Hacking The status of Gateway and A9LH

[Hayleia]

I consider to compile the stage1 payload myself because I need a 2nd buttoncombo for luma3ds without bootmanager. My current setup breaks DS Game support when loading emunand.

You can use the pathchanger tool to fix your DS problem (see Luma's wiki for explanations). And sounds like an annoying thing to do everytime you update Luma, right? But nope, there are updater apps out there that allow you to update Luma right from your 3DS and apply the pathchanging automatically

 

[gnmmarechal]

This sounds good im willing to spend 80 on this. It also looks really simple to install. Just add games to the micro sd and it works right?

hope ur joking.

 

[otto888]

I was an idiot and was booting the wrong A9LHInstaller. I got it installed correctly now, but when trying to boot GW, I just get a red flash and the N3DS will power off. I have the GW launcher as "LAUNCHER.DAT" in the SD root, and here is the layout of the a9lh folder. I have no idea why it's not working for me.

 

[satelman]

Anyone tried on a 3ds / 2ds yet?

 

[Leslie White]

damn got a fragmentation error displayed while choosing a game from the gw, dunno why :/

 

[GothicIII]

You can use the pathchanger tool to fix your DS problem (see Luma's wiki for explanations). And sounds like an annoying thing to do everytime you update Luma, right? But nope, there are updater apps out there that allow you to update Luma right from your 3DS and apply the pathchanging automatically

WTF Why nobody told me this! I lost hours on that case... I got it working about 10mins ago. I used cakesfw and apply twl_firm patches when it boots so DS Games work again But good to know that luma3ds has that because this will explain why my friend can't load mh4u.

 

[Hellhacker1990]

Using @liomajor Easy Installer and @Kazuma77 alternate stage1 payload to make gateway boot using A I can confirm the following consoles as working

• n3DS EUR v11.0.0-33 + AL9H updated through arm9loaderhax.bin
• 2DS EUR v11.0.0-33 + AL9H updated through arm9loaderhax.bin

Excellent job to both of you for providing such a great solution to the community

 

[liomajor]

@CreAtor135

Sure, you can add my post to first

I'll add other combos if needed.

EDIT: A(5A000) and B(5A100) in one stage1 added.

 

[pscytheology]

@CreAtor135

Sure, you can add my post to first

I'll add other combos if needed.

EDIT: A and B in one stage1 added.

Can you clarify which button corresponds to which payload offset?

 

[liomajor]

Can you clarify which button corresponds to which payload offset?

Done.

 

[20mark]

Using @liomajor Easy Installer and @Kazuma77 alternate stage1 payload to make gateway boot using A I can confirm the following consoles as working

• n3DS EUR v11.0.0-33 + AL9H updated through arm9loaderhax.bin
• 2DS EUR v11.0.0-33 + AL9H updated through arm9loaderhax.bin

Excellent job to both of you for providing such a great solution to the community

so you copied stage 1 from Kazuma and replaced liomajor stage1 and keep all three liomajor stage2 and you got it working?

 

[Hellhacker1990]

so you copied stage 1 from Kazuma and replaced liomajor stage1 and keep all three liomajor stage2 and you got it working?

Yup. I copy and pasted liomajors stage1 over first then i overwrote it with Kazumas as that was what Kazuma recommended doing. I then backed up my Luma arm9loaderhax.bin by renaming it to arm9loaderhax.bin.bak and copy and pasted the arm9loaderhax.bin from the al9h folder that is in liomajors zip file. I powered on my n3ds, pressed select to update my al9h and that was it. I then put my microSD card back into my pc, deleted the arm9loaderhax.bin that was on the root, renamed my luma from arm9loaderhax.bin.bak back to arm9loaderhax.bin and that was it

 

[xfcrowman]

Thanks to @liomajor and @Kazuma77 for the easy GW a9lh installer! I installed it successfully on my O3DS, but when I press B to load GW I get the red screen and shutdown as others have reported.

However, I did make a little more progress just now. I used CTRbootmanager9 to load RednaxelaNnamtra's bootGW.bin (see page 12 of the thread), and instead of a red screen/shutdown the Dragon splash screen popped up on the bottom and top screens! If I hold L, it seems like I gained access to the boot menu as well. Unfortunately, it doesn't boot to Gateway - it goes to black screen and freezes.

I hope that this info is helpful for figuring out why the GW a9lh doesn't work on O3DS

 

[satelman]

@CreAtor135

Sure, you can add my post to first

I'll add other combos if needed.

EDIT: A(5A000) and B(5A100) in one stage1 added.

Thank you sooo much!

 

[RednaxelaNnamtra]

You can use the pathchanger tool to fix your DS problem (see Luma's wiki for explanations). And sounds like an annoying thing to do everytime you update Luma, right? But nope, there are updater apps out there that allow you to update Luma right from your 3DS and apply the pathchanging automatically

And the newest BootCTR9 dev build and BootAnim9 Source also has path patching included, so you are able to simple put your Luma payload everywhere you want it to be.

 

[Leslie White]

that's neat, now i got Luma3ds when booting the console without any buttons and GW with X+Y best of both worlds

 

[sweatbox]

O3ds
Tested liomajor's version -> red screen for a short time & Poweroff
Tested liomajor's Version A/B Button -> same
Tested liomajor and kazuma77 merge -> same
Tested RednaxelaNnamtra's bootGW.bin -> GW Dragon, that stays for a longtime and than blackscreen.


Seems for o3ds we have to wait for godot ... ahm ... gateway.

 

[Leslie White]

I tested it on an old 3ds et got it working just fine. I placed the gw launcher.dat 3.7.1 at the root of the card

 

[xfcrowman]

I tested it on an old 3ds et got it working just fine. I placed the gw launcher.dat 3.7.1 at the root of the card

Cool, it's good to read one report of success on the O3DS. I also have the 3.7.1 launcher.dat on the SD root, but it doesn't work. Did you do any steps differently to get it working on O3DS? Is your O3DS hardmodded?

 

[liomajor]

O3ds red screen for a short time & Poweroff

Dunno, maybe it's becuz your memorycard is fragmented , damaged or it doesn't recognize launcher.dat.

There are ppl like me it works, maybe you could try another memorycard with launcher.dat in root > fat32 up to 32gb.