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Ninjhax 2.5: exit to home menu

If you wanna return to the home menu without rebooting, follow the below steps.

Note: we'll need *hax 2.5, because it has a return-to-the-hbmenu function.

  1. Hold L + R + dpad-down + B, 'till the bottom screen turns from red to pink.
That's literally it xD

But! If a yellow screen shows up, RELEASE the buttons as FAST as possible, or else it'll softlock.

If a program fully crashes (like invalid pointer access/write) and freezes, you can recover from it using the same methods, but there's one caevat:
After you return to the menu, you MUST start a program that's not a system app (browser, game notes, settings, etc.), and not the *hax entrypoint (the app you used to launch *hax) in order to prevent a softlock. I use the .cia version of GameYob, because it's the fastest to open/close :P

If the homebrew crashes, you can still return to the home menu, and play other games, but the *hax payload will fail to launch with a yellow screen, so that's a restart. Or just use a 3DS game that requires extended memory mode (like SSB), and then launch your *hax entrypoint twice. Why twice? Because the first time it'll kick you out to the home menu without launching the hbmenu :P HomemenuHax users need to disable HomemenuHax loading, or else your 3DS will softlock on the pink screen. But you can't open any app, because it'll softlock with a black screen (the settings app has sound tho... weird :P), and it'll be almost impossible to turn your 3DS off, so that's a negative. But you still can launch DS cards though.

That's it! You can now go and try it!

Video proof:


Note: I was pressing L and R with a DSLite :P

This was tested on a 10.3-E old3DS / HomemenuHax was tested on 9.2.0-20E old3DS
 
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It really depends, but in this context, like you asked, it's like I'm "dying laughing" because your theme was funny.

This is an SMG4 fan"art". His videos contain PINGAS and a faaaaabulous Bowser :P I thought pressing the shoulder buttons with a pink (and broken) DSLite is the funny thing, but it looks like it's not :P
 
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Looks like you have a similar thing I did while ago, but it softlocked one of my game when I launch it on Home Menu. :P

 
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