Atmosphere VS HATS

Knock yourself out: https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/releases

The Nintendo Switch is a great console for sideloading. There are numerous ports of PC titles like Quake and Half-Life, as well as a library of Homebrew games and modding tools. If you've got an original Nintendo Switch there's practically no excuse not to crack it, unless you intend to play online.

Same goes for the 3DS, too. You can now play Virtual Boy games using the built-in 3D screen, which enables preservation of Nintendo's darkest age (with or without their approval). I have soft-modded versions of both the Switch and 3DS, and recommend it to anyone that wants that experience.

If you want an Xbox or Playstation console, buy the SOC from AMD. They sell them on Alibaba and get the same support Microsoft and Sony recieve (read: dogshit). Most people would agree that it's wiser to not use console hardware for PC software when you can build a superior machine for a lower price. But hey, if you wanna waste time and money be my guest.

Official Atmosphere documentation on Exosphere states:

SOLVED, I needed to use this pre-release version of atmosphere. https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/releases/tag/1.5.4

This might be a good source https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/releases

Not yet, but there is an Atmosphere feature request for it.

Download this https://github.com/sthetix/HATS/releases/download/Latest/HATS.zip extract all to the root of your sd card and overwrite if prompted.. your good to go!

download this and replace the files on your SD card.

Download the HATS pack, has all the tolls you will ever need to put on your SD Card as well as a hekate_ipl.ini with CFW sysmmc

Try booting into hekate payload instead. You can do a simple install with the HATS pack on GitHub. https://github.com/sthetix/HATS

The common issues that prevent Tinfoil from working are that the system clock isn't synchronized, and/or you're missing sigpatches. If it's the latter, you'll need to find the sigpatches file online. One of the easier ways is to reinstall hekate, atmosphere, tinfoil, and sigpatches using the hats pack found here.

I've installed modchip on Lite. It shows the "no sd card" logo. I've tried both hekate official gitthub and HATS packages loaded into an SD card, but it gives a black screen. It returns to no sd card when I press the power button for 10 seconds after removing the sd card.

If you haven't fixed just grab this after you read it over. It has the latest. Sthetix HATS pack

I assume you updated hekate already, but try a clean SD card and use the latest HATS only and see if that works.

What you have is a payload injector, which is designed to allow for you to boot into a select payload without a computer. The payload on the SX OS ones looks for a boot.dat file for instructions, which is usually for SX OS. Thankfully the SX Gear boot.dat file lets you boot into any payload using that same payload. What you want is a copy of the sx gear boot.dat and boot.ini files, which are included in Sthetix's HATS pack. From there edit the boot.ini to point to the hekate payload on your micro sd card.