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Small Improvement Suggestions for emuMMC Tutorial #37

Closed Rvby1 closed 5 years ago

Rvby1 commented 5 years ago

More detailed SD card prep instructions. Changes are bolded. "1. Install and open Minitool Partitition Wizard

  1. Go into Disk & Partition Management. This should be the green box in the second column.
  2. Find your SD card on the bottom of the screen, then right click on it and delete the volume on it.
  3. Create a new partition with the following settings. To do this, right click on the SD Card in Minitool Partition Wizard and select Create New Partition:
    • Partition Size: 29.2GB
    • File System: Unformatted
    • Unallocated Space After: 0
    • You should see the following
    • (Picture)
  4. Create another partition with the following settings. Ignore the warning about Windows not being able to recognize the partition:
    • Partition Size: The Rest of your SD Card
    • File System: FAT32
  5. Your SD Card should now look something like this:
    • (Picture)
  6. Apply the changes to your SD Card by hitting apply in the upper left."

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Instruct user to insert SD Card into Switch after finishing SD Card preparation: "12. Eject SD Card from computer, then insert SD Card into Switch."

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More detailed instructions on entering RCM: "1. Power off the Switch and use one of the methods listed below to short the pins on the right JoyCon rail."

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Have users create a SYSNAND Backup and get their Console's Unique Keys before "Making emuMMC" section:

noirscape commented 5 years ago

With the exception of the last part (essential dumps before making an emuMMC) this has all been implemented.

Paging someone who has closing capabilities to maybe close this.

Pretty sure we don't do the sysMMC beforehand since it means booting Hekate, which might accidentally cause them to boot CFW on sysMMC (and some people are paranoid about that).