HATS VS Awoo-Installer

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.

Heyyy yo use Awoo Installer, it’s fast it’s clean always up to date, and the best of all it has anime tities built in !!! https://github.com/Huntereb/Awoo-Installer

I know most people here swear by DBI but I have never had it work for me. I used awoo https://github.com/Huntereb/Awoo-Installer on my switch and nsusbloader https://github.com/developersu/ns-usbloader on my PC and they have worked flawlessly for installing all my backups from my computer's HDD. If DBI is giving you trouble maybe try a different installer?

Update: Am now using the Awoo method to install wirelessly with NS-loader on PC and its progressing the install well over 40 percent so far. Maybe the problem was with DBI being on applet mode? I cant remember if that was my mistake earlier. I'll let you know if that XCI ended up legit or not.

That's kind of a broad question. Is the switch already modified and on a recent firmware version? Updating both the software you use for the hacked Switch (like Atmosphere) and updating your firmware are the first things that need to be done. Then it's a matter of installing the game in a way that works for you. Personally I used this Switch app called Awoo combined with NS-USBloader on my PC to easily transfer and install the game over my home connection since I couldn't copy a file that large onto my microSD.

There's no shop but you can use awoo with ns-usbloader

For .nsp and .xci files that you moved from your pc to your switch sd card, you can use an installer like tinfoil (however I prefer awoo installer) to install them as apps on the switch. You might also need to split them into 4gb sections in order to move them to your sd card because of fat32 restrictions. Just search for a guide on splitting nsp files if that's what you want to do.

As the other person said, use a combo like Awoo + NSUSBLoader or DBI installer.