Hacking After installing A9HL on 4 differnt 3DS', I dont see why people are scared to do it

[nechigawara]

No matter the process at the end of the day they all do the same thing that all people want, free games.

Nope, I do it for Region unlocked.

 

[Autz]

First i was afraid since i've read a lot of people telling that their 3DS went to permanent black screen after the downgrade injection. I almost inject the downgrade emuNAND into sysNAND, but i panicked and i restored my emuNAND.

Following day i was trying my R4 using Apache's launchers, and it worked, but i though that having to reset the console and wait a lot of time for the MenuHax and emuNAND to load. I though this was not worth the time, so i erased the launchers. 2 days later, Plailect uploaded the current guide and a Youtuber quickly published a video-tutorial following the guide steps 1 day after. My inner voice (the one that tells me how things may going to happend) told me to do it, and armed with confidence, i follow the video and now i have A9LH with R4's launchers and i can test the R4 on the go.

 

[metroid maniac]

I kinda want to try a9lh for my first time on my spare 3ds, but the only reason why i haven't gotten up to it yet is having the actual time and concentration to do it right... Plus, the only a9lh i want is aurora's experimental SD-less mini cfw fork, not the default one from the guide, since i want it to be a vanilla 3ds in case the sd slot gets permanently damaged or something.

You can use ShadowNAND or 3DSafe for booting a minicfw without SD.

 

[upfromtheskies]

Keeping your 3ds on all the time isn't good for it.

I've had it for years and it works perfectly fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And also, is an hour or two considered lengthy? Im sorry, but saying that it's not worth the time is like saying "Ehh, it's not worth the time to get my car fixed, I'll be just fine." as you wobble down the road and then break down, then cant get it started, then cant get it started again, then just leaving your car on indefinitely, then having to buy a new battery lol.

No, it's more like I have a car with heated seats, but I live in a warm climate and never use them, and you want me to spend two hours doing something to make them heat up faster.

And yes, if you use your 3ds at all, then you would be using it. Its not simply about boot rates

Yes, I would technically be using it if it were installed, but it wouldn't be doing anything additional for me that I actually care about.

 

[FakuMotaFaka]

Lend me your power!

 

[shadowofdarkness]

I installed A9LH back when it was still scary and risky to do! Seriously, they had like one paragraph kind of explaining the process when I first installed A9LH.
Nowadays, it's like 100X easier with little to no chance of bricking. It's also a lot faster than before.
I just don't see the reason people would continue to cling to old stuff like MenuHAX, RXTools, and Brickwait, when you can clearly see better options right in front of you.

Just like me and I got through it using this post as my entire tutorial https://gbatemp.net/threads/arm9loader-technical-details-and-discussion.408537/page-7#post-6075084

It was even before a public payload existed for O3DS systems and I was lucky enough to get access to a private payload and had my O3DS running for a few days before the first public o3ds payload was released.

 

[emmanu888]

It was the risk of a brick and the old guide that put me off. Then the new guide came out and i now rock an A9LH O3DS XL

 

[VincentBeasley]

No, it's more like I have a car with heated seats, but I live in a warm climate and never use them, and you want me to spend two hours doing something to make them heat up faster.

Haha I like that analogy. Ok I'll accept that

 

[Alex658]

You can use ShadowNAND or 3DSafe for booting a minicfw without SD.

I know that. I just don't know in what step of the guide i have to replace the files with shadowNAND/aurora's sdless fork of a9lh. That's whats keeping me from doing it

 

[nechigawara]

I know that. I just don't know in what step of the guide i have to replace the files with shadowNAND/aurora's sdless fork of a9lh. That's whats keeping me from doing it

shadowNAND has it own installer, use it instead of SafeA9LHInstaller installer. And you will get shadowNAND.

for SDless a9lh, just replace original one with SDless version before using SafeA9LHInstaller installer.

 

[gamesquest1]

personally I think it's good people are approaching it scared, there is nothing worse than someone rushing into something utterly convinced they are invincible

it like bungee jumping, as long as you follow the instructions you are 99% safe, it's that 1% of danger that stops people doing extra stupid stuff like jumping before they finish listening to the instructor or performing the safety checks

 

[metroid maniac]

I know that. I just don't know in what step of the guide i have to replace the files with shadowNAND/aurora's sdless fork of a9lh. That's whats keeping me from doing it

You can install a different a9lh fork after finishing the entire guide like normal.

 

[Rfire]

Keeping your 3ds on all the time isn't good for it.

Generally speaking, it is more ideal for electronics to be left on than to power them off and on especially if this is done daily. The only component this is detrimental to as far as the 3DS is the rechargable battery -- but those can easily be replaced when they lose their charge cycles.

Powering on a device and having it go from no electric current going through the PCB and capacitors to having electrical current especially if done on a daily basis puts added strain on a device than if simply leaving it on 24/7.

This is true in general with few exceptions, and especially true in the 3DS' case as Nintendo engineered it for such (SpotPass/StreetPass encourages such).

However, to go back to the person you were replying to: You are basically adding more strain onto your 3DS when using non-A9LH methods to boot your 3DS with CFW. Ones such as menuhax do not have a 100% boot success rate, so you must power off-power on multiple times often enough for a successful boot. That WILL reduce the lifespan of the 3DS even if you rarely power off or reboot. I'd say it will cause capacitors to bulge and eventually pop after years of sustaining such abuse. Electronics that are constantly powered on and off with such fluctuations in current have several years shorter lifespans than ones that are left on continually.

Back in June when I briefly used menuhax initially as part of the A9LH guide as a stepping stone to installation of A9LH, I had to forcefully power off my 3DS 7-8 times -each- time to get it to boot up because of how trashy menuhax is constantly freezing on boot. I hated that immensely as I knew the strain it was putting on my 3DS. It just shows what a horrible method that is compared to A9LH which has yet to fail a single boot for me. When menuhax fails you have to hold the power button for like 10 seconds to force a shutdown. With each attempt, the capacitors in your 3DS are discharging and then charging. Capacitors tend to be the first thing that goes in modern computing electronics that lack moving-part storage (conventional hard drives).

 

[RaMon90]

Question, is it now possible to follow youtube tutorials or is it same like before that they change files?

 

[nechigawara]

Question, is it now possible to follow youtube tutorials or is it same like before that they change files?

Most Youtube tutorials are oudated. Just follow https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki and everythings should be OK.

 

[Sumea]

People are scared of it because it is still the riskiest softmod operation you can do and it used to require you to compile the installer yourself. IT USED to have so many elements to it where if any one individual thing, compiling, getting right files, unbricking NAND for N3DS, anything was done wrong you'd be smoke on water. This is not true anymore but people remember what the first guides looked like still.

 

[GilgameshArcher]

They are scared because they do not want to read, understand what they are reading, do not want to do some backups and human likes to be in homeostasis until they are forced to change and see that the new way is better,

 

[Wire]

Truthfully, I was scared I would brick because I hadn't been keeping up with the hacking scene. And then this afternoon, I said screw and went for it and now I have an a9lh n3ds! It took me less than two hours to do the whole thing. I just have one question, my emunand is 1.8gb while my sysnand was 1.2gb. Is it okay to flash the emunand to sysnand or should I just stick with it and get my saves from emunand and all that good stuff?

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[Hexsyz]

I'll admit despite reading guides, I felt like I needed at least a few steps or assistance here and there, and I really got some directions on what to do.
Without the kind help, Don't think I would have been able to a9hl update any of my 3ds's without losing one of them.

So thanks for the members that gave advice and assistance

 

[nechigawara]

Truthfully, I was scared I would brick because I hadn't been keeping up with the hacking scene. And then this afternoon, I said screw and went for it and now I have an a9lh n3ds! It took me less than two hours to do the whole thing. I just have one question, my emunand is 1.8gb while my sysnand was 1.2gb. Is it okay to flash the emunand to sysnand or should I just stick with it and get my saves from emunand and all that good stuff?

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To Free Up Space, May be you could try save back up and do the re-download on Sysnand. But it would take a bit of time.
If you have a large SD card, just keep the emunand.