Hacking Gateway Downgrading

[blinkzane]

In your experience, would it be better for me to stay on sysnand 9.2 or downgrade to 4.X?

in my experience I've stayed on 9.2. I downgraded and enjoyed the convenience of not using the browser exploit, but I realized that I almost always leave my 3DS on and in sleep mode anyways and I like to use my pokemon OR save so I upgraded back to 9.2 with my backup NAND and I'm sitting there at the moment.

 

[thorasgar]

In your experience, would it be better for me to stay on sysnand 9.2 or downgrade to 4.X?

It really depends upon what you value and your needs are. The big decisions are existing retail cart game saves vs freedom from web exploit. If you have an android phone that is not as big a consideration. I am staying at 9.2 because of the existing saves will not work on 4.x and that is a bigger problem to me than the web exploit. If you travel and don't have android being able to always play may be more important. (This is not to say there are not other considerations like CFW but they are not on my radar.)

 

[arapozo]

in my experience I've stayed on 9.2. I downgraded and enjoyed the convenience of not using the browser exploit, but I realized that I almost always leave my 3DS on and in sleep mode anyways and I like to use my pokemon OR save so I upgraded back to 9.2 with my backup NAND and I'm sitting there at the moment.

Thanks.

It really depends upon what you value and your needs are. The big decisions are existing retail cart game saves vs freedom from web exploit. If you have an android phone that is not as big a consideration. I am staying at 9.2 because of the existing saves will not work on 4.x and that is a bigger problem to me than the web exploit. If you travel and don't have android being able to always play may be more important. (This is not to say there are not other considerations like CFW but they are not on my radar.)

I'll stay on sysnand 9.2 as I always have my phone with me.

 

[leerz]

Has anyone confirmed 3ds downgrade from a different region?
I already have a nand backup of my original 9.2u and 4.xu, so, in case I do brick by trying to install a .dg from another region, will hardmod guarantee full restore?

I asked because of the plethora of 3ds j's in our place, and not everyone wants to use them. so region change could be a good thing

 

[blinkzane]

Has anyone confirmed 3ds downgrade from a different region?
I already have a nand backup of my original 9.2u and 4.xu, so, in case I do brick by trying to install a .dg from another region, will hardmod guarantee full restore?

I asked because of the plethora of 3ds j's in our place, and not everyone wants to use them. so region change could be a good thing

As far as I know nobody has tried but please tag me in a post if you make the jump. I would love to document your attempt.
as far as I've heard hardmodding is the only fix to a bricked console besides buying a new one.

Edit: I'm not going to recommend it though
it's also possible that gateway may not allow it at all.

 

[leerz]

As far as I know nobody has tried but please tag me in a post if you make the jump. I would love to document your attempt.
as far as I've heard hardmodding is the only fix to a bricked console besides buying a new one.

Edit: I'm not going to recommend it though
it's also possible that gateway may not allow it at all.

I'll probably wait for a cheapo semi broken 3ds to experiment on, hopefully within the week or 2,

if it can be guaranteed that nand write from my backup is recoverable, I just might try it.

I mean like the wii scene, where there are many types of bricks, I'm not sure if the 3d's one has variety.

that thought came from

well with the ones where the sd reader is built in it doesnt leave the option of recovering from the BSOD bricks(although hopefully that doesnt come up again)


but thats the main reason

https://gbatemp.net/threads/3ds-hardmod.372859/

 

[blinkzane]

I'll probably wait for a cheapo semi broken 3ds to experiment on, hopefully within the week or 2,

if it can be guaranteed that nand write from my backup is recoverable, I just might try it.

I mean like the wii scene, where there are many types of bricks, I'm not sure if the 3d's one has variety.

yeah. I mean I would love to test it also but I dont have a way to hardmod my 3ds otherwise I would.
I really want out of region firmware so that I can update and play certain games.

 

[leerz]

yeah. I mean I would love to test it also but I dont have a way to hardmod my 3ds otherwise I would.
I really want out of region firmware so that I can update and play certain games.

This?

https://gbatemp.net/threads/smealum...irmware-9-0-9-4-og.378970/page-2#post-5286078
https://gbatemp.net/threads/release...-xl-from-9-0-9-4-sky3ds-users-rejoyce.378975/

 

[AUS-Phoenix]

Downgrade successful from sysnand 9.2 EU to 4.5 EU on my super smash bros 3ds XL

 

[dicamarques]

From 9.2e to 4.5E successful
Black 3ds from 2011

 

[cearp]

i guess some people have, has anyone backed up their nand, downgraded to 4.x, then restored the nand (to sysnand)?
i think i read that using the nand restore feature in 4.5 was dangerous?

 

[MRDOCA]

Ok. I downgraded but how do i go back up to 9.2?

 

[blinkzane]

i guess some people have, has anyone backed up their nand, downgraded to 4.x, then restored the nand (to sysnand)?
i think i read that using the nand restore feature in 4.5 was dangerous?

yes, I have done it multiple times.

 

[blinkzane]

This?

https://gbatemp.net/threads/smealum...irmware-9-0-9-4-og.378970/page-2#post-5286078
https://gbatemp.net/threads/release...-xl-from-9-0-9-4-sky3ds-users-rejoyce.378975/

yeah I was reading on that but the issues is that I have out of region roms with good gamesaves that I want to be able to update somehow, even if it requires switching firmware every once in awhile. by putting smealums launcher.dat onto the SD card it is removing gateways launcher.dat therefore I cant launch and test to see if I can properly update the game cart

 

[dicamarques]

Ok. I downgraded but how do i go back up to 9.2?

Hold UP while entering on the downgrade menu

 

[MRDOCA]

Hold UP while entering on the downgrade menu

Lol that easy aye. Haha thanks heaps for that. Also anyone know Is it possible to emunand without gateway? So be on 4.5 for example then emunand 9.4? Or even 9.2 and emu 9.4? Be good to be able to use the store.

 

[blinkzane]

Lol that easy aye. Haha thanks heaps for that. Also anyone know Is it possible to emunand without gateway? So be on 4.5 for example then emunand 9.4? Or even 9.2 and emu 9.4? Be good to be able to use the store.

you should be able to use gateway classic mode. you can use the store as long as you dont unlink your sys and emuNAND. and even if you do all you have to do is login again on your sysNAND. but! if you downgrade and unlink you may have game save issues. I believe there is a thread somewhere with the details

 

[otherstuff]

Hey I am experiencing another problem. After downgrading, Gateway plops a NAND file into my SD card whenever I use it. As my SD card is the standard 4GB one, the NAND file that Gateway writes to the SD card takes up all the space and is usually half-written due to the lack of space. Is there anyway to prevent Gateway from writing a NAND.bin file to my SD card everytime I use it?

 

[blinkzane]

Hey I am experiencing another problem. After downgrading, Gateway plops a NAND file into my SD card whenever I use it. As my SD card is the standard 4GB one, the NAND file that Gateway writes to the SD card takes up all the space and is usually half-written due to the lack of space. Is there anyway to prevent Gateway from writing a NAND.bin file to my SD card everytime I use it?

that's interesting and I've never heard of it doing that before. possibly try backing up your data and removing everything besides the launcher.dat and see if it does it again, and if it does let it complete and then remove it and see if it attempts again to backup NAND

 

[otherstuff]

Hmm I formatted everything and its back to normal now. Odd. Might have been caused by an error on my part. Thanks for the suggestion