Why is that? Is the Switch unhackable permanently or do the ones doing the CFW not care to do one? Leaving in sleep mode is no good option because then you need to babysit the battery. The tethering is a serious PITA too. I also don't care about online so that isn't an issue.

 

Okay so I was on OFW 1.0.0 only showing 1 fuse blown.. perfectly fine.
Installed SXOS 2.5.2 but every time I booted to CFW.. it would make it to the dashboard and crash with an error 2254-0006. So i only assumed some issue with 1.0.0 and SXOS 2.5.2 must be amuck. So rebooted back into SXOS Config and made me a emuNAND and enabled it.. was still unable to boot without crashing to error..

Went and found an older version of SXOS 2.2 that allowed me to boot..( keep in mind I enabled emuNAND on 2.5.2) so I booted up on SXOS 2.2 on OFW sysnand.. great! So I ran through choiDujourNX to update to 6.20.. enabled AutoRCM.. rebooted and could not get back into the OS. Come to find out I choiDujourNX updated my OFW to 6.20.. because when I loaded up 2.2 instead of 2.5.2 the emuNAND did not stay in effect..(didn't notice)... so started messing around and probably turned off AutoRCM booted OFW 6.20 burning all 8 fuses!

That being said.. everything works fine like that.. and I can actually choiDujourNX update my FW from 1.0.0 all the way up to 6.20 and back down as I choose.. Though I thought burning fuses means I cant downgrade? Please explain this situation I have got myself into lol.

Also before i did anything I made a complete Hekate nand backup including BIS keys.. the works.. I got everything clean.. Just curious what options I still have to retaining 1.0.0 CFW in the event coldboot comes about.

 

This worked great, thank you.

When i start a game im getting a message saying the system needs to update even though my emunand is on fw 6.2?

Is this solved by finding a game update and installing it via tinfoil also?

 

Hey guys I hope you can help me

I did a clean backup of my 5.1.0 switch and then updated to 6.2.0 with choidujournx.
When moving files on my Computer I accidentally deleted my backup.
Is there any safe (I know nothing is 100% safe) method to downgrade and do a clean Backup again?
There were no exfat drivers installed since there hasn't been a sdcard in my switch before I started hacking it.
Also I didn't install any games yet, but I've been using homebrew (choidujournx, Lockpick).

Thanks in advance and hello gbatemp community (this is my first post )

 

"If your SysNAND is currently not clean but you do have a clean SysNAND, you should restore that prior to going online. When you do that should be before you setup EmuNAND because EmuNAND writes to boot1 which is a part of your NAND backup meaning you should also be restoring that (unless your current firmware matches the firmware of your NAND backup)."

So how do i proceed to restore my Nand using SXOS ?

Do i have to erase everything on my SD card and just simply put the latest version of SXOS and use Hektake in RCM mode to restore my Clean NAND ?

Then, i'll create an SDEmunand and then put my previous files back on my microSD card correct ?

 

Nope

 

If it says software update, that is a game update. If it says system update, the only possible scenario I can envision is that there was a pending system update for your SysNAND before you created EmuNAND which got carried over. Yes, you can get pending system updates if you are already on 6.2 if you updated offline but connected the console online at any point before updating.

Since Nintendo doesn't provide exFAT support in their console, it has to be downloaded separately. And you can only trigger this download if your firmware doesn't currently support exFAT. Furthermore, if your firmware already supports exFAT, you can only update officially to the non-exFAT version of the latest firmware. An example will help illustrate.

Say you are on firmware 5.1 with exFAT and the latest firmware is still 6.2. If you update officially to 6.2, you will be updated to 6.2 without exFAT and now that the firmware doesn't support exFAT, you have to insert an exFAT formatted SD card to get the exFAT update prompt to add exFAT support to your firmware 6.2. However if you are on firmware 5.1 without exFAT support, you can just insert an exFAT formatted SD card to get the exFAT update prompt which will not only give you exFAT support but put you on the latest firmware.

So to recap, you have to update twice to get exFAT on the latest firmware if you are currently a firmware with exFAT support. If you are running a firmware without exFAT support, then you can update once to be on the latest firmware with exFAT support. Meaning if you're going to be regularly using exFAT, you are going to be updating twice most of the time.

Nope.

Sure I guess. Not sure why you don't just send Hekate as a payload instead of SX OS unless you don't have a USB-C cable. Even with only the SX Pro, you can just download the boot.dat for SX Gear and rename Hekate to payload.bin so the SX Pro loads automatically into Hekate.

Anyway, in case you don't know if your current firmware doesn't match the dump of your boot0/boot1, you can just restore those along with your rawnand as long as the boot0/boot1 match with the corresponding rawnand. If you don't even know if they match, then you better start keeping better track of your backups.

 

on that subject, is there such a thing as malicious XCI files ? no right because nothing is being installed u just load them from the sd

 

@Draxzelex I tried following a tutorial in order to update my Smash Bros to the latest 1.2.1 firmware but ran into a issue where the game will get stuck at loading. I uninstalled the game and reinstalled Smash Bros 1.0 NSP......when I go to boot the game it prompts me for a software update which it never used to do. I am on 5.1 and was curious if you know what the issue may be? I am thinking it is the 1.2.1 update is still installed even though I deleted the game etc.....any clue if this may be the issue and how to go about deleting the update / fixing the game to launch again. THANK you for any help!

 

Answered it myself but thanks mate.

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Does anyone know where the .nro file is located on the SD card once you use tinfoil to install it? (Usb) - Im just curious i cant seem to find any of the files that i have installed?