Hacking [Resolved] Gateway 3.4 hangs when "boot Gateway mode" is selected

[BORTZ]

Hi guys.

I have an O3DS on 9.2. I can boot into the gateway menu, but when I select "Boot gateway mode" I get two black screens indefinitely. I have the Launcher.dat on my SD card and my Gateway red cart inserted with games to test. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Resolution:

Is emunand formatted?

Formatting my emuNAND was the key. Even before I was able to boot into the Gateway multirom menu.

Also, this is interesting:

Little late now, but if your Gateway won't launch without an Emunand setup, you should still be able to launch Gateway Sysnand mode by holding [ B ] at launch Emunand and confirming with [X].

 

[lemanuel]

Is emunand formatted?

 

[BORTZ]

NO! That's probably it. I must have missed that part in the guide? Ill report back in a minute.

 

[lemanuel]

NO! That's probably it. I must have missed that part in the guide? Ill report back in a minute.

Well... it shouldn't be required to have emunand formatted to boot GW Mode. It should just use sysnand. But for some reason, another user complained about the exact same thing today. So dunno. Hopefully it's that.

 

[koyuki_kun]

You need emunand format to use gw

 

[BORTZ]

So you are saying I need to have my emunand formatted before I can even run the gateway multirom menu?

 

[lemanuel]

You need emunand format to use gw

Not really. GW Mode can use either sysnand or emunand. Or at least it used to.

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So you are saying I need to have my emunand formatted before I can even run the gateway multirom menu?

It shouldn't be necessary and they didn't mention anything on the recent updates about any change. But it is possible it could be the cause.

 

[koyuki_kun]

Not really. GW Mode can use either sysnand or emunand. Or at least it used to.

you can boot in sysnand but if you not create the emunand in your SD card you cant boot in emunand gw

 

[lemanuel]

you can boot in sysnand but if you not create the emunand in your SD card you cant boot in emunand gw

Don't get confused with the names. There's sysnand and emunand. And then there's GW Mode.
GW Mode can use either sysnand or emunand. It uses emunand by default if it's already created but it should use sysnand if there isn't emunand. At least that's how it worked. They didn't say anything about changing it.

 

[VinsCool]

Keep trying.

It happens to my n3ds for some reasons. It always end to be working though.

 

[BORTZ]

Well I am on 9.2 so formatting my emuNAND is going to at worst, make me a 9.2 emuNAND so thats fine right?

Ok, I mean I tried like 4 times, I guess thats not enough lol

 

[lemanuel]

Well I am on 9.2 so formatting my emuNAND is going to at worst, make me a 9.2 emuNAND so thats fine right?

Yeah, it's fine. With a O3DS, emunand can go up to 9.9 (not sure about the latest 10.0). So 9.2 is perfectly fine.
Just don't mess with sysnand by mistake.

 

[BORTZ]

Halfway done with formatting emuNAND. So after this is done, I'll reboot and try again lol

Yeah, it's fine. With a O3DS, emunand can go up to 9.9 (not sure about the latest 10.0). So 9.2 is perfectly fine.
Just don't mess with sysnand by mistake.

Props to you lemanuel. That did it. I dont know why, but that might be something with the new update. Thanks for the speedy replies everyone.

 

[CIAwesome526]

Hmm.... Bortz with n00b troubles? This doesn't seem right....

 

[lemanuel]

Props to you lemanuel. That did it. I dont know why, but that might be something with the new update. Thanks for the speedy replies everyone.

Good to know. Still weird that it's requiring to have emunand formatted to work. It wasn't like that before and still not sure if they changed it or not. But in any case, it's easy to fix. And also, emunand seems to be working fine with 10.0 (latest firmware). That's only valid for O3DS though. N3DS remains with 9.5 max emunand

 

[BORTZ]

Hmm.... Bortz with n00b troubles? This doesn't seem right....

The 3DS hacking community is a poorly documented wasteland of n00bs

 

[CIAwesome526]

The 3DS hacking community is a poorly documented wasteland of n00bs

If the links to all 3ds section n00b threads were put in one post, it would probably break the temp. No server should have to go through that.

 

[usernametaken]

Little late now, but if you Gateway won't launch without an Emunand setup, you should still be able to launch Gateway Sysnand mode by holding [ B ] at launch Emunand and confirming with [X].

 

[lemanuel]

Little late now, but if you Gateway won't launch without an Emunand setup, you should still be able to launch Gateway Sysnand mode by holding [ B ] at launch Emunand and confirming with [X].

Maybe that's the problem. Since they added that option, they might have disabled the automatic boot to sysnand when just pressing the normal Boot GW Mode button. There was no warning that that would happen with the new option implementation though.

 

[BORTZ]

Little late now, but if you Gateway won't launch without an Emunand setup, you should still be able to launch Gateway Sysnand mode by holding [ B ] at launch Emunand and confirming with [X].

Yeah that is odd, I have never heard of that before. Thanks anyways, I'll add that to the OP.