It's HERE! - TX Has Finally Done It! - Their SX OS Now Fully Supports v6.2!

Everyone been smashing their heads against the wall, and refreshing forums for over two weeks waiting, but no more do you have to wait as SX OS v2.4 is finally available for all Nintendo Switch owners to enjoy, and be able to update to v6.2 finally, its been a long wait, but as you read the change-log below you will quickly see that it was well worth the wait, and there is still more to come soon!

We are pleased to let you all know that SX OS v2.4 BETA is ready for release.​

First of all, sorry to keep you waiting longer than we initially anticipated. We have been working around the clock to bring you this new release. We want SX OS to be synonymous in your mind with constant quality. We are here to stay and we are here to keep supporting your purchase till end of life.

Now, lets have a look at what v2.4 brings to the table:

• Support for firmware 6.2.0
  Nintendo threw us a small curve-ball while we were in the middle of reworking some other parts of SX OS. That being said, SX OS is now fully compatible with the latest official firmware 6.2.0.
• EmuNAND functionality reworked
  Our initial release of EmuNAND used a storage mechanism that wasn't what a lot of people were looking for. In our last release we decided to switch to using the microSD for EmuNAND storage, which in turn made some users that *did* like the old method of storing EmuNAND on the system NAND unhappy. We have reintroduced the support for EmuNAND-on-system-NAND as well as introduced a third storage method for your EmuNAND partition. You can now also opt to use a separate partition (as opposed to files in the regular (ex)FAT filesystem) as a storage backend for your EmuNAND. With three flavors of EmuNAND storage supported now, all of you can rejoice!
  
  
  To recap, you now have three way of settings up EmuNAND now:
  

  • EmuNAND on system NAND: repurpose part of your Switch internal storage for EmuNAND
  • EmuNAND on microSD as partition: repartitions your microSD card with a separate EmuNAND partition
  • EmuNAND on microSD as files: EmuNAND is stored on microSD as files instead of repartitioning
  WARNING: Setting up your EmuNAND as partition on your microSD card will format your microSD card. After setup nothing but the boot.dat and license.dat will remain.
• Homebrew R button interfering with ingame L+R buttons fixed
  In the last release we introduced a method of invoking the homebrew launcher for any title by holding down the [R] button during application/game startup, this gives homebrew additional capabilities that it wouldn't normally have. However, this seems to have caused some interference with some games, this has been fixed.
• Embedded Homebrew Menu
  Previously, you had to copy a `hbmenu.nro` file to your microSD card in order to use the homebrew launcher. This has been fully integrated into the SX OS boot.dat file now. Effectively this means all you need for setup is to copy our boot.dat file, simple!

That's all we have for now, people. That doesn't mean we're done. Its not over until we have liberated every single console out there. A lot of our current attention is focused on bringing you a solution for these "unhackable" switches. That does not mean we're not improving SX OS as well. Keep those feature requests and bug reports coming!

Enjoy the festivities this month, and don't forget to pick up a SX Pro / SX OS for your loved ones!

--< Team-Xecuter - Rocking the Switch in 2018 and beyond! >--

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Source: MaxConsole

 

[oibaffus]

SX's current installer, like tinfoil, uses horizon's built in file services to decrypt the files automatically. I decrypt them by hand, which is why I require keys.txt and they do not.

So there IS an issue with the SX NSP installer. Maybe I missed something, but what do you mean you do it by hand? How exactly?

 

[Kubas_inko]

What do people use emunand for? What’s its purpose? Why do people want it so bad?

Testing and being "safe". But all I care about is internal trinket and NAND backup, so EmuNAND is useless for me.

 

[Vic_Vinegar]

What do people use emunand for? What’s its purpose? Why do people want it so bad?

I'll let others explain its pros and cons in detail. From what I understand (and I could be way off) emunand creates an emulation of your sysnand. So you can use cfw to play games offline using emunand and when you want to play games online, you disable emunand and play games using your sysnand.

Again i'm not 100% sure this is what its purpose is (or if I am correct with what I stated) but I believe this is the main reason people want emunand.

I have emunand enabled but I am going to disable it and delete the files as I never plan on going online / dont care about being banned.

Just make sure you have a nand backup

 

[Scitzo]

Has anyone figured out if theres a way to migrate an existing non partitioned emunand over to the new partitioned emunand? My sysnand is empty and legit while my emunand is dirty and full. I just want to migrate my existing emunand microsd to the new partition type.

 

[maxx488]

I'll let others explain its pros and cons in detail. From what I understand (and I could be way off) emunand creates an emulation of your sysnand. So you can use cfw to play games offline using emunand and when you want to play games online, you disable emunand and play games using your sysnand.

Again i'm not 100% sure this is what its purpose is (or if I am correct with what I stated) but I believe this is the main reason people want emunand.

I have emunand enabled but I am going to disable it and delete the files as I never plan on going online / dont care about being banned.

Just make sure you have a nand backup

Yeah but 99.9% of switch users already used homebrew on sysnand so.. And also we have nand backups so using it for security reasons is useless in my opinion.

 

[WiiUBricker]

can you pls tell me the reason for switching to partitioned EmuNAND instead of using the filebased one on sd card? :-)

In case of a file system corruption (exFAT support is unstable) you get to keep your files outside of the emuNAND partition. With the file based one, you would lose everything.

 

[Vic_Vinegar]

Yeah but 99.9% of switch users already used homebrew on sysnand so.. And also we have nand backups so using it for security reasons is useless in my opinion.

I agree

I only had my emunand enabled as I read a post on here saying that having emunand enabled and using choixdujour was a good way to upgrade my switch's firmware. I now realize that I could just update my firmware using choixdujour and not having emunand enabled

 

[brollikk]

So did anyone successfully install the latest smash update using sx 2.4?

 

[Gismor]

So did anyone successfully install the latest smash update using sx 2.4?

version 1.1.0 works perfect

 

[kublai]

If I am already running EMUNAND on my SD card with v6.10 then do I just update my Firmware to v6.20 with ChoiDujour for my EMUNAND?

 

[zenriko]

What's the method to go from

Emunand on SD as files
to
Emunand on SD as partition

Delete emunand + start over
Or there's a migration option
Something else?

 

[Vic_Vinegar]

If I am already running EMUNAND on my SD card with v6.10 then do I just update my Firmware to v6.20 with ChoiDujour for my EMUNAND?

I'm in the same boat as you, hoping someone has done this and has an answer for us/everyone. You also forgot to say that you'll add the sx os 2.4 boot file on your sd card before you update to 6.2

Right now I'm leaning on disabling emunand entirely

 

[jakkal]

What's the method to go from

Emunand on SD as files
to
Emunand on SD as partition

Delete emunand + start over
Or there's a migration option
Something else?

Obviously there's no migration process it it formats your sdcard. Thats why they said backup everything

 

[zenriko]

Obviously there's no migration process it it formats your sdcard. Thats why they said backup everything

Good point, I clearly did not understand what was written in black and white >_>

 

[Nym5]

Just updated my EmuNAND to 6.2 via ChoidujourNX and it works like a charm!
Nice work TX!

What is the game that has 6.2 firmware for me to extract and update through ChoidujourNX? I don't care too much about burning fuses because I already updated my sysnand to 6.2 through the official method, but I can't go online to update in my Emunand because I installed some NSPs in there.

 

[stewacide]

Has anyone who's set up partition emunand tried resizing it? (in gparted or whatever)

 

[oibaffus]

version 1.1.0 works perfect

How did you install it?

 

[Vic_Vinegar]

Just updated my EmuNAND to 6.2 via ChoidujourNX and it works like a charm!
Nice work TX!

Hey chest0r, did you notice any issues with your emunand after you did the upgrade? And did you keep your emunand the same after you did the upgrade or did you switch it up with the new features on 2.4?

 

[kublai]

I'm in the same boat as you, hoping someone has done this and has an answer for us/everyone. You also forgot to say that you'll add the sx os 2.4 boot file on your sd card before you update to 6.2

Right now I'm leaning on disabling emunand entirely

Yes, need to add the boot.dat to my sdcard. I'm hoping it's just that simple.

 

[burial]

Do I need to leave a copy of emunand on my sd card???