That makes no **king sense at all. So you're telling me Nintendo made this CIA? Seriously? Any CIA not created by Nintendo or a company authorized by Nintendo to release content on their console(s) is third party and therefor "custom" and is not signed properly to run on a system nand that has not been exploited to run unsigned code. The way you're trying to explain this is just making me more suspicious....
Which means he modified the file. How does it continue to work now that it's modified and no longer signed? Encryption and signing are separate things. You can re-encrypt game roms for example using the same keys that decrypted them. But it's not signed anymore and an unmodified console won't boot it.
This is why "Sky3DS" can't run homebrew or modified games.
So this file isn't signature checked? Even non executable files have to be signed to work on sysnand without bricking it. At least that's what I've been led to believe. Did Nintendo not lock down the part of the file that reports the version of the file on sysnand? Then why not modify the version firmware version string so it thinks it's on like version 11 or something and you never have to go through update prompts to use eShop. That's basically what's happening here.
He just changed the version. The actual title that gets installed is unmodified.
Precisely. Let's say the hacked version number is 99999.99. When attempting to update to 9.4 (or any other version for that matter) the system will report back that the installed version (99999.99) is newer than the version it's trying to install (9.4) so it will ignore that title (folder/file/whathaveyou).
I can see this being EXTREMELY useful for 9.2 users who want to use their blue Gateway card instead of just not being able to use it at all. Since they will have cia support, they can definitely install this, and there is no emunand and everything is done from sysnand. This will make my friend happy.
yeah the main purpose of this is for 9.x users once the update is out, yeah there are other NDS flashcards that work on 9.x natively, but lets face it if you get the blue card with your gateway you might as well use it if you can........and this is just a sot of proof of concept thing, it could also kinda be used to block updates in sysnand.....but ofc that would be more "risky" especially for n3DS users as there is currently no nand pinout to recover from any adverse effects
as always keep your nand backups safe so should anything go wrong you can recover from it....but really i think updating the whitelist is a fairly simple and most likely safe start-off point, i'm able to test this stuff as i have my nand mod set up and having the whitelist updates didn't seem to cause any issues, everything works as normal even after updating to 9.4, but again to clarify you shouldn't use this as a reason to update to 9.4 it was just to show the whitelist work updating to 9.4 will block any prospect of running the new GW firmware for the foreseeable future
you dont really need to unless you have a old NDS flashcard that was blocked pre-4.x that you want to useI am sorry for the noob question.. How can I install this..? I mean, I have Gateway and a ver 4.5 console. I got this CIA, but I don't have DevMenu on my SysNAND.. How to.. err.. browse to install this CIA? Sorry if I am too noob but I just can't figure it out..
I am sorry for the noob question.. How can I install this..? I mean, I have Gateway and a ver 4.5 console. I got this CIA, but I don't have DevMenu on my SysNAND.. How to.. err.. browse to install this CIA? Sorry if I am too noob but I just can't figure it out..
I am sorry for the noob question.. How can I install this..? I mean, I have Gateway and a ver 4.5 console. I got this CIA, but I don't have DevMenu on my SysNAND.. How to.. err.. browse to install this CIA? Sorry if I am too noob but I just can't figure it out..
you dont really need to unless you have a old NDS flashcard that was blocked pre-4.x that you want to use
wait for the gateway release .....call this a preemptive releaseBut how do you do it on 9.2 sysnand without devmenu?
Thanks a lot!ok. don't have emunand on your sd card.
load gw.
have the bigbluebox 3ds/devmenu 3ds whatever you like, on your gw card.
load it, install the cia.
done.
Using the same logic, would it be possible to repack and install Nintendo's own 4.5 firmware on the sysnand, but this time with an internal version number of 9999.99 so that Nintendo Zone doesn't try to update it?
yeah probably, i'll give it a try later, but just so your aware, if you do that it would be permanent unless you have a nand mod to downgrade.......but idk you might be able to manually upgrade by using different FW versions with the same Version number.....but you would probably never be able to upgrade using the normal update functions again unless you have the nand mod to restore your original FWUsing the same logic, would it be possible to repack and install Nintendo's own 4.5 firmware on the sysnand, but this time with an internal version number of 9999.99 so that Nintendo Zone doesn't try to update it?