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If anyone's interested in the downgrade method, PM me.
You could also expose the complete procedure here isn't it ? I don't see the point of doing this in PM but, it would not be the first time, i may miss something.
Also someone could post the tool to dump otp on < 3.0 fw, this could save some time for everybody and is 100% legit (well this is maybe the easiest thing but still).

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To @MassExplosion213 : this is not a complain :) Your offer is really cool.
 
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You could also expose the complete procedure here isn't it ? I don't see the point of doing this in PM but, it would not be the first time, i may miss something.
Also someone could post the tool to dump otp on < 3.0 fw, this could save some time for everybody and is 100% legit.

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I'll upload the OTP dumper. But I say PM because update CIAs.
 

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By the way, i will go totally of topic but since there's some nice guys there ....

I'm going to do a "special" hardmod on my n3ds, the question is does someone see a problem with this ? :

- put a conductive thing on each sides of the 3ds gamecards slot, for CLK/CMD
- use gamecard PIN1 for ground and PIN3 (unused?) for DAT0
- make a custom DS CARD with conductive thing on each side (CLK/CMD) + PIN1>ground + PIN3>DAT0 ?

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It's literally just a file write with the source buf being OTP.
Something like:
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f_write(&file, (void*)0x10012000, 0x100 /* or 0x108 */, br);
I tough arm9 on < 3.0 would require special "magic"
 
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The "magic" is getting the arm9 payload running, which so far has only been accomplished with Cubic Ninja.
Ok, like you said me before, and why people are searching for other arm9 hax as you said (which doesn't rely on "norman" arm9 cn hax).
It's now "more clear" to me, thanks again.
 
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You actually can dg right now on any region to 1.0 if you can find them you can dg regardless of region. It's tricky but I did it. Now as to if I'll help.. Well no. Good luck its not hard to figure out[emoji14]I'm not feeling on helping this scene anymore[emoji14]
 

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You actually can dg right now on any region to 1.0 if you can find them you can dg regardless of region. It's tricky but I did it. Now as to if I'll help.. Well no. Good luck its not hard to figure out[emoji14]I'm not feeling on helping this scene anymore[emoji14]
Then why keep posting here?
 
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I have an 9.2 O3DS lying around. I'm planning to have @hundshamer hardmod it along with my N3DS within the next few months anyway so if it bricks downgrading to <3.0 I have a backup and all that. I don't care if I brick my O3DS as I can get it fixed so can someone direct me on how to dump the OTP? Do I simply downgrade using sysupdater and then run Cubic Ninja's OTP dumper?
 

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I have an 9.2 O3DS lying around. I'm planning to have @hundshamer hardmod it along with my N3DS within the next few months anyway so if it bricks downgrading to <3.0 I have a backup and all that. I don't care if I brick my O3DS as I can get it fixed so can someone direct me on how to dump the OTP? Do I simply downgrade using sysupdater and then run Cubic Ninja's OTP dumper?
From what i understand for o3ds :
- get a < 3.0 fw (cia), downgrade with sysUpdatder
- dump otp with the binary posted a few post ago (thanks @MassExplosion213) (need cn or linker/cn + normatt 1.0 qrcode for arm9 to load it)
 
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