Homebrew A9LH can now boot without SD card

[Jayro]

This was quick and painless, and exactly what I was looking for. THANK YOU!!!

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Hold off on doing anything until AW releases the next version of Luma, which supports much more features than the latest a9lh commit

Tell me more about these new features
Or if a9lh v3 if is coming soon.

 

[astronautlevel]

Tell me more about these new features
Or if a9lh v3 if is coming soon.

Region free, DS cards working, and full reboot patches.

a9lh v2 was used to designate using a new key - we're not (ever probably) going to switch again as this is a "perfect" key

 

[Quantumcat]

Region free, DS cards working, and full reboot patches.

a9lh v2 was used to designate using a new key - we're not (ever probably) going to switch again as this is a "perfect" key

It can probably be called v3 though - the layman won't know about any of that. And easier than saying "Aurora Wright's no-sd-needed fork of a9lh"

 

[Aurora Wright]

Region free, DS cards working, and full reboot patches.

a9lh v2 was used to designate using a new key - we're not (ever probably) going to switch again as this is a "perfect" key

Yeah, basically it's the full Luma which can run off CTRNAND

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Yeah, basically it's the full Luma which can run off CTRNAND

Umm So will verson 3 be final? And this ctrnand thing is good right?

 

[DocKlokMan]

Tested Luma's payload from ctrnand, reboot stuff still doesn't work.

And yet when I tried it didn't even boot. Now I'm wanting to try again and figure out my mistake.

EDIT: Nope, still won't boot without the SD card. You guys aren't trolling me, are you?

 

[Billy Acuña]

And yet when I tried it didn't even boot. Now I'm wanting to try again and figure out my mistake.

EDIT: Nope, still won't boot without the SD card. You guys aren't trolling me, are you?

Lol, nope, no trolling, just tested with 3DSafe as emergency.bin.

 

[DocKlokMan]

Lol, nope, no trolling, just tested with 3DSafe as emergency.bin.

Okay... just to make sure I'm not missing something, I installed the latest release of arm9loaderhax nocfw branch and then copied the latest nightly build of Luma3DS to my CTRNAND. Removed SD card and powered the 3DS on and.... it powers off. What critical thing am I missing?

 

[Billy Acuña]

Okay... just to make sure I'm not missing something, I installed the latest release of arm9loaderhax nocfw branch and then copied the latest nightly build of Luma3DS to my CTRNAND. Removed SD card and powered the 3DS on and.... it powers off. What critical thing am I missing?

Don't use release, compile it, then put arm9loaderhax.bin on the root of your CTRNAND.

 

[DocKlokMan]

Don't use release, compile it, then put arm9loaderhax.bin on the root of your CTRNAND.

Am I not reading Github right? There's 0 new commits since the latest release. This would imply that building from source and the latest release would be the same?

 

[Billy Acuña]

Am I not reading Github right? There's 0 new commits since the latest release. This would imply that building from source and the latest release would be the same?

0 commits compared with "master", check out the dates.

 

[DocKlokMan]

0 commits compared with "master", check out the dates.

Thank you. I learned that I can't read Github, compare dates or commit numbers. Also, it's working now with a fresh compiled copy. It's great and I can't wait to see what's in store.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

What are we compiing? Im lost here.

 

[Aurora Wright]

At the time of my comment, yes.

https://github.com/AuroraWright/Luma3DS/blob/master/patches/reboot.s#L81 you know, Luma can't find the payload name by magic...

 

[gnmmarechal]

What are we compiing? Im lost here.

huh, we're talking A9LH here.

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It can probably be called v3 though - the layman won't know about any of that. And easier than saying "Aurora Wright's no-sd-needed fork of a9lh"

We can't just go and change what the v2 in A9LH stands for. That'll confuse some people. Not to mention this version of A9LH still is installable with SA9LHIv2.x, correct?

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https://github.com/AuroraWright/Luma3DS/blob/master/patches/reboot.s#L81 you know, Luma can't find the payload name by magic...

I assume A9LH will load nand:/arm9loaderhax_si.bin ?

 

[Quantumcat]

We can't just go and change what the v2 in A9LH stands for. That'll confuse some people. Not to mention this version of A9LH still is installable with SA9LHIv2.x, correct?

When it gets more mainstream, people will need a short catchy name to distinguish it from the version in the guide though.

 

[gnmmarechal]

When it gets more mainstream, people will need a short catchy name to distinguish it from the version in the guide though.

Huh, why? The version in the guide IS the latest release of AW's arm9loaderhax at any time. The guide will probably change accordingly.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

I know whe are talking about arm9loaderhax, i asked what are we compiling? We have to complile stuiff? I never had to do such things, only just install it from a download.

 

[gnmmarechal]

I know whe are talking about arm9loaderhax, i asked what are we compiling? We have to complile stuiff? I never had to do such things, only just install it from a download.

Yes, some users compile from the source code to have access to the latest available features at any given time. Most only use the stable releases. You only have to wait for a new release to come out. You don't have to compile anything. I, and some others, prefer compiling to get access to the very latest arm9loaderhax.

To compile A9LH, you need, to start, devkitPro installed.

It's significantly less of a mess on Linux, tbh. I made a ton of scripts to build everything I want to at any given time, so it's pretty straightforward. I can compile it for you if you want.


In fact, I do have the latest versions compiled by me up on my mirror site.