Blogs are like a place to just place your thoughts in the open whether or not someone cares to read it. I haven't done much in 2015 aside from fixing a whole bunch of systems, but since the 3DS scene has exploded and I managed to get most of it working, I thought I might as well just post about my recent experiences in my Quest to play Monster Hunter X.
Background: I've had an o3DS and n3DSxl at 10.3.0.28E. My brother doesn't want me messing with his o3DS so I just went ahead and downgraded my own n3DS.
Downgrading: Used Browserhax to install Ironhax and Menuhax on 10.3, then tried to use safesysupdater v0.8 via Menuhax to downgrade to 9.2. Got two black screen freezes before I just used Browserhax. Did the press-B-out-of-FTPBrony trick for the superstition that it increases boot rates, ran safesysupdater, hit Y, and it worked first time. Checked it with downgrade-check v1.0, checked the Browser version, everything looking fine.
emuNAND: Next I grabbed PastaCFW, FBI and emunand9 to backup my NAND (and copy all files from mSD to PC), formatted my mSD to create that hidden partition for emuNAND, copied my stuff back over, and emuNAND was ready. I also grabbed rxTools and ctfbootmanager to get it to auto-run Menuhax and proceeded to unlink my sysNAND using the system format tool.
NNID: I still haven't reloaded my NNID on emuNAND, but since I don't seem to need it yet, that's a step I'll take when I get round to it.
CIAs: With emuNAND set up and working, I used sysupdater 0.42.cia to update to 9.5 (since safesysupdater didn't work) and used config.cia (to edit the eula settings), then installed the pre-patched MHX.cia with v9 of the translation patch and ran it, talked to all the NPCs, set up my palicoes, chose my starter weapon (Longsword), and slept in the bed to save the game. Exit, use FBI to install the v1.1 update should I ever want to play online, and called it a day.
Omitted are the many hours I spent going through hundreds of threads on gbatemp and reddit looking for info, guides, tutorials, threads with questions relating to the problems I faced, and the failed files I tried to work with (like CakeFW, which seems to not run with Menuhax).
So the next steps, aside from playing MHX until it may-or-may-not be released in the west, are waiting for the scene to settle down before updating further to 10.3 (or 10.4 if it hits before then), getting NNID linked again to prevent any eShop issues, checking out what other homebrew are being developed, and maybe giving my brother's o3DS the emuNAND treatment too. Conspicuously missing is any mention of emulating, since I don't need to emulate when I've got the original consoles perfectly functional for when I feel like a nostalgia trip.
Edit: And now, thanks to a random interest in pokemon ORAS (AS for me, OR for my brother), both of our 3DSs are updated to 10.5 emuNAND (rei/cakes), all because pokemon wouldn't let us get the Mew event code without being updated to v1.4. But I hope I never have to downgrade an o3DS again... crashed sooooooo many times compared to the n3DS...
Background: I've had an o3DS and n3DSxl at 10.3.0.28E. My brother doesn't want me messing with his o3DS so I just went ahead and downgraded my own n3DS.
Downgrading: Used Browserhax to install Ironhax and Menuhax on 10.3, then tried to use safesysupdater v0.8 via Menuhax to downgrade to 9.2. Got two black screen freezes before I just used Browserhax. Did the press-B-out-of-FTPBrony trick for the superstition that it increases boot rates, ran safesysupdater, hit Y, and it worked first time. Checked it with downgrade-check v1.0, checked the Browser version, everything looking fine.
emuNAND: Next I grabbed PastaCFW, FBI and emunand9 to backup my NAND (and copy all files from mSD to PC), formatted my mSD to create that hidden partition for emuNAND, copied my stuff back over, and emuNAND was ready. I also grabbed rxTools and ctfbootmanager to get it to auto-run Menuhax and proceeded to unlink my sysNAND using the system format tool.
NNID: I still haven't reloaded my NNID on emuNAND, but since I don't seem to need it yet, that's a step I'll take when I get round to it.
CIAs: With emuNAND set up and working, I used sysupdater 0.42.cia to update to 9.5 (since safesysupdater didn't work) and used config.cia (to edit the eula settings), then installed the pre-patched MHX.cia with v9 of the translation patch and ran it, talked to all the NPCs, set up my palicoes, chose my starter weapon (Longsword), and slept in the bed to save the game. Exit, use FBI to install the v1.1 update should I ever want to play online, and called it a day.
Omitted are the many hours I spent going through hundreds of threads on gbatemp and reddit looking for info, guides, tutorials, threads with questions relating to the problems I faced, and the failed files I tried to work with (like CakeFW, which seems to not run with Menuhax).
So the next steps, aside from playing MHX until it may-or-may-not be released in the west, are waiting for the scene to settle down before updating further to 10.3 (or 10.4 if it hits before then), getting NNID linked again to prevent any eShop issues, checking out what other homebrew are being developed, and maybe giving my brother's o3DS the emuNAND treatment too. Conspicuously missing is any mention of emulating, since I don't need to emulate when I've got the original consoles perfectly functional for when I feel like a nostalgia trip.
Edit: And now, thanks to a random interest in pokemon ORAS (AS for me, OR for my brother), both of our 3DSs are updated to 10.5 emuNAND (rei/cakes), all because pokemon wouldn't let us get the Mew event code without being updated to v1.4. But I hope I never have to downgrade an o3DS again... crashed sooooooo many times compared to the n3DS...
