ROM Hack [Release] UpdateCDN - download 3DS FW contents, create installable .cia

[sgtkwol]

Great tool, downloading the 9.4 update and converting now. Can I say again how much I love Linux "cp fw3DS-csv/9.4.0-21/USA/cia/*.0-*/*.cia /media/GATEWAYNAND/cia/" and all of the CIAs are copied? Not sure if there is a similar command for Windoze.

 

[liomajor]

how did you think to delete the nintendo 3ds folder? and why do you think it helped? very strange... but, good you got it working

I thought, maybe there are files not getting updated when doing it offline.

Did you try with your jp 3ds to make a full fw install jp > us (emunand) ?

Would be nice for a few n3ds user who bought jp version instead of aus when gateway updates their stuff (omega 2.7 only allows emunand 9.4)

ps: making one cia is make_cdn_cia's problem for cetk/tmd and same filenames :/

 

[cearp]

Great tool, downloading the 9.4 update and converting now. Can I say again how much I love Linux "cp fw3DS-csv/9.4.0-21/USA/cia/*.0-*/*.cia /media/GATEWAYNAND/cia/" and all of the CIAs are copied? Not sure if there is a similar command for Windoze.

i made the option to not sort it, so, sure at worst all the titles are are already installed in your 3ds will be in the same folder as the ones you want, but there is no problem to install them using L+R+A import all cias - because they will just fail and there will be no problem
so using -nosort, all the cias will get built into one folder, and you can just copy that whole folder and install the whole folder

I thought, maybe there are files not getting updated when doing it offline.
Did you try with your jp 3ds to make a full fw install jp > us (emunand) ?
Would be nice for a few n3ds user who bought jp version instead of aus when gateway updates their stuff (omega 2.7 only allows emunand 9.4)

i said in the op, yeah when i tried to install a different region fw, well, they install but are not used, because my system is still not in the other region. i am sure if you change the region here - http://3dbrew.org/wiki/Nandrw/sys/SecureInfo_A (thanks friendxsis for the link ha) then the foreign titles you just installed would get used. but the file is signed and so we can't just simply edit it...

ps: making one cia is make_cdn_cia's problem for cetk/tmd and same filenames :/

hmm, sorry, i don't understand? explain more and i will fix it (maybe) ha

 

[liomajor]

hmm, sorry, i don't understand? explain more and i will fix it (maybe) ha

make_cdn_cia <CDN Content Dir> <output CIA file> , for working in needs a file named "cetk" and "tmd" in the same folder as the files to add, having two files 00000000. (example 0004001B00010002 and 0004009B00011B02) coliding is the other problem.

 

[cearp]

make_cdn_cia <CDN Content Dir> <output CIA file> , for working in needs a file named "cetk" and "tmd" in the same folder as the files to add, having two files 00000000. example 0004001B00010002 and 0004009B00011B02 coliding is the other problem.

ooh so you are saying for 0004001B00010002 and 0004009B00011B02, there was no cetk and tmd in their folder?

 

[liomajor]

ooh so you are saying for 0004001B00010002 and 0004009B00011B02, there was no cetk and tmd in their folder?

No, they have their own cetk and tmd, but make_cdn_cia can't handle multiple folders and create one cia

 

[sgtkwol]

Delete the Nintendo 3DS folder? Can you just delete/rename it, then restore it? It contains everything from CIA installs.

 

[liomajor]

Delete the Nintendo 3DS folder? Can you just delete/rename it, then restore it? It contains everything from CIA installs.

Still testing on that.

EDIT:
Maybe 5.0.0 > 9.2.0 was a too big jump, doesn't boot and keeps beeing black

 

[Tomy Sakazaki]

cearp [speculation] Maybe the official firmware installer for 9.X does set a flag to start a routine at the 1st boot after updating (when the system says that it's preparing the home menu). [/speculation]
Reason to belive it: When 9.0 first appeared and gateway started giving support to it through emuNAND people got stuck with black screens because something went wrong and this routine hadn't started at all.

 

[dplaktos]

Great tool, downloading the 9.4 update and converting now. Can I say again how much I love Linux "cp fw3DS-csv/9.4.0-21/USA/cia/*.0-*/*.cia /media/GATEWAYNAND/cia/" and all of the CIAs are copied? Not sure if there is a similar command for Windoze.

I just initiate a search for *.cia in the root folder (Windows Explorer), hit Ctrl+A and copy them all across.

 

[cearp]

cearp [speculation] Maybe the official firmware installer for 9.X does set a flag to start a routine at the 1st boot after updating (when the system says that it's preparing the home menu). [/speculation]
Reason to belive it: When 9.0 first appeared and gateway started giving support to it through emuNAND people got stuck with black screens because something went wrong and this routine hadn't started at all.

yeah my thinking too... thanks

I just initiate a search for *.cia in the root folder (Windows Explorer), hit Ctrl+A and copy them all across.

if you are doing that just use -nosort... why not?

 

[dplaktos]

yeah my thinking too... thanks
if you are doing that just use -nosort... why not?

So I can have it sorted all nice in different folders on my PC!

 

[gamesquest1]

I'm "fairly" sure gateway patches 9.x during installation, as quite a few people have bricked their console when updating in gateway mode without emunand set up.....which sounds kinda like the 9.x emunand is not "stock"

 

[cearp]

I'm "fairly" sure gateway patches 9.x during installation, as quite a few people have bricked their console when updating in gateway mode without emunand set up.....which sounds kinda like the 9.x emunand is not "stock"

and it's not like gw are going to share what they did to make it work
--but still, that leads me to believe if you update SYSNAND like this, to 9.x, it WILL work.
someone with a nandmod should test it...

 

[gamesquest1]

and it's not like gw are going to share what they did to make it work
--but still, that leads me to believe if you update SYSNAND like this, to 9.x, it WILL work.
someone with a nandmod should test it...

Well I'm not sure, coz if you already download 9.x when on a pre-9.x compatible Fw it still boots it......so I was kinda assuming maybe they patch on install and/or boot up.....or maybe it was just changes in how the Fw is actually installs messes up if your in gateway mode....god knows, maybe I will try it out when I can be bothered hooking up my nand mod stuff again I don't.like keeping the port on all the time XD

 

[Shadowtrance]

Flashing 9.x emunand backup to sysnand DOES indeed work no issues, except the whole reading/writing being stupidly goddamn slow to do it lol

I've done it a fair few times no problem at all with my 9.0 and 9.2 backups.

 

[cearp]

Flashing 9.x emunand backup to sysnand DOES indeed work no issues, except the whole reading/writing being stupidly goddamn slow to do it lol

I've done it a fair few times no problem at all with my 9.0 and 9.2 backups.

huh... so it was just a rumor after all...?
no truth to it at all?
weird.

 

[loco365]

cearp Have you tried installing the regional promotional videos? I can't get them to work for some reason.

 

[Shadowtrance]

huh... so it was just a rumor after all...?
no truth to it at all?
weird.

In my personal experience, no truth to it not working at all.

I've had zero issues using 9.0 and 9.2 emunand backups flashed to my sysnand, downgrading to 4.5, upgrading to 9.0/9.2 and back down to 4.5 again.

 

[loco365]

Ok, so it seems I can install other region's videos, as so:

Interestingly enough, there's actually an unused banner in English for the video. I wonder what happens for other regions.​