Hacking New to the whole 3ds scene, some help would be appreciated.

[Dvir]

ahh, ty my friend, onward we go!

 

[Uwabami]

ahh, ty my friend, onward we go!

But you do have you OTP.bin?

 

[Dvir]

otp.bin?

 

[Kyojin]

otp.bin?

Yep, otp.bin that should be on the SD card (and that you should have made backups of already).

 

[Uwabami]

otp.bin?

Part 4 Section 3 - you said you finished it?

 

[Dvir]

yep did it all, and made a backup of everything
so no more 5min waits while looking at the 3ds and pleading to god?

 

[Uwabami]

yep did it all, and made a backup of everything

And it crashed during which restore? 9.2 NAND or OTP dump?

 

[Kyojin]

yep did it all, and made a backup of everything
so no more 5min waits while looking at the 3ds and pleading to god?

Well, you still have to do part 5 to install arm9loaderhax and then install a custom firmware (it'll be Luma3DS if you keep following the guide) before noticing the quick boot time.

 

[Dvir]

1. Copy your sysNAND_original.bin backup from Section I to the root of your SD card
2. Reinsert your SD card into your 3DS then press B to return to the main menu
3. Go to "NAND Backup & Restore"
4. Restore SysNAND from sysNAND_original.bin
5. Cross your fingers
6. Reboot! Basically, did them all, the sysnand was restored properly, but afterwards when you go back to the made menu and i pressed start+ -> to reboot, it just crashed

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

Well, you still have to do part 5 to install arm9loaderhax and then install a custom firmware (it'll be Luma3DS if you keep following the guide) before noticing the quick boot time.

well i meant the part of the chance of me bricking my n3ds and just waiting for it to happen as i slowly count the % from 0 to 100

 

[Uwabami]

1. Copy your sysNAND_original.bin backup from Section I to the root of your SD card
2. Reinsert your SD card into your 3DS then press B to return to the main menu
3. Go to "NAND Backup & Restore"
4. Restore SysNAND from sysNAND_original.bin
5. Cross your fingers
6. Reboot! Basically, did them all, the sysnand was restored properly, but afterwards when you go back to the made menu and i pressed start+ -> to reboot, it just crashed

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------



well i meant the part of the chance of me bricking my n3ds and just waiting for it to happen as i slowly count the % from 0 to 100

Oh, OK. Well, i guess thats fine, since the restoration was complete and it booted.

 

[Uwabami]

well i meant the part of the chance of me bricking my n3ds and just waiting for it to happen as i slowly count the % from 0 to 100

The NAND restores are usually very safe, it's the downgrades that are tricky. The last part where anything could go wrong is the installation of A9LH, but the SafeInstaller checks everything. The only thing it can't check (as far as I know) is the validity of the OTP.bin. If you do several consoles and accidently install the wrong one, you're fucked. Other than that you should be fine from now on.

 

[Kyojin]

The NAND restores are usually very safe, it's the downgrades that are tricky. The last part where anything could go wrong is the installation of A9LH, but the SafeInstaller checks everything. The only thing it can't check (as far as I know) is the validity of the OTP.bin. If you do several consoles and accidently install the wrong one, you're fucked. Other than that you should be fine from now on.

Actually, it DOES validate the OTP on N3DS. So @Dvir should feel even safer (but still carefully stick to the steps and do NOT skip any of them, you are close to the end!).

Fingers crossed.

 

[Uwabami]

Actually, it DOES validate the OTP on N3DS. So @Dvir should feel even safer (but still carefully stick to the steps and do NOT skip any of them, you are close to the end!).

Fingers crossed.

Thanks for clarifying, I didn't know that. I just read about someone mixing them up some time ago. When was this implemented?

 

[Kyojin]

Thanks for clarifying, I didn't know that. I just read about someone mixing them up some time ago. When was this implemented?

Well, IIRC and according to the releases changelogs, it was implemented since the initial release. Maybe that person was on O3DS?

 

[Uwabami]

Well, IIRC and according to the releases changelogs, it was implemented since the initial release. Maybe that person was on O3DS?

Yeah, probably. I just checked it myself. And here I was always dumping them twice on 2 different SD cards to make sure the dump was correct (and I did 4 O3DS and 2 N3DS). Talk about paranoid.

 

[Dvir]

hmm, seems like i missed something, when i launched safea9lhinstaller it said im missing or the max file size of
payload_stage1.bin exceeds what is allowed. Any tips?

- just noticed the time, hope you ppl havnt gone to sleep..

 

[Uwabami]

Check filenames and folders if you did everything exactly like the guide says. I know it sounds stupid but the most annoying bugs I hunted down for ages turned out to be something stupid

 

[Dvir]

Check filenames and folders if you did everything exactly like the guide says. I know it sounds stupid but the most annoying bugs I hunted down for ages turned out to be something stupid

yeah found it.. in the payload.zip is the payload_stage1.bin.... no shit

 

[Kyojin]

yeah found it.. in the payload.zip is the payload_stage1.bin.... no shit

So, you forgot to extract it to the SD card?

BTW, something unrelated but just to be sure: you checked that your OTP.bin file was 256 bytes?

 

[Dvir]

yep, and i remember it saying so on the 3ds.. also just checked my backup now. yep good to go.