After you get the CFW can you go back to the original emunand that you created with gateway?
I think you can,
but all the content dl with the CFW disappears.
tabun.
If it flashes white then black, it means the exploit worked. It should boot into home menu afterwards.
Step 7.
to backup the whole SD card as an image.
this:And what is the utility of this SD image?
Win32DiskImager is used to make a backup of your emunand which you can restore to your SD card to revert back to Gateway. If you have 2 SD cards like I do then this is unnecessary.
You should bold out the warning, easy to miss
Anyway i'll prolly wait till enough people will break their 3ds and till maybe a newer improved version appears.
Gonna download some demo meanwhile though i have no idea why this step is necessary, btw you might want to add more info for each step later, personally i tend to question each that isn't properly described, especially if doing stuff wrong might brick my hw.
If you create two text files in-snip-
sdmc:/Nintendo 3DS/<id0>/<id1>/dbs/
Indeed it does.has idunoe's method been verified?
If so I will change the guide to reflect this awesome new shortcut