Hacking Bricked TWL_FIRM - Restoring from 3DNUS has no effect

[gameking66]

So after installing the whitelist patch and recent twlfirm_o3ds file I seem to have no luck booting DS mode anymore. I installed them onto SysNAND. I am running A9LH w/AuReiNAND.

Both my DS Flash Cart and DS Download Play simply go to a black screen and stay there.

I've tried the following to fix it to no avail:
- Restore multiple versions of title 0004013800000102 (even restored the White List title 0004800F484E4841)
- Restored a (as far as I can tell) clean TWLP/TWLN partition from an older NAND dump (restored it to EmuNAND -> pulled the TWLP/TWLN -> inject them into SysNAND)

I'm still booting to a black screen. Any fix for this or a way to find out what exactly is screwed?

 

[zoogie]

So after installing the whitelist patch and recent twlfirm_o3ds file I seem to have no luck booting DS mode anymore. I installed them onto SysNAND. I am running A9LH w/AuReiNAND.

Both my DS Flash Cart and DS Download Play simply go to a black screen and stay there.

I've tried the following to fix it to no avail:
- Restore multiple versions of title 0004013800000102 (even restored the White List title 0004800F484E4841)
- Restored a (as far as I can tell) clean TWLP/TWLN partition from an older NAND dump (restored it to EmuNAND -> pulled the TWLP/TWLN -> inject them into SysNAND)

I'm still booting to a black screen. Any fix for this or a way to find out what exactly is screwed?

Restore a complete NAND dump.

 

[JacksonS]

Have you tried running DS games without your SD card inserted? I mean, that should have no effect, but it sounds like you've tried every relevant thing.

 

[gameking66]

Restore a complete NAND dump.

I don't have one where I can verify the DS partition is working. The earliest one I have is a totally clean system and I have too much installed to throw that into SysNAND (a9lh, bunch of backups, etc).

Have you tried running DS games without your SD card inserted? I mean, that should have no effect, but it sounds like you've tried every relevant thing.

I only have a DS Flash Cart and Download Play to test with. No actual DS games. Both the flash cart and Download Play boot to black screen and stay there.

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Tried restoring title 00048005484E4441v1024 which is specifically the Download Play application - no change.

 

[JacksonS]

I don't have one where I can verify the DS partition is working. The earliest one I have is a totally clean system and I have too much installed to throw that into SysNAND (a9lh, bunch of backups, etc).

There are ways to backup games, saves, and everything else, so you could still do that.

 

[gameking66]

Okay so I am now getting "An Error has Occurred" when launching my flash cart - but DS Download Play still black screens.

There are ways to backup games, saves, and everything else, so you could still do that.

I'd rather not risk bricking SysNAND over DS games.

What could possibly cause TWL not to boot if I have the proper TWL_FIRM restored from 3DNUS?

 

[JacksonS]

I'd rather not risk bricking SysNAND over DS games.

What could possibly cause TWL not to boot if I have the proper TWL_FIRM restored from 3DNUS?

I'm referring to restoring your original sysNAND backup, which shouldn't run any risk of bricking. I have no idea why the original TWL_FIRM wouldn't be working for you, but I can suggest using BigBlueMenu to install it because that's what worked for me.

 

[gameking66]

Okay, I managed to get *SOMEWHERE*...

So restoring an old sysNAND backup to emuNAND, then booting into emuNAND successfully boots Download Play AND the flash cart!

Which means that something CTR related is at play here (because the 3DS reboots before going into TWL right?), but as far as I can tell everything is in place - the Whitelist wouldn't affect Download Play from launching, and if Download Play was broken the cart would still work.

What gives? What part of the CTR would cause this behavior?

 

[JacksonS]

Which means that something CTR related is at play here (because the 3DS reboots before going into TWL right?)

I'm pretty sure it only reboots when you exit DS mode. As for why restoring the CTR partition works, I have no clue.

 

[Sono]

Have you tried going into DS profile? Your problem sounds like when I bricked my DS mode with the old DS profile exploit.

I would suggess just letting REI boot automatically into EmuNAND without any button press, and repair DS mode there, since you can boot DS mode from EmuNAND with REI.
You may want to uninstall TWL_FIRM and the DS cart whitelist with FBI, and get some .cias from "that ISO site" ("Proper Old DS Cart Enable") along with BigBlueMenu, and install TWL_FIRM_2.0 and DS_Whitelist_v0, and check your DS profile in the system settings, and if it doesn't freeze, it should fix itself, and try launching a DS application again.

 

[gameking66]

DS Profile works fine through the 3DS system settings ("Nintendo DS Profile" -> Message/Color options).

Restoring TWL_FIRM and the whitelist stuff are both things I've already tried, as I stated above.

DS Mode works ONLY in EmuNAND at this point, and I've tried updating AuReiNAND to see if that would fix it but it had no effect.

 

[Sir BLaDE]

I already had that trouble, installing flashcardtimewarp.cia in sysnand fix it

 

[gameking66]

I already had that trouble, installing flashcardtimewarp.cia in sysnand fix it

Nope. That's just the nulled blacklist.

 

[gameking66]

$10 BTC bounty to whoever can help me solve this (preferably without restoring any backups as that would wipe all my games that I don't have copies of anymore since the issue appears to be in CTRNAND).

 

[GhostLatte]

I'm pretty sure the only way to fix this is through a NAND restore. What version is your emuNAND dump on?

 

[Nimrod-002]

i have a 9.2 emunand backup , can i restore that on 11.2 sysnand, and would that effect the games and saves i have on sd?