Hacking Luma3DS - Noob-proof 3DS Custom Firmware

[TheCyberQuake]

That was updated for 11.1 literally 3 hours ago, right?

Yes BootNTR was just updated to natively work on 11.1. You no longer have to use luma-dev and an 11.0 firmware.bin.

 

[Rfire]

Hey, I see that normal and dev builds got merged with the latest v6.2.3-420ccdcb build. There are some new options that I can't understand on the Luma3DS configuration menu(SELECT on bootup) but this seems quite useful.

The only new ones I see compared to previous dev versions are "Splash" and "Enable FIRMs ... loading from SD"

The first one controls the optional splash screen feature, the second controls whether or not to load firmware.bin from SD:/luma/. Very glad that second option was added as I no longer have to keep moving firmware.bin around or switching between dev and non-dev depending on circumstances, I can just now change that option as needed.

I've seen mentioned several times (between here and reddit) if it was possible to make a custom version for each NAND (Sys/Emu1/2/3/4), but would this feature be actually used? It's actually easy to do, but I'm wondering about that.

I think it would be useful. Perhaps best done by either separate .txt files specifying the string or perhaps using the same file and just using linebreaks as separators (Windows or Linux style linebreaks) and each line determines the string for each instance.

I for one would make use of it, if I used multiple NANDs as I'd prefer to use a custom string for each one.

 

[Tigran]

I know, stupid question, but this is the first update since I went to Luma3DS.

Do I just go to settings and Update the firmware, or is there anything particular I need to do?

 

[Danny[DEC]]

Migrated to Luma from Reinand and updated to the last firmware, and working like a charm! (But im not on the a9hl-MasterRace, im too lazy...).

I have just one question... If i play on all the games with the Clock+L2 it can brake/deteriorate my n3ds in any way? Something like battery life, cpu life... etc.

Thank you!

 

[gnmmarechal]

Why are you using HANS if you have luma? Most, if not all, of what HANS can do can be done much better with other software in CFW, or by the CFW itself via patching.

Huh, NTR is what does part of this, and

Migrated to Luma from Reinand and updated to the last firmware, and working like a charm! (But im not on the a9hl-MasterRace, im too lazy...).

I have just one question... If i play on all the games with the Clock+L2 it can brake/deteriorate my n3ds in any way? Something like battery life, cpu life... etc.

Thank you!

Battery life may be shorter. But it wont damage your system. After all, it's making your system run at its designed speed.

 

[KazoWAR]

so i know luma has firm protection, but I am curious, is just A9LH protected or is also the Native firm write protected? when i updated to 11.1, am I still using a old Native firm from like 9.2 or 11.0?

 

[Supster131]

so i know luma has firm protection, but I am curious, is just A9LH protected or is also the Native firm write protected? when i updated to 11.1, am I still using a old Native firm from like 9.2 or 11.0?

NFirm gets updated.

 

[novren]

Migrated to Luma from Reinand and updated to the last firmware, and working like a charm! (But im not on the a9hl-MasterRace, im too lazy...).

I have just one question... If i play on all the games with the Clock+L2 it can brake/deteriorate my n3ds in any way? Something like battery life, cpu life... etc.

Thank you!

Huh, NTR is what does part of this, and

Battery life may be shorter. But it wont damage your system. After all, it's making your system run at its designed speed.

Clock and l2 should only work when on a9lh.

I'm editing this because I'm wrong. They should work.

 

[Shadow#1]

Clock and l2 should only work when on a9lh.

Wrong

 

[Danny[DEC]]

Clock and l2 should only work when on a9lh.

No way, it can works too with EmuNAND.

 

[Shadow#1]

No way, it can works too with EmuNAND.

Exactly

 

[novren]

No way, it can works too with EmuNAND.

Wrong

Oh, I stand corrected then. Thanks.

 

[Megaman Hunter]

As the title said, it is actually Noob-proof! Thank you Aurora Wright!

 

[Ryumaru]

I own the Luma with A9LH I can install the Gateway in Emunand mode. I can use both CFW separately without any kind of conflict.
Observation: My Start menu Luma has Emunand9 and Hourglass9.

 

[9thSage]

Migrated to Luma from Reinand and updated to the last firmware, and working like a charm! (But im not on the a9hl-MasterRace, im too lazy...).

I have just one question... If i play on all the games with the Clock+L2 it can brake/deteriorate my n3ds in any way? Something like battery life, cpu life... etc.

Thank you!

It should be said that you *may* run into a few games here and there that have bugs with that feature turned on...most will work just fine though. Keep it in mind if you see a game acting weird after forcing the increased clock speed.

 

[robin96]

So if I update my luma3ds sysNAND to the newest firmware, will I still be able to install unsigned .cia files?

 

[Februarysn0w]

So if I update my luma3ds sysNAND to the newest firmware, will I still be able to install unsigned .cia files?

IF you have correct setup for booting Custom Firmware, YES!

 

[robin96]

IF you have correct setup for booting Custom Firmware, YES!

So I managed to update my emuNAND to the latest firmware while keeping my sysNAND intact at 9.2.0-20U, but when I try to install devmenu or freeshop on my emuNAND using FBI it returns an error.

It says something like this:

Failed to install CIA file.
Result code: 0xD900458A
Level: Permanent (27)
Summary: Wrong argument (8)
Module: FS (17)
Desc: <unknown> (394)

Did I do something wrong?

 

[TheCyberQuake]

It should be said that you *may* run into a few games here and there that have bugs with that feature turned on...most will work just fine though. Keep it in mind if you see a game acting weird after forcing the increased clock speed.

Sonic racing transformed actually locks up whenever the vehicle transforms when using clock and L2, which is a shame because the game really benefits with being less choppy until it soft locks

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[Februarysn0w]

So I managed to update my emuNAND to the latest firmware while keeping my sysNAND intact at 9.2.0-20U, but when I try to install devmenu or freeshop on my emuNAND using FBI it returns an error.

It says something like this:

Failed to install CIA file.
Result code: 0xD900458A
Level: Permanent (27)
Summary: Wrong argument (8)
Module: FS (17)
Desc: <unknown> (394)

Did I do something wrong?

check this. https://www.reddit.com/r/3dshacks/comments/437hc3/cant_install_cia/