Noob question

[lucas22211]

Hi Guys,

Im new in this, i already bought the sx license and i a have a nintendo swicth with stock firmware 4.1.0.

Should i update the stock firmware? if i should, whats the best way to do it offline and whit out burn fussiles?

Its recommended or not to activate auto rcm using dual nand? also, its recommened the 8.0.1 firwamre in the dual nand? thank you!

 

[imprezgc8]

I'm going to assume since it has 4.1 on it that it is hackable, but did you already go through this guide to make sure?

TX Switch Version Checker

Here is a guide to updating offline.

How to Update Firmware OFFLINE - Nintendo Switch with ChoiDujourNX

How to Update Firmware OFFLINE - Nintendo Switch with ChoiDujourNX This guide will walk you through updating the system firmware of a Nintendo Switch Console without going online. You are solely responsible for anything you do to your switch. Make sure your battery is at 100% charge before you...

team-xecuter.com

As far as updating, games/game updates are starting to require at least FW 7.x. So depending on the game back up that you made and are trying to play you may need to update to at least that. If you are going to create emunand (since you mention dual nand) then you can just leave the internal nand (sysnand) alone and not do anything with it at all. Then you can update your emunand to 8.0.1 while running then newest SX 2.7.1.

 

[lucas22211]

I'm going to assume since it has 4.1 on it that it is hackable, but did you already go through this guide to make sure?

TX Switch Version Checker

Here is a guide to updating offline.

How to Update Firmware OFFLINE - Nintendo Switch with ChoiDujourNX

How to Update Firmware OFFLINE - Nintendo Switch with ChoiDujourNX This guide will walk you through updating the system firmware of a Nintendo Switch Console without going online. You are solely responsible for anything you do to your switch. Make sure your battery is at 100% charge before you...

team-xecuter.com

As far as updating, games/game updates are starting to require at least FW 7.x. So depending on the game back up that you made and are trying to play you may need to update to at least that. If you are going to create emunand (since you mention dual nand) then you can just leave the internal nand (sysnand) alone and not do anything with it at all. Then you can update your emunand to 8.0.1 while running then newest SX 2.7.1.

Thank you for the prompt answer, so, i can just run SX OS, back up nand, create emunand update that nand to 8.0.1 and thats it? i would not have any issue if i backup my nand and my sd its not in ex fat? im not very sure if my sysnand in that version supports exfat. thank you

 

[imprezgc8]

You most likely do not have exFAT support at the moment.

You can use exFAT to make the back up though since that is done through the SX Bootloader. You get that by holding Vol+ when booting up with the jig and dongle. I would suggest booting to hekate though and doing a full nand backup as it will be quicker than the SX backup.

 

[lucas22211]

You most likely do not have exFAT support at the moment.

You can use exFAT to make the back up though since that is done through the SX Bootloader. You get that by holding Vol+ when booting up with the jig and dongle. I would suggest booting to hekate though and doing a full nand backup as it will be quicker than the SX backup.

Great, last question and very noob...its my first boot, and i don't have any users registered...can i register my switch with my user using emunand or i need to do it in my sysnand and connect it to wifi to make that only step?

 

[imprezgc8]

Hmm. I think there is a guide on here to register a user. I would not try to register officially through emunand.

Only issue I see is if you are trying to keep your sysnand on 4.0.1 it will for sure ask you to update in order to register a Nintendo account officially. If that's what you mean by user. If you just mean user on the Switch itself you should be able to do that in emunand or before creating emunand.

Basically you could do this:

1. Make your nand backup
2. Boot the Switch up normally and make sure NOT to connect to the internet
3. Create you local user on the Switch
4. Reboot to the SX bootloader and create your emunand

Then from there you would just always boot the emunand. As long as you don't connect to the internet or try any games on the sysnand when creating your local user it should not ask for an update, I don't believe.