Homebrew ARM9Loader -- Technical Details and Discussion

[Shadowtrance]

Would there be something stopping decrypt9/emunand9 loading via HBL on my amr9 rei 9.2 sysnand setup?

They both just kick me back to the HBL.

Firmware... it's the problem if it just kicks you back to HBL.

 

[daxtsu]

Would there be something stopping decrypt9/emunand9 loading via HBL on my amr9 rei 9.2 sysnand setup?

They both just kick me back to the HBL.

What @Mrrraou said. I don't think the mod that Shadowtrance posted allows you to boot the FIRM that's in the sysNAND itself yet.

 

[Audioboxer]

Because ReiNAND is doing a firmlaunch to a newer firmware

So I'm screwed until a payload for arm9launcher is available right? lol. Just trying to revert back to a sysnand 9.2 version without arm9.

 

[Mrrraou]

So I'm screwed until a payload for arm9launcher is available right? lol. Just trying to revert back to a sysnand 9.2 version without arm9.

You would need a PastaCFW-like payload to run D9 or anything else like that on sysNAND with your a9lhax setup.

 

[Audioboxer]

You would need a PastaCFW-like payload to run D9 or anything else like that on sysNAND with your a9lhax setup.

Ah well, looks like I'm stuck here for the time being, can't restore any backups or even create an emunand. At least the 3DS works. Thanks everyone.

 

[Nintendo4DSXL]

I think now the a9lh is like EarlyAcces on Steam.
Everyone who has the knowledge can do it but it has now just 2 public payloads(correct me if im wrong)
So but on my n3DS without a hardmod it works with reinand very well

 

[Shadowtrance]

So i just tried to get this reinand build to run 9.2 firmware.bin and it won't boot lol hmm

 

[Audioboxer]

I think now the a9lh is like EarlyAcces on Steam.
Everyone who has the knowledge can do it but it has now just 2 public payloads(correct me if im wrong)
So but on my n3DS without a hardmod it works with reinand very well

2 seems right, one for Rei on emunand and 1 for Rei on sysnand.

People like me are just the posterboys for why you don't go all in early. At least the OTP guide has been very well made, and the devs seem to have found a way to downgrade that is pretty much solid even on N3DS. Just requires a brain and following steps to a tee. Even the poll I made suggests no one has bricked downgrading so far (outside of the dev realm - where most of that was probably testing things I assume).

Only reason I ended up without an emunand was formatting my SD card wondering why 2.1 didn't recognize a 128GB card. Seems that was just due to the FW revision not liking anything over 32GB (I did try removing the folders on the card that sometimes cause a black screen). The freshly formatted 128GB card didn't even work. So I used Nintendo's 4GB one, setup arm9loaderhax and then obviously the rest from there is history. Sysnand only 9.2 via Rei on a formatted 128GB card No way back as things stand.

 

[Mrrraou]

I think now the a9lh is like EarlyAcces on Steam.
Everyone who has the knowledge can do it but it has now just 2 public payloads(correct me if im wrong)
So but on my n3DS without a hardmod it works with reinand very well

Because most aren't finished yet..? Some CFW developers are trying to get things working well on arm9loaderhax. There isn't any screen init yet on arm9loaderhax so... No GUI, no text...
And the downgrade packs + 2.1 spider exploits + D9 for 2.1 were released only yesterday. So give them some rest and time.

 

[Audioboxer]

Because most aren't finished yet..? Some CFW developers are trying to get things working well on arm9loaderhax. There isn't any screen init yet on arm9loaderhax so... No GUI, no text...
And the downgrade packs + 2.1 spider exploits + D9 for 2.1 were released only yesterday. So give them some rest and time.

I don't think he's criticizing, just summing up how it is. There's been plenty of warnings not to do all of this yet, but some of us are just idiots At least for science I've been a guinea pig for the devs to see even idiots can follow guides.

 

[daxtsu]

Because most aren't finished yet..? Some CFW developers are trying to get things working well on arm9loaderhax. There isn't any screen init yet on arm9loaderhax so... No GUI, no text...
And the downgrade packs + 2.1 spider exploits + D9 for 2.1 were released only yesterday. So give them some rest and time.

It's like the IOSU situation on Wii U (yes, it's not out yet, but work with me here). Once it's out, there won't really be anything that takes advantage of it. It's the same thing here, we're in the infancy stage, and it'll only improve with time.

 

[Nintendo4DSXL]

Because most aren't finished yet..? Some CFW developers are trying to get things working well on arm9loaderhax. There isn't any screen init yet on arm9loaderhax so... No GUI, no text...
And the downgrade packs + 2.1 spider exploits + D9 for 2.1 were released only yesterday. So give them some rest and time.

Like i said like EarlyAcces it is not finisched at all and it becomes updates(Payloads)

 

[Audioboxer]

It's like the IOSU situation on Wii U (yes, it's not out yet, but work with me here). Once it's out, there won't really be anything that takes advantage of it. It's the same thing here, we're in the infancy stage, and it'll only improve with time.

But after I done this I expected my N3DS to magically do everything for me

Well not really, but I did jump the gun without a full understanding of payloads. Which I did read up on this morning and went... ahhhh... shit, was no point in doing this quite yet (or at least, hey, I should have done this via Emunand....).

 

[Syphurith]

I have no bloody idea why it worked that way. Native Firm IS installed as a TITLE too so maybe that's why it works when installed via cia rather than system settings, i dunno.

When you can't patch/hook the ARM11 part of it to do a seperate update, it cause such problems.
And when you can get ARM11 directly from arm9loaderhax you might already find way to get LCD init.. Wow.
Although NS is who installs the CIA, it still needs ARM9 to deal with raw FS access.
I doubt you can find that special offset within FIRM ARM9 for Secret Sector and FIRM0.

 

[noctis90210]

does this a9lh still needs gba vc to be installed on both sys and emunand?
how bout running nds "cart" do we still need ptached twl/agb firm?

 

[KaduPSE]

does this a9lh still needs gba vc to be installed on both sys and emunand?
how bout running nds "cart" do we still need ptached twl/agb firm?

Arm9loader per se has nothing to do with GBA/VC titles, but, given the fact that you can use it to patch signature checks at boot, you could have only Sysnand with perma CFW and therefore install GBA CIAs only once instead of having an Emunand. The same applies for your other question, in fact, there are some cool patches to TWL_FIRM already done.

 

[Audioboxer]

Currently trying to get my emunand back up and running via 3DS Multi EmuNAND Creator. It seems to have created the Emunand partition from my nand backup (via PC). Time to recopy all my sdcard files over and pray.

 

[Audioboxer]

Awww yeah! It worked. I'm now booting via arm9 into emunand Although emunand keeps forgetting my default set theme. Not sure why.

 

[Xenon Hacks]

Ok so im getting close @Audioboxer the payload you sent me results in black screen and with no payload I get a forced shutdown. However the one @ieeat sent me puts me into patched sysnand and works great but I want to boot my Emunand instead any suggestions?

 

[Mrrraou]

Ok so im getting close @Audioboxer the payload you sent me results in black screen and with no payload I get a forced shutdown. However the one @ieeat sent me puts me into patched sysnand and works great but I want to boot my Emunand instead any suggestions?

is the sysNAND one a public payload?