Dude, just shut up. AP has nothing whatsoever to do with crypto or seeds.
Which also have nothing to do with titles hanging on the 3DS logo (despite what half the people in this thread seem to think), which is the main thing I personally am trying to find a way around without spoofing cias or using gw. Especially since a certain system title refuses to let a fw spoof work.
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That is to say that the followthing three things are all completely different and refer to and cause different issues.
New AP check in retail carts.
9.6+ eShop seed/crypto.
Minimum kernel version in exheader.
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Which also have nothing to do with titles hanging on the 3DS logo (despite what half the people in this thread seem to think), which is the main thing I personally am trying to find a way around without spoofing cias or using gw. Especially since a certain system title refuses to let a fw spoof work.
edit:
That is to say that the followthing three things are all completely different and refer to and cause different issues.
New AP check in retail carts.
9.6+ eShop seed/crypto.
Minimum kernel version in exheader.
Just to add further clarification:
If you install a cia to your system and when you launch it the system hangs on a 3ds logo, that means the game expects a minimum kernel version that is higher than the one currently in use by the sytem. This will ONLY happen to cfw users (gw does not experience this) and it is easily solved by installing a "fw spoofed" version of the cia (or update if a downloaded game update caused the problem)
If you try to download a game from the eshop and it almost finishes and then spits out an error (usually around 97%) then the game/demo/app you tried to download is encrypted using the new seed and you will need to locate a crypto-fixed version of that application.
The new AP check will never affect anyone except sky3ds users. If you own a Sky3DS with a red or blue button and your new .3ds file won't load, then it probably uses the new AP check and you are shit out of luck. Your options include downgrading to 9.2 and using CFW, buying a Sky3DS+, or buying the game to play.