Updating using Atmosphere to avoid game cart fuse burn

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I think it may be time to update my sx os hidden emunand from 8.1.0 to 9.1.0 however I would like to avoid the game cart fuse burn. From doing some research it seems like it is possible to boot into atmosphere on the sx os hidden emunand (if load up hekate and then choose "migrate emuMMC" option). I could then update my emunand to 9.1.0

My question is, once I've updated the sx os' hidden emunand this way, would I then be able to go back to using it with sx os?

 

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From what I understand it does not work like that since SX does not currently have the GC protection. The GC only updates once you put a cart in the slot after updating the FW, not from the FW update itself. The way that hekate/atmo stops that is by disabling the cart slot (I believe). So if you then boot SX after updating and put a cart slot in it will burn the fuse then.

You would basically need to always boot Atmo from hekate for the noGC plugin (I think it's called) to work. I have not tested this myself though.

As a note you can dual boot SX and Atmo to the same partition emunand unless something has changed on Atom's end. I currently have a setup like that because previously RetroArch ran better in Atmo. Now it runs bascially the same on both, so it's not really necessary.

 

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Thank you for the reply. I had heard that with firmware 9+ it burns the game cart slot as soon as you update, not just when you put a cart in. And yeah it was brought to my attention that as soon as I booted sxos the game cart slot fuse would be burned, no matter if i updated using atmosphere or not. So I just went ahead and updated directly in sx os.

However, it is good to know that you can dual boot sx os and atmosphere on the same emunand. I think I'll give it a try as i know there is some homebrew that works on atmosphere but not on sx os (sys-con?). thank you for giving me confirmation that this is possible.