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EdiZon

For cheats management, EdiZon and/or EdiZon-SE (up to date and offers more features) are recommended. They offer support for Atmosphere's cheat engine, providing an easy way to download new cheats, as well as toggle them on or off.

Installation requirements:

  • An archive manager like 7-Zip
  • The latest release of EdiZon (the EdiZon.nro file) or EdiZon-SE (the EdiZon.zip file)

EdiZon overlay

EdiZon also offers a Tesla-Menu overlay, however, the official EdiZon overlay is no longer maintained and will result in Atmosphere crashing when trying to use the EdiZon overlay on firmware version 16.0.0+. The maintained EdiZon overlay can be found here.

  1. Boot into Hekate and go to Tools > USB Tools > SD Card, then plug your Switch into your PC via USB.
  2. Your microSD card should now be accessible on your PC, open it.
  3. Put the EdiZon.nro in sd:/switch.
  4. Boot into CFW.
  1. Boot into Hekate and go to Tools > USB Tools > SD Card, then plug your Switch into your PC via USB.
  2. Your microSD card should now be accessible on your PC, open it.
  3. Extract the .zip file to a location on your computer.
    • If your archive manager allows for it, you can also simply open the .zip file directly.
  4. Copy the contents of the (extracted) .zip file to the root of your microSD card.
    • Optional: You can verify if you've installed EdiZon-SE correctly, you should have a folder called 054e4f4558454000 (EdiZon-SE) in sd:/atmosphere/contents and an EdiZon.nro file in sd:/switch/EdiZon.
  5. Boot into CFW.

Usage instructions

Atmosphère looks for cheats to load in the contents sub-folder of the atmosphere folder. The template it looks for is sd:/atmosphere/contents/<title_id>/cheats/<build_id>.txt. You need to create the <title_id> folder and sub-folders manually:

  • title_id being the title or program of a game. This is game specific and can be found on EdiZon's cheat menu (TID and BID, see the bottom of this page for a sample), switchbrew and nswdb.

    • Note: Title ID means the same thing as Program ID.

  • build_id being the version of a game. This is game specific and can be found on EdiZon's cheat menu (BID, see the bottom of this page for a sample) Cheats can be version specific so make sure the cheats you are using are compatible with your game version.

Note: On Atmosphère 0.9.4 and below contents is called titles.

Once the title is launched while in Atmosphere, your cheats should be applied.

Preventing cheats from being enabled by default

To prevent cheats from being enabled by default, you can change your Atmosphère configuration by following the steps below.

  1. Copy system_settings.ini from sd:/atmosphere/config_templates to sd:/atmosphere/config if it's not already there.

  2. Open the system_settings.ini file with a text editor and edit the line ; dmnt_cheats_enabled_by_default = u8!0x1 to dmnt_cheats_enabled_by_default = u8!0x0.

    • Make sure you remove the space and the semicolon ";" in front of dmnt_cheats_enabled_by_default.

By default, holding the L button while launching a game will disable any game modification.

Here the Title ID of the game (TID) is 0100646009FBE000 and the Build ID of the game (BID) is 0B9A75586BC1A6C6. Cheats are loaded from sd:/atmosphere/contents/0100646009FBE000/cheats/0B9A75586BC1A6C6.txt in this example.

ExampleGameCheat

Additional information:

For more in-depth details about Atmosphere's cheat engine, you can refer to this page.

Troubleshooting

EdiZon isn't showing up when I open the Homebrew menu!:

Assuming you've followed the installation instructions successfully, this is probably due to the archive bit being set on one or more folders/files on your microSD card. This is usually the result of copying files to a microSD card via a Mac. If you are experiencing this issue, try running the archive bit fixer utility via Hekate for all files.

This can be done by booting into Hekate and going to Tools > Arch bit • RCM Touch • Pkg1/2 > Fix Archive Bit.