Ok, it HAS to be something with LUMA CFW.
I have DELETED the following titles from my 3DS NAND and had them re-install via a system update (I checked in FBI to make sure they were re-installed)
0004013800000102
0004013800000202
0004800542383841 (NINTENDO DSi Demonstration)
00048005484E4441
If the problem is being caused by title:
0004800F484E4C41 I CANNOT DELETE THIS ONE as doing so immediately causes my system to go to the black screen that says "an error has occured" and remains there until I do a sysNAND restore.
Unless there is some way to download 0004800F484E4C41 with 3DNUS and install it with FBI to see if that fixes it, it could be Luma CFW.
The way my system is set up, it will not boot without the SD card with luma in it.
Is there some way to disable Luma CFW temporally to test if it's Luma causing this issue with my current setup?
I'm going to delete all the titles listed above, including the one that if deleted causes me to sit at "an error has occurred" and them I'm going to try Recovery Mode.
After doing this, I CANNNOT access recovery mode by pressing A+L+R+UP. BRICK LOL. Time to do a NAND Restore.
I'm lost as to what the heck is going on with DS mode at this point!
Any way to disable Luma with my current setup so I can see if Luma is causing this?
I would suggest trying my other suggestion and trying to restore an old copy of your TWLN partition then. However, since you think it might be Luma, if you can find a certain iso site, the CFW Discussions section has something you might be interested in. Search for "AIO A9LH Configurations" and you will find some setups far more complete. Plaillect's guide is great for installing A9LH. My collection is for completing the experience by setting up everything he doesn't provide. I doubt the problem is Luma, but it can't hurt to try the other 6 CFWs and 4 other boot managers (I'd suggest starting with BootCTR9, it's my personal setup). If you can't find the iso site, there's an extremely stripped down version of the files
here, but try to find the proper release, because it includes every file you need already.
Since A9LH won't boot without the sd card, I have 2 questions for you:
1. Suppose I want to upgrade my sd card to a bigger sd card, can I just put in the new card and work? Or can I just straight up copy the existing card content to the new card via windows explore? Or do I have to image the existing card and restore to the new card in order to copy over the emuNAND (if stored in the hidden sector)?
2. How do I boot without sd card?
1. All the system needs in order to boot is "arm9loaderhax.bin" from your CFW or boot manager of choice (BootCTR9 needs its "arm9bootloader.bin" as well). So, technically, all you really need on a new card are "arm9loaderhax.bin" and your CFW's folder (in this case, that would be "luma" of course). You'll probably want the homebrew in your "3ds" folder, your HBL payload, your HB boot menu (boot.3dsx), etc. as well, though. So, it's perfectly understandable if you just want to back it all up and copy it to the new card. That's what most people do. Assuming you deleted EmuNAND like the guide suggests, there's nothing there to backup, so, just the card's contents. It's the "Nintendo 3DS" folder on the card you need to transfer over in order to keep your games and saves. Again, though, it depends on what you're trying to do. If you're setting up a second card to run more games and/or emulators, you would want to leave that folder out and let the system create a new one, for example. But if you're switching to a bigger card that's going to replace the previous one, you want to include it.
2. You don't. Yet, anyway. There are some on-NAND CFWs, but they hardly seem worth it to me. If the card reader breaks, I'll buy a new one and solder it on. In the unlikely event I destroy the system in the process, it was broken anyway, and now I've got an excuse to buy a shiny new "Hyrule Edition" model. An emergency NAND CFW would really only be useful if you have a Sky3DS+ anyway, since a broken card reader only leaves one place to load games from. I do own a Sky+, but I still wouldn't want to run a system that way. As soon as the card reader could get here, it would be coming apart.
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Psionic Roshambo:
like a 250 dollar kit back when DDR4 was Intel only
