Ok, as the IPS Patch Creator Repo goes down to avoid the big N ninjas and the rain of DMCAs the most recent version of IP Patch Creator 1.5.7, with support for FW 18.0.0 and Atmosphère 1.7.0 is here:
OK, So far I know this:
Switch console once is started The boot process start the CPU, then the CPU loads Bootloader from EMMC, the bootloader start the loading of firmware.
For most of us, the custom bootloader is Hekate, for others is...
Atmosphere still works with sig-patches if loaded via package3 and hekate. Or you can just use a modded fusee.bin such as this one that I compiled for the latest atmosphere which has ips kip patches support.
Most modern chips nowadays such as the esp32 variants have their own flash encryption on the chip so it's not just as easy as knowing what kind of chip it is and trying to dump the code from it. If these devs are smart (which I would think that...
Well thanks to MrDude and the release of latest IPSPatchCreator here are the sigpatches for FW18.0.0 :D
OP will be updated when full set of patches get available, there is no new Atmosphère Patches, well, because there is no new Atmosphère yet...