Hacking Need some A9LH reassurance

[Ricken]

I know I can keep my emunand but currently I have a 2.1 emunand and need to be on a higher firmware. How do I do that

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I find it easier to follow a guide with visual aids like photos or videos

Can't blame you for the visual aids thing

you have a backup of your old EmuNand right?

 

[samiam144]

I know I can keep my emunand but currently I have a 2.1 emunand and need to be on a higher firmware. How do I do that

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I find it easier to follow a guide with visual aids like photos or videos

Dude, follow the text guide and everything will be exactly how you want it. Everything you're asking is already covered in the guide.

 

[The Catboy]

I know I can keep my emunand but currently I have a 2.1 emunand and need to be on a higher firmware. How do I do that

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I find it easier to follow a guide with visual aids like photos or videos

Easier does not always equate to quality. Youtube guides tend to lag behind and often cut corners. It's better to follow a guide that is always up to date and take the time to understand what you are doing, verse following some video guide is most likely already out of date. Also here's a guide to installing Luma 3DS from her wiki
https://github.com/AuroraWright/Luma3DS/wiki/Installation-and-Upgrade

 

[Returnofganon]

Dude, follow the text guide and everything will be exactly how you want it. Everything you're asking is already covered in the guide.

No the guide doesnt tell you what to do if you were following an old version of it and people are telling you to start over

 

[retrofan_k]

just hit road block here. Emunand in OTPhelper shows MB: 1240

1.21GB when viewing it in windows properties.

However, my sysnand is correct, which matches the following:

Toshiba NAND:
1.979.711.488 bytes = 1.84GB

Do I stop here and figure out why the emunand is only 1.21gb? It loads fine and was updated to 11.0 in the previous steps, so not sure why the file size is low? and the guide says the nands need to match the sizes listed.

 

[Returnofganon]

Easier does not always equate to quality. Youtube guides tend to lag behind and often cut corners. It's better to follow a guide that is always up to date and take the time to understand what you are doing, verse following some video guide is most likely already out of date. Also here's a guide to installing Luma 3DS from her wiki
https://github.com/AuroraWright/Luma3DS/wiki/Installation-and-Upgrade

thanks, I had forgot that aureinand and luma were the same thing

 

[Ricken]

No the guide doesnt tell you what to do if you were following an old version of it and people are telling you to start over

Someone willing to help me facepalm?

joking aside, excuse my caps (they're for emphasis) THAT GUIDE IS UPDATED AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK

YT Vids are just there... and they get outdated fast

EDIT; Oops, misread

 

[samiam144]

No the guide doesnt tell you what to do if you were following an old version of it and people are telling you to start over

You already have EmuNAND so start from Part 4, that is the where the whole A9LH setup starts.
Anyways, as I said, everything you're asking is already answered by following the guide.

 

[Returnofganon]

You already have EmuNAND so start from Part 4, that is the where the whole A9LH setup starts.
Anyways, as I said, everything you're asking is already answered by following the guide.

I have reinand and they were telling me to update to luma so I was doing that. My emunand is at 2.1 as I keep saying and no one is telling me how to restore my old emunand that is at 9.2 even though I keep asking

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If that is in the guide please quote it for me as I can't find it

 

[samiam144]

I have reinand and they were telling me to update to luma so I was doing that. My emunand is at 2.1 as I keep saying and no one is telling me how to restore my old emunand that is at 9.2 even though I keep asking

Okay, go here.
Go to http://dukesrg.github.io/2xrsa.html?arm11.bin on your 3ds.
Bottom of the page, Section IV - Restoring the System

Edit: You will need arm11.bin and arm9.bin from the OTPHelper zip to the root of your SD card. The download is at the top of the page.

 

[Ricken]

Okay, go here.
Go to http://dukesrg.github.io/2xrsa.html?arm11.bin on your 3ds.
Bottom of the page, Section IV - Restoring the System

He hasnt cloned EmuNand to SysNand

You would restore the backup from OTPHelper after using OTPHelper to use the One Click setup thing-y

Anyways, make sure you have a 9.2 backup and a backup of your EmuNand with all your games and such and you can start from pretty late in the guide

 

[Returnofganon]

He hasnt cloned EmuNand to SysNand

You would restore the backup from OTPHelper after using OTPHelper to use the One Click setup thing-y

Anyways, make sure you have a 9.2 backup and a backup of your EmuNand with all your games and such and you can start from pretty late in the guide

Thank you for actually reading what I was saying, I will try this now

 

[samiam144]

He hasnt cloned EmuNand to SysNand

You would restore the backup from OTPHelper after using OTPHelper to use the One Click setup thing-y

Anyways, make sure you have a 9.2 backup and a backup of your EmuNand with all your games and such and you can start from pretty late in the guide

My bad, I thought he was further than that lol. Didn't realize he wants to restore everything and literally start over. He doesn't have to do that but it would be safer.

Sorry dude.

 

[Ricken]

My bad, I thought he was further than that lol. Didn't realize he wants to restore everything and literally start over. He doesn't have to do that but it would be safer.

Sorry dude.

Wait, wut why. lol

Why not just skip to the OTPHelper One-Click setup thing rn? His emunand is 2.1...

 

[Returnofganon]

My bad, I thought he was further than that lol. Didn't realize he wants to restore everything and literally start over. He doesn't have to do that but it would be safer.

Sorry dude.

Its ok I was just getting frustrated that you were understanding what I meant. I am nervous about bricking and people are claiming the new tutorial has a lower chance of bricking so I wanted to restart and just use that tutorial.

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Wait, wut why. lol

Why not just skip to the OTPHelper One-Click setup thing rn?

I was using an outdated tutorial that supposedly has a higher brick chance

 

[Ricken]

Its ok I was just getting frustrated that you were understanding what I meant. I am nervous about bricking and people are claiming the new tutorial has a lower chance of bricking so I wanted to restart and just use that tutorial.

OOh, ok.

Just put your EmuNand backup on your root, then use Decrypt9/EmuNand9 to restore that EmuNand backup, then you can start from part 4 (although you should stop by part 3 for the Luma files)

 

[Returnofganon]

OOh, ok.

Just put your EmuNand backup on your root, then use Decrypt9/EmuNand9 to restore that EmuNand backup, then you can start from part 4 (although you should stop by part 3 for the Luma files)

Alright im at 76% on the restore and I think I have the luma files set up right in my sd card, lets just hope my the new boot.cfg i wrote actually works

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For ctrbootmaneger

 

[SushiKing]

Sorry to butt in here ; But i just finished the Guide and have everything Setup and ready to go

However, I dont know how to Put Games on and play Like GBA games and .cia roms.

Also Is there any cool hombrew apps i can install?

Thanks!

 

[Returnofganon]

Sorry to butt in here ; But i just finished the Guide and have everything Setup and ready to go

However, I dont know how to Put Games on and play Like GBA games and .cia roms.

Also Is there any cool hombrew apps i can install?

Thanks!

You just need to put cia files on your sd and use a cia installer like fbi to install them

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Also I got luma working and will start step 4 now. I will come back if I have any questions, thanks for the help everyone!

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Does it matter if I have some dsi ware installed? I have an r4 launcher on my emunand and sysnand but when I try to delete it in settings it crashes

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The only reason I ask is that when I format the emunand it keeps the r4 launcher

 

[samiam144]

I know for sure that any TWL modifications (the firm that runs DSi and DS games) are not recommended, but I'm not sure about DSi apps.. If you have the newest FBI, you can try to delete it. In FBI, there is an option called "Titles". It will list everything you have installed and you should be able to remove the r4 launcher, hopefully.