Basic CFW Setup (No Kosmos/SDSetup)

For those of you looking to have a more 'vanilla' version of atmosphere and actually learn how to properly apply it to your switch without relying on SDSetup or Kosmos read ahead. This will also teach you WHY you are doing everything you are doing so you can learn on your own; thus allowing you to update different aspects of your CFW at your leisure instead of just waiting for a dump.

This guide assumes you have a brain and also know the basics about CFW injection/RCM.

1.) Download Hekate: https://github.com/CTCaer/hekate and atmosphere: https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/releases and put these on your SD Card

Congratulations. Your switch still won't boot atmosphere when launching hekate. The reason is you need a hekate_ipl.ini file in the bootloader folder to actually tell hekate what options you want to boot. Options/Examples can be found on the main hekate page (https://github.com/CTCaer/hekate/blob/master/res/hekate_ipl_template.ini). If you are a lazy piece of shit you can just follow this template I made, please note this does not include emuMMC and should only be used as a base:

[config]
autoboot=0
autoboot_list=0
bootwait=2
verification=1
backlight=100
autohosoff=0
autonogc=1
{------ Atmosphere ------}
[Atmosphere]
fss0=atmosphere/fusee-secondary.bin
atmosphere=1
kip1patch=nosigchk
emummc_force_disable=1
{-------- Stock ---------}
[Official Firmware]
fss0=atmosphere/fusee-secondary.bin
stock=1
emummc_force_disable=1

Save that as 'hekate_ipl.ini' and place it in your bootloader folder (don't actually do this, make your own). Congrats, you should now be able to boot atmosphere. Oh wait, you can't play pirated games!

2.) Apply FS/ES Patches

FS patches are applied through hekate and allow the switch to play 'foreign' NSPs (nsps that aren't even switch games, as an example). This is why you launch atmosphere through hekate at all times and not just through fusee-primary; hekate is what 'pushes' the FS patches onto atmosphere. ES patches are applied through atmosphere and allow you to play pirated vidya. As a result, the FS patches go in the bootloader folder and the ES patches go in the atmosphere folder. Grab both here: https://github.com/Joonie86/hekate/releases

What you are aiming for is the (shittily named) Kosmos folder, not with the bootconfig because you already made a bootconfig, remember? Now recall what I mentioned 4 seconds ago about FS patches going in the bootloader folder and es patches going into the atmosphere folder so they can both be applied. Drag and drop the folders in their respective destinations and you're done.

3.) Homebrew/Piracy

If you got this far you're not retarded, figure the rest out. I actually recommend using https://sdsetup.com/ from here on out since it has all the Cool Homebrew™ all in one place that you can sift through. Have fun