Team-Xecuter has been quiet since v6.0.0 officially rolled out for the Nintendo Switch last week, but they are back with this time an amazing revolutionary update to their SX OS

And you may ask why is it 'revolutionary', well because for first time a CFW for the Switch contains 'EmuNAND', just like back in the days of the 3DS scene, so check out their official PR announcement below:

Hello friends! Team Xecuter is happy to bring you the official 2.0 release of your beloved SX OS.

A lot has happened since the initial release of SX OS a few months ago. This is far from a simple proof of concept custom firmware anymore. With this major update we bring some exciting new functionality to the table. We suggest you grab a beverage of your choice and read on to learn more!

• EmuNAND

Lets start with the major new feature in 2.0: EmuNAND.

Those who have a background in the Nintendo 3DS hacking scene know what this is, but let's quickly elaborate for those of you who are new to the game:

The Switch uses a NAND Flash storage chip to store all of the system software, as well as your save games and other assets. With EmuNAND we create a shadow copy of this storage from which you can run SX OS. The benefits from doing this are that you keep your SX OS "world" separated from your original firmware. This also means you can keep your switch on an older firmware, while running the latest and greatest firmware inside of your EmuNAND. As we all know, older is better.. when it comes to defeating system security at least. And newer is better when it comes to enjoying the latest content!

Another upside of consolidating your SX OS usage from your original firmware usage is vastly reducing the risk of a network ban. You can run SX OS in EmuNAND, of course with our Stealth Mode enabled, and anything that is littered on the EmuNAND's filesystem is not visible to the switch in Original Firmware mode.

One thing to note is that SX OS EmuNAND works a bit differently compared to what some of you might think of as "traditional" EmuNAND where the entire NAND is copied to a separate partition on the MicroSD card. With SX OS EmuNAND your EmuNAND partition lives inside of your regular NAND. The primary reason for this is that occupying 32GB of a MicroSD card is a bit wasteful. The secondary reason is by utilizing the existing flash storage we can guarantee performance and reliability.

You can set up EmuNAND by booting into the SX OS boot menu (hold Volume + during boot) and going into the revamped "Options" menu. There you will find a section called EmuNAND which will guide you through the setup. By default SX OS will allocate 15GB for your EmuNAND partition. If you want to use a different size hit the "advanced" button before creating your EmuNAND.

SX OS will boot into EmuNAND by default if it finds a valid EmuNAND partition. If you don't want to boot into EmuNAND, there's a button in the SX OS Boot menu which will allow you to continue booting with EmuNAND disabled.

• NAND Dumping, Restoring, GPT Repair

As mentioned in the previous section we have revamped our SX OS boot menu's option screen quite a bit. For the tinkerers and advanced users we introduced an easy method of dumping/restoring your NAND flash storage. Another neat addition for people who had an unhappy accident while playing with their NAND is the "GPT Repair" option. This will repair your NAND's partition table if you ever need to. Again, this functionality is for advanced users who know what they're doing only. Please be cautious when using this functionality.

• LayeredFS working on 6.0

With our (early) support for 6.0 we introduced a regression where "LayeredFS" would no longer work. This has been corrected and you can now enjoy your game modifications/hacks again on the latest official firmware.

• Homebrew NSP Compatibility

We got word that the community has started distributing homebrew titles as NSP files recently. These NSP files cut some corners in the way they are crafted, but we decided to introduce support to make them usable with SX OS anyway. So you can now enjoy your favorite homebrew titles that comes as installable NSP files and launch them directly from the home screen!

• Closing Words

Whew, we're sorry for the wall of text. We tried to keep things as concise and easy to understand as possible. SX OS 2.0 is a big and important update, but certainly won't be the last. We know you're all waiting for even more functionality that is in high demand. Rest assured, we work as fast as we can to scrap these items off of the bucket list and bring them to you, the loyal end user, as fast as we can!

Enough chit-chat, you can update to SX OS 2.0 right *now* by using the built-in updater if you are running SX OS 1.9 or higher. Otherwise head to our website and grab a copy! Enjoy!

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

Source: MaxConsole

 

[rrocha]

Can I have a 5.x SYSNAND and 6.0 Emunand? Or do I need to update both?

yes you can. make sure you're on 5.1, create emunand, boot to emunand and use choirdujour to update to go into 6.0

 

[BGR]

I had to get rid of the emunand and back to 1.9 as was getting freezes and errors. Hopefully next update will fix things.

 

[brollikk]

are you guys on 6.0 firmware using sx os 1.9? this combo works without any problems?

 

[halvfast]

are you guys on 6.0 firmware using sx os 1.9? this combo works without any problems?

Yeah it works but there is no layeredfs. I am waiting next version that fixes bugs that are in 2.0. In current state 2.0 is unusable.

 

[hippy dave]

A week and still no quick fix for the broken layeredfs, how embarrassing @garyopa

@garyopa TWO WEEKS and still no fix is shameful, fuck this I'm switching to another cfw.

 

[The Catboy]

@garyopa TWO WEEKS and still no fix is shameful, fuck this I'm switching to another cfw.

Gary is just a shill for these teams. He doesn't actually work with them, he works for them. He's not going to provide a fix for any issue because that's not what he's there for.

 

[hippy dave]

Gary is just a shill for these teams. He doesn't actually work with them, he works for them. He's not going to provide a fix for any issue because that's not what he's there for.

I know, but he's basically our point of contact for TX.

 

[The Catboy]

I know, but he's basically our point of contact for TX.

You imply the SX team actually cares about the community. If they actually cared, they would test the code they took before pumping out 3 broken updates within a 2 day span of time.

 

[hippy dave]

You imply the SX team actually cares about the community. If they actually cared, they would test the code they took before pumping out 3 broken updates within a 2 day span of time.

Nah I'm just trying to shame them into doing something.

 

[The Catboy]

Nah I'm just trying to shame them into doing something.

Fair enough, hopefully something happens from your shaming.

 

[garyopa]

@garyopa TWO WEEKS and still no fix is shameful, fuck this I'm switching to another cfw.

#1 - China was on holiday, national day, week long break, nothing occurred from sept. 28th until well, basically soon after today Oct. 7th everyone will be back to work.
#2 - Alot of testing to make sure everything is working, patience is the key, or would you rather have 3 updates in row again, I don't think that would be good idea.
#3 - 'Paid Shill' -- Not going to comment on that, I been running scene websites since '95, and before that in gaming industry since '82, so I guess I been 'Paid Shill' for long time.

 

[hippy dave]

#2 - Alot of testing to make sure everything is working,

If only they'd done that last time I guess.

 

[mrjoshuaco]

#3 - 'Paid Shill' -- Not going to comment on that, I been running scene websites since '95, and before that in gaming industry since '82, so I guess I been 'Paid Shill' for long time.

After Gateway and Stargate, you're better served by simply not acknowledging this point at all. You're only going to look stupid otherwise.

 

[kornjaca200]

Just be patience and use 1.9 instead or just move to a better option for the time being and come back when 2.1 solves everything.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

**still patiently waiting for 2.1**

So it's been long enough... Has emunand been deemed safe for NSP installing and avoiding bans?

 

[subcon959]

Funny logic being applied here.. complaints that not enough testing was done for the last few updates but at the same time a quick fix should be issued without lengthy testing?

Btw, I use all currently available options since I'm more of a tinkerer than a gamer these days, so I have less bias than those that subscribe to a particular tribe. I'm just pointing that out because the trendy thing to do these days is to paint everyone with the "shill" brush as a belittling tactic.

 

[fadx]

**still patiently waiting for 2.1**

So it's been long enough... Has emunand been deemed safe for NSP installing and avoiding bans?

The only risk with this emuNAND implementation is that there's a possibility telemetry would give away the fact your NAND has another NAND within it (assuming you keep the emuNAND completely offline). There's a lot of mixed information on this to the point where I don't know who's right and who's wrong. I haven't been banned though but I obviously can only speak for myself and I haven't installed any NSPs, I only use XCI and homebrew (mainly retroarch).

 

[eureca]

I am new to emunand, but I take it makes a backup of all your nsp installed games? I keep getting the error of not having enough space on my system, but it doesn't tell me how much I have to free up. Currently have 12 gigs free on system memory. Most of my stuff is installed to the sd card. The stuff I have installed to the system is some eshop games I bought before I started using sxos. I would move them to the sd but there is no option in the settings for that.

Am I suppose to just delete all my games before making an emunand?

 

[wurstpistole]

I am new to emunand, but I take it makes a backup of all your nsp installed games? I keep getting the error of not having enough space on my system, but it doesn't tell me how much I have to free up. Currently have 12 gigs free on system memory. Most of my stuff is installed to the sd card. The stuff I have installed to the system is some eshop games I bought before I started using sxos. I would move them to the sd but there is no option in the settings for that.

Am I suppose to just delete all my games before making an emunand?

It takes up Half of it. Around 16gb.

 

[wizball1973]

I hope they incorporate a firmware update option so I don't need to mess with other apps.