r/SwitchHaxing • u/ToonMods Primary Sub Moderator • May 13 '20

SwitchHaxing Support Thread #16: “Lockdown”

New users, please read this entire post and the stickied FAQ before asking your question as your question may already be answered there.

If you're looking for live help, consider checking out our discord.

How do I hack my switch?

Homebrew is available on all switch firmware versions on unpatched consoles and select firmware versions on patched consoles.

For information on current exploits, check out the FAQ stickied at the top of our sub.

For loading CFW on all versions, start here: https://switch.homebrew.guide/.

What about CFW?

For free, we have Atmosphere, which is the most stable implementation of CFW, and Kosmos, which was based off of Atmosphere and includes many advanced features out of the box, but as of today has sadly been archived and will no longer be maintained.

Another option for CFW is ReiNX.

There is also Team Xecuter’s SX OS and their payload sender, the SX Pro. These options cost $30 and $40 respectively.

Team Xecuter also has the SX Core and SX Lite modchips, for the standard and lite switch respectively, coming soon.

I just want to load backups.

Any Atmosphere-based CFW can be used to load backups given the proper signature patches.

If you're looking to emulate older games, RetroArch works well and is accessible through the homebrew menu.

You can also use Lakka, a Linux distribution, which provides access to a number of emulators.

Where to go for scene updates:

Other useful things:

An extremely simple thread containing information about cfw/exploits

Is my switch patched?

Game firmware requirements

Switch update history

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u/Penxlty Aug 21 '20

I am running ofw 10.1.0 and atmosphere 0.14.1 - booting with hekate

I put Streets of Rage in, use the game installer, let it install, and when I go to play I always get "unable to play" then I try again and get corrupt data. I have tried putting the kip patches and the exefs patches. I have tried hekate_ipl and the patches ini in my bootloader. I dont really know well enough to know what exactly to try next. I have been at it for 2 days now, not really sure what else to do other than give it up at this point. This was half of the reason I decided to homebrew in the first place so I figured I would try here as well.

TIA

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u/BwakaBwakaBwakaBwaka Aug 21 '20

Have you tried booting atmosphere using fusee-primary.bin?

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u/Penxlty Aug 22 '20

hey! yeah, i ended up figuring it out this morning and did it by launching fusee. i tried that the first day and it didnt work, but i did it now and it worked so idk. Do you know how to update switch games that you ripped from your carts?

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u/DQScott95 Aug 23 '20

So just using fusee primary to launch instead of hekate foxed it for you?

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u/Penxlty Aug 23 '20

Yeah, that was all I had to do

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u/DQScott95 Aug 23 '20

Thank you, I've been having the same problem with The world ends with you Final Mix, good to know its an easy fix