MilkLizard
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I'm doing the OTP process on a N3DS without a hardmod, wish me luck!! No way to upgrade back from 2.0 as things stand, but there should be imminently.
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I'm doing the OTP process on a N3DS without a hardmod, wish me luck!! No way to upgrade back from 2.0 as things stand, but there should be imminently.
I'm doing the OTP process on a N3DS without a hardmod, wish me luck!! No way to upgrade back from 2.0 as things stand, but there should be imminently.
OTP process? What did I miss?
My edited sysnand is restoring now. Eeeeeek.
It'll either work or it will brick. No inbetween.
If it bricks I'll need to install a hardmod to recover 3DS.
Good luck, can't believe you would risk it at this point. It's bound to get safer and you can't even restore it yet.
Good luck, can't believe you would risk it at this point. It's bound to get safer and you can't even restore it yet.
Progress has been made just recently to support booting Decrypt9 from the browser on 2.1. Testing is in progress to restore NAND backups. Initial results indicate successful NAND restores.
OTP stands for one time password. It is something unique to every 3DS. Think of it as a unique key. It can only be exploited on firmware 2.x or lower. Nintendo patched the vulnerability starting from 3.0.
It allows us to use an arm9 hack, rather than arm11. Basically executing code before a coldboot, and more importantly before coldboot security kicks in. Uses for this are no need for an emunand as sysnand will be fully open to anything, including every update Nintendo puts out going forward. Think PSP levels of CFW.
To get it right now is incredibly risky unless you have a hardmod. On a N3DS especially as we have to downgrade our emunand to 2.1, which bricks it, then backup the bricked emunand via sysnand and hex edit it on a PC. After editing it, we have to run sysnand restore on sysnand with the edited file and pray that afterwards sysnand will boot on 2.1.
On an O3DS you can just downgrade sysnand directly to 2.1 from 9.2, but this is still risky. That can't be done on a N3DS as no N3DS ever came with 2.1 firmware.
The next big issue for N3DS is there is currently no way other than via a hardmod to upgrade from 2.1. This is because the hex editing above tricks the N3DS into being an O3DS and if you use a gamecart to upgrade to 4.x~8.x where you can run an emunand restore app it will brick outright. We are currently waiting on a 2.x browserhack which can restore a 9.2 sysnand backup without the need to go to 4.x+.
Basically if anyone shat it before to downgrade to 9.2, stay clear of the current OTP process like the plague.
The next big issue for N3DS is there is currently no way other than via a hardmod to upgrade from 2.1. This is because the hex editing above tricks the N3DS into being an O3DS and if you use a gamecart to upgrade to 4.x~8.x where you can run an emunand restore app it will brick outright. We are currently waiting on a 2.x browserhack which can restore a 9.2 sysnand backup without the need to go to 4.x+.
Wouldn't this stop N3DS enhanced games from recognizing the CCP and faster CPU speed? Seems like a pretty big drawback. but maybe an NTR-like could fix that. Still seems not worth the risk just for faster boots but good luck anyway
Wouldn't this stop N3DS enhanced games from recognizing the CPP and faster CPU speed? Seems like a pretty big drawback. but maybe an NTR-like could fix that. Still seems not worth the risk just for faster boots but good luck anyway
Wouldn't this stop N3DS enhanced games from recognizing the CPP and faster CPU speed? Seems like a pretty big drawback. but maybe an NTR-like could fix that. Still seems not worth the risk just for faster boots but good luck anyway
We're only doing this to get a N3DS down to 2.1. It never shipped with a FW as low as that so some jiggery pokery is needed. Once we get the OTP file on 2.1, you go back up to 9.2 (N3DS).
By the way, success!!! It black-screened on first boot and I crapped it. Removed sdcard and it booted fine
Nice, congrats! I guess this downgrade could end up being potentially safer than the -10.3 one since memchunkhax2 is so unstable.
Hm. I might do this.
We're only doing this to get a N3DS down to 2.1. It never shipped with a FW as low as that so some jiggery pokery is needed. Once we get the OTP file on 2.1, you go back up to 9.2 (N3DS).
By the way, success!!! It black-screened on first boot and I crapped it. Removed sdcard and it booted fine
As you can imagine 3D is completely broke, running in O3DS mode on a N3DS.
Congratz, you did great work there! I really hope once the ARM9 Loader is exploited there will be a better way to do all this, even though I doubt it so I'm mentally preparing myself to do the ride once OTP dumping really becomes useful.
Wow, you guys are troopers. I'm still too chicken to do a simple downgrade on my Majora n3DS! At this point I think I'll wait to see what happens with the account integration next month.
I'm glad to see quick developments like this. This is the Wii all over again.
ReiNand has some preliminary support. I'm just stuck on 2.1 now till the browser sysnand restore is ready. Dumped my a9f.bin file okay (OTP).
Can confirm a 128GB card will not work. So if you try this and think you've bricked like me, remove your sdcard on reboot
Ah I presume this is the faster boot that was mentioned? I hope you can upgrade quickly again. I won't do it just yet, my new 3DS is running 100% perfect now like I want it and I don't want to undo that for no tangible benefit for the moment
Ok not sure if it's public yet, but the build of Decrypt9 converted to work on 2.1 worked for me! I restored a gateway nand backup I did before I downgraded and I'm back to 9.2.
Back to 9.2, phew, ordeal over, OTP obtained, success!
Got a link to the guide you used?
3DSFAT16tool.exe -d -n emuNAND.bin ctr.bin nand.fat16_0x5_xorpad
3DSFAT16tool.exe -i -o emuNAND.bin ctr.bin nand.fat16_0x4_xorpad
move emuNAND.bin sysNAND.bin
del ctr.bin
Got a link to the guide you used?
Got a guide?
2) How can I play GBA VC Titles? I read somewhere that you have to install them both on the SysNAND and on the EmuNAND but I was confused a little bit. What's the easiest/best way to do this? I have a N3DS btw if it makes any difference.
dont bother, not worth the hassle. only advantage to it against emulation is better battery life. install this CIA build of gpsp, make sure you have gba_bios.bin in the retroarch system folder on your SD (find it on google if you dont have it already).
https://ianburgwin.net/2015-11-23_RetroArch_cia.7z
the gpsp cia is in there. Runs all GBA titles full speed with no slowdown. save state support, scaling options, button remapping, suspend/resume, etc.
1) First I created a NAND backup and then reformatted my SD card. From what I understand this stores an EmuNAND copy in a different partition of my SD Card.
If I want to use a different SD card in the future do I have to repeat the same process, so make another NAND backup and then reformat the new SD card so that I have another EmuNAND stored there?
2) How can I play GBA VC Titles? I read somewhere that you have to install them both on the SysNAND and on the EmuNAND but I was confused a little bit. What's the easiest/best way to do this? I have a N3DS btw if it makes any difference.
That OTP stuff looks really tasty, but I think I'll wait until the process is more streamlined and, hopefully, safer. And till when there's actually something to do with it
A nice member on GBATemp built my arm9loaderhax.3dsx file for me. No idea how to compile it myself.
Just about to try it ~ Apparently this is the riskiest step. Quite a lot of dev bricks. Although they narrowed it down to it will not compile correctly in linux as things stand and will always result in a brick. Has to be compiled in Windows.
Would love to hear you update us later on your experience. Last time I tried to play Mother 3 it was almost impossible to do the rhythm based stuff in the combat. That was a few years ago on a PSP though.Cool, it looks like it's finally time to try Mother 3 .
Yeb,this just confirm to me to not do right nowThat's me bricked I recommend everyone just avoids this for now. Dumping the OTP.bin seems to be the easy bit, compiling and the running the hack, apparently not so much
I'll need to do a hardmod now.
Would love to hear you update us later on your experience. Last time I tried to play Mother 3 it was almost impossible to do the rhythm based stuff in the combat. That was a few years ago on a PSP though.
Yeb,this just confirm to me to not do right now
I was going to do it , but after this...nope.
Also, the one thing is scaring me is to use tinyformat , it will delete the NNID from 3ds but you can't use it again because from Nintendo side that user is still there in the 3ds.
You have to do it on a device not linked or linked to NNID with nothing bought from the shop.
So,a permanent CFW on sysnand, so it's a emunand or emu sysnand?
Also , DS and dsi games supposed to work on it just like real sysnand?
I've been following the discussing on Temp as best as I could, but I'm still not exactly sure about what the point of this is. I know that we will be able to have all the benefits of CFW on our sysNANDs... but I think I'm OK with my emuNAND for the time being. What other benefits will there be? Because it looks like an awfully risky process just for the convenience of CFW on boot.
Small breakthrough. With the help of another member we seem to have established I am not bricked.
I'm pretty curious about this, myself. As it stands now, (and with it being extraordinarily dangerous on n3DS without a hardmod) I don't see much point for the average user.
Don't get me wrong, this stuff is ridiculously cool to watch develop, but I can't see myself switching from the emuNAND comfort zone.
That said, it's cool to see someone here seeing some success!
I'm pretty curious about this, myself. As it stands now, (and with it being extraordinarily dangerous on n3DS without a hardmod) I don't see much point for the average user.
Don't get me wrong, this stuff is ridiculously cool to watch develop, but I can't see myself switching from the emuNAND comfort zone.
That said, it's cool to see someone here seeing some success!
Got my 3DS back up and running. Booting into sysnand with Rei. I think one of the nicest surprises is 3D works straight away now. No more close the lid bug! lol.