Hacking Luma3DS - Noob-proof 3DS Custom Firmware

[KunoichiZ]

I'm a humongous noob, but I have a question. Can I install Luma3ds CFW on a New 3dsxl that is on FW 11.4? I've looked for the answer but haven't seen anything. I don't want to hard mod anything. I currently have Ninjhax and homebrew.
Thanks

No you cannot unless you have another system with custom firmware or you get a hardmod.

 

[pixelmasher]

I'm a humongous noob, but I have a question. Can I install Luma3ds CFW on a New 3dsxl that is on FW 11.4? I've looked for the answer but haven't seen anything. I don't want to hard mod anything. I currently have Ninjhax and homebrew.
Thanks

You can always wait for NTRBootHax, but you'll need a compatible DS flashcard. We suspect Acekard 2i and DSTwo, but it's not confirmed yet.

 

[SamanthaKitKat]

OK, that stinks. Thank you for such a quick response!

 

[hidd12]

JFC thank fuck I solved it. All 3DS's that run Luma3DS on B9S must move their payloads to CTRNAND\rw\luma\payloads, otherwise it won't work.

EDIT: Fix this in the wiki, though weird thing, I tried this first thing since 7.1.7 came out and it didn't work, but now it does.

 

[:-infern:]

Follows the guide from 3ds.guide and it all works perfectly.

Before I had a Luma 3DS with A9 and emuNand. Now moved it all over to B9STRAP, Moved to SysNand Luma.

Those having problems are clearly not reading instructions properly.

 

[nl255]

Just investigated and read about sighax.

Wow, sounds pretty OP.
Guess I won't complain this time and update right away.
(Also, what's the chance of bricking when trying to update to sighax?)

If you use safeb9sinstaller and boo9strap (as recommended by 3ds.guide), almost none. If you use the sighax.com installer, then unfortunately there is still a decent chance of a brick.

 

[hidd12]

Follows the guide from 3ds.guide and it all works perfectly.

Before I had a Luma 3DS with A9 and emuNand. Now moved it all over to B9STRAP, Moved to SysNand Luma.

Those having problems are clearly not reading instructions properly.

Actually I was corrected in my thread, moving luma's payload to the NAND makes you use the on-board NAND/rw/luma folder as the primary one.

Also, moving from A9LH to B9S tell you to move it to NAND, guess I didn't move everything to NAND/rw/luma

 

[Krude]

Shouldn't this allow me to go online with an outdated firmware by patching the friends service?

Dug out my old console which is on 11.0.0, updated to Luma 7.0.5 and tried to enter eShop / Miiverse, but after signing in with my NNID, i always get the error 022-2511 telling me to update. (When i check the friends list, it's error 002-0119, telling me to upgrade, for some reason). I'm also using ctr-httpwn to avoid the update notices, but that apparently doesn't help either.


edit: disregard, i think i figured it out. httpwn was using the old cached settings instead of downloading the new one for some reason, and sent outdated version numbers.

 

[:-infern:]

Actually I was corrected in my thread, moving luma's payload to the NAND makes you use the on-board NAND/rw/luma folder as the primary one.

Also, moving from A9LH to B9S tell you to move it to NAND, guess I didn't move everything to NAND/rw/luma

Good it's all sorted now. Yeah its not intuitive that moving the Luma folder triggers it to be run, considering the location is very different. 3ds.guide website however has all the steps, worked flawlessly for me.

 

[Shadow#1]

does boot9strap 1.1 work with the B9S-Next branch?

 

[fr3quency]

does boot9strap 1.1 work with the B9S-Next branch?

Yup. I compiled the latest build and works like a charm(1.001 commits?)

 

[Shadow#1]

Yup. I compiled the latest build and works like a charm(1.001 commits?)

ok cool how do i update Boot9Strap 1.0 to Boot9Strap 1.1 ?

 

[fr3quency]

ok cool how do i update Boot9Strap 1.0 to Boot9Strap 1.1 ?

I downloaded the file from here: https://github.com/SciresM/boot9strap/releases , created a folder on 3DS named boot9strap and placed inside the 1.1 version along with secret_sector.bin(can be downloaded from 3ds.guide). I then fired SafeB9Installer(https://github.com/d0k3/SafeB9SInstaller) and opened it via Luma3DS's payload chain.

 

[Shadow#1]

I downloaded the file from here: https://github.com/SciresM/boot9strap/releases , created a folder on 3DS named boot9strap and placed inside the 1.1 version along with secret_sector.bin(can be downloaded from 3ds.guide). I then fired SafeB9Installer(https://github.com/d0k3/SafeB9SInstaller) and opened it via Luma3DS's payload chain.

oh so use the .firm of SafeB9SInstaller?

 

[fr3quency]

oh so use the .firm of SafeB9SInstaller?

Yeah, it's like updating a9lh where you would use Aurora's SafeA9LInstaller, right?

 

[Shadow#1]

Yeah, it's like updating a9lh where you would use Aurora's SafeA9LInstaller, right?

oh ok i never had A9LH i went from 9.2 to B9S

 

[adrifcastr]

the local change doesn't seem to work for me, I wanted to change the sun banner to the jap one, but no change at all, everything is placed correctly.

 

[tloberif]

Last commits of Aurora(4c87800), crash my Luma3ds

Restore Release stable 7.1

 

[DocKlokMan]

the local change doesn't seem to work for me, I wanted to change the sun banner to the jap one, but no change at all, everything is placed correctly.

If you mean the banner that shows up on the Home Screen, you cannot do that with LayeredFS, you'd beed to mod the CIA file.

 

[adrifcastr]

If you mean the banner that shows up on the Home Screen, you cannot do that with LayeredFS, you'd beed to mod the CIA file.

nah I'm not talking about layeredfs I'm talkin about the luma locale region change feature