Homebrew Taking a risk: Hardmodding my 3DS manually. What do I need to know?

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An exploit (my team is developing)
let me guess, NSMB2 or play coins?

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Have you considered dsiwarehax downgrade?
Oh! Also, get steel diver: sub wars. It's free, and @Nba_Yoh just announced an exploit for it. Ironhax 2.0! ^_^
Is it any different from browser/menuhax?
 

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Actually, the vulnerability he intends to use is real, and documented on 3dbrew, but the timing is so absurdly sensitive that the public hasn't exploited it. (Though it's unknown if the handful of devs that have it got it this way)


Isn't it still similar to memchnk2 but as you stated the timing has to be literally perfect which is impossible?? I read about it long ago and don't remember too much about it.
 

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Isn't it still similar to memchnk2 but as you stated the timing has to be literally perfect which is impossible?? I read about it long ago and don't remember too much about it.
No, it's the bootrom exception vulnerability. By getting into arm9 RAM at the hardcoded bootrom exception pointer and triggering an exception via hardware with perfect timing, arm9 will jump to your code located at that pointer before the bootrom locks itself, thus allowing a dump.
 

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No, it's the bootrom exception vulnerability. By getting into arm9 RAM at the hardcoded bootrom exception pointer and triggering an exception via hardware with perfect timing, arm9 will jump to your code located at that pointer before the bootrom locks itself, thus allowing a dump.
So dumping the bootrom, basically
 
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This thread needs to be revived!

Alright, same process, downgrading my Red 2DS v11.0, this time, I purchased a Blue 2DS v6.0.

@CeeDee did mention an easy process to install arm9loaderhax to my R2DS with the help of B2DS.
 
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This thread needs to be revived!

Alright, same process, downgrading my Red 2DS v11.0, this time, I purchased a Blue 2DS v6.0.

@CeeDee did mention an easy process to install arm9loaderhax to my R2DS with the help of B2DS.
What is R2DS and B2DS? Just follow the guide: https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki/

Edit: Oh, I get it. Red and Blue. Just follow this first: https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki/DSiWare-Downgrade then the above guide. It doesn't really have anything to do with the topic you posted it in though :-p
 
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This thread needs to be revived!

Alright, same process, downgrading my Red 2DS v11.0, this time, I purchased a Blue 2DS v6.0.

@CeeDee did mention an easy process to install arm9loaderhax to my R2DS with the help of B2DS.
Not necessarily easy but doable, yeah. Look up "DSiWare downgrade"
 

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