Switch: SXOS license hacked
Developer Reacher17, over at GBATemp, has released a script that lets you create a valid license for SXOS, allowing you to use the infamous Custom Firmware for free on your Nintendo Switch.
SXOS is the custom firmware that ships with Team Xecuter’s SX mod chips for the Switch. Allegedly, SXOS reuses a lot of tools and code readily available in other solutions such as Atmosphere (an open source, and free Custom Firmware for the Switch), but it appears some users appreciate SXOS’s exclusive features such as the possibility to mount XCI games without having to install them.
Team Xecuter’s most prominent members have been arrested late last year, and no update has been made on their software or their site since. So, in essence, SXOS is pretty much dead.
Nonetheless, whatever your reasons, you might want to give the infamous CFW a try now that it’s been hacked. You will still, of course, need a hacked Switch in order to run the software. Either one of the earlier models, or a recent console with one of the SX mod chips (in which case, theoretically, you already have a valid license to use their custom firmware anyway…)
How to use
(for more details check out this post by mrdude)
**SXOS currently only supports Switch firmware up to 11.0.0** – any newer firmware will fail, you can downgrade using AtmosphereNX and then create an emunand running 11.0.0 firmware for use with SXOS.
1: Copy an untouched clean SXOS 3.10 boot.dat to your sd card root directory and Use SXOS payload to launch it.
2: Launch SXOS – and if you don’t have license-request.dat – this will be created on the root of your micro sd card.
3: Copy license-request.dat from your switch to the extracted folder you download from this post.
4: Copy a clean SXOS 3.10 boot.dat to the folder and rename it to boot.dat.orig (this will keep it from being modified).
5: Click SXOS-GFX.exe – this will create a new folder called out that will contain some bin files which a created from the themes folder (you can remove this be clicking on SXOS-GFX.exe again)
6: If you have python 3.9 installed – run SX_License_Hack.py and boot.dat and license.dat should be created.
7: Copy the newly created boot.dat and license.dat to the root of your micro sd card.
8: Use SXOS payload to launch.**note – SXOS extra hekate icon can be modded at line 310 (BL.write(b’argon/payloads/hekate.bin’) to launch any payload you want, just change the path to the payload you with to launch, line 314 contains the name for that icon – once again change this to what you want.**
Also autoboot code was commented out – you can re-enable this again in the script if you want to show the SXOS options during boot – or just press the volume + button to bring up the options menu.
Source and download: GBATemp. Thanks to CJ for the tip!
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I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand it’s great that even if their website goes down, even people with a valid license will have a way to activate it. On the other hand, between this news and news of hard mod competition, any chance of getting an update is now gone and for whatever reason the people behind Atmosphere don’t like emuNAND or any other feature of SXOS.
The people behind SXOS were behind Gateway 3DS and the moment that ceased to be profitable they discontinued support. However, the community NEVER went the emuNAND direction with that console even now
On the bright side, an SXOS emuNAND with a valid license can be converted into an Atmosphere OS without touching the sysNAND so maybe someone will have independently add in the two features people want most – xci mounting and hard drive loading.
Otherwise we know exactly what will happen : SXOS team will get back together under a new name, release a new hardware with a new OS, and those of us with sxos will have to buy new hardware to continue to use those features. I know, because that’s what happened after Gateway died. It would be nice if the community can unify.
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Nice, next step is hacking switch without modchip.
Interesting, so you are using a modchip. How is that?
It sucks when it states that an error has occured and it needs to reboot itself.
Why not make the modchip recreate all the steps you took until that error ?
For example if a game cannot be mounted for whatever reason and you get the error let the modchip control the button input up to that point in which it crashed.
Theoretically chances are that the same situation happening again are the same compared to the situation that occurs when you have a broken wi-fi module on your only bought so far switch lite, you decide to buy a normal switch and then Nintendo bans that switch you bought and your account which you have paid money for by buying games long before you installed the modchip on your former console.
next step is deycript the fw so we can steal the code and integrate it into AMOS 😛
Steal the stolen code xD
Nice one
This is actually great for Tinfoil. You need an SX OS license file on the root of your sd card in order to install NSZs over wifi using NUT, even in Atmosphere.
Nice work, would be nice if someone reverse engineered the mod chip too for others to replicate.
WHY?
If it can all be done with software WHY even screw around with a modchip?
Patched units need the modchip.
for V2 Switches aka Mariko and Switch Lites
Admins… WHY are you not banning anyone that posts “FIRST” as all they do is fill the forum will bullshoit.
If I was an admin here I would IP ban ANYONE who posted “FIRST”.
Do your job. keep the forums clean and the replies on topic.
Looks like your a huge fan of “FIRST; posts as every post has a few of them.
Think about it. BAN all the “First” posts and the size of the forums would half.
When I was an admin of a website I did that…. If you remembered I did take out half the forums as well, but that was due to the sys owner bricking peoples CFW PSPs so I punished him for it. I did it for the people and did I get any thanks? Nope. I got nothing but abuse from other forums. Care factor now is 0. That site is *** since then anyway and now its worse.
Just sayin.
Useless. No updates and if you buy a modchip you got the license for free
Not totally useless. You have a point about the updates (though who is to say one won’t appear out of nowhere on the website), but now you can use the SXOS without having to buy a license, a useful feature if you have the older version of the switch and an RCM loader.