Homebrew ARM9Loader -- Technical Details and Discussion

[Dennis G]

i had installeda9lh file in rei folder when i upgraded, could that done something that caused brick?

 

[Serphirot]

holded A + UP + L + R And waited for a minut but nothing :c

I did a mistake it should shut down if it can´t find arm9loaderhax.bin on the sd so if it doesn´t shut down than it is bricked. And the recovery mode cant help you because this stuff gets loaded after the firms which we use for a9lh, also that would bring you to the newest firmware so you would probably still get the hardmod to get back to 9.2.

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i had installeda9lh file in rei folder when i upgraded, could that done something that caused brick?

No that is just a flag so aureinand know´s that you use a9lh even when you load the .dat data with a bootloader.

 

[suhaib10]

i had installeda9lh file in rei folder when i upgraded, could that done something that caused brick?

Not sure, I did read somewhere aureinand has a protection on the firm0 and 1 I believe, so when u update sysnand it doesn't touch that part if Nintendo decided to update it. Not sure if that would also block reinstalling the arm9loader

 

[Dennis G]

question about hardmod though, i have emunand and sysnand backups made with decrypt and they are all .bin files, and it seems like hard modding requires .img files from your sd, i only have complete sd copys and those .bin files, will that work?

 

[Zyrmkel]

question about hardmod though, i have emunand and sysnand backups made with decrypt and they are all .bin files, and it seems like hard modding requires .img files from your sd, i only have complete sd copys and those .bin files, will that work?

Bin files will work just fine

 

[suhaib10]

question about hardmod though, i have emunand and sysnand backups made with decrypt and they are all .bin files, and it seems like hard modding requires .img files from your sd, i only have complete sd copys and those .bin files, will that work?

just a tip if you are gonna hardmod a n3ds xl, the clk pin is fairly small but there is alternate one on the other side (had to find out the hard way :/ )

 

[Dennis G]

just a tip if you are gonna hardmod a n3ds xl, the clk pin is fairly small but there is alternate one on the other side (had to find out the hard way :/ )

i already have my motherboard out so pleaseee tell me more =P. i'm already at the soldering process was just about to get my iron out. i already removed the motherboard and looking at my samsung chip, if you can provide pictures somehow i'd be so thankfull

 

[suhaib10]

i already have my motherboard out so pleaseee tell me more =P. i'm already at the soldering process was just about to get my iron out. i already removed the motherboard and looking at my samsung chip, if you can provide pictures somehow i'd be so thankfull

Sorry did mine last month didn't take any pictures. make sure you use fairly thin wires otherwise youll have trouble closing the back up

Best Guide in my opinion for Hardmod:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-noob-friendly-nand-dumping-2ds-3ds-3ds-xl-n3ds-n3ds-xl.414498/

 

[Dennis G]

Sorry did mine last month didn't take any pictures.

Best thread in my opinion:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-noob-friendly-nand-dumping-2ds-3ds-3ds-xl-n3ds-n3ds-xl.414498/

I'm on that but it doessen't mention the secondary CLK, could you try to use his pictures to make me find it?

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Sorry did mine last month didn't take any pictures.

Best thread in my opinion:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-noob-friendly-nand-dumping-2ds-3ds-3ds-xl-n3ds-n3ds-xl.414498/

is the clk you're talking about this one?
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Nevermind that's the N3ds not the XL, damn :C

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Please tell me that this is it =D yeahhh i think this is it haha =P

 

[suhaib10]

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Please tell me that this is it =D yeahhh i think this is it haha =P[/QUOTE]
Yeah its the second pic.

 

[dark_samus3]

Just a heads up guys, if you don't have a hardmod please don't use my repo, use delebile's... All work pushed to my repo has been tested by a few users with hardmods, but there is no guarantee that it'll work for you... That said, bricks *shouldn't* happen with my current repo, but that doesn't mean that they won't. When our work is considered stable it will be pushed to delebile's repo. Thanks

 

[Zyrmkel]

Just a heads up guys, if you don't have a hardmod please don't use my repo, use delebile's... All work pushed to my repo has been tested by a few users with hardmods, but there is no guarantee that it'll work for you... That said, bricks *shouldn't* happen with my current repo, but that doesn't mean that they won't. When our work is considered stable it will be pushed to delebile's repo. Thanks

So hardmod master race for your repo?

 

[dark_samus3]

So hardmod master race for your repo?

Yup

 

[DQScott95]

Still no update on your stage 2 update @dark_samus3 ?

Not trying to bug you, just checking in on the thread every couple days for a progress report haha

 

[Mthodmn101]

Just a heads up guys, if you don't have a hardmod please don't use my repo, use delebile's... All work pushed to my repo has been tested by a few users with hardmods, but there is no guarantee that it'll work for you... That said, bricks *shouldn't* happen with my current repo, but that doesn't mean that they won't. When our work is considered stable it will be pushed to delebile's repo. Thanks

when the time comes, do you recommend using sysnand without a9lh to update stage 1 or will there be no issues writing over an already a9lh nand?

 

[Zyrmkel]

Yup

Any plans on updating the compiler to produce a .bin file for those that have a9lh already?

 

[dark_samus3]

when the time comes, do you recommend using sysnand without a9lh to update stage 1 or will there be no issues writing over an already a9lh nand?

What'll happen will be similar to the updater I released awhile ago, it'll run from arm9loaderhax and be fine

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Still no update on your stage 2 update @dark_samus3 ?

Not trying to bug you, just checking in on the thread every couple days for a progress report haha

Well, school has started back up so I have a lot less time lately, and big plans for the recovery mode... I might release something minimal and then update it in the future

 

[9thSage]

might want to check out https://github.com/FIX94/arm9select

I thought about installing that, but I like how I have it set up now better. For the most part I prefer BootCTR9.

I through about adding it, and I think I will add it, but first I need to think about how I will implement it.

Well that's cool to hear. Thanks for thinking about it!

 

[Real.96]

How can i use more than one SD cards with a9lh? If i try to boot into gateway launcher, using a new SD, for formatting a new emunand, it freezes...

 

[sweis12]

Can any of you guys please help me?
I have a9lh without the screen init.
I was wondering how would I update my a9lh? I wanna be able to use the bootmanager and decrypt 9
New 3DS 9.2 sysnand with Aureinand + 10.6 emunand

Edit:
On the arm9loaderhax github it says that an updater is in progress. Il wait for that unless someone can tell me how to manually update it.