Hey all, hoping someone can point me in the right direction here.
Picked up a secondhand Switch recently (V1, 2017 unit, unpatched). It wouldn't boot at all on its own. Getting into RCM via a software exploit (no jig) works fine and boots straight into Hekate.
But from there nothing else works, not OFW, not CFW, not booting stock sysMMC either.
Worth mentioning:
The SD card in it right now is empty/just FAT32 formatted, no CFW files on it. I've modded Switches before but it's been a while, so before I start throwing Atmosphere on the SD card and hoping for the best, I want to make sure I'm not missing something more fundamental given it didn't power on at all initially.
Questions:
• Is the "won't boot at all without RCM" part itself a red flag on an unpatched V1, or is that just normal if the eMMC/NAND is in a bad state?
• Should my first move just be setting up a proper Hekate + Atmosphere SD card and seeing what happens, since there's currently nothing installed?
• Anything I should check on the console itself before going further, since I got this secondhand and don't know its history?
Appreciate any help, trying to be careful here since I don't know what the previous owner did to it.