Hacking Brand new luma 9.1 Installation. Installing/What to do with the Gateway3ds

[Locomotion182]

Hopefully someone can point me to the right direction.

I just finished a new luma CFW installation on my N3ds. Currently running version 11.5 and Luma 9.1. Followed and completed the full Plailect 3ds guide.

While I have a 64GB sd card on my n3DS, my old gateway card does have a micro 32GB card and I was considering how viable would it be to run some 3ds games from the gateway itself, specially games that I play less often, or for testing purposes before installing a CIA on my main sd (which takes longer). So I want to see if exploring this option is viable.

My main concern is , if doing this is safe, and what are the chances of bricking by enabling Gateway card now that I am running Luma CFW
In the case that its potentially safe, is there a guide I could follow to do this procedure ?


Thanks for your time.

 

[The Catboy]

Retire it. It won't work with OFW past 11.2 and it's also not safe to run on your sysNAND. You are better off buying a larger microSD card and just keeping all of your games on that instead.

 

[Hayato213]

I think Gateway only support up to 11.2. As for unoffical version, there is this 11.6 version, not sure if it worth it.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/unofficial-gateway-3ds-emunand-v11-6-0-39e-u.492841/

Using Gateway with B9S will just reset your B9S back to stock firmware.

 

[Locomotion182]

Retire it. It won't work with OFW past 11.2 and it's also not safe to run on your sysNAND. You are better off buying a larger microSD card and just keeping all of your games on that instead.

Ah I see so even though I have Luma CFW, an attempt to use gateway still holds some risk then :/
Thats the one thing I was not sure about.

At the end of the day it was not only the space of the card, but the fact that the process of installing the game was quite quicker.
What a bummer.

I think Gateway only support up to 11.2. As for unoffical version, there is this 11.6 version, not sure if it worth it.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/unofficial-gateway-3ds-emunand-v11-6-0-39e-u.492841/

Using Gateway with B9S will just reset your B9S back to stock firmware.

Quick question, all hypothetical, but if you would do the unofficial emunand on 11.6
Will pretty much break the CFW then ?



I prefer and my priority is indeed Luma. I just wanted to make sure I had all information in regards this topic.

 

[Hayato213]

Ah I see so even though I have Luma CFW, an attempt to use gateway still holds some risk then :/
Thats the one thing I was not sure about.

At the end of the day it was not only the space of the card, but the fact that the process of installing the game was quite quicker.
What a bummer.



Quick question, all hypothetical, but if you would do the unofficial emunand on 11.6
Will pretty much break the CFW then ?



I prefer and my priority is indeed Luma. I just wanted to make sure I had all information in regards this topic.

From what I have heard using Gateway on 11.3 and higher break CFW sent you back to stock firmware, not sure about the unofficial build.

 

[Ryccardo]

From what I have heard using Gateway on 11.3 and higher break CFW sent you back to stock firmware, not sure about the unofficial build.

That's the 11.2 kernel with upgraded drivers, which is not the smartest idea from a stability standpoint, but also misses on some of the advantages of updating (newly added system functions) (compared if you were able to run the properly updated system on GW's cfw, of course!)

 

[Hayato213]

That's the 11.2 kernel with upgraded drivers, which is not the smartest idea from a stability standpoint, but also misses on some of the advantages of updating (newly added system functions) (compared if you were able to run the properly updated system on GW's cfw, of course!)

Thanks for the info.

 

[Ryccardo]

Thanks for the info.

To explain it more practically, let's say you are on 11.2 (on ANY cfw, not necessarily GW's - 11.6 is equally good as an example - or potentially even without one, if you do the partial upgrade then uninstall b9s+cfw) and want to play online multiplayer: you can't because the "friends" driver contains a version number, which is sent to the server, and compared with an arbitrary exclusion list (that excludes your grossly outdated one)

So, 2 options:

1- disassemble the friends driver of the OS version you have, find the friends version number, edit to 11.8's, reencrypt and reinstall
(obviously won't work if cfw is afterwards removed, I don't think many people would do this voluntarily - but is something to watch out if you choose to uninstall cfw in a way different than restoring a full backup and you have modded system titles)
(cfws with a friends version patch do exactly this, but on the loaded-in-memory copy of the driver)

2- simply install the 11.8's friends driver over the current one
(this only works since the number is the only thing that changed between those versions, and most importantly function addresses weren't moved around - this is why NTR breaks with Home updates, for example)

 

[Hayato213]

To explain it more practically, let's say you are on 11.2 (on ANY cfw, not necessarily GW's - 11.6 is equally good as an example - or potentially even without one, if you do the partial upgrade then uninstall b9s+cfw) and want to play online multiplayer: you can't because the "friends" driver contains a version number, which is sent to the server, and compared with an arbitrary exclusion list (that excludes your grossly outdated one)

So, 2 options:

1- disassemble the friends driver of the OS version you have, find the friends version number, edit to 11.8's, reencrypt and reinstall
(obviously won't work if cfw is afterwards removed, I don't think many people would do this voluntarily - but is something to watch out if you choose to uninstall cfw in a way different than restoring a full backup and you have modded system titles)
(cfws with a friends version patch do exactly this, but on the loaded-in-memory copy of the driver)

2- simply install the 11.8's friends driver over the current one
(this only works since the number is the only thing that changed between those versions, and most importantly function addresses weren't moved around - this is why NTR breaks with Home updates, for example)

Glad I don't have gateway.

 

[Locomotion182]

That's the 11.2 kernel with upgraded drivers, which is not the smartest idea from a stability standpoint, but also misses on some of the advantages of updating (newly added system functions) (compared if you were able to run the properly updated system on GW's cfw, of course!)

So basically now with Luma running 11.6, better just leave the Gateway alone. thanks for the info

 

[MrJey]

I have Gateway Blue inserted all the time in my 3DS with 11.7 on Luma.
With a 64gb micro-sd full of old ds games.

Next to it a 128gb SD cart for the regular 3DS stuff.

Not that I have time to play all of those sweet sweet games, because of young children who eat up all the free time I have.

I still have the Gateway Red cart, but I think I probably should give it to the older kid, maybe she can use it as a imaginary small VISA card for her register and veggyshop. Maybe she’ll give me an extra discount at her shop.