microSD Card preparations¶
Information¶
We will now place the required files for the Atmosphère custom firmware and some additional homebrew files on the microSD card.
Atmosphere has its own bootloader, called fusee. For the purposes of this guide we will be using Hekate instead, so that we can back up the system's NAND (internal storage) and take advantage of other advanced features in the future.
File name extensions
If you use Windows, you should enable file name extensions before continuing. See this link for a guide on how to do this.
What you need:¶
- The latest release of Hekate (Download the
hekate_ctcaer_(version).zip
release of hekate) - The Hekate config file: hekate_ipl.ini
- The DNS.MITM DNS redirection config: emummc.txt
- The bootlogo zip folder: bootlogos.zip
- The latest release of Atmosphere. Download the
atmosphere-(version)-master-(version)+hbl-(version)+hbmenu-(version).zip
release of Atmosphere. - The latest release of JKSV (Download the
JKSV.nro
release of JKSV) - The latest release of FTPD (Download the
ftpd.nro
release of FTPD) - The latest release of NXThemesInstaller (Download the
NXThemesInstaller.nro
release of NXThemesInstaller) - The latest release of NX-Shell (Download the
NX-Shell.nro
release of nx-shell) - The latest release of Goldleaf (Download the
Goldleaf.nro
release of Goldleaf)
Instructions:¶
- Navigate to the accessible drive.
- Copy the contents of the Atmosphère
.zip
file to the root of your microSD card. - Copy the
bootloader
folder from the Hekate.zip
file to the root of your microSD card.- If you're asked to replace files or merge folders, do so.
- Copy the
bootloader
folder from thebootlogos.zip
file to the root of your microSD card.- If you're asked to merge the bootloader folders, do so.
- Copy
hekate_ipl.ini
to thebootloader
folder on your microSD card.- If you're asked to replace the file, do so.
- Create a folder named
hosts
inside theatmosphere
folder on your microSD card, and putemummc.txt
inside of thehosts
folder. - Copy
JKSV.nro
,ftpd.nro
,NxThemesInstaller.nro
,NX-Shell.nro
andGoldleaf.nro
to theswitch
folder on your microSD card. -
If you were already using your microSD card as a storage device for your games and backed up the Nintendo folder before partitioning your microSD card, please place it back on the root of your microSD card now.
- If you created an emuMMC on the previous page, don't forget to copy the Nintendo folder to
sd:/emuMMC/RAW1/
!
About emummc.txt
Putting the
emummc.txt
file provided by this guide into/atmosphere/hosts
will prevent your emuMMC (emuNAND) from connecting to Nintendo. Not doing this will likely result in a ban.Your microSD card should look similar to the image below. The
Nintendo
folder will not be present if your Switch has not already booted with the microSD card inserted and theemuMMC
folder will not be present if you're following the sysCFW path of the guide/you haven't created an emuMMC!payload.bin
will not be present if you're using an unpatched Switch. - If you created an emuMMC on the previous page, don't forget to copy the Nintendo folder to