Selecting a microSD card

Fake MicroSD Cards:

Fake microsd cards are everywhere. Usually you plug them in and they have a spoofed storage capacity, lets say 64gb. Once you fill up 64gb it will then start overwriting other files or will get corrupted. By this point its been a few weeks, you've already left a good review, and it is passed the return window. Meanwhile the seller is laughing to the bank with your money. There are no secret deals on sd cards. Only buy from Sandisk, Samsung, or Lexar brands. If you are buying a 1Tb card or higher I recommend you get them straight from the manufactures website. I have seen fakes sold and shipped by amazon and even packages that were carefully opened and resealed with a fake card inside that were returned to the store. Save yourself the money and headache.

Recommended Sizes:

I would recommend 256GB as a minimum. That should leave you room for about 20-50 games depending on the size . 512gb is ideal in most cases. I use that in my personal switch and have not filled it up. If you want an extensive library of more games than you can play, then go for a 1TB.

 

Setting up the HATS pack 

The HATS pack is updated frequently and has a complete collection of everything you need to get started including exosphere and DNS MITM to block Nintendo's servers on CFW and prevent you from getting banned.

1. Download the latest HATS pack

2. Open the zip file and copy the files (or extract using winrar/7zip) to the root of your sd card

3. Back up your "Nintendo" folder to a location on your pc if you have any save files or games that are important to you.

Your SD card should look like this:

Formatting the Card

EXFAT works, but has the potential to corrupt your data down the line (especially if you use RetroArch). For that reason it is highly recommended you format your card FAT32. You can do this in Hekate itself or via a computer program. Hekate is the recommended method. There are minor but noticeable speed improvements and it is pretty fool proof and convenient.

*** WARNING: Hekate can only backup ~1GB of data. If you have more than that on your SD card and you format it, it will be lost! If you have anything on your sd that you care about back it up to your computer ***

1. Launch hekate by powering on your console

2. Click "Tools" and Click "Partition SD Card"

3. Press "Next Step"

4. Click Start

5. Press the Power Button to continue

DONE!

 

File Based EmuMMCs

You have a file based EmuMMC if you had your console modded by us. If you want to verify:

file based emummcs will have a folder titled "EmuMMC->SD00"

You can simply copy all of the contents of your old sd card to your new sd card. I would recommend copying them from your sd card reader directly to the switch via hekate (tools-usb tools-> sd card) so you only have to do it once.

 

 

 

 Partition Based EmuMMCs

If your SD was not set up by us and you have a partition based emummc follow this.

1. Open Hekate with the old SD card inserted and select Tools -> Backup eMMC

2. Click SD emuMMC Raw Partition so that it says ON

3. Click SD emuMMC BOOT0 & BOOT1 then click Close when finished

4. Click SD emuMMC RAW GPP then click Close when finished (this will take a few minutes)

5. On your computer, drag the Backup -> (numbers) -> emuMMC folder to the restore folder

If you computer asks you to format it select "cancel" or close the window

6. Copy all contents to your new SD Card

7. Insert the new SD card and Launch Hekate and select tools -> restore eMMC

8. Click SD emuMMC Raw Partition so that it says "ON"

9. Click SD emuMMC BOOT0 & BOOT1 **make sure SD emuMMC is set to ON! (yellow box in photo)**

10. Press the power button and click Close when finished

11. Click SD emuMMC RAW GPP and press the power button (this will take a couple minutes)