Hacking [Tutorial] How to update Emunand on a N3DS

[HenryLeonheart]

For me to get it to update, I reformatted sysnand and emunand a few times before it let me update emunand properly.

Do you mind if I ask what is your setup? Maybe there's something different in yours that allows emuNAND to update. Or it's just luck.

 

[Wire]

Do you mind if I ask what is your setup? Maybe there's something different in yours that allows emuNAND to update. Or it's just luck.

It was just luck. I followed this tutorial several times. Each time I followed it was with a freshly formatted sysnand and emunand.

 

[HenryLeonheart]

I see. Thanks!

 

[HenryLeonheart]

Update: After a clean install of both sysNAND and emuNAND without installing anything other than FBI and Sysupdater. The update worked!

 

[Twilight Seeker]

Very interesting - define clean install though?

 

[HenryLeonheart]

@Twilight Seeker Just followed this tutorial: https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-setting-up-9-0-9-2-n3ds-xl-for-rxtools-cfw-including-emunand-coldboot-cia-manager.405589/page-16#post-5921298

 

[dart1250]

Update: After a clean install of both sysNAND and emuNAND without installing anything other than FBI and Sysupdater. The update worked!

Ok I'm going to try for the last time only with both sysNand and emuNand.

 

[shaneod]

What kind of 3DS do you have, also keep in mind you downgraders have frankenfirmwares.

Weirdly, I had the exact same black screen issue as him after updating emunand to 9.5.0E, and totally coincidentally, I decided to delete my emunand folder (inside 'Nintendo 3ds' at sd root), and I rebooted and the emunand folder was re-created automatically, and it's on 9.5.0 and no longer has a black screen .
Weird.

 

[dart1250]

No luck

 

[Anubis]

Weirdly, I had the exact same black screen issue as him after updating emunand to 9.5.0E, and totally coincidentally, I decided to delete my emunand folder (inside 'Nintendo 3ds' at sd root), and I rebooted and the emunand folder was re-created automatically, and it's on 9.5.0 and no longer has a black screen .
Weird.

Did you also downgrade recently?

 

[shaneod]

Did you also downgrade recently?

Yeah, I downgraded my 10.0.3E N3dsXL.
That let me use 9.5.0E, but because I deleted the SD card's emunand folder, I lost any installed CIA's.
By hex editing the menuhax payload, I could load the homebrew launcher from 9.5.0 emunand via browserhax, but I couldn't install any unsigned CIA files.

I've went back to 9.2.0E emunand for the time being.

Edit: As a note, what I had was 2 black screens. There's a different issue some people are having, which is one black and one red screen.

 

[Twilight Seeker]

Formatting and starting fresh seems to have worked for me as well. Thanks everyone!

 

[LooneyElsa]

Downgraded from 9.6-26e to 9.2-20e n3dsxl.
Got rxtools up and running then used this tutorial to update emunand to 9.5-23e.
First try, here are some pics. Cheers.

Spoiler: 9.2 rx LARGE IMAGE

Spoiler: 9.5 rx

 

[Anubis]

Updated my 9.2E emuNAND to 9.5E just fine, so it seems there's some issue with the 9.5J CIAs.

 

[tarduno]

updated without any problem on downgraded n3ds eu

 

[JerwuQu]

I found the solution for those that downgraded and get the black screen.

Go into your SD-card (on your PC) and rename your emunand folder (Nintendo 3DS/XXXXXXXXXX) to something else.
Now start your 3ds and boot into emunand. It will recreate the folder (but without your installs). This is fine.
Take out your SD-card and go back to your PC. Move all the files from your renamed emunand folder to the one that just got created EXCEPT FOR THOSE THAT CONFLICT. DO NOT MOVE THOSE. IT WILL NOT WORK.

Worked for me ^^

 

[Urbanshadow]

I found the solution for those that downgraded and get the black screen.

Go into your SD-card (on your PC) and rename your emunand folder (Nintendo 3DS/XXXXXXXXXX) to something else.
Now start your 3ds and boot into emunand. It will recreate the folder (but without your installs). This is fine.
Take out your SD-card and go back to your PC. Move all the files from your renamed emunand folder to the one that just got created EXCEPT FOR THOSE THAT CONFLICT. DO NOT MOVE THOSE. IT WILL NOT WORK.

Worked for me ^^

Very interesting indeed. Did some ID change? one of the /Nintendo 3DS/ID1/ID2/dbs ?

 

[JerwuQu]

Very interesting indeed. Did some ID change? one of the /Nintendo 3DS/ID1/ID2/dbs ?

For me, only 5 files (all in the same folder) inside extdata changed.
When I did it, all my apps were wrapped again and unsorted (but still worked) so the conflicting files probably have something to do with the home menu.
Seems to me like some home menu CIA didn't get properly upgraded/downgraded. I have no idea.

 

[R3d0s3]

After downgrade on n3ds to 9.2, I'm loading the emunand just fine, but i'm having a hard time updating it to 9.5.
An error 0xD8E08027 occured when installing 000400300000B902.cia (the other cias are fine using bigbluemenu).
After reboot i've got a black screen on emunand just after the home loading.
My cia 9.5 package is fine, i've already updated 2 other n3ds with it, The 2 of them came with the 9.2 without downgrade.
Anyone having the same issue???

 

[R3d0s3]

I found the solution for those that downgraded and get the black screen.

Go into your SD-card (on your PC) and rename your emunand folder (Nintendo 3DS/XXXXXXXXXX) to something else.
Now start your 3ds and boot into emunand. It will recreate the folder (but without your installs). This is fine.
Take out your SD-card and go back to your PC. Move all the files from your renamed emunand folder to the one that just got created EXCEPT FOR THOSE THAT CONFLICT. DO NOT MOVE THOSE. IT WILL NOT WORK.

Worked for me ^^

Worked for me too thx.