looking for advice on firmware upgrade from 5.0

bigcletus

Noob Account
Jan 4, 2005
9
1
US
Hi, I am currently on OFW 5.0 and my emunand is also 5.0. I have a new physical game I want to play but it needs to be on a newer firmware. I actually have a couple of questions about updating the system firmware.

1) If i only upgrade the emunand, do the fuses still get burnt? I have read the guide regarding using the Choi app to update, but I think it may have been written prior to emunand's release.
2) Is the latest (firmware 8.1 i think) the best choice?
3) I think my system firwmare is clean, and I am half tempted to see if I can just upgrade by trying to connect to the nintendo eshop. Any thoughts on that? I appreciate any help with this. Thanks.
 

gavster

VIP Member
Dec 9, 2002
551
33
Northampton, UK
Boot into emunand and just upgrade that to 8.1 using choi. You will need latest version of sxos. There is a pinned guide you can follow for choi update.