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[binkinator]

Indeed it is!!

Sweet! Glad you’re sorted.

It works now again. Problem was that is a folder that goes immediatly on atmosphere folder, not on contents, so I must have lose it when I fresh installed atmos.

Thank you Binkinator, and uhhh, my birthday is in a couple months... I hope you take it easy on me, even if you have a sore throat

Is this in reference to “…what would I do for a GPD WIN 4?”

 

[Nynrah]

I'm about to transition to using DBI to install my games and there's something I'm wondering about how the install-via-USB functionality works. Does this only work by directly connecting to the Switch's USB C port or does it also work via either of the USB ports on the Switch's docking station (when the Switch is docked, off course)?

 

[binkinator]

I'm about to transition to using DBI to install my games and there's something I'm wondering about how the install-via-USB functionality works. Does this only work by directly connecting to the Switch's USB C port or does it also work via either of the USB ports on the Switch's docking station (when the Switch is docked, off course)?

Install via USB expects to connect to something like NS-USBLoader running on yiur PC.

That said, if you plug in a USB drive into the dock you can browse it and install any .nsp/.xci files you might have backed up there.





Even 3rd party docks w/ Pokémon ears that somebody gave you for Christmas so you have to use it. (STFU. Nobody asked you.)

 

[Nynrah]

Perfect setup



Use something that will clone the entire drive (including hidden partitions) and not just one filesystem. I use Mini tool partition wizard. Once you clone your smaller sd card onto a larger one, simply go back to your FAT32 partition and resize it. Shutdown mini tool so you can properly unsound your sd cards and you’re done!




https://rentry.org/SwitchHackingIsEasy has options for just about every permutation. Since you are fairly down rev you will want to go here first: https://rentry.org/MigrateToAtmosphere1_0_0

Hey @binkinator, it took a while before I actually got started on transfereing and upgrading, which is why I'm quoting an old reply of yours to an old post of mine. One thing I had a bit of difficulty with to figure out was whether it matters if my current SD card uses a file-based or partition-based emummc. On a side note, I'm not sure whether my SD card is file-based or partition-based or where I can look this up...

Does Mini tool partition wizard automatically format the target SD card to use the same settings (e.g. FAT32 and cluster size) as the original SD card or do I need to do this manually? And does transfering/cloning with this tool negate the need for taking any of the extra actions describes in this SD card transfer guide?
https://nh-server.github.io/switch-guide/extras/transfer_sd/

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Install via USB expects to connect to something like NS-USBLoader running on yiur PC.

That said, if you plug in a USB drive into the dock you can browse it and install any .nsp/.xci files you might have backed up there.

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Even 3rd party docks w/ Pokémon ears that somebody gave you for Christmas so you have to use it. (STFU. Nobody asked you.)

First off, that docking station looks nice! That said, that sounds positive for the odds of using DBI installer via USB straight via the docking station.

 

[binkinator]

Hey @binkinator, it took a while before I actually got started on transfereing and upgrading, which is why I'm quoting an old reply of yours to an old post of mine. One thing I had a bit of difficulty with to figure out was whether it matters if my current SD card uses a file-based or partition-based emummc. On a side note, I'm not sure whether my SD card is file-based or partition-based or where I can look this up...

If you have a second 30G partition it’s highly likely you have a hidden partition.

One way to be sure is to look in your /emummc/emummc.ini file and if it shows a sector then it’s a partition based emunand.



Also if you go in to the path= directory you can look for raw_based (or files_based) with raw being a raw partition and files being…well…files.

Does Mini tool partition wizard automatically format the target SD card to use the same settings (e.g. FAT32 and cluster size) as the original SD card or do I need to do this manually? And does transfering/cloning with this tool negate the need for taking any of the extra actions describes in this SD card transfer guide?
https://nh-server.github.io/switch-guide/extras/transfer_sd/

Cloning with a 3rd party tool will typically give you a 1:1 bit for bit copy.
Doing it via copy works just as well though. 6 vs 1/2 dozen.

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First off, that docking station looks nice! That said, that sounds positive for the odds of using DBI installer via USB straight via the docking station.

Appreciated.

Odds are 100%. I just used it to install an nsp and it worked great. Super fast and convenient way to install.

 

[Soler37]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/fake-rcmloader-dongles-in-the-wild.620470/

Read this thread.

I read through it but still didnt find anyone with the issue I had.
My RCM Loader cycles through colours and does show things like BOOT.Dat not fount ( something like that).
The fact that Fusee was able to launch from the HEKATE_ATMOSPHERE folder as apposed to USER2 which both had the same file, tells me that there is an issue with it.
To be clear, I was able to update the to the 2.02 firmware, at least by the guide on the website, that's what it showed.
In any case, I haven't gotten closer to the problem here since I haven't found anyone with the exact issue as mine, but my question is this - Is there any disadvantage in using the Fusee.bin payload as apposed to Hekate? I find it bizarre that most guides show Hekate file stored in the loader rather than Fusee(Atmo).
In any case, I was able to set up Rekado on my phone, though OTG on my Realme6 is a knob which ones turned on, goes off after 10 minutes, don't know why that is and I haven't been able to find answers as to why that is either.

 

[binkinator]

@Soler37 did you get any pics of anything else working? Are you saying injecting fusee.bin works w/o issues? Please post a pic of that if you can.

 

[Soler37]

@Soler37 did you get any pics of anything else working? Are you saying injecting fusee.bin works w/o issues? Please post a pic of that if you can.

Hey bink, if you look at the page previous, I uploaded a video of Tegra rcm launching hekate. For fusee, I just launch with the RCM Loader and it work, would you like video of me launching with the loader?

 

[Hayato213]

I read through it but still didnt find anyone with the issue I had.
My RCM Loader cycles through colours and does show things like BOOT.Dat not fount ( something like that).
The fact that Fusee was able to launch from the HEKATE_ATMOSPHERE folder as apposed to USER2 which both had the same file, tells me that there is an issue with it.
To be clear, I was able to update the to the 2.02 firmware, at least by the guide on the website, that's what it showed.
In any case, I haven't gotten closer to the problem here since I haven't found anyone with the exact issue as mine, but my question is this - Is there any disadvantage in using the Fusee.bin payload as apposed to Hekate? I find it bizarre that most guides show Hekate file stored in the loader rather than Fusee(Atmo).
In any case, I was able to set up Rekado on my phone, though OTG on my Realme6 is a knob which ones turned on, goes off after 10 minutes, don't know why that is and I haven't been able to find answers as to why that is either.

You and The Real Jdbye both got V5 from Aliexpress, why don't you compare your to the one shown in that thread.

 

[Nynrah]

If you have a second 30G partition it’s highly likely you have a hidden partition.

One way to be sure is to look in your /emummc/emummc.ini file and if it shows a sector then it’s a partition based emunand.

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Also if you go in to the path= directory you can look for raw_based (or files_based) with raw being a raw partition and files being…well…files.

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Cloning with a 3rd party tool will typically give you a 1:1 bit for bit copy.
Doing it via copy works just as well though. 6 vs 1/2 dozen.

Appreciated.

Odds are 100%. I just used it to install an nsp and it worked great. Super fast and convenient way to install.

I've got the sector in my emummc.ini file and I also got the second 30GB sector show up in MiniTool Partition Wizard. So my old 256GB SD card is definately partition-based.

So now I'm about to clone the contents to my new 1TB SD card. It starts with an unallocated 64 MB partition, followed by one huge, empty partition. Is there anything I should do before I hit the clone button?

 

[binkinator]

I've got the sector in my emummc.ini file and I also got the second 30GB sector show up in MiniTool Partition Wizard. So my old 256GB SD card is definately partition-based.

So now I'm about to clone the contents to my new 1TB SD card. It starts with a 64 MB partition, followed by one huge, empty partition. Is there anything I should do before I hit the clone button?

If you clone that it will end up with 3/4 of a TB unused at the end of your SDCard. You won’t want that as it’s not contiguous space for your first FAT32 partition. Your Switch will only see the size of the first partition. You will need to adress that by moving the 30G partition to the end of the larger SDCard and then run Hekat-> emuMMC -> Migrate emummc -> RAW
Either way you’re going to have to juggle partitions around a bit to get things in the positions you want.

 

[urherenow]

I read through it but still didnt find anyone with the issue I had.
My RCM Loader cycles through colours and does show things like BOOT.Dat not fount ( something like that).
The fact that Fusee was able to launch from the HEKATE_ATMOSPHERE folder as apposed to USER2 which both had the same file, tells me that there is an issue with it.
To be clear, I was able to update the to the 2.02 firmware, at least by the guide on the website, that's what it showed.
In any case, I haven't gotten closer to the problem here since I haven't found anyone with the exact issue as mine, but my question is this - Is there any disadvantage in using the Fusee.bin payload as apposed to Hekate? I find it bizarre that most guides show Hekate file stored in the loader rather than Fusee(Atmo).
In any case, I was able to set up Rekado on my phone, though OTG on my Realme6 is a knob which ones turned on, goes off after 10 minutes, don't know why that is and I haven't been able to find answers as to why that is either.

First off, the doot.dat thing is you launching the sxOS payload. You should delete everything except hekate, as you can load any payload you want via nyx anyway. You can even place hekate as payload.bin in ALL of the folders of the dongle if you like. Just use 5.8 or 6.0 (not 6.0.1 since it sounds like the dongle you're using is one of the new clones/fakes).

 

[Nynrah]

If you clone that it will end up with 3/4 of a TB unused at the end of your SDCard. You won’t want that as it’s not contiguous space for your first FAT32 partition. Your Switch will only see the size of the first partition. You will need to adress that by moving the 30G partition to the end of the larger SDCard and then run Hekat-> emuMMC -> Migrate emummc -> RAW
Either way you’re going to have to juggle partitions around a bit to get things in the positions you want.

I see. Just to be clear, when you say moving the 30GB partition, do you mean moving it with MiniTool Partition Wizard or with Hekate? MiniTool (free version) isn't being particularly response in my efforts to resize the first partition nor shows an option to move the 30GB partition, although I should note that's before I applied the copy operation.

 

[binkinator]

I see. Just to be clear, when you say moving the 30GB partition, do you mean moving it with MiniTool Partition Wizard or with Hekate? MiniTool (free version) isn't being particularly response in my efforts to resize the first partition nor shows an option to move the 30GB partition, although I should note that's before I applied the copy operation.

Interesting. Maybe stick with the tried and true method using Hekate to partition your new SD card. Hekate can also backup (and later restore) your hidden partition so it might be a bit more straightforward than hacking our way through MiniToolPW.

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@Soler37 did you get any pics of anything else working? Are you saying injecting fusee.bin works w/o issues? Please post a pic of that if you can.

Oh wow!

That clearly shows that there's nothing wrong with your hardware. That's clear as day!

I take back everything I said about you.

So I'm using hekate to boot my switch but I have fusee.bin inside my hekate_ipl.ini file.

[config]
autoboot=1
autoboot_list=0
bootwait=1
backlight=55
noticker=0
autohosoff=2
autonogc=1
updater2p=1
bootprotect=1

[Atmosphere CFW]
payload=bootloader/payloads/fusee.bin
emummcforce=1
kip1patch=nosigchk
kip1=atmosphere/kip_patches/*
logopath=/graphics/splash/atmosphere.bmp
icon=/graphics/icons/current/atmosphere.bmp

This ini file will:

autoboot=1 (automatically boot the first entry)
autoboot_list=0
bootwait=1 (only wait one second until it automatically reboots)
backlight=55 (tone down the bright display)
noticker=0 (allow the cool time ticker bar)
autohosoff=2 (when shutdown it will stay down…no bouncing around and 1/2 booting)
autonogc=1 (turn off the game card)
updater2p=1 (check if there is a higher version of Hekate to use instead of what was injected)
bootprotect=1 (protect my boot files from malicious homebrew and me being retarded)

[Atmosphere CFW] (first stanza)
payload=bootloader/payloads/fusee.bin (boot using fusee.bin instead of Hekate)
emummcforce=1 (force the use of emunand)
kip1patch=nosigchk (Sigpatches)
kip1=atmosphere/kip_patches/* (Sigpatches, damn it!)
logopath=/graphics/splash/atmosphere.bmp (splash logo)
icon=/graphics/icons/current/atmosphere.bmp (icon for use in Hekate)

Basically what this means is you can use any damn version of Hekate in your RCM loader but it will use the latest Hekate installed on your SDCard.

So downgrade to Hekate 5.8.0 on your RCM loader, integrate so,e of the changes above to suite your needs but particularly use the bold lines above. That should fix what ails you…

 

[Nynrah]

Interesting. Maybe stick with the tried and true method using Hekate to partition your new SD card. Hekate can also backup (and later restore) your hidden partition so it might be a bit more straightforward than hacking our way through MiniToolPW.

I'll be sure to do that if this doesn't works. Right now the copy process is in progress. Perhaps after that I'll be able to move and resize. If that doesn't work, then I'll do it the Hekate way. To be continued!

 

[binkinator]

I'll be sure to do that if this doesn't works. Right now the copy process is in progress. Perhaps after that I'll be able to move and resize. If that doesn't work, then I'll do it the Hekate way. To be continued!

Yeah, since we’re doing a non-destructive copy from a known working SDCard we’re in pretty good shape to do whatever. No pressure at all. Just kick back and enjoy the journey. It’s interesting stuff.

 

[Blythe93]

I recently bought an RCMLoader, apparently the One Plus version judging by the package it came with. I've noticed some weird things:

1) Nothing shows up when I connect it to the PC. I believe I should be able to add different payloads to it? I tried connecting it with a different cable and to a different PC, nothing. It doesn't show up on usbdeview either.
2) When I press the + button and hold it, only blue light blinks, no red and green ones.
3) When I try to charge it or connect it to the PC, only red light appears then instead of white one, I believe.

Is this a RCMLoader of mine fake or I'm doing something wrong?
EDIT: I can post pictures if needed.

 

[impeeza]

Your is a clone (fake). Connect to computer and go to disk manager. Could be the letter drive is not assigned

Also try another micro USB cable and another port.

Do not connect to PC using USB-C

 

[parjolik]

Can my chip be flashed with a firmware update? How to minimize the risk of damage? Please help and thanks for answering

 

[Blythe93]

Your is a clone (fake). Connect to computer and go to disk manager. Could be the letter drive is not assigned

Also try another micro USB cable and another port.

Do not connect to PC using USB-C

It's fake, indeed. :/ Thanks for confirming it, I contacted the seller and asked for a return.
Also, I found a post on reddit where one person posted a comparison between fake and real one. Too bad.