wow... I gave this a few days, the thread gained 4 pages, and yet
NO ONE answered even a SINGLE question I had or even ATTEMPTED to understand what I was trying to do, and despite asking PLEASE to stay on topic you guys just insisted on hijacking this thread anyway. I do not want to change my emuNAND on my 3DS. Deal with it. You guys made your feelings known, ok? Or do I have to start a new thread and hope it doesn't get derailed as well?
If you don't know the answer to my question don't answer. The reason why I don't want to change it is because I like it the way it is, and because I am planning on buying an N3DS anyway which I wouldn't mind doing all of this on and because I don't have the time to do this to both. Please don't answer unless you actually KNOW the answer. I am really sick and tired of reading through junk and side conversation because everyone wants to push what they think I should do without regards to what I am even trying to do - even after I made it clear that I will NEVER touch the emuNAND I already have until AFTER I transfer it to the N3DS, and even then that won't be for a very long time because I am both a full time student and business owner and that takes up most of my time. I shouldn't HAVE to explain all this. I should just be able to say that I'm trying to do something specific, but whatever. *sigh*
So, again,
here are my questions, in summary with clarification:
1.) I want to boot my Gateway 3DS. I also want to use GBA and SNES emulation. Since I was already planning on buying a DSTWO+ anyway I wanted to use it to either hold the emuNAND or boot the emuNAND. If booting gateway mode on the emuNAND causing bricking I'd like a reference to that, and to know if using the DSTWO+ to boot the Gateway cart would also cause bricking. If it doesn't, I'd like to know what I need to do to use it as one. Otherwise I'd just buy another R4 card along with it, but it would be a real waste of money to buy another blue cart and a DSTWO+ if the DSTWO+ can be used for that.
2.) I'd like to know what is needed to soft mod the N3DS. The guides linked to here, and what I could find, only talk about the old 3DS so I am confused about that. Are all the steps the same?
3.) If I purchase an N3DS with 9.2 firmware, soft mod it to have an emuNAND or equivalent, can I perform a system transfer from the 3DS Gateway emuNAND to the N3DS emuNAND?
4.) What would I need to do to backup 3DS emuNAND so that after the transfer I can restore my saves?
5.) Is it safe to use both the 3DS and N3DS together, provided that I am not using the same game backup at the same time? I mean, I'm not sure what level of detection would be at work here. I gave an example before though: Trading Pokemon. Is that safe to do?
Now, I was hoping to get an answer to this a few days ago because, like I said, I have a very small time window to order stuff and get stuff working. I have no reason to do anything other than what I am trying to do. I am out of time so tomorrow I am ordering whatever it is I need, and if no one feels like answering I guess I'll just have to start a new thread and ask that this one gets deleted. Then I'll just hope that what I order is what I actually need.
P.S. - There is a difference between a CFW replacing the system firmware and a CFW booting from an emuNAND. Regardless of how you feel about it. Insulting my intelligence while intentionally derailing a thread away from my questions doesn't help anyone. This thread is not about 9.2 FW, nor is it about CIA or piracy related questions. I very clearly stated that I do not want or need a homebrew store and that I want to keep the games I PAID FOR working as they currently are.
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EDIT: I went through the thread to reply to a bunch of stuff. Have some additional thoughts.
on a side note, you probably won't get very far if you refuse to update from 4.x to 9.2.0-20. virtually everyone recommends you update.
I don't care. Off topic.
Why do you want to stay on 4.1+EmuNAND?
Because I like what I have and because I am buying an N3DS. *AFTER* I have everything transferred to an N3DS I will look into modding the 3DS, but NOT BEFORE. I don't get why everyone keeps pushing that when my questions are so bloody simple.
and using GW is also illegal by nintendo
Do you have any idea what you just wrote there? Illegal by Nintendo? Regardless, I don't care.
I didnt realise gbatemp was here for piracy, i must of missed that memo.
It's not. If it was people like me wouldn't be here trying to make sure we can keep BUYING the games and DLC we want. I actually do like supporting developers.
So did you kill your MSET exploit or why do you need the blue card to launch Gateway? As long as you didn't play NDS/DSi games you should still be able to launch Gateway and update your EmuNAND.
Hey! Someone on topic! Well, here's the thing: I never loaded a DS game in a long time, and I left the 3DS plugged in and turned on, but after a few months of not being touched the game actually froze.
Just buy a cheap 3DS compatible NDS flashcard if you need to reinstall it.
Well, that's part of my question. I want to make sure that I could use a DSTWO+ for that since I was going to buy one anyway.
But yeah..., upgrading to 9.2 to use A9LH or at least Menuhax is the recommendable way to go.
Not interested. and honestly? The more people push it, the less interested I am. I actually was curious after the first suggestion or two, but the way people keep pushing it, even though it has nothing to do with my question, is kinda creepy to be honest. It's fine to suggest an alternative, but 4 pages of that is way too much.
I think by now you're realizing it is time to take a weekend off and A9LH your system.
Actually, no. I have an order that I want to do things and that's it. I'm on step 1 and you guys are way over there on step 20 telling me not to bother with steps 1 through 19 and it's annoying.
You can still use RedCart and boot into GW Mode with A9LH, while BlueCart is simply a R4i clone and works flawlessly on Luma3DS (what A9LH runs off of).
I'm using gateway & luma 3ds a9lh. I have no prob with the gateway. it's is pretty cool to use gateway on luma.
Since you are both mentioning this, I have a question about that: If a9lh can take the place of Gateway why are you loading Gateway along with it? Is there an advantage to it? I mean, aside from Gateway having a microSD card slot to have my games on. This is an important question because, since I only have one Gateway, and because I want to transfer from old to new 3DS, I want to know if there is any reason I should buy a second Gateway flash cart to use with the N3DS. Or, alternatively, if I could just take the Gateway from one to the other without bothering with the transfer process.
Reading the posts in this thread, you can tell kids from mature users here.
(note: I said "mature", not "adults")
yeah...
Just a question regarding Gateway's ability to load .3ds roms directly. Do you think this feature will ever be made available in other CFWs? If Gateway can do it, why not the others? Is there a physical road block preventing this from happening? It's peculiar that the scene releases standard format cannot be directly used as is, but need to be converted.
ahh, so is that the difference? I can't mount .3DS files without the Gateway emuNAND? Is that also the reason why a few people were pushing FreeShop, even though I have no trouble using the actual store to buy games and DLC? Or is FreeShop just a way to download DLC and games without paying for it? I'd rather have the store that lets me pay for games personally.
I guess this question should have been posted in its own thread. Oh well, hope someone in the know will see it anyway.
Yeah, that was a bit off topic, but it kinda goes in line with what others have said above and is constructive. I don't mind people chiming in with thoughts and ideas, because I am out of the loop and it is helpful to have other thoughts. It's just the pushing that bothered me.
Because .3ds files are cartridge dumps and expect to be loaded from the cartridge slot. So they require a flashcart.
That makes sense. Is that the only limitation? and what does this limitation mean for me if I don't buy a second Gateway?[/QUOTE]