Homebrew ARM9Loader -- Technical Details and Discussion

[Billy Acuña]

There is a way, tho: don't use Gateway.

LMAO, that epic quote definitely goes to my signature

 

[Billy Acuña]

Don't update sysnand with a9lh. Wait until PowerFirm is released.

Where can I follow PowerFirm progress?

 

[Supster131]

Where can I follow PowerFirm progress?

#cakey would be my best bet. Great stuff always happens in there.

 

[Billy Acuña]

#cakey

CakeFW thread (?

 

[Psi-hate]

Where can I follow PowerFirm progress?

Don't talk about it, it's not coming. I assumed it was but turns out it's not going public (Not to mention there are way more better alternatives.) It's best to just go to (au)reinand or cakes.

 

[Billy Acuña]

Don't talk about it, it's not coming. I assumed it was but turns out it's not going public (Not to mention there are way more better alternatives.) It's best to just go to (au)reinand or cakes.

*Turns off hype mode*

 

[Naked_Snake]

@Supster131

Uncart for a9lh
https://mega.nz/#!SQA0GKqb!3au14JJNgpp2mXDvRsiutmHGCVLcAodjeCAP86Nb0bw

what files does this dump carts as?

 

[Fallen_Lucario]

Just in case this hasn't been fixed yet. The installer isn't working for me. I placed the files on the root of my sd card. Renamed the installer to arm9loaderhax and all i get is my console's blue light turns on and turns off immediately.(As if no sd card or arm9 files could be booted). My console is a N3DS XL it is running on sysnand 9.2.0-20U and the latest emunand on AuReiNand. No idea what's going on, my friend did this successfully apparently....

 

[Kevin Kong]

Just in case this hasn't been fixed yet. The installer isn't working for me. I placed the files on the root of my sd card. Renamed the installer to arm9loaderhax and all i get is my console's blue light turns on and turns off immediately.(As if no sd card or arm9 files could be booted). My console is a N3DS XL it is running on sysnand 9.2.0-20U and the latest emunand on AuReiNand. No idea what's going on, my friend did this successfully apparently....

U delete the old arm9loderhax and use the installer one and rename it to arm9loaderhax, u also need to put the other file in the root. Screen should boot up asking u to press a to install.

 

[Supster131]

@Supster131

what files does this dump carts as?

I think it dumps it as a .3ds file. I've never used uncart so I'm not too sure.

 

[Naked_Snake]

I think it dumps it as a .3ds file. I've never used uncart so I'm not too sure.

yeah it does testing it now with pokemon alpha, would be awesome if it dumped them as cia format lol

 

[Supster131]

yeah it does testing it now with pokemon alpha, would be awesome if it dumped them as cia format lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/3dshacks/comments/40etaz/tutorial_dumping_3ds_carts_and_converting_3ds/

It'll be a longer process, and by that point you're better off downloading cias based off games you own.

 

[Kevin Kong]

I think it dumps it as a .3ds file. I've never used uncart so I'm not too sure.

Do i still need brahma if uncart from arm9lh??? or i can delete it to clean up more.

 

[tivu100]

What nand.fat16.xorpad, and nand.fat16.0x4.xorpad are for (downgrading to 2.1.0-4U to dump OTP.bin)? Itried to ask in that thread, but seems like people who can answer are offline, so I will ask here now.

Can I skip this if I start fresh with clean SYSNAND then clone SYSNAND to EMUNAND then only back up NAND.bin before unlinking using Tiny Format?

 

[TheDuckMan64]

What nand.fat16.xorpad, and nand.fat16.0x4.xorpad are for (downgrading to 2.1.0-4U to dump OTP.bin)? Itried to ask in that thread, but seems like people who can answer are offline, so I will ask here now.

Can I skip this if I start fresh with clean SYSNAND then clone SYSNAND to EMUNAND then only back up NAND.bin before unlinking using Tiny Format?

It's only good practice to have them incase you want to decrypt your nand to modify it. You don't need the xorpads for the downgrade

 

[Supster131]

It's only good practice to have them incase you want to decrypt your nand to modify it. You don't need the xorpads for the downgrade

You only need them if downgrading a n3DS.

 

[tivu100]

You only need them if downgrading a n3DS.

But what are those 2 for? I don't see the use for them in the guide. I think it's only for safe measure

 

[solsolis]

But what are those 2 for? I don't see the use for them in the guide. I think it's only for safe measure

They are used by the script to decrypt your NAND dump.

 

[Supster131]

But what are those 2 for? I don't see the use for them in the guide. I think it's only for safe measure

https://github.com/Plailect/OTP/blob/master/New_3DS_Spider.md#section-i---prep-work

Step 8 in Section 1. You need it to modify your NAND backup so it can run on a n3DS.

 

[TheDuckMan64]

You only need them if downgrading a n3DS.

https://github.com/Plailect/OTP/blob/master/New_3DS_Cubic.md

You don't need it to downgrade to 2.1?