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I am helping my friend get setup with RXTOOLS. and we are trying to play GBA cias.

They are not working.

I have a decent amount of experience in 3ds scene, and I can't figure out why it's not working.

I'm using the 12.05 nightly version of rxtools.


I run them both from emunand and sysnand. and they black screen. I tried New3DS patcher for AGB would not install.

They show up fine on both nands. they just don't run. Can anyone help with this?
 

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I read from other users that downgraded users are having issues with GBA cias, they just don't run for some reason.

I think you should wait until more information about this comes out.

Stay away from GBA cias in the mean time.
 

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Well that turned out not to be right, it also doesn't work on my native 9.0 N3DS.

I don't know if you have to actively install patched AGB_FIRM cia's into SysNAND and EmuNAND for GBA VC to work. I did not try that, I gave up after not being able to start any GBA VC because I don't care about it anyway.
 

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Well that turned out not to be right, it also doesn't work on my native 9.0 N3DS.

I don't know if you have to actively install patched AGB_FIRM cia's into SysNAND and EmuNAND for GBA VC to work. I did not try that, I gave up after not being able to start any GBA VC because I don't care about it anyway.
I can give it a shot real quick.

I have a non-AGB patched white 9.2 N3DS (not downgraded).

I could install a GBA cia and try it.
 

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Well that turned out not to be right, it also doesn't work on my native 9.0 N3DS.

I don't know if you have to actively install patched AGB_FIRM cia's into SysNAND and EmuNAND for GBA VC to work. I did not try that, I gave up after not being able to start any GBA VC because I don't care about it anyway.
I installed the cia patch on my 2ds. But I can't get it to work on new3ds the install on cia fails.

then I figured well who cares rxtools comes with patching on the fly right?

Nope. black screens all day on launch of gba cias lol
 

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Yes. But cfw and cias work fine. just not agb for some reason.
hmm . . . let me try one on my downgraded o3ds . . .
edit: well mine is downgraded and i am playing kingdom hearts chain of memories (a gba title) at the moment . . . also without installing agb-patched firm
installed via bbm on rxtools 9/28
 
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I've just tried on my n3ds which was downgraded it works. I installed agb patched firm with bbm yes bbm as fbi wouldn't install to NAND and it's working in reinand system NAND
 

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from what i heard the latest nightlies broke gba support.
the 28/9 build 2nd octoboer build works for it apparently
 

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I am playing Kirby Amazing Mirror without AGB firm in a N3DS:
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Theoretically if there is a difference between a downgraded 9.2 3ds and one that was always 9.2 it could be fixed by downgrading to 9.1 and then updating to 9.2 right? Cause then it would be the same as if it had never been above 9.2. This would fix any issues right?
 

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Theoretically if there is a difference between a downgraded 9.2 3ds and one that was always 9.2 it could be fixed by downgrading to 9.1 and then updating to 9.2 right? Cause then it would be the same as if it had never been above 9.2. This would fix any issues right?
nope sadly not true because each update only includes files that change previous versions not all the files needed to run a 3ds and with that said there may have been changes to the fw while over 9.3 that 9.0/9.2 wont effect because they were not implemented in those updates in the first place
 

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nope sadly not true because each update only includes files that change previous versions not all the files needed to run a 3ds and with that said there may have been changes to the fw while over 9.3 that 9.0/9.2 wont effect because they were not implemented in those updates in the first place
Maybe we could make a package with all of the cia files in 9.2 (not just the update ones) and you could install them to emunand so even if sysnand is off the emunand should be a perfect 9.2
 

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nope sadly not true because each update only includes files that change previous versions not all the files needed to run a 3ds and with that said there may have been changes to the fw while over 9.3 that 9.0/9.2 wont effect because they were not implemented in those updates in the first place

Nope, I believe you are wrong in this one.

Between 9.0 - 9.2 there was only 2 titles updated, yet the update has more than a 100 cias.

Also, In the 9.2 update browser/mset/AGB/TWL were not updated, if the 9.2 update didn't have them, people updating from 4.5 to 9.2 using sysupdater wouldn't get all those updated apps, they would stay in 4.x versions since the 9.2 didn't updated them from 9.0 and we know this isn't the case.
 
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