Hacking Remove Region Lock from a CIA

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I've seen numerous CIAs that say they are region free hacked (and they are, Project Mirai 2 runs great), but how do I do this myself? I would first need to convert from 3DS to CIA, which there are plenty of threads about. I have a 3DS of New Love Plus Plus (JP) and I want to patch it so I can install and play it with Pasta CFW.
 

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These tutorials are based off having a GW and being on FW 4.5, I don't have either of those things. I'm running Pasta CFW on 9.2.
 

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I created two CIA today using your soft, Riku. (v2.0b)
I can't try on another region 3DS but are these CIA supposed to be region free?
 

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I created two CIA today using your soft, Riku. (v2.0b)
I can't try on another region 3DS but are these CIA supposed to be region free?
No, those are region locked. To create region free CIAs use v3.0, I released it just a few hours ago (RegionFree+MinFW Spoof+Batch file processing added).
 

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Well I don't need it so I'm gonna keep the CIAs I created today using v2.0b but I'll take this new version for the future conversion.
Otherwise, great work, really easy to use.
 

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Same crap here
I posted that a while back, but I actually found myself an answer. If you own RxTools, it doesn't need to be region-free, but if you'r not, check if your emuNAND supports Region Free or not.
 

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Hey,

so how to make it region free now if you already have a CIA file? I have sysNand 9.2 and i am using emuNand with the latest update. Can someone explain to me them way you explain it to a dummy please...
 

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Yep, I have the us cia The legend of zelda minish cap on my eur 3ds installed, as far as I know, this game wasnt released in the eur eshop, so the only way to play it for me is to make it region free. Anyone? Ideas?
 

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To make a cia region free manually. Decrypt and unpack the game, go to /exeFS and edit "icon.bin" with an hex editor, go to ofset 0x2018 and replace the firt 4 couple of numbers by "FF FF FF 7F".

 
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