Homebrew ARM9Loader -- Technical Details and Discussion

[PixelBurst]

I'd recommend the updater, personally, but compiling the branch and reinstalling works too.

I did use the updater, but I wanted to get rid of the glitchy screen that I'm getting on startup now - I saw a comment saying that was already fixed in the branch. I'm having problems getting the .3dsx to actually load though, I keep getting stuck on "exploiting arm9" Tried browserhax, menuhax and the minipasta fix /w browserhax, no joy.

It's safe, I've done it several times now.

Did you have any trouble getting the 3dsx to run?

 

[jackb994]

I did use the updater, but I wanted to get rid of the glitchy screen that I'm getting on startup now - I saw a comment saying that was already fixed in the branch. I'm having problems getting the .3dsx to actually load though, I keep getting stuck on "exploiting arm9" Tried browserhax, menuhax and the minipasta fix /w browserhax, no joy.

Where can I get this updater

 

[PixelBurst]

Where can I get this updater

https://gbatemp.net/threads/arm9loader-technical-details-and-discussion.408537/page-116#post-6112713

 

[jackb994]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/arm9loader-technical-details-and-discussion.408537/page-116#post-6112713

cheers

 

[Orkna]

The updater does not work for everyone. I would recommend people to build the installer from source.

 

[PixelBurst]

The updater does not work for everyone. I would recommend people to build the installer from source.

Worked fine for me. It's the glitchness I don't want!

 

[Orkna]

I have no glitches on my units, (N3DS, N3DS XL and O3DS XL).

 

[jackb994]

Worked fine for me. It's the glitchness I don't want!

do you mean the random bar that comes up when you boot

 

[peteruk]

do you mean the random bar that comes up when you boot

You have observed a random bar mate ?

Not seen anything odd here tbh

 

[dkabot]

I can confirm not seeing any odd artifacts.

There were some in test Cakes builds, when not everything was set, but those were much larger and disappeared after the firmlaunch.
(Of course, those don't happen now.)

 

[ThinksAmoral]

I just wanna report that updating was successful on my old 3ds XL and it showed the splash immediately!

Here's a tiny tutorial for AuReiNAND users who don't wanna scroll back a few pages (this might not be the correct procedure on new 3ds)

This worked for me right now, I installed the original arm9loaderhax a few days ago:

1. Get installer.zip from here
2. Rename install.bin to arm9loaderhax.bin
3. Rename your AuReiNAND arm9loaderhax.bin (to something like arm9loaderhaxRenameMeAfterUpdate.bin)
4. Copy arm9loaderhax.bin (renamed from installer.bin) and stage0x5C000.bin into the root of the sd card
5. Boot up your 3ds, press A to update. It'll shut itself off after a really short time.
6. Put the sd card back into your pc and delete arm9loaderhax.bin and stage0x5C000.bin. You don't need those anymore.
7. Rename your AuReiNAND arm9loaderhaxRenameMeAfterUpdate.bin back to arm9loaderhax.bin
8. Boot up your 3ds and you're done!

Thanks to everyone for their hard work on getting this working!

This method worked perfectly for the N3DS

 

[jackb994]

You have observed a random bar mate ?

Not seen anything odd here tbh

only when I use the boot manager, probably a glitch, it's only alpha after all

 

[Supster131]

only when I use the boot manager, probably a glitch, it's only alpha after all

The boot manager does that. Update your A9LH and use the non-screen init version of the boot manager, it fixes the issue.

 

[jackb994]

The boot manager does that. Update your A9LH and use the non-screen init version of the boot manager, it fixes the issue.

I guessed that, but I'm going to keep the latest as it will have more support throughout the new updates to the CFW's. I guess he'll ad a sort of menuhax boot image feature or just black's it out using technical knowhow lol

 

[Supster131]

I guessed that, but I'm going to keep the latest as it will have more support throughout the new updates to the CFW's. I guess he'll ad a sort of menuhax boot image feature or just black's it out using technical knowhow lol

I messaged him about the issue yesterday, he said he'll check it out on Monday as he's going to be busy this weekend. But yeah, the older version works with AuReiNAND and even shows the splash screen

 

[jackb994]

I messaged him about the issue yesterday, he said he'll check it out on Monday as he's going to be busy this weekend. But yeah, the older version works with AuReiNAND and even shows the splash screen

Cheers for the advise anyway, it's just surprising how far the 3ds scene has come since the announcement of memchunkhax2 and arm9loaderhax etc.

 

[TaintedByte]

Just posting to also confirm that the installer worked on my n3DSXL, I did not get anything on screen with the installer (as others have reported) but I pressed A and then it shut off. After that screen init works (tested both D9 and splash screen).

Thanks to everyone who made this possible!

 

[cpasjuste]

@dark_samus3 , are you writing text to both top screen at same time on your installer ? Its probably not that but i was going silly when i started to port CBM to arm9, i was only writing to "TOP0" screen i did get screen output randomly... Until i writed to both top framebuffers. Because of double buffering I guess.

 

[dark_samus3]

@dark_samus3 , are you writing text to both top screen at same time on your installer ? Its probably not that but i was going silly when i started to port CBM to arm9, i was only writing to "TOP0" screen i did get screen output randomly... Until i writed to both top framebuffers.

The top FB addresses are all set to the same framebuffer

 

[cpasjuste]

Well, not on D9 and co : https://github.com/d0k3/Decrypt9WIP/blob/master/source/draw.h#L42

You have to write to top_screen0 and top_screen1 at same time.