Hacking (4.x only) CIA CFW Complete Guide

[Vappy]

Extract the romfs, exheader, and exefs files from the cia.

I don't think you can? But if it's not an encrypted .cia, you can just do "makerom -ciatocci <gamename>.cia" and that'll convert to to a .cci (same format as .3ds) which you can extract.

 

[ilollo360]

Is possible to boot Gateway 2.6 EmuNand without having the card?

 

[BerrisFueler]

My first try at making a .CIA file from my own ACNL card was a success! However, I noticed the save data gets corrupted every time the game loads.
Looking through some posts, someone said that the .rsf needed extra lines because it's a CARD2 game.

I added the lines to the .rsf, but now makerom is giving me this error:

Does this have to do with the makerom version I'm using?

Here's my .rsf file as well, the lines I added start from "CardInfo":

BasicInfo:
  Title                  : "Animal Crossing: New Leaf" # Change this
  CompanyCode            : "01" # Change this
  ProductCode            : "CTR-P-EGDE" # Change this
  ContentType            : Application
  Logo                    : Nintendo
 
TitleInfo:
  UniqueId                : 0x0863 # Change this
  Category                : Application
 
Option:
  UseOnSD                : true
  EnableCompress          : true
  FreeProductCode        : true
  EnableCrypt            : true
  MediaFootPadding        : true
 
AccessControlInfo:
  UseExtSaveData : true
  ExtSaveDataId: 0x0863 # Change this
  SystemSaveDataId1: 0x00000000
  SystemSaveDataId2: 0x00000000
  OtherUserSaveDataId1: 0x00000
  OtherUserSaveDataId2: 0x00000
  OtherUserSaveDataId3: 0x00000
  UseOtherVariationSaveData : false
 
SystemControlInfo:
  SaveDataSize: 1M # Change this
  RemasterVersion: 0
  StackSize: 0x00040000
  JumpId: 0x0004000000086300L # plaintext exheader (<full UniqueID>L)
 
CardInfo:
  MediaSize : 1GB # 128MB / 256MB / 512MB / 1GB / 2GB / 4GB #edit
  MediaType : Card2 # Card1 / Card2
  CardDevice : None # NorFlash(Pick this if you use savedata) / None (Choose None if it's a card2 game)

 

[williamcesar2]

BigBlueMenu by BBB, more uptodate devmenu released yesterday.

it works on CFW ?

 

[ilollo360]

it works on CFW ?

Yes

 

[AHP_person]

Anyone know how I can install other BBB CIAs? None of the SDK ones work, and -ciatocci only works when the switch -target d is used. ctrtool cannot decrypt it after the conversion though, so I can't build a new CIA...

 

[ilollo360]

This is what appens when i'm trying to convert Smash Bros:

Why?

 

[supermalloch]

This is what appens when i'm trying to convert Smash Bros:

Spoiler

Why?

'Usage: MEX.py encryptedExefs normalCryptoXorpad 7xCryptoXorpad outputXorpad'

 

[coopershels]

I'm trying to start this but maybe i'm an idiot. I can't find my 3ds lan IP, i'm going square eyed reading through this to see if anyone else asked and i have tried google but i can't find it. Could someone please put me out of my misery.

 

[Deleted member 333767]

Is possible to boot Gateway 2.6 EmuNand without having the card?

Nope, this is a deliberate DRM measure undertaken by the Gateway team to ensure everyone using their Launcher.dat has paid money for their hardware....

 

[ilollo360]

I tried with the 7.X tool and it gives me this error, why?

 

[cdanil]

Is there a chance that after a while you could get cfw on a 9.0 3DS with region lock undone? I'm fine with my XL for now, since I've already brought the games I wanted to play ( that are available in europe anyway). I'm just intrested if you guys see it happening in a year or so.

 

[drwhojan]

'Usage: MEX.py encryptedExefs normalCryptoXorpad 7xCryptoXorpad outputXorpad'

So how to make use of this...

 

[liomajor]

I tried with the 7.X tool and it gives me this error, why?

1. error: could not open input file!
2. failed to open banner file

Sir you are missing files, might be because renaming failed, after i checked 7.x tool i noticed that the error was inside the batch.

 

[ilollo360]

1. error: could not open input file!
2. failed to open banner file

Sir you are missing files, might be because renaming failed, after i checked 7.x tool i noticed that the error was inside the batch.

So I have to rename files?

 

[liomajor]

Check why its missing and fix it.

 

[Lordjontan]

Nope, this is a deliberate DRM measure undertaken by the Gateway team to ensure everyone using their Launcher.dat has paid money for their hardware....

So they want to make money from their work, that bitches

 

[VerseHell]

I tried with the 7.X tool and it gives me this error, why?

If you used my 7.X guide, there was an error in the "rename *Main.exh.xorpad exh.xorpad" line in the unpack-makerom batch files. Replace it with
"rename *.Main.exheader.xorpad exh.xorpad" (or take the new version here https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-converting-3ds-to-cia-for-dummies.373722/#post-5149679 )

 

[OrangeFlavored]

So they want to make money from their work, that bitches

Not like they ever made any pretense otherwise. The dudes are trying to sell their card, and every piece of software they put out is pretty openly and obviously distributed for this express purpose. Silly to expect them to do something that would reduce their own income by making their own product less relevant.

 

[Reecey]

smea's ftpony in cia form (all code legal)

http://jheberg.net/captcha/ftpony/

Thanks for sorting this out palantine, it does work great for me the only issue I have with it that you might be able to fix it, as you seem to be the man in the know, it does not exit by pressing "Home" to the home screen. Thanks again for the .cia file