How to clean up an old setup (or migrate your old Atmosphère setup from 0.x)

This page is to help you clean up an old setup. Following the steps on this page will not affect saves or installed games

Important notes

• System modules: System modules likely require an update to work with a this new Atmosphère version. Update or remove as needed.
  • If you rename contents like contents-backup you have an easy backup of modules, mods and cheats you had in the contents folder.
  • Some common modules like this are Mission Control & ldn_mitm.
  • System modules (Sys-modules) are saved on /atmosphere/contents/ along with cheats and mods for games.
  • So you didn't do this and have issues. Do it now or check the troubleshooting section.
• Atmosphère 1.10.0 and newer: Homebrew made prior to this release is very likely to experience major issues or not work because of fundamental changes done to support firmware 21.0. Make sure to update your homebrew if a compatible update is available. Hbmenu will show a warning in red text under the name of homebrew that is expected to have issues.
• Fusee users: Need to have a working sys-patch for signature patching for game backups to work. This guide will replace the use of fusee with a Hekate launch option.
  If you want to keep using fusee you can skip editing the hekate_ipl.ini. Then see the fusee updating guide at the bottom of the updating CFW page to get sys-patch if needed.
  • When using sys-patch, it only needs to be updated on each firmware update, not each CFW update.
• No card reader: You can access your SD card contents via USB through Hekate to update. See this guide page for instructions.
  • You can not update Atmosphère while using Atmosphère

You need

Everything you need to download. (On GitHub scroll down and find the file under Assets)

• Hekate - Download hekate_ctcaer_*.*.*_Nyx_*.*.*.zip from the latest release.
• Atmosphère - Download atmosphere-*.*.*-master-*********+hbl-*.*.*+hbmenu-*.*.*.zip from the latest release
• SigPatches - Download patch-*.*.*-**.*.zip (alternative download)
  • Updated for Atmosphère 1.11.2 (5388824be) & OFW 22.5.x
  • All previous versions' patches are included

Steps

• 📝 If you had set up nogc with bct.ini previously, please ensure to check this guide. bct.ini is no longer present on the latest Atmosphère version.
  • This can be ignored if you're not having any issues with Game Cards working

1. Extract the following to the root of your micro SD card:
   • atmosphere-*.*.*-xxxxxx-*********+hbl-*.*.*+hbmenu-*.*.*.zip
   • bootloader folder from the hekate_ctcaer_*.*.*_Nyx_x.x.x.zip
   • patch-*.*.*-**.*.zip
2. Delete the sept folder in the root of your SD card. (ignore if there is no sept folder)
3. Within /atmosphere/ delete the config and the contents folders if they exist
   • The contents folder is used for cheats, mods and system modules
4. Within /bootloader/payloads/ delete all files (ignore if there are none)
   • If you need any payloads like lockpick to dump keys or TegraExplorer, get the latest versions of those from their GitHub page
5. Navigate back to your /bootloader/ folder.
6. Overwrite the contents of your hekate_ipl.ini file with one of the following configurations:
   ≣ emuMMC and Stock (click to expand)

   [config]
   autoboot=0
   autoboot_list=0
   bootwait=3
   backlight=100
   autohosoff=0
   autonogc=1
   updater2p=1
   bootprotect=0
   
   [CFW emuMMC - Atmosphere]
   pkg3=atmosphere/package3
   emummcforce=1
   cal0blank=1
   kip1patch=nosigchk
   icon=bootloader/res/icon_payload.bmp
   
   [Stock]
   pkg3=atmosphere/package3
   stock=1
   emummc_force_disable=1
   icon=bootloader/res/icon_switch.bmp
   

   If you want to use Atmosphère on both sysMMC and emuMMC, add a launch option like shown here

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   ≣ sysMMC only (click to expand)

   [config]
   autoboot=0
   autoboot_list=0
   bootwait=3
   backlight=100
   autohosoff=0
   autonogc=1
   updater2p=1
   bootprotect=0
   
   [CFW sysMMC - Atmosphere]
   pkg3=atmosphere/package3
   emummc_force_disable=1
   cal0blank=1
   kip1patch=nosigchk
   icon=bootloader/res/icon_payload.bmp
   

7. Set up exosphere and DNS.mitm like shown on this page.
8. Mac/Linux users:
   • Use Hekate's Fix archive bit after updating cfw files.
   • From Hekate's main menu press: Tools ➔ Arch bit • RCM • Touch • Pkg1/2 ➔ Fix Archive Bit

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