Hacking Can you finally coldboot CFW?

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Is it possible to coldboot into gateway EMUnand? I have games as CIA and as 3ds on my Gateway :P
You cant cold boot into gateway emunand, but you can reuse your gateway emunand with rxTools and maintain ALL of the saves and installed CIAs in the process. I just switched over 5 3ds's for my family/friends from gateway emunand to rxtools emunand and all of our saves, and cias work perfectly. Just make sure you have bigbluedevmenu installed as a CIA before you make the switch. It was surprisingly easy and now I get to enjoy the ease of having a gateway and never needing to use it to boot :)
 

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You cant cold boot into gateway emunand, but you can reuse your gateway emunand with rxTools and maintain ALL of the saves and installed CIAs in the process. I just switched over 5 3ds's for my family/friends from gateway emunand to rxtools emunand and all of our saves, and cias work perfectly. Just make sure you have bigbluedevmenu installed as a CIA before you make the switch. It was surprisingly easy and now I get to enjoy the ease of having a gateway and never needing to use it to boot :)

But you can't use the Gateway red card anymore to play 3DS roms, right?
 

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But you can't use the Gateway red card anymore to play 3DS roms, right?
I checked to be sure, I've never opted into using the red card to boot games but he did mention his .3ds games. I definitely can no longer hit select to boot into games on my red card. IIRC through another long process you convert your .3ds into cia's and I think there was a save converter/editor out in the wild.
 

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I was wondering if it was possible for one to code a 3DSX file that points to the Gateway launcher.dat? As opposed to pointing to RxTools or CakesFW.

I still think GW emuNAND is superior to CFW for my use (despite needing hardware inserted) because when i build CIA files from my ROMs, i don't have to fool around in hex-editors making the out-of-region games region-free.
 

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I guess I could setup a coldboot for rxtools and when I want to use gateway I hold L and then use gateway mset?
 

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Holding L skips autoboot, from there if you'd like to use gateway mode, you could use the current gateway exploit (go.gateway-3ds.com)

Afaik they both use the same emunand, it shouldn't cause any problems, I created and updated my emunand via gateway, but use it with rxtools only
Hey, just to give an update. I've now got everything set up perfectly with 9.2 gateway/rxtools "dual boot". Took some doing and research but I got there. Thanks for your helpful pointers!
 

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