Hacking Luma3DS - Noob-proof 3DS Custom Firmware

[Lanlan]

About a week or two ago, I hacked my 11.3 New 3DS XL by following 3ds.guide. Got everything done fine, updated to 11.4, and I tried out the CPU overclock feature in Hans in Pokemon X. That was on the first day, since then I've done nothing but play my purchased digital copies of Smash and MH4U.

Everything was fine until earlier, I was playing Smash online on my lunch break, and after a match I closed my 3DS without disconnecting from the internet or anything. I come home from work and open my 3DS, I have a black screen, with both LEDs still on. I hold power to reboot, go to open Monster Hunter, I get the 3DS logo and then "An error has occurred". I reboot, try Smash, same deal. Think it's my SD card, so I try Codename Steam, which I have physical copy of, and it crashes on boot.

I've since moved a9lh to my system and booted without an SD card, same issue persists when booting Codename Steam. Older games boot fine, such as digital Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, physical Kid Icarus Uprising, and DSiWare games.

I can cause a crash by going into settings and trying to update, by opening Pokemon Sun and opening the home menu, or by going to Nintendo DS settings, then backing out to the home menu.

I'm running Luma version 7.0.5, and I enabled the crash report thingy, I'll post a couple crashes below, and I can get more if need be.

crash 1

crash 2

 

[The Catboy]

Did Luma3DS just drop support for non-a9lh(/SigHax) systems?
Edit: Not that I care. All my systems are a9lh.

The nightly confirms they did. Which is good, no need to keep old code. It's about time people start upgrading.

 

[naddel81]

The nightly confirms they did. Which is good, no need to keep old code. It's about time people start upgrading.

I cannot find any "removed menuhax support" here. https://astronautlevel2.github.io/Luma3DS/

 

[Ryumaru]

I dunno who it belong to, it just called Luma updater v1.4.2 I don't see the author or any credits when loading it.

This is the corrected version.
https://github.com/KunoichiZ/lumaupdate/releases/

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

This is the corrected version.
https://github.com/KunoichiZ/lumaupdate/releases/

"Corrected?"

 

[KunoichiZ]

"Corrected?"

I made some changes to make it a little easier to understand for newcomers. You can read the changelog to see what was fixed, or read my post about it here:

v1.5 of my fork of Luma3DS Updater!

It's a couple of small changes and thought it would be fitting to post here. If people want me to make a new thread, I can.

* I removed the dev text and the commit version next to the latest stable. I've read where that was confusing people, thinking it was a developer version of Luma3DS instead of the latest stable version.
* I removed the Configuration file text, as that seemed useless to me.
* And I changed the text "Install normal version" to "Install stable version".
* Built-in app updater has been updated to check my fork for updates and should work.

The first bullet point probably needs to be explained a little more. There were two different versions of Luma3DS. One was the developer version for developers, and the other was for normal people to install. Luma3DS v6.3 merged those versions together. Since then, Luma Updater had said that the latest stable version was the developer version, when in fact it's not. I've sinced removed that text, in hopes that newcomers won't get confused and won't think they're installing a developer version of Luma3DS.

Spoiler: v1.5

vs

Spoiler: v1.4.2

Download link: https://github.com/KunoichiZ/lumaupdate/releases/tag/v1.5

 

[Ryumaru]

"Corrected?"

Is an updated version 1.5, has some fixes. See if with this version, your problem will continue.

 

[KunoichiZ]

Is an updated version 1.5, has some fixes. See if with this version, your problem will continue.

What they're wanting is something that will automatically rename their arm9loaderhax.bin downloaded with Luma Updater to arm9loaderhax_si.bin, which Luma Updater (at least not my version) will never be updated to do so.

 

[ihaveahax]

I cannot find any @removed menuhax support" here. https://astronautlevel2.github.io/Luma3DS/

https://github.com/AuroraWright/Luma3DS/commit/bd62f033ab7deeda807a8d3f512ff5b198a7b357

 

[naddel81]

https://github.com/AuroraWright/Luma3DS/commit/bd62f033ab7deeda807a8d3f512ff5b198a7b357

That is just for the newest nightly, right? I cannot imagine menuhax support to be removed for the stable releases. Why should it be removed when it does not cause harm at all?

 

[pixelmasher]

That is just for the newest nightly, right? I cannot imagine menuhax support to be removed for the stable releases. Why should it be removed when it does not cause harm at all?

Getting ready for SigHax Master Race?

 

[proflayton123]

That is just for the newest nightly, right? I cannot imagine menuhax support to be removed for the stable releases. Why should it be removed when it does not cause harm at all?

Why stay using outdated software when you can get improved things?

 

[ihaveahax]

That is just for the newest nightly, right? I cannot imagine menuhax support to be removed for the stable releases. Why should it be removed when it does not cause harm at all?

it's gone here, so it will not be in any future stable releases. it's also likely preparing for sighax (source/types.h, new line 64) by dropping older and outdated entry points to reduce the amount of code to maintain.

 

[The Catboy]

I cannot find any "removed menuhax support" here. https://astronautlevel2.github.io/Luma3DS/

https://github.com/AuroraWright/Luma3DS/commit/bd62f033ab7deeda807a8d3f512ff5b198a7b357

 

[artins90]

I am having problems trying to run Mario and Luigi RPG Paper mix in Japanese on my EU 3DS. The game was working fine until 2 system updates ago but now crashes on boot. I tried to reinstall it 3 times from different sources. Today I found out that Luma can output debug codes so I thought someone on here could make sense of it:

PID 0x00040000_00132600
REV 61496
AID 0x00040000_00132600
ADR 0x001B2D88
RSL 0xC8804471
Level -7
Summary 4
Module 17
Desc 113

 

[naddel81]

So sighax is the successor to a9lh? What more does it offer?

 

[Cyber-boy]

Hello everyone!
In future updates, will it be possible to use the Internet browser without upgrading to 11.4? At the moment the browser does not work and requires a system update. In particular, the browser is needed to use Plex Media Server to watch 3D movies. Very useful and convenient thing.
Thanks for answers.

 

[proflayton123]

Hello everyone!
In future updates, will it be possible to use the Internet browser without upgrading to 11.4? At the moment the browser does not work and requires a system update. In particular, the browser is needed to use Plex Media Server to watch 3D movies. Very useful and convenient thing.
Thanks for answers.

I guess you could get the latest browser for 11.4 and region from 3DNUS

 

[RustInPeace]

So sighax is the successor to a9lh? What more does it offer?

Just read this, there's nothing more to say.

https://www.reddit.com/r/3dshacks/comments/67f6as/psa_clearing_up_some_misconceptions_about_sighax/

 

[Cyber-boy]

I guess you could get the latest browser for 11.4 and region from 3DNUS

Yes! You were absolutely right! It works! Thanks for advice!