Homebrew Using Citra Emulator to practice downgrading and installing CFW?

[The Real Jdbye]

Alright, so if I do hardmod, then somehow downgrade from 11.0, I can follow the guide and fuck up as many times as I want?
Then what happens if I do something that would normally brick my 3ds? How does it work?

Just restore a NAND backup if you mess up
Though once you have A9LH you can do that anyway through software.

 

[Deleted member 387460]

Just restore a NAND backup if you mess up
Though once you have A9LH you can do that anyway through software.

Nice But I don't have a NAND backup though.. So hardmodding is basically useless if I don't make one first. How do I do that without ARM9 access?

 

[Deleted member 387460]

Nice But I don't have a NAND backup though.. So hardmodding is basically useless if I don't make one first. How do I do that without ARM9 access?

EDIT: Nevermind, i'm dumb

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Nice But I don't have a NAND backup though.. So hardmodding is basically useless if I don't make one first. How do I do that without ARM9 access?

You don't need a NAND backup to downgrade with a hardmod. I meant once you have the hardmod you're protected from bricks assuming you make a NAND backup. But A9LH effectively does the same thing since you can boot Decrypt9/EmuNAND9 etc even if your NAND is messed up.

 

[Deleted member 387460]

You don't need a NAND backup to downgrade with a hardmod. I meant once you have the hardmod you're protected from bricks assuming you make a NAND backup. But A9LH effectively does the same thing since you can boot Decrypt9/EmuNAND9 etc even if your NAND is messed up.

Yeah, I realised just after I posted.
Well, hardmod it is then. Will make me feel a lot better about screwing with my poor 3ds
Anyway, are there any chances that restoring your NAND will fail? Or is it a 100% succes rate? (assuming you use one of the the approved sd readers and whatnot)

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Yeah, I realised just after I posted.
Well, hardmod it is then. Will make me feel a lot better about screwing with my poor 3ds
Anyway, are there any chances that restoring your NAND will fail? Or is it a 100% succes rate? (assuming you use one of the the approved sd readers and whatnot)

Just make multiple NAND backups and verify the hash to make sure they are the same so you know you have a good dump.
Even if for some reason the restore failed (it won't unless the reader loses contact with the NAND or you unplug the reader ) you can just retry.

 

[Deleted member 387460]

Just make multiple NAND backups and verify the hash to make sure they are the same so you know you have a good dump.
Even if for some reason the restore failed (it won't unless the reader loses contact with the NAND or you unplug the reader ) you can just retry.

Thank you!
Then I am prepared to do this... I'll do it if it means I can revive my 3ds if i get the bootrom error code of death.
..Sorry for this, but juuust one last question, I promise.
Are there any reports of the frankenfirmware of 11.0/10.4 not being able to downgrade? i.e. has it been tested?

i'm sorry for bothering you this much

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Thank you!
Then I am prepared to do this... I'll do it if it means I can revive my 3ds if i get the bootrom error code of death.
..Sorry for this, but juuust one last question, I promise.
Are there any reports of the frankenfirmware of 11.0/10.4? i.e. has it been tested?

i'm sorry for bothering you this much

The blue screen error generally means the bootrom is unable to access the NAND at all. Something has to be seriously broken (hardware-wise) for that error to appear. Nothing a hardmod can fix, I'm afraid. Except the blue screen error you get when the SD reader is connected of course
And sure, it wouldn't be in Plailect's guide if it wasn't tested. You won't keep it like that for long anyways, only until you can run sysupdater to complete the downgrade.

 

[Deleted member 387460]

The blue screen error generally means the bootrom is unable to access the NAND at all. Something has to be seriously broken (hardware-wise) for that error to appear. Nothing a hardmod can fix, I'm afraid. Except the blue screen error you get when the SD reader is connected of course
And sure, it wouldn't be in Plailect's guide if it wasn't tested. You won't keep it like that for long anyways, only until you can run sysupdater to complete the downgrade.

Many thanks to you!
You've cleared up a lot for me, I appreciate it.

 

[Pokéidiot]

Citra crashes when you try to run ARM9 bins on it
I tried

 

[KillzXGaming]

Citra won't read your entire nand. You even need to decrypt most of it anyways and have it in a .romfs format. Its weird and even so it won't support background nand functions and is very incomplete.

 

[Deleted member 387460]

Citra crashes when you try to run ARM9 bins on it
I tried

Cool that you tried anyway

 

[Igknotus]

Wait is their going to be a new kernel exploit that would work with the latest firmware?

 

[KillzXGaming]

Wait is their going to be a new kernel exploit that would work with the latest firmware?

yes this friday and is going to be a primary one using a new QR Code method (Not Pokemon)

 

[Igknotus]

yes this friday and is going to be a primary one using a new QR Code method (Not Pokemon)

Can you explain how its going to be possible to use the QR code method.

 

[aerios169]

I hadnt one idea that i was doing the downgroading on my new 3ds but now i am cfw with rei nand haha

 

[KillzXGaming]

Can you explain how its going to be possible to use the QR code method.

Well idk. Wait till Friday,

 

[Igknotus]

Well idk. Wait till Friday,

Is it still possible to get CFW with the latest homebrew that is coming out.