Background
I purchased a damaged OLED Switch model from my local pawn shop. The motherboard was damaged and beyond my current ability to repair. When looking at replacements online, I found a modded, but banned, oled motherboard was going for the same price as unbanned motherboards on ebay. So I pulled the trigger on this!
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But man am I struggling to get this working! I'm not convinced if this is any issue with the modchip itself as it always boots, and hekate is fully stable. Sidenote: I have a first-generation switch that I've used to confirm that the nsp files work. I've never had these problems with that switch
Symptoms:
• When launching into atmosphere, it will sometimes get a black screen crash after the switch logo.
• Tinfoil does not run. The installer produces an error or crashes. I can't remember it exactly but I can look it up if relevant! The NSP file installs using goldleaf, but then my switch ALWAYS crashes at some point while tinfoil is loading things in. The screen freezes on whatever is there, have to long press the power button.
• tinwoo runs, but then it always freezes during the installation of nsp files.
• Goldleaf runs rock solid!
• Running the NSP that I installed (confirmed nsp on gen1 switch). It makes it to the switch logo screen, then freezes on a black screen. I've found that the volume sometimes is functional, though it is otherwise frozen and I have to long press the start button to work again.
• Out of probably 50 tries, the NSP ran once while I was fiddling with the volume. It showed a message about the user not being connected online, but my god the game ran! My hope was quickly;y dashed as I was never able to replicate this.
• I have tried on NSP games. Some are more stable, but those too will occasionally crash on boot.
• Switch cartridge games run just fine. They don't freeze at all, only the homebrew related stuff is super unstable as far as I can tell thus far.
What have I tried?
• Process I use to wipe / reset SD card
I've wiped the SD card. Formatted in hekat, always, choosing full partition
- created emuMMC using the SD Partition.
- Also tired once using the SD File option
- Tried using a different SD card to rule that out
• Atmosphere
- Tried using the drag/drop Deep Sea advanced version. Tried using the automatic updater to update EVERYTHING I could.
- Tried using HATS package
- Tried vanilla installing Hekate, then Atmosphere, then found Sigpatches and pasted them over
• Settings
- I've tried disabling all sysmodules
- Linking the user account using linkalho
- I've tried launching the switch into debug mode to clear out
- I've ran the lockpick payload and read the keys, including the mariko partial keys.
I'm hoping that there's some easy thing that has to be done and is unique to mariko switches? lol I'm 3 days into this now.
I guess the one thing I've not tried is running "initialize" on my sysnand. I think the debug menu had this option (start with both vol+/- held down),
Sorry if this is rambling on. I'm super thankful for anyone taking the time to read this as well as any insight you may have!
Here's the mobo I purchased
aliexpress - item/1005004631258272.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.11.2d591802iizLrS
I purchased a damaged OLED Switch model from my local pawn shop. The motherboard was damaged and beyond my current ability to repair. When looking at replacements online, I found a modded, but banned, oled motherboard was going for the same price as unbanned motherboards on ebay. So I pulled the trigger on this!
aliexpress
But man am I struggling to get this working! I'm not convinced if this is any issue with the modchip itself as it always boots, and hekate is fully stable. Sidenote: I have a first-generation switch that I've used to confirm that the nsp files work. I've never had these problems with that switch
Symptoms:
• When launching into atmosphere, it will sometimes get a black screen crash after the switch logo.
• Tinfoil does not run. The installer produces an error or crashes. I can't remember it exactly but I can look it up if relevant! The NSP file installs using goldleaf, but then my switch ALWAYS crashes at some point while tinfoil is loading things in. The screen freezes on whatever is there, have to long press the power button.
• tinwoo runs, but then it always freezes during the installation of nsp files.
• Goldleaf runs rock solid!
• Running the NSP that I installed (confirmed nsp on gen1 switch). It makes it to the switch logo screen, then freezes on a black screen. I've found that the volume sometimes is functional, though it is otherwise frozen and I have to long press the start button to work again.
• Out of probably 50 tries, the NSP ran once while I was fiddling with the volume. It showed a message about the user not being connected online, but my god the game ran! My hope was quickly;y dashed as I was never able to replicate this.
• I have tried on NSP games. Some are more stable, but those too will occasionally crash on boot.
• Switch cartridge games run just fine. They don't freeze at all, only the homebrew related stuff is super unstable as far as I can tell thus far.
What have I tried?
• Process I use to wipe / reset SD card
I've wiped the SD card. Formatted in hekat, always, choosing full partition
- created emuMMC using the SD Partition.
- Also tired once using the SD File option
- Tried using a different SD card to rule that out
• Atmosphere
- Tried using the drag/drop Deep Sea advanced version. Tried using the automatic updater to update EVERYTHING I could.
- Tried using HATS package
- Tried vanilla installing Hekate, then Atmosphere, then found Sigpatches and pasted them over
• Settings
- I've tried disabling all sysmodules
- Linking the user account using linkalho
- I've tried launching the switch into debug mode to clear out
- I've ran the lockpick payload and read the keys, including the mariko partial keys.
I'm hoping that there's some easy thing that has to be done and is unique to mariko switches? lol I'm 3 days into this now.
I guess the one thing I've not tried is running "initialize" on my sysnand. I think the debug menu had this option (start with both vol+/- held down),
Sorry if this is rambling on. I'm super thankful for anyone taking the time to read this as well as any insight you may have!
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Here's the mobo I purchased
aliexpress - item/1005004631258272.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.11.2d591802iizLrS
