more? What else may I regret if I update? I want to experiment with romhacking/homebrew, but it would be nice to have a clean system with online play working, when I need it.

 

[brickmii82]

Can hekate 4.2 make and restore a NAND backup on 6.2 OFW? I have a new switch with OFW 4.1, not sure what exactly 6.2 breaks and if it is worth updating it.

Also, is there any data I should dump from RCM mode, before upgrading to 6.2 OFW, which won't be accessible any more? What else may I regret if I update? I want to experiment with romhacking/homebrew, but it would be nice to have a clean system with online play working, when I need it.

Hekate can still dump/restore nands on 6.2, however keygen was altered and the update broke sleep mode along with burning an efuse in the processor for security checks. What got broken was sleep mode. It won’t wake up with SXOS or ReiNX.

At the moment, the only compatible CFW is Atmosphere 0.8x for 6.2 OFW.

I’d suggest just using 6.1 at the most as there are no games that require 6.2 that I know of.

When you do get into hekate, back up rawnand, and boot 0/1.

 

[SilvaZoldyck]

Do i need to do the full nand back if I. dont have any content on my switch? Because im currently doing it and its taking insanely long. Using a 16g micro sd so I assume it will have to fill up twice. Already 90min in and its only at 10%, dont know if its possible to cancel it.

 

[brickmii82]

Do i need to do the full nand back if I. dont have any content on my switch? Because im currently doing it and its taking insanely long. Using a 16g micro sd so I assume it will have to fill up twice. Already 90min in and its only at 10%, dont know if its possible to cancel it.

Yes. Not backing up the necessary files will most likely bite you in the ass at some point. Backup the rawnand and boot 0/1. You could be holding a 300$ paperweight by not following these steps.