Hi guys,
I know this has already been asked many times before but i thought i would try and get some answers anyway
So i recently saw an ad on ebay for a 'new' 3ds xl for £40 that was advertised as having the problem in the title. Having done CFW on my own O3ds xl and discovering that this could simply be a case of needing to put the luma boot.firm onto a micro sd card i decided to go ahead and buy it.
Having got it now i discovered it doesnt have its original sd card so dont have any idea what firmware its on or what luma version its on (if any). ive tried every luma version from 7.0.5 to 10.1 to no avail. Ive also tried the L+R+A+UP method to get into recovery but that doesnt work either. Im also using the sd card from my o3ds xl (having backed up and deleted the CFW files for that one before using it for this) so i know the card is working perfectly fine
Im now at my wits end as to what to do, ive never had any experience with bad CFW upto this point and so im asking the gbatemp community for help before i go down the new motherboard route (ive seen these for around £35 to £40 so given i only paid £40 in the first place would still make it quite cheap)
would there be any workaround whatsoever if i dont have any sort of nand backup? (god knows if the seller has either)
I know this has already been asked many times before but i thought i would try and get some answers anyway
So i recently saw an ad on ebay for a 'new' 3ds xl for £40 that was advertised as having the problem in the title. Having done CFW on my own O3ds xl and discovering that this could simply be a case of needing to put the luma boot.firm onto a micro sd card i decided to go ahead and buy it.
Having got it now i discovered it doesnt have its original sd card so dont have any idea what firmware its on or what luma version its on (if any). ive tried every luma version from 7.0.5 to 10.1 to no avail. Ive also tried the L+R+A+UP method to get into recovery but that doesnt work either. Im also using the sd card from my o3ds xl (having backed up and deleted the CFW files for that one before using it for this) so i know the card is working perfectly fine
Im now at my wits end as to what to do, ive never had any experience with bad CFW upto this point and so im asking the gbatemp community for help before i go down the new motherboard route (ive seen these for around £35 to £40 so given i only paid £40 in the first place would still make it quite cheap)
would there be any workaround whatsoever if i dont have any sort of nand backup? (god knows if the seller has either)