Hacking Ver. 11.3.0-36U Switching Memory Cards Ran into Trouble

[slyboogy27]

I recently wanted to increase my memory card size so I took out my SD card and made a backup on my Desktop.
I had hidden and system files enabled to show and copied everything over.
I went to go put in my new FAT32 64GB microSD card into my adapter and try to boot up custom firmware (in particular Gateway - which I had running successfully before)
and it just went straight to the normal home screen when I tried to hold down on the D-pad to enter GW mode.
Please Help I don't know what I did wrong. If there's an easy fix please I still have the original SD card with everything on it but even that brings me to the original home screen.


EDIT: I think I might just re-mod it completely any links to tutorials that will allow GW to run when booting with Down on the D-Pad pressed in?
I need to know where to start though I just formatted my 64GB microSD SD card adapter to start fresh.
Any help will be greatly appreciated as I simply just want to play games again.

 

[Hayato213]

Gateway is so outdated

 

[slyboogy27]

Should I stick with installing .cia files? I didn't know Gateway was off the map it's been a while since I've modded the 3DS.

 

[Hayato213]

You should upgrade to B9S and Luma if you dont have them, yea stick to Cia format, but first update the bootloader and CFW you are using.

 

[slyboogy27]

Good place to start?

 

[Hayato213]

https://3ds.hacks.guide/

Follow this, don't follow any youtube videos, youtube videos tend to be out of date. It really depend what you have on your system, like RXTool, ReiNand, A9LH, B9S Etc, B9S being the current support Bootloader.

 

[slyboogy27]

I'm not sure I have anything installed on my system at the moment I mean I did have B9S installed with GM9 and Luma3DS but it seems to have gone away after I tried updating the memory card. =/

 

[Hayato213]

I'm not sure I have anything installed on my system at the moment I mean I did have B9S installed with GM9 and Luma3DS but it seems to have gone away after I tried updating the memory card. =/

Im not really sure about the Gateway thing, SD card wise you should format it correct for it to work correctly.

https://www.guidelive.com/video-gam...32gb-microsd-cards-on-the-new-nintendo-3ds-xl

This explain how to format and expand SD card size 64GB or larger

 

[Ritsuki]

It might sound silly but did you put the files back on your new SD card?

 

[Hayato213]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-using-luma3ds-gateway-on-b9s.431691/

Just curious did you lose your CFW , cause 11.3 and above it is not recommended to use GW

 

[slyboogy27]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-using-luma3ds-gateway-on-b9s.431691/

Just curious did you lose your CFW , cause 11.3 and above it is not recommended to use GW

Yes I lost my CFW and WAS using GW

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It might sound silly but did you put the files back on your new SD card?

Yes I did put everything back on my new SD card lol

 

[Hayato213]

Yes I lost my CFW and WAS using GW

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Yes I did put everything back on my new SD card lol

Well then you have to start from scratch again.

 

[slyboogy27]

Not a problem at least I know GW is outdated now I don't keep up with news.

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Okay so I did soundhax and ran OCS
Let it do its thing...
Luma3DS configuration screen - Chose Show NAND or user string in System Settings
I now have the Sys infront of my firmware version

Now...
It wants me to update should I do it?
I don't want to update to a firmware that isn't hackable but I'll wait for an answer to see what you guys say first

@Hayato213G

 

[Hayato213]

Not a problem at least I know GW is outdated now I don't keep up with news.

On what the next step for you is depending what is the content on your SD card and what left on the system, it probably best to post screen shot of contents inside your SD card and what show up when you hold start during power up and what show up when you hold select during power up.

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Not a problem at least I know GW is outdated now I don't keep up with news.

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Okay so I did soundhax and ran OCS
Let it do its thing...
Luma3DS configuration screen - Chose Show NAND or user string in System Settings
I now have the Sys infront of my firmware version

Now...
It wants me to update should I do it?
I don't want to update to a firmware that isn't hackable but I'll wait for an answer to see what you guys say first

@Hayato213G

It is safe to update the system firmware, but you need to update Luma and B9S first

 

[slyboogy27]

What step is that? or should I just run through the whole setup?

 

[Hayato213]

What step is that? or should I just run through the whole setup?

https://3ds.hacks.guide/updating-b9s
https://github.com/SciresM/boot9strap/releases/tag/1.3
https://github.com/AuroraWright/Luma3DS/releases

Above links section explains how to update B9S, and Luma just copy the latest version of boot.firm to your sd and replace the old one. Just that if you mess up your CFW in the future then you would need to get R4 card to run ntrboot

 

[slyboogy27]

Okay I'm all good can I update now?
@Hayato213

 

[slyboogy27]

@Hayato213 How do I make sure I did everything correctly? both B9S and GM9 come up when I hold start on Power On.

 

[Hayato213]

@Hayato213 How do I make sure I did everything correctly? both B9S and GM9 come up when I hold start on Power On.

B9S is the chainloader, what show up was the B9SSafeinstaller and GodMode 9, it is normal. GM9 is what you use as to backup nand stuff etc.

 

[slyboogy27]

SafeB9SInstaller v0.0.7
ARM9LoaderHax - not installed
MicroSD card - 121885MB/121908MB free
Secret Sector - not required
Crypto Status - all checks passed
Backup Status - backed up and verified
Install Status - install success!

@Hayato213

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So can I update now? That's what I'm really wondering.