Requirements -

• A 3DS on 4.X, with the DS profile exploit. You do not need Gateway I believe.
• Internet on your computer
• Able to run python

Step 1 - Download http://gbatemp.net/attachments/launcher_ticketdb-dat-zip.13329/
**** The code is unstable, you might have to run it a bunch of times before it works.
When it works you will know, it is fast, so if your screen does nothing for like 5 seconds just turn off and try again. I once had to try 7 times - usually I am lucky though ***


Step 2 - Extract it and rename it to Launcher.dat - rename the actual GW Launcher.dat to something else for now.
Step 3 - Put it on your 3DS's sd card. Load up the exploit (settings, profile, etc...)
Step 4 - It should run, when it is done, turn off your 3DS. Hold the power button until it is off.
Step 5 - Take out the sd card from the 3DS, put it in your computer. You should see ticket.db and ticket.db_gwemu. The first file is from the sysnand, the second is from emunand. Copy them somewhere, maybe to your desktop.
Step 6 - Download http://gbatemp.net/attachments/funkycia2-zip.15361/ - and extract it.


Now, you run the python file. (On mac it's very easy, I'm not sure about windows)
type: python FunkyCIA.py ticket.db_gwemu -type dlc
This would download all the dlc you have installed, and make them into CIAs
You can specify what type of content you want to download, like: -type dlc would download dlc, -type demo gameapp would download the demos and gameapps that you have in your ticket.db.
You can use -type with gameapp, update, dlc, demo, dsiware, system, or ALL
You can download everything you have if you specify -type ALL. This includes system titles, so maybe you don't want to do that, just list all the types you want apart from 'system'. Find the title ids of the stuff you want using 3ds.essh.co, maybe devtool, maybe some other method.

Or, if there is some specific title ids (specific games/updates/etc) that you want to download, use:
-title XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY and you will download and make a CIA for those 2 titles only.
You cannot choose to download a content type (dlc, update, etc), and specific title(s) at the same time.

You can turn off downloading with -nodownload (if you want to only show the title ids you have in your ticket.db)
You can turn off CIA generation with -nobuild (so the stuff will only be downloaded)
You can turn off sorting by -nosort (by default, the contents are sorted into folders, so all the demos would go in a demo folder, all the system stuff would go in a system folder, etc)

 

[Asia81]

I have a question, cia dumped by funky cia2 are region free or not ?

 

[conradcervantes]

Pardon my ignorance, but I'm kind of stuck at the moment. I have all the necessary files downloaded and extracted to my desktop, but I'm not sure where I should be typing these commands. I'm on a Macbook, if that makes a difference at all.

 

[Myria]

cearp, do you think that the next version of this tool could write to both the left and right frame buffers? It hurts my eyes when it starts up and I have 3D enabled >.<

 

[NicEXE]

Is there a way to get ticket.db from a fully updated 3DS?

 

[Apache Thunder]

cearp, do you think that the next version of this tool could write to both the left and right frame buffers? It hurts my eyes when it starts up and I have 3D enabled >.<

If you think that's bad, boot up Gateway's menu with 3D enabled.

Mwahahaha...

 

[nastys]

Is there no way to use it on >4.5? Could this work with the SD Padgen function of Decrypt9?

 

[AquaX101]

I keep getting a syntax error when I enter the command in the python command line

 

[romanaOne]

Launcher.dat did not work for me on a 4.5 3ds XL with emunand 9.5.whatever_is_latest. I rebooted 10 times and each time I got an error dialog stating the program would be shut down and the 3DS rebooted. No ticketdb was produced.

Update: NEVERMIND! I had a failing SD card. Just retried it with a new one and it worked perfectly on the first try.

 

[omgcat]

thanks cearp!

 

[codychaosx]

Does this work with the gateway ocarina of time hack? im sure the answers no or not yet but im quite curious. if not do you think you could port this to thwe oot exploit?

 

[cearp]

Why is this topic still open if FunkyCIA2 exists?

this was just a little guide i made, because people were stuck...

Does this work with the gateway ocarina of time hack? im sure the answers no or not yet but im quite curious. if not do you think you could port this to thwe oot exploit?

this is just a guide...
if you mean does FunkyCIA work with the oot hack... that is just a python tool.
if you mean dumping tickets with the ticket dumper, that only works on 4.5 with the ds profile exploit.
use rxtools to dump tickets anyway

 

[tatumanu]

this was just a little guide i made, because people were stuck...

this is just a guide...
if you mean does FunkyCIA work with the oot hack... that is just a python tool.
if you mean dumping tickets with the ticket dumper, that only works on 4.5 with the ds profile exploit.
use rxtools to dump tickets anyway

So it doesn't work with a 9.2 3DS?
Also, does it backup the saves data?

Thanks for the guide i was stuck in the FUNKYCIA2 thread

 

[iViperz]

So it doesn't work with a 9.2 3DS?
Also, does it backup the saves data?

Thanks for the guide i was stuck in the FUNKYCIA2 thread

FunkyCIA doesn't work with 9.2 3DS, FunkyCIA2 does (Correct me if I'm wrong please cearp).
No the saves data doesn't get backed up.

 

[Trice]

FunkyCIA is just a tool to download eShop titles directly from Nintendo's servers and create a cia file from that based on your ticket.db file. It doesn't need to be compatible with any firmware version.

You can get this ticket.db file from your 3DS up to version 9.2 using Roxas75's rxTools, but it's only compatible with the original 3DS (XL) and not with the new one.

To back up the save data of your eShop games you should use SaveDataFiler.

 

[cearp]

FunkyCIA doesn't work with 9.2 3DS, FunkyCIA2 does (Correct me if I'm wrong please cearp).
No the saves data doesn't get backed up.

FunkyCIA2 is just better, the 3ds firmware is irrelevant, the tickets are the same.

 

[ubergeek77]

EDIT:
Sorry. Wrong FunkyCIA thread. My mistake.

 

[zeruel85]

The link for FunkyCIA2 download in the OP does not work. Can you reup it, please?

Thank you.

EDIT: nevermind, I've just seen FunkyCIA2 topic, sorry.

 

[Tomobobo]

Just wanna say thanks cearp for this bad ass progam. Got my smash bros updates thanks to you!

 

[Deathbot64]

So I got cube creator 3d (which was just released this morning) and I was able to get the ticket.db (i bought the game and got the ticket.db using my old 3ds xl running rxtools 9.7) and all that good stuff, found the right cia and tried installing it on my new 3ds xl, but when i load the game it bootloops at the 3ds logo screen? how can i fix this? do i need to decrypt it or something? I have been able to get other cia's working so i am totally lost.

 

[cearp]

So I got cube creator 3d (which was just released this morning) and I was able to get the ticket.db (i bought the game and got the ticket.db using my old 3ds xl running rxtools 9.7) and all that good stuff, found the right cia and tried installing it on my new 3ds xl, but when i load the game it bootloops at the 3ds logo screen? how can i fix this? do i need to decrypt it or something? I have been able to get other cia's working so i am totally lost.

maybe it requires a new fw/sdk or something. (or it downloaded badly from cdn, you can try again if you want, but i do check the filesize to see if it is what it is supposed to be, i doubt this is your problem)