Hacking [Release] Yellows8's Homebrew Launcher Loader for CFW users (.cia HBL Launcher!)

[Rafahzn]

i've never had any experience with homebrews in the 3ds yet,i know about the many entry point.With this cia do i still need them? like CN etc?
what is the logical sequence to get it working? (O3DS4.5fw-EMU10.1) thx

 

[DjoeN]

It will load into your homebrew which will automatically boot back to CFW (and most likely blackscreen, if your emunand is >9.2)

What you can do to avoid that is hex edit your payload to point towards a different .3dsx file which is your homebrew launcher.

People have reported that editing the payload used by this .cia caused problems, so I'd recommend editing your menuhax payload instead. I have mine set to look for nhax.3dsx which is CBM, and my homebrew launcher is boot.3dsx as normal.

So i search in the "ropbinpayload_menuhax_EUR12288_old3ds.bin" and found 2x boot.3dsx, do i need to replace both boot.3dsx with the name i gave to boot.3dsx? (lets say ctrb.3dsx)

 

[Deleted-236924]

I only had the first boot.3dsx replaced at first and it worked fine, but I went ahead and changes both and it works fine too, so probably safe to change both.

 

[peteruk]

I only had the first boot.3dsx replaced at first and it worked fine, but I went ahead and changes both and it works fine too, so probably safe to change both.

I did the same as advised earlier by @Pingouin7 I renamed my file the same name and changed it both places and is working great

 

[ric.]

It will load into your homebrew which will automatically boot back to CFW (and most likely blackscreen, if your emunand is >9.2)

What you can do to avoid that is hex edit your payload to point towards a different .3dsx file which is your homebrew launcher.

People have reported that editing the payload used by this .cia caused problems, so I'd recommend editing your menuhax payload instead. I have mine set to look for nhax.3dsx which is CBM, and my homebrew launcher is boot.3dsx as normal.

I tried this and it worked perfectly - Menuhax has no problem loading the modified payload, but it seems this loader is a bit picky and won't take a payload that's been altered. Pretty good stuff!
I wonder if we'll be able to modify the loading screens in the future, it's a bit jarring to see "Homebrew - Homebrew" when loading the .cia, but I'm not complaining.

 

[noctis90210]

im on n3ds ang searched for "boot.3sx" on notepad++ on the payload file, but i only found one... why other found 2 entries???

 

[Deleted-236924]

Use a hex editor such as HxD.

 

[Asia81]

It's boring, the soft is trying to donwload the file at every boot...
Possible to have an offline launcher?

 

[Hayleia]

It's boring, the soft is trying to donwload the file at every boot...
Possible to have an offline launcher?

Even if you press Y (or whatever it was) to save the payload ?
Anyway, someone posted an "offline version" here, not sure if that helps.

 

[EmotiveFall]

This works on 9.9 right just trying to be sure.

 

[AtlasFontaine]

It's boring, the soft is trying to donwload the file at every boot...
Possible to have an offline launcher?

Hold Y while launching, it will download to the SD the payload.

 

[duffmmann]

Aw snap, how did I only just notice this today?! Time to put my copy of ironfall into a folder on my 3ds to be launched as a normal title only while I put this title right on the home screen where ironfall used to be.

 

[JagN9]

IMHO, we should start using "brew.3dsx" instead of "boot.3dsx" if all we want is to load the Homebrew Launcher. Leave "boot.3dsx" for excepcional cases.

 

[FR0ZN]

It worked with GW 10.3

Can you test if you can launch Decrypt9 from HBL launcher in GW mode pls?

 

[duffmmann]

IMHO, we should start using "brew.3dsx" instead of "boot.3dsx" if all we want is to load the Homebrew Launcher. Leave "boot.3dsx" for excepcional cases.

I actually did it differently, I kept my homebrew launcher as boot.3dsx, and then had my autoboot rxtools emunand redirect to the menu.3dsx file on the root of my sd card instead of boot.3dsx, so keeping homebrew launching directed to boot.3dsx does work best for me, and I'm sure many others.

 

[JagN9]

I actually did it differently, I kept my homebrew launcher as boot.3dsx, and then had my autoboot rxtools emunand redirect to the menu.3dsx file on the root of my sd card instead of boot.3dsx, so keeping homebrew launching directed to boot.3dsx does work best for me, and I'm sure many others.

I (and many other I know) use boot.3dsx to boot a program that checks for pressed buttons and jumps to another program. So it would be:

- boot.3dsx -> Boot manager, that launches the next
- brew.3dsx -> Homebrew Launcher
- rxTools/bin/code.bin -> rxTools
- whateveryouwant.3dsx and so...

 

[duffmmann]

I (and many other I know) use boot.3dsx to boot a program that checks for pressed buttons and jumps to another program. So it would be:

- boot.3dsx -> Boot manager, that launches the next
- brew.3dsx -> Homebrew Launcher
- rxTools/bin/code.bin -> rxTools
- whateveryouwant.3dsx and so...

Yes I did this too, but you can alter which file that loads via the menuropbin file or whatever it's called in your hex editor and change both instances of boot.3dsx to any other name that's 4 characters long, for me I did menu.3dsx, and since this method was outlined in a few tutorials here, I know a lot of other people also use this method so that your home brew launcher can stay directed to boot.3dsx and your auto boot, no buttons pushed cfw/emunand can be loaded from a different file name like menu.3dsx.

 

[FONZD]

Here is a build with a new icon and a new banner.

 

[Deleted-236924]

Here is a build with a new icon and a new banner.
View attachment 31094View attachment 31090

I don't think the gradient really works on the actual 3DS, but this looks a lot better than the original one.

Just waiting for one with an actual 3D banner and I'll be happy :3

 

[Urbanshadow]

You can also modify the otherapp payload with a hex editor to launch another file rather than boot.3dsx like we did with themehax. I like this.

¿Has anyone tried this with that hblauncher with arm9 payload support? I'm specially interested in going from the menu to the gateway launcher.