Hacking Serious question, need an answer

[C0mm4nd_]

But it didn't brick, just a9lh was removed.
I'm gonna donmgrading , but first I'm trying to see if I can re-create what she did

maybe a weird case? very weird

 

[OrGoN3]

But it didn't brick, just a9lh was removed.
I'm gonna donmgrading , but first I'm trying to see if I can re-create what she did

Please read over my previous post. It isn't possible for A9LH to have been removed.

 

[Wolfvak]

OK so I'm mucking through my SD to try and determine what version I'm on, and I can confirm the arm9.bin is there.

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

Also managed to try and get as much info as possible as to what she was doing, she swears this is as far as she can remember:



-Starts 3ds
-Everything fine, as normal, starts hyrule warriors legends
-plays for a bit, farming for something to build some kind of badge
-presses home button, closes hrw, opens ssb4
-decides to play pac-man for the hell of it, gets bored after like 5 matches
-wants to play mhgen, switches to it directly in order to avoid the reboot patch
-plays mhgen for a bit, said she was hunting something like a chameleon dragon that poisons and turns invisible
-Hears parents coming, in a panic, shuts down 2ds



It was 4 am at the time, she would've got in trouble if she was caught. I was asleep at the time, and didn't wake up until after they had left. So she turns it back on, noticing the update nag.

-presses yes to update
-parents come back, panic shutdowns again
-turns back on, every thing gone
-musters up enough courage, wakes me up

Her:"Bro, I was playing the 2ds and everything's gone now"
Me: firstly, *proceeds to tell her off for playing at 4am, etc*
Her: OK, lesson learned but the games gare gone
Me: wtf do you mean the games are gone?
Her: I've tried everything, holding L, just letting it go normally
Me: but with the specific hack it has , you don't do anything
Her: but the games are gone
Me: (in disbelief) lemme see it.
Her:hands 2ds*
Me: *same problem*
Me: go get my laptop I'm gonna check the SD
Sees everything in order, and here we are now
She swears she didn't go into recovery or do anything out of the norm, other then panic shutdowns

Could you post a picture of your "luma" folder in the SD card?
Since your sister was running Monster Hunter (a memory extended title) it's possible that the FIRM protection patch wasn't applied at that time.
See, older versions of luma created a "backup" FIRM that was already modified with the applied patches. Whenever a high memory title was launched, instead of performing a normal firmlaunch (and therefore having native firm detect a non-legit title) it launches the modified one.

On the other hand, this behaviour was modified some time ago, so it must've been a pretty old version.

Could you also try placing another "arm9loaderhax.bin" on your SD card and see what happens?

 

[Sketchy1]

Could you post a picture of your "luma" folder in the SD card?
Since your sister was running Monster Hunter (a memory extended title) it's possible that the FIRM protection patch wasn't applied at that time.
See, older versions of luma created a "backup" FIRM that was already modified with the applied patches. Whenever a high memory title was launched, instead of performing a normal firmlaunch (and therefore having native firm detect a non-legit title) it launches the modified one.

On the other hand, this behaviour was modified some time ago, so it must've been a pretty old version.

Could you also try placing another "arm9loaderhax.bin" on your SD card and see what happens?

A little late for that, I already re-installed it, lol.
I think the update went through because i was using an older version, I'd believe that. Cause I can garuntee I wasn't on the latest version

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

Please read over my previous post. It isn't possible for A9LH to have been removed.

Yeah I know, its the first thing I checked just to be sure.

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

maybe a weird case? very weird

Yes it is, I can only assume its one of those once-ever things, but still, I found it very odd.
I was also thinking, maybe it could have been her panicked shutdowns that broke something?

 

[WeedZ]

If she shutdown during an update wouldn't have fallen back to the failsafe fw? don't remember where it is stored and don't have time to look it up. But that sounds like the case.

 

[Sketchy1]

If she shutdown during an update wouldn't have fallen back to the failsafe fw? don't remember where it is stored and don't have time to look it up. But that sounds like the case.

Ill look that up, thanks
But then again, if it had failed the update, wouldn't it have not booted to anything but recovery?
Cause the thing is, immediately after she told me, I turned it on to see a vanilla console

 

[WeedZ]

Ill look that up, thanks
But then again, if it had failed the update, wouldn't it have not booted to anything but recovery?
Cause the thing is, immediately after she told me, I turned it on to see a vanilla console

There's a full stock fw stored somewhere, I think one of the bootroms. If the main fw becomes corrupt or fails sigchecks it will run that instead. If it had the update nag it might have already updated that failsafe.

 

[Sketchy1]

Ok, so iv been trying to recreate wtf she did, no luck so far, which is "good"