Gateway's A9LH has reached the final point of testing... the beta test... which was leaked... on the same day as its announcement.... in the same time span........
ANYWAYS. The new beta has given us some insight as to what GWs implementation of A9LH will be like, albeit the implementation is downright shitty, but it'll get better, right?
Some things to clear up:
-The new update is not releasing in 48 hours. It's releasing 48 hours after the end of the beta test, which is at the end of the week.
-3DS CAN be powered on without GW Card, but it boots the GW menu
What we currently know:
-Updating sysNAND after GW A9LH will either brick the 3DS, or remove A9LH from the system.
-It's possible to have 11.0 on Gateway sysNAND while still maintaining A9LH, it requires you flash an 11.0 NAND.bin during the A9LH install process
-The downgrader is extremely unstable. Don't use it.
-N3DS has a 100% brick rate if you use only Gateway's stuff, due to them not unbricking emuNAND before flashing. (People recommend to use Plail's part of the guide for this section)
-No GBA support, although someone states that they can run GBA in sysNAND.
-DS Games and Flashcards do work in emuNAND.
-Some report that important homebrew apps such as Decrypt9WIP do not work alongside this alpha build.
-Gateway's payload does not work with other existing payloads, nor does the vice versa work.
-Users have reported that there is a screen flicker problem with the 4.0a build.
-No support for n3DSes on 8.1J, users just get a 'FATAL ERROR: no browser" message.
-n3DS can't upgrade to 10.3 while o3DS can.
So far, there have been bricks, the amount is unknown, but people are seemingly most successful with the A9LH setup when they use Plail's guide and GW's together. (If that made any sense).
There's an ok chance that Gateway will fix their problems, as this is a beta test however,
it is much to early to make any final judgments about this whole release.
Please inform me of what I'm missing. Will update post. (pls no memes b0ss)
p.s. sorry mods for doing this so fast....