Hacking SD card games not recognized after setting up emuNAND

[Odnetnin46]

So I successfully downgraded my n3DS, and all went swimmingly, my n3DS rebooting straight to the home menu with everything intact, save for my folders exploding everywhere. I attempted to set up emuNAND and CakesFW using this haphazard guide because I was still stressed and shaking from my successful downgrade and wasn't thinking straight.

I made my SD card and NAND backups, then set up emuNAND9, then transferred my SD backup to my SD card. I did NOT unlink sysNAND at any point. Now when I enter either NAND my 3DS doesn't recognize any legit games on my SD card, but it does see the DSiware I have.

How do I fix this?

n3DS 9.2U.

 

[Quantumcat]

So I successfully downgraded my n3DS, and all went swimmingly, my n3DS rebooting straight to the home menu with everything intact, save for my folders exploding everywhere. I attempted to set up emuNAND and CakesFW using this haphazard guide because I was still stressed and shaking from my successful downgrade and wasn't thinking straight.

I made my SD card and NAND backups, then set up emuNAND9, then transferred my SD backup to my SD card. I did NOT unlink sysNAND at any point. Now when I enter either NAND my 3DS doesn't recognize any legit games on my SD card, but it does see the DSiware I have.

How do I fix this?

n3DS 9.2U.

Not sure why you have this problem, but you could spoof the eShop and redownload them all again. Also make sure your NNID is linked. (System settings then the button at the top of the touch screen)

 

[Odnetnin46]

Not sure why you have this problem, but you could spoof the eShop and redownload them all again. Also make sure your NNID is linked. (System settings then the button at the top of the touch screen)

I've got like ~30GB of eshop stuff, so that's not going to be ideal at all. Is there any way I can just start over with my backups?

Also, I don't know if it's worth noting, but when I tried installing FBI as a .cia to my sysNAND, it said it was successful, but nothing showed up on my home menu. At that point my games were still all there.

 

[Quantumcat]

I've got like ~30GB of eshop stuff, so that's not going to be ideal at all. Is there any way I can just start over with my backups?

Also, I don't know if it's worth noting, but when I tried installing FBI as a .cia to my sysNAND, it said it was successful, but nothing showed up on my home menu. At that point my games were still all there.

For the FBI problem, you have to be in sig patched mode to be able to see it and use it. For the main problem, just double check your NNID is linked. If not, link it and see if that makes everything appear again.

 

[Odnetnin46]

For the FBI problem, you have to be in sig patched mode to be able to see it and use it. For the main problem, just double check your NNID is linked. If not, link it and see if that makes everything appear again.

NNID settings tells me I need to update my firmware. Afterwards, it shows my NNID on the top screen that I've been using forever, so I assume that's good?

As for FBI, I've been in sig patched mode for both sys and emuNAND and nothing shows up. Trying to install it again from the hb_launcher in sig patched mode (both in sys+emuNAND) gives me an error. See attached.

Also attached is what the root of my SD looks like, if that helps at all.

Also I really appreciate you trying to help me. I've gone elsewhere and nobody else has responded.

 

[Quantumcat]

I'm glad to try and help but I don't think I have the knowledge to do it properly :-p Whenever people have had "summary_wrong_argument" there's an easy fix from memory, try doing a search of the forums on that just in case (although you said the initial install worked, so might not be the same problem as theirs)

You MIGHT need to log into your NNID for the games to appear but I'm not sure. I remember when I did a system transfer to my n3ds, I had to visit the eShop for it to finish, and whenI did, everything magically popped up. Although the FBI thing will have to be the first priority as because of recent developments by Nintendo, spoofing eShop requires installing things.

 

[Quantumcat]

Deleted multiple post, sorry my phone is an idiot

 

[Quantumcat]

Deleted multiple post, sorry my phone is an idiot

 

[Odnetnin46]

I'm glad to try and help but I don't think I have the knowledge to do it properly :-p Whenever people have had "summary_wrong_argument" there's an easy fix from memory, try doing a search of the forums on that just in case (although you said the initial install worked, so might not be the same problem as theirs)

You MIGHT need to log into your NNID for the games to appear but I'm not sure. I remember when I did a system transfer to my n3ds, I had to visit the eShop for it to finish, and whenI did, everything magically popped up. Although the FBI thing will have to be the first priority as because of recent developments by Nintendo, spoofing eShop requires installing things.

Ugh, dammit. I'd just like to start over at this point, because I think I've dug myself into a hole with no known ways out. Could I just do a total format of my SD, wiping the emuNAND partition, then grab my SD backup I made right before I installed emuNAND and try installing rxtools or something as opposed to CakesFW? I can't find anything helpful for the FBI error, and 9.5 emuNAND eshop spoofing seems very risky at this point since I'd have to format sysNAND on top of the fact that FBI hates me.

 

[Zidapi]

9.5 emuNAND eshop spoofing seems very risky at this point since I'd have to format sysNAND

I think as @Quantumcat suggested, you're going to need to sign in to your NNID, and enter the eshop before your digital content will show up.

You don't need to re-download them or anything, they should just appear after you exit the eShop. You don't need to go to the effort of spoofing either, that's only required if you need to download content.

You can either install and run free-multi-patcher, or use the eshop shortcut that came with the Homebrew Loader starter kit.

 

[Odnetnin46]

I think as @Quantumcat suggested, you're going to need to sign in to your NNID, and enter the eshop before your digital content will show up.

You don't need to re-download them or anything, they should just appear after you exit the eShop. You don't need to go to the effort of spoofing either, that's only required if you need to download content.

You can either install and run free-multi-patcher, or use the eshop shortcut that came with the Homebrew Loader starter kit.

Alright, I'll try multipatcher tomorrow since I'm dead tired from this nonsense. Neither eShop shortcut works by the way, in sig patched mode or not. They just say that I need to update my firmware after the NNID sign-in thing comes up briefly, which, I suspect, doesn't actually sign me in, or at least to the degree that it verifies my titles.

 

[Odnetnin46]

So, the FBI installer issue was definitely due to me using firmware9.5.bin instead of firmware9.2.bin with CakesFW. Should I mess with firmware_patched.bin at all, too? When the hell should I use 9.5.bin in general?

EDIT: For emuNAND. Right. I needed FBI installed properly to sysNAND beforehand for it to carry over to emuNAND. Time to H&S.
Also unrelated, but does anyone know how to make themehax stop yellow screening so much? I'm getting it 60% of the time and that's on top of the 25% boot rate of Cakes. I'm using a custom theme if that's important.

EDIT: Uninstalled themehax, and browserhax decided to stop working. Keep getting gray screened and then it boots me back to the home menu. I've deleted the tmp payload, reset save data, powercycled, etc. I have a spare 3DS + OoT3D so I can try and install a payload on that later today.

EDIT: Okay, browserhax just hates tethered cellular networks. Now on to FBI injection.

 

[Odnetnin46]

Alright, FBI injection was successful (at least on sysNAND, haven't tested emuNAND yet). I successfully installed FBI as its own .cia onto sysNAND, too, just to test it all out.

After I test emuNAND FBI, would you guys say it's safe to delink NANDs now?

EDIT: I booted into emuNAND, the H&S injection worked. My FBI .cia I installed while in sysNAND was also present, though since they're still linked, that's what's supposed to happen, right? I'm getting notifications about the home menu and such so that's evidence that I'm on emuNAND too, correct?

Should I take the plunge and format sysNAND? Should I do anything else first beforehand?

 

[Quantumcat]

Just from reading (not from my own experience), in order to get FBI on emuNAND you have to create your emuNAND after installation on sysNAND. Wait till someone confirms, but, I think what you'll have to do is extract your emuNAND with emuNAND tool, create a new emuNAND, then inject your backup back in.

 

[Odnetnin46]

Just from reading (not from my own experience), in order to get FBI on emuNAND you have to create your emuNAND after installation on sysNAND. Wait till someone confirms, but, I think what you'll have to do is extract your emuNAND with emuNAND tool, create a new emuNAND, then inject your backup back in.

Does that matter, either for FBI or my NNID games, now that I got FBI injected into the H&S app?

Basically, can I just format sysNAND and start updating emuNAND now? I made my NAND backups and FBI's working now.

EDIT: Just formatted. emuNAND and sysNAND are properly delinked. I can see my DSi titles on emuNAND, but not sysNAND. Just have to update emuNAND, then spoof my eshop, and pray my legit games show up after that.

EDIT: Updated to 9.5U successfully. Patched Nver, tried loading the eshop up with HANS and loading NNID settings through emuNAND FBI, but I'm getting the 022-2634 error, meaning my NNID is almost definitely still linked serverside to a non-existent NAND or something, and I'll probably have to contact Nintendo support to get that signed out.

I'll leave it at that for now. My last edit here will be results on my SD card games and NNID.

EDIT: I lied

 

[Odnetnin46]

Fixed the NNID problem with this. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like any of my previously downloaded eshop games are showing up on my home menu.

Well, that sucks. Time to redownload a gorillion gigs of eshop games, find cryptofixed CIAs of my newer games, and restore what few save data backups I made.

 

[Odnetnin46]

It's a stretch, but could this be why they're not showing up? The bigger folder only has all my legit eshop stuff, and the 7GB only has all the CIAs I installed manually to emuNAND. Should they be separate folders? Could I merge them or rename the bigger one to what the smaller's called, or is that a lost cause?

 

[Zidapi]

It's a stretch, but could this be why they're not showing up? The bigger folder only has all my legit eshop stuff, and the 7GB only has all the CIAs I installed manually to emuNAND. Should they be separate folders? Could I merge them or rename the bigger one to what the smaller's called, or is that a lost cause?

Found this in another thread, full credit goes to @The Real Jdbye.

Delete the "Nintendo 3DS" folder and copy it again from the backup.

Hopefully that solves it!

 

[Odnetnin46]

Found this in another thread, full credit goes to @The Real Jdbye.

Hopefully that solves it!

Restored my Nintendo 3DS folder backup from before the downgrade, and it just boots to a black screen (probably due to Shufflehax still being on there?). Interestingly, when I press the power button, it sometimes brings me to the "features in sleep mode" screen where I can press home or power off, but the returning to home menu screen just hangs as well.

I then tried my backup just before creating emuNAND, wherein I had deleted some titles that were cluttering up my SD card like Ironfall and a bunch of demos, and that didn't make my eshop games show up.

I guess my only remaining option is to figure out how to manually delete Shufflehax on that first backup, since I can't eject the SD card while in emuNAND. Any ideas?

 

[Zidapi]

I guess my only remaining option is to figure out how to manually delete Shufflehax on that first backup, since I can't eject the SD card while in emuNAND. Any ideas?

No problem, this should sort that out. Again, full credit goes to @Ar7ific1al

try the following:
BACKUP and REMOVE payload files from SD card root. BACKUP and REMOVE homemenu extdata (/Nintendo 3DS/<a bunch of numbers and letters>/<a bunch of numbers and letters>/extdata/00000000/0000008f).

 

[Odnetnin46]

No problem, this should sort that out. Again, full credit goes to @Ar7ific1al

That fixed it, and my stuff + badges are showing up! Gonna see if I can also slap the folder with all my unsigned CIAs in here too, then I'll finally be done with this thread. Thanks a million!

EDIT: It's a black screen, even after deleting the 8f folders. Guess I'll just reinstall all those CIAs from scratch at this point - I can live with redoing the first four chapters of FE If.

 

[Jayro]

Welp, I've learned my lesson now about backing up my 3DS folder. I'm just going to reinstall everything from scratch. I'll just put the 2DS on it's charger while setting it to "Install and Delete .CIAs" while I sleep. Should be done by morning.