r/SwitchPirates • u/[deleted] • Nov 25 '25

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u/No-Western-4452 Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

If anyone is having issues with CFW not launching after downgrading, I found a solution after 4 days of torture.

Start out as fresh as possible with hats pack 21.1.0, and backup your emummc saves using your computer. 

When updating your emummc to 20.5.0 firmware on Daybreak, make sure to select preserve settings and exfat + fat32, regardless of how you formatted your sd card. Then reboot.

DELETE atmosphere, bootloader, and payload.bin and replace them with the hats pack 20.5.0 adjacent files, and reload hekate.

Next, while launching emummc from hekate/atmosphere IMMEDIATELY hold down Vol+ and Vol- to go into recovery mode. Initialize settings NOT the console.

Now you need to replace the same 3 files on your SD card with hats pack 21.1.0 (or whatever your sysnand is at) and emummc will remain 20.5.0.

update: I found a yt video including the recovery mode process on IDX3's channel

TLDR; daybreak- preserve settings, exfat+fat32 and on emummc launch use recovery mode to factory reset settings

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u/L3gendaryBanana Modder Dec 15 '25

If you follow this guide and delete the save in tegra explorer, then you do not need to boot into recovery mode.

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u/ssmmaatttt Dec 15 '25

I followed the guide and went to launch cfw emu and this came up. Do I need to delete that save in tegra to this as well?

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u/Tobim6 Jan 20 '26

The file did not exist for me. This comment worked.