It's time consuming but if you follow the guide carefully you should be fine.
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3DS HOMEBREW Discussion Thread [exploits/carts/applications/games]
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It's time consuming but if you follow the guide carefully you should be fine.
It's significantly less time consuming than it used to be. I've done the hack three times (myself and for my sister and her bf) and it's so much easier now than before.
The only issue I had was my usb micro SD reader blew up, meaning I had to rely on a hacked together cable I made which wasn't the most stable thing ever
punkmaggit
Member
The guy forgot to wipe it before selling it to me - can I do a factory reset and still be on the same firmware? Also, it looks like the Cubic Ninja hack only works on systems up to 10.3.0 - any suggestions on the best way to go?
Can't help as far as that goes I did it when on 9.90.
Quick question. I've been trying the DS CIA forwarder stuff, since someone told me my card (an R4i RTS 3DS from r4ids.cn) was supposed to work. I've created the forwarder and installed it as a CIA without issues. But I don't know if the white screens I'm getting are due to my card actually not being compatible or because I messed up the installation on the microSD of the files created by the program.
Where am I supposed to put the .dat and .nds files created alongside the .cia?
Where am I supposed to put the .dat and .nds files created alongside the .cia?
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
how much time should i set apart to do the a9lh guide from part 4?
About an hour and a half for part 4 and another hour for part 5.
I just finished one on Monday. Took me 3 hours to do part 4 and 5.
Elaugaufein
Member
You can do other things for a fair bit of that time since its Dumping / Flashing NAND and testing stuff that it tells you about the end , so you don't have to watch it with eagle eyes,
Yeah, i should mention that I was rearranging files on the computer to make room for the nand backups while the 3ds was working. Also, I had a raging headache. Pretty sure that slowed me down a bit.
Cubic Ninja works up to 10.7 I thought?
punkmaggit
Member
It does! Downgraded to 9.2 tonight but am getting stuck on the RedNAND part.
What's the hang up?
punkmaggit
Member
I can't get the firmware version to read EMU at the top. Gonna give it another shot today.
You probably didn't select the "display NAND type" option on the Luma config screen. You can delete the config.bin file from the luma folder on your SD card and the config screen will appear again the next time you launch Luma.
Tokyo Rain
Member
punkmaggit
Member
There actually wasn't any sort of prompt on the puna screen. It just went black everytime I tried to load it. I will try your suggestion though. Thanks
Dragon1893
Member
Hi guys. As someone who only wants to get rid of the region lock to import games from the US, whar's the cheapest option?
Cubic Ninja is insanely expensive everywhere. Looking at the chart in the op there don't seem to be a lot of options for me. I have an old XL.
Cubic Ninja is insanely expensive everywhere. Looking at the chart in the op there don't seem to be a lot of options for me. I have an old XL.
Robin64
Member
What's your firmware version?
Dragon1893
Member
It's up to date, not sure what the number is.
Robin64
Member
Need to know. Go to your Settings and see. Everything depends on that number.
Keep Select pressed while booting Luma and it should show the config screen.
Same exact thing happened for me, never found a solution and eventually gave up on homebrew because I needed to access the eShop again. Please post if you find a solution. It's too late for me, but I'm curious.
Dragon1893
Member
OK, will check once I have it with me.
Young Magus
Junior Member
sorry bro. You're locked out of downgrading, possibly permanently as all of the available exploits have been patched with that firmware. You can either buy another 3DS on a lower firmware/sell yours or wait for a new exploit - but there's no saying if or when it will ever happen.
You can still run some userland hacks though if you have the supported games.
There are few ways of getting Homebrew menu to launch on 11.0, which in turns allows you to run Hans, which can be sort-of used for limited region-free capacity.
Freakyforms Deluxe exploit still works on 11.0
Pokemon ORAS and Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon exploits work on 11.0 (but are secondary, meaning you will have to find someone with access to homebrew to install it on your cart's savegame)
Rich's suggestion is the best though, the above will only give you something clunky, nowhere near the comfort of CFW.
That's interesting. I'm surprised -- you would think that an app with the sole purpose of running the user's custom code would be the sort of thing that had to undergo extremely strict checking before it was allowed to be released. Apparently not strict enough!
Young Magus
Junior Member
sorry bro. You're locked out of downgrading, possibly permanently as all of the available exploits have been patched with that firmware. You can either buy another 3DS on a lower firmware/sell yours or wait for a new exploit - but there's no saying if or when it will ever happen.
You can still run some userland hacks though if you have the supported games.
Life not fair.
I just wanna play neogeo, cps and snes/genesis on the go.
bahamut zero
Member
Well, you could always hardmod....
Daniel Jackson
Member
Life not fair.
I just wanna play neogeo, cps and snes/genesis on the go.
You can still do that. Basic homebrew, such as emulators, will run just fine on 11.0
It's just a bit less convenient, as you'll have to run the eploitable game every time and trigger the exploit.
AFAIK emulators run terrible under 11.0 (something to do with not having proper Kernel access for speedups).
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Deleted member 126221
Unconfirmed Member
You'll be able to access the homebrew channel and use basic homebrews like emulators, but you won't be able to downgrade your console to install a custom firmware.
Young Magus
Junior Member
Will the smash expolit will tho?
That and OoT are the only xpolit games I own. ooT doent work by the looks of it
Double
Melhisedek
Member
Guys is it true that you get better battery life without the emunand? And if yes how much is it? I mean is it worth it to change to systemnand?
Elaugaufein
Member
Yes, you won't read from the SD as much. If you're mainly running CIAs / Eshop games it won't make much difference at all, since they still read / write the SD. If you're using Carts it'll make a noticeable difference. If you're comfortable setting up a9lh there's really no reason not to and convert to SysNAND (a9lh happens before emuNAND is launched by other methods so anything that would destroy a9lh sysNAND would be capable of knocking out emuNAND anyway). Just remember not to to do a System Update on SysNAND on Gateway mode since it doesn't block FIRM updates (best case you end up on real 11.0 with only userland worst case you brick). Luma does though, so you can update on it.
Young Magus
Junior Member
So I found out that:
1.) The smash hax still works for my firmware.
2.) I have a extra n3dsxl still around collecting dust. Last updated last year to 10.2.0-28u
Again I just want to run emulation on my n3ds. Should I use the older xl haxs (and what are they) or go with smashhax
1.) The smash hax still works for my firmware.
2.) I have a extra n3dsxl still around collecting dust. Last updated last year to 10.2.0-28u
Again I just want to run emulation on my n3ds. Should I use the older xl haxs (and what are they) or go with smashhax
Elaugaufein
Member
What version is your New System on ? Plailect's a9lh guide is pretty much state of the art. Even if you only want menuhax just follow the part that sets that up.
It's on the latest firmware, so I don't think I can hack it.
Elaugaufein
Member
Yeah, You're probably best off doing Plailect's on your old 3DS , then using that to OoTHax then.
Ouch. I went through part 1 to 5 of the Plailect guide only to get stuck at restoring the emunand original file in hourglass. It goes to verify and says "failed, file is corrupt!" despite the byte size being perfect. I am not even sure where to go after this. I guess the 3DS against the wall? haha.
First try copying the backup file (and its SHA counterpart) to the SD card again, in case it became corrupted in the previous transfer. If you still get the error you should contact the developer in the official Hourglass9 thread on gbatemp. He's usually very helpful with providing support for his utilities.
Even if that backup is toast you should be able to restore the system to a functional state with one of the other backups you made. Unfortunately that would mean your saves for any downloaded games and system titles would be gone.
Ah thanks! I think the sha -might-have been corrupt. I downgraded hourglass to the version right before the newest which does not have sha verification. I went through the restore process and it worked fine. It runs perfectly now!
Daniel Jackson
Member
I've never experienced any save problems at all. I'm using the 1.3.3 stable releases.