I was running Atmosphere 1.7.1 and firmware 17.0.1Everything was working fine, except Link’s Awakening, which I wanted to play.
I thought that it might be a problem with the NSP I had, so I got the MiG version. Same problem, the game hangs on the Nintendo loading screen.
So I went and updated Atmosphere to 1.9.1. Luckily this is easy, just replace the files. That didn’t help.
I updated firmware to 19.0.1. Needed to remember how to boot into Title Override again (hold R while booting any game), since the applet mode was giving me an error.That allowed me to play Link’s Awakening and any other game on MiG, but all my installed NSP games stopped working.
Went through the motions again. Installed sys-patch, which is again easy, since it’s just replacing some files. That helped. Now everything seems to be working.
I also patched the hosts file and the WiFi connection, in hopes that the console won’t try to download official updates again, as those display annoying message every time you try to launch any game.