So the last couple days I decided I wanted to mod my 3ds. Keep in mind i havent followed the 3ds scene at all so I had to read up on everthing in the last 48hrs, have been reading non stop trying to piece together all the cryptic and terrible guides and information available on various sites. I think I now have a basic understanding of what needs to be done. From my understanding everything I want to do should be doable since I have a firmware under 9.2.
My goal...
-to quickly launch into "rx mode" and have a large collection of cias installed, can play all the latest games,can easily install new games
-dont care about accessing the eshop or doing any other fancy cfw stuff.
I have...
-an original teal 3ds (non XL) with 5.1.0-11U firmware
-3ds compatible ds flashcart
-32GB sd card
-browser exploit works, I have successfully launched gateway and rxtools via this method.
basically while I waited for my 32GB sd card to arrive (just received it) I have been toying around seeing what works and sorting out how the entire process will go down, before I do my "real install" on my 32GB sd card (tinkering has been done on stock 2GB sdcard to this point). My real install will happen once everyone in this thread successfully helps me take care of my current snags (so this thread is critical).So far my understanding of the process is this...
1. launch gateway launcher via the browser (successful)
2. create a backup of system nand and then format emunand (successful)
3. put the 3 rxtools files on root on the sd card [rxtools.dat,slot0x25keyx.bin,firmware.bin,] and the 2 correct fbis files (successful)
4.launch rxtools via the browser and install the fbi cia installer over the health app (successful)
now things get a little coudy for me...
-the fbi installer is suppose to be installed to the emunand only and not sysnand? and this tool will be all I need to install cias of any kind (or does it only work on official cias)? also I tried 2 small test cias, they installed fine but neither worked. excitebike 3d classics launches but goes to a black screen, and the AVGN game get stuck on the 3ds wavy load screen. I figured this is because I havent updated my emunand yet(?) but thought the excitebike would work in "rx mode" because I know it could be played on firmware 5.1.0 that I have, so I have some doubt about cias even working since I have yet to successfully play one. Im just hoping once everything is setup (emunand updated) everything will work.
-I need to be 100% clear on this. You must update the emunand via by downloading it directly from nintendo through system settings? and must launch emunand in rxmode via rxtools and only update when the system settings say "RX3D 5.1.0-11U"?? This seems crazy but thats what I keep reading, So the latest nintendo firmware still works via this method? This is still the correct method to upgrade emunand and is safe as long as the settings say rx3d? Its just scary that it could potentially update my real nand and be locked out of cfw.
-now the big thing thats driving me crazy (and the main reason I created this topic) I cant get the mset ds profile to launch rxtools and its driving me crazy!!! Here is what I did so far, so hopefully somebody can tell my why its not working...
-ok im on 5.1 firmware, I read that the ds profile exploit only works with 4.X or 6.X
-I read I only have to downgrade the mset part of the sysnand and not the entire firmware.
-I got the msetdg.bin USA 4.X file and put it on the root of the sd card. Launched rxtools via browser and successfully found the msetdg.bin and downgraded! Now whenever I try to re-run the patch, rxtools says "mset already exploitable!" so I think great it but have installed fine.
-I then take the rxinstaller.nds file from my rxtools 2.6 package, I put it on my ds 3ds flashcard. I install the 4.X patch, and it says successfully installed!
-I then make sure all the rxtools files are still on the root of the sd card, I goto the ds profile and its crashes like its suppouse to... but then it never loads rxtools!! it crashes back to the home menu and says an error has occured and menu must be restarted!
I have no idea how to fix this and have tried several versions of rxtools.dat and rxinstaller.nds
Anyone have any ideas what the problem is? I've been trying to figure this out for hours and not getting anywhere. I'll be refreshing the page non stop so dont be afraid to post whenever, please point out anything I said that im doing wrong and help me do it properly!
-thanks
My goal...
-to quickly launch into "rx mode" and have a large collection of cias installed, can play all the latest games,can easily install new games
-dont care about accessing the eshop or doing any other fancy cfw stuff.
I have...
-an original teal 3ds (non XL) with 5.1.0-11U firmware
-3ds compatible ds flashcart
-32GB sd card
-browser exploit works, I have successfully launched gateway and rxtools via this method.
basically while I waited for my 32GB sd card to arrive (just received it) I have been toying around seeing what works and sorting out how the entire process will go down, before I do my "real install" on my 32GB sd card (tinkering has been done on stock 2GB sdcard to this point). My real install will happen once everyone in this thread successfully helps me take care of my current snags (so this thread is critical).So far my understanding of the process is this...
1. launch gateway launcher via the browser (successful)
2. create a backup of system nand and then format emunand (successful)
3. put the 3 rxtools files on root on the sd card [rxtools.dat,slot0x25keyx.bin,firmware.bin,] and the 2 correct fbis files (successful)
4.launch rxtools via the browser and install the fbi cia installer over the health app (successful)
now things get a little coudy for me...
-the fbi installer is suppose to be installed to the emunand only and not sysnand? and this tool will be all I need to install cias of any kind (or does it only work on official cias)? also I tried 2 small test cias, they installed fine but neither worked. excitebike 3d classics launches but goes to a black screen, and the AVGN game get stuck on the 3ds wavy load screen. I figured this is because I havent updated my emunand yet(?) but thought the excitebike would work in "rx mode" because I know it could be played on firmware 5.1.0 that I have, so I have some doubt about cias even working since I have yet to successfully play one. Im just hoping once everything is setup (emunand updated) everything will work.
-I need to be 100% clear on this. You must update the emunand via by downloading it directly from nintendo through system settings? and must launch emunand in rxmode via rxtools and only update when the system settings say "RX3D 5.1.0-11U"?? This seems crazy but thats what I keep reading, So the latest nintendo firmware still works via this method? This is still the correct method to upgrade emunand and is safe as long as the settings say rx3d? Its just scary that it could potentially update my real nand and be locked out of cfw.
-now the big thing thats driving me crazy (and the main reason I created this topic) I cant get the mset ds profile to launch rxtools and its driving me crazy!!! Here is what I did so far, so hopefully somebody can tell my why its not working...
-ok im on 5.1 firmware, I read that the ds profile exploit only works with 4.X or 6.X
-I read I only have to downgrade the mset part of the sysnand and not the entire firmware.
-I got the msetdg.bin USA 4.X file and put it on the root of the sd card. Launched rxtools via browser and successfully found the msetdg.bin and downgraded! Now whenever I try to re-run the patch, rxtools says "mset already exploitable!" so I think great it but have installed fine.
-I then take the rxinstaller.nds file from my rxtools 2.6 package, I put it on my ds 3ds flashcard. I install the 4.X patch, and it says successfully installed!
-I then make sure all the rxtools files are still on the root of the sd card, I goto the ds profile and its crashes like its suppouse to... but then it never loads rxtools!! it crashes back to the home menu and says an error has occured and menu must be restarted!
I have no idea how to fix this and have tried several versions of rxtools.dat and rxinstaller.nds
Anyone have any ideas what the problem is? I've been trying to figure this out for hours and not getting anywhere. I'll be refreshing the page non stop so dont be afraid to post whenever, please point out anything I said that im doing wrong and help me do it properly!
-thanks