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Using Forwarders
Guide Information
Create shortcuts to homebrew applications and RetroArch games on your home screen next to your game icons.
- 10+ Minutes
What You Need
- Unpatched/Modchipped Switch
- MicroSD Card (64GB+)
- Lockpick_RCM
- prod.keys
- Menu_vx.xxx_AIO.zip
- Windows PC
- Installing forwarders will result in a ban if you connect to Nintendo.
- Forwarders may break after updating firmware/CFW and will need recreating.
- All credit for this forwarder creation tool goes to the users on GBATemp mentioned in the first post on the link below.
Forwarder Tool Set Up
- Visit GBATemp and download the Menu_vx.xxx_AIO.zip located at the bottom of the first post by clicking the link below.
Create a new folder called Forwarder on your desktop.
- Extract the Menu_vx.xxx_AIO.zip to the Forwarder folder.
Backup prod.keys
- Download the software from the link below.
- Put your Switch into RCM and inject the Lockpick_RCM.bin.
- Select Dump from sysNAND. Your Switch will inform you Lockpick dumped the prod.keys to the switch folder on your microSD card.
- Exit back to the Lockpick home screen.
- Either reboot to Hekate or power off and copy the prod.keys from the switch folder on your microSD card to the Forwarder folder on your desktop.
Creating Icons & Logos
- Download or create an image for the icon which will appear on the home screen for the forwarder you are creating (the image must be 256 x 256 Pixels and be in .jpg format).
- Open the image in Microsoft Paint and click File > Save As > BMP picture.
- Open the .bmp image in Microsoft Paint and click File > Save As > JPEG picture (this will ensure the image is in the correct format).
- (Optional) Download or create an image for the logo which will appear on the top left of the screen when you open the forwarder (the image must be 160 x 40 Pixels and be in .png format).
Create Forwarders For Homebrew Apps
- Open the Forwarder folder on your desktop and run the Menu x.xx beta.exe.
- In the ‘Application Name’ box, type the name of the forwarder you are creating. For example: 90DNS Tester.
- In the ‘Author Name’ box type whatever you like. This can be your name or the devs name who created the app. For example: meganukebmp created the 90DNS tester app.
- In the ‘Title ID’ box there will already be a number added. Click on the ‘Random’ button to generate a spoofed title ID (forwarders don’t have a real title ID because they are not official software).
- In the ‘Icon Path’ box click ‘Browse’ and navigate to the icon you created for your homebrew app forwarder.
- You can leave the ‘Logo Path’ box as default, or click ‘Browse’ and navigate to the logo you created.
- Ensure the ‘Standard Nro Forwarder’ option is ticked.
- In the ‘Nro Path’ box enter: switch/Switch_90DNS_tester.nro
- Click ‘Create Forwarder’.
- The .nsp file for your forwarder will be in the Forwarder/NSP folder.
- Install the .nsp and your forwarder will now be on your home screen next to your games.
Create Forwarders For RetroArch Games
- Open the Forwarder folder on your desktop and run the Menu x.xx beta.exe.
- In the ‘Application Name’ box, type the name of the forwarder you are creating. For example: Super Mario World.
- In the ‘Author Name’ box type whatever you like. This can be your name or the publisher name who created the game. For example: Nintendo created the Super Mario World game.
- In the ‘Title ID’ box there will already be a number added. Click on the ‘Random’ button to generate a spoofed title ID (forwarders don’t have a real title ID because they are not official software).
- In the ‘Icon Path’ box click ‘Browse’ and navigate to the icon you created for your RetroArch game forwarder.
- You can leave the ‘Logo Path’ box as default, or click ‘Browse’ and navigate to the logo you created.
- Ensure the ‘RetroArch Rom Forwarder’ option is ticked.
- In the ‘Core Path’ box enter the core location (on your microSD card) and name of the RetroArch core you use to run games for this system. For example: retroarch/cores/snes9x_libretro_libnx.nro. (yours will be different depending on where the folders/files are located on your microSD card).
- In the ‘Rom Path’ box you need to put the rom location (on your microSD card) and the name of the game. For example: retroarch/downloads/SNES/Super Mario World.smc. (yours will be different depending on where the folders/files are located on your microSD card).
- Click ‘Create Forwarder’.
- The .nsp file for your forwarder will be in the Forwarder/NSP folder.
- Install the .nsp and your forwarder will now be on your home screen next to your games.