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I'm surprised that this works with ReiNand, but what is likely happening is a result of your NANDs being linked.

Because your NANDs are linked, they share theme data. Since the theme data is where menuhax lives, both NANDs will attempt to autoboot menuhax when they start up. This causes a loop where it tries to load CFW, then load menuhax, then crash.

Possible solutions:

1) Unlink your NANDs via tinyFormat. Arguably the best solution, and the one that everyone and their mother will tell you to do.

2) Manually boot cakes every time from the Homebrew Menu. Yuck.

3) Use this modified version of CHMM2 and follow the steps to dissociate the themes (and thus avoid menuhax loops) between emuNAND and sysNAND. The idea is that since sysNAND doesn't have theme shuffle, it will ignore loaded theme shuffles. However, emuNAND will not ignore it, thus causing it to load the shuffled theme instead of the menuhax theme.

You might be able to use this to set up themehax in your emuNAND separate and distinct from menuhax in sysNAND, but I only recently set this up, so I haven't tried this.

I hope this helps!

Mine arent linked.
 

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I'm surprised that this works with ReiNand, but what is likely happening is a result of your NANDs being linked.

Because your NANDs are linked, they share theme data. Since the theme data is where menuhax lives, both NANDs will attempt to autoboot menuhax when they start up. This causes a loop where it tries to load CFW, then load menuhax, then crash.

Possible solutions:

1) Unlink your NANDs via tinyFormat. Arguably the best solution, and the one that everyone and their mother will tell you to do.

2) Manually boot cakes every time from the Homebrew Menu. Yuck.

3) Use this modified version of CHMM2 and follow the steps to dissociate the themes (and thus avoid menuhax loops) between emuNAND and sysNAND. The idea is that since sysNAND doesn't have theme shuffle, it will ignore loaded theme shuffles. However, emuNAND will not ignore it, thus causing it to load the shuffled theme instead of the menuhax theme.

You might be able to use this to set up themehax in your emuNAND separate and distinct from menuhax in sysNAND, but I only recently set this up, so I haven't tried this.

I hope this helps!

I already used the modified version of CHMM2. It did not work but I still don't know why. Now it works, and I still have my NAND linked. (And yes, I want to keep it like that, according to me, it's better. There is no point of unlinking nands, the only problem with linked nands is unwrapping packages but it only happens when you go to sysnand. If you just boot into emunand, everything is ok and you can install GBA VC only one time. ;) )
 

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Yay, finally managed to fix my console after nearly hardbricking it several times (ripped DAT0, had to use the microscopic alt).
It's shit, used an old ethernet cable and broken headphones, but it works. Too lazy to wait for the cable connectors i ordered.
b2f9638e8f914d9894c809ff07d34d0b.jpg

It also makes it look pretty dank.

EDIT: Nevermind, it started hanging randomly and I fucked it up and perma-bricked my console.
 
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Yay, finally managed to fix my console after nearly hardbricking it several times (ripped DAT0, had to use the microscopic alt).
It's shit, used an old ethernet cable and broken headphones, but it works. Too lazy to wait for the cable connectors i ordered.
b2f9638e8f914d9894c809ff07d34d0b.jpg

It also makes it look pretty dank.

very very cool, does the job is all that matters
 

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I don´t have any game i bought from eShop... D:
I pick the 3DS and installed the Cakes and FBI... never used it in it normal mode lol
 

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I don´t have any game i bought from eShop... D:
I pick the 3DS and installed the Cakes and FBI... never used it in it normal mode lol
games installed through CIA installers act the same way as eshop games,you can run it directly from HOME Menu and if you have unlinked NANDs,you can delete them through System Settings
 
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Hey friends, how i delete games i already have installed using FBI?
If your NANDs are unlinked (which they generally should be if you followed a competent guide), you can just uninstall through data management. If your NANDs are linked, I've heard of data loss by deleting through data management, you may want to uninstall the titles directly through your CIA manager.
 
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Thanks for the answers !!! Yes, i unlinked then, put one in english (the EmuNand) and the SysNand in Portuguese (i´m from Brazil). Again, thanks a lot for the answers.
 

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