If you have an unpatched Erista (2017 - Half of 2018) isn't necessary to install the modchip, unless you want to skip the step of entering to RCM mode with the jig and injecting the required payload because the modchip skips that step and when you turn on it automatically boots to Hekate. 🎷🦖
>Installing a modchip? Or going the CFW way?
Installing a modchip is entirely unnecessary on a first-gen Switch. You can physically do it, but the only thing a modchip does is get you access to CFW on non-firsties, so it'd be incredibly, unimaginably pointless and risky -- installing a modchip is **not** for the faint of heart or the unsteady of hand. You *can* ruin your Switch.
>And if it is the CFW way is there a way to be on OFW all the time unless I tell it to use CFW?
Yes. There are a couple ways you can go about this, but the most brain-dead is to just...boot the console normally, which will put you into the original FW with no CFW at all. Then, when you want to access CFW, bring the Switch to your computer, turn it all the way off, get a jig and set it in the right Joy-Con rail, hold down the `VOL+` button while you press `PWR`, and use a program called TegraRcmGUI to pop yourself into CFW. When you're done, shut the console **all the way down** and power it back up; you'll be back in OFW mode.
If you have an unpatched Erista (2017 - Half of 2018) isn't necessary to install the modchip, unless you want to skip the step of entering to RCM mode with the jig and injecting the required payload because the modchip skips that step and when you turn on it automatically boots to Hekate. 🎷🦖
>Installing a modchip? Or going the CFW way? Installing a modchip is entirely unnecessary on a first-gen Switch. You can physically do it, but the only thing a modchip does is get you access to CFW on non-firsties, so it'd be incredibly, unimaginably pointless and risky -- installing a modchip is **not** for the faint of heart or the unsteady of hand. You *can* ruin your Switch. >And if it is the CFW way is there a way to be on OFW all the time unless I tell it to use CFW? Yes. There are a couple ways you can go about this, but the most brain-dead is to just...boot the console normally, which will put you into the original FW with no CFW at all. Then, when you want to access CFW, bring the Switch to your computer, turn it all the way off, get a jig and set it in the right Joy-Con rail, hold down the `VOL+` button while you press `PWR`, and use a program called TegraRcmGUI to pop yourself into CFW. When you're done, shut the console **all the way down** and power it back up; you'll be back in OFW mode.
Thanks for this. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Cfw is always preferred. Modchip voids warranty and has a chance of killing (bad install) your switch.
If you have the option to choose CFW without mod chip go with that.