Title Installers

Title installers allow you to install legal and illegal backups to your Nintendo Switch. The four most well known installers are Tinfoil, Awoo Installer, and Goldleaf

Benefits ✨

  • Allows custom theming

  • Only title installer to have shop functionality

  • Can backup save files

  • Can act as cheat manager

  • Can manage tickets

  • Has NCA verification so that you don't install modified files, but this can be turned off

  • Has its own USB installer program called NUT

  • Uses titledb to automatically fetch covers and blurbs for games

  • Updates frequently

  • Supports NSZ and XCZ formats

  • Installs itself to nand for faster performance

  • Has file browser

  • Can download from a private shared drive

Detriments 📛

  • Has been known to include offensive statements within the installer

  • Some features are locked away behind a SX OS license

  • Not open source

  • Has shop DRM built in

Benefits ✨

  • Can download through public Google Drive links

  • Supports USB installing through NS-USBloader

  • Installs quickly

  • Supports NSZ and XCZ file formats

  • Has NCA verification

  • You can turn off the anime

  • Based on Old Tinfoil

  • Has translations

  • Updates semi-frequently

Detriments 📛

  • Doesn't support shops

  • Cannot manage tickets

  • Doesn't have a file browser

  • Built in sigpatches aren't maintained

Benefits ✨

  • Can change avatar to custom image

  • Supports USB installing using Quark

  • Integrated emuiibo manager

  • Has web browser

  • User friendly interface

  • Can locally unlink Nintendo accounts from local accounts

  • Can dump system firmware

  • Can manage tickets

Detriments 📛

  • Not frequently updated

  • Randomly fails when installing

  • Cannot download from any cloud service

  • Does not have NCA verification

  • Does not have forwarder support

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