I attempted to hack a New 3DS XL today following 3ds.hacks.guide. This isn't the first 3DS I've hacked.
Everything went fine until I got to the point where I needed to access GodMode9, which I couldn't get to come up on screen. Looking through the forums I can see this is a known issue, but I didn't realize that then. I tried several times to boot in to Godmode9 by holding Start+Power, but I kept getting black screens (with the power light on). Unsure what to do, I would hold down the power button to turn it off, then try again. I think I may have hit the A button or some other face button at some point as well. Eventually I got the idea to put a second .firm into the /luma/payloads folder to bring up the chainloader, which it seems is indeed the current preferred workaround. Through the chainloader I was able to access GodMode9 and proceed with the guide. One irregularity was that I wasn't prompted to create an essential files backup, but since the guide said only to worry about it "if prompted", I didn't give it much thought.
Now I'm at the point where ordinarily I would copy the backup files to my PC, but when I connect my 3DS's sdcard I find that <date>_<serialnumber>_sysnand_###.bin and <date>_<serialnumber>_sysnand_###.bin.sha are nowhere to be found (boot9.bin and essential.exefs are where they're supposed to be, though).
I'm worried I may have successfully "blindly" booted into GodMode9 during my earlier attempts, but without seeing anything onscreen somehow disabled the ability or missed my chance to back up essential files. Is there any way I can still get them, or am I just totally screwed?
Everything went fine until I got to the point where I needed to access GodMode9, which I couldn't get to come up on screen. Looking through the forums I can see this is a known issue, but I didn't realize that then. I tried several times to boot in to Godmode9 by holding Start+Power, but I kept getting black screens (with the power light on). Unsure what to do, I would hold down the power button to turn it off, then try again. I think I may have hit the A button or some other face button at some point as well. Eventually I got the idea to put a second .firm into the /luma/payloads folder to bring up the chainloader, which it seems is indeed the current preferred workaround. Through the chainloader I was able to access GodMode9 and proceed with the guide. One irregularity was that I wasn't prompted to create an essential files backup, but since the guide said only to worry about it "if prompted", I didn't give it much thought.
Now I'm at the point where ordinarily I would copy the backup files to my PC, but when I connect my 3DS's sdcard I find that <date>_<serialnumber>_sysnand_###.bin and <date>_<serialnumber>_sysnand_###.bin.sha are nowhere to be found (boot9.bin and essential.exefs are where they're supposed to be, though).
I'm worried I may have successfully "blindly" booted into GodMode9 during my earlier attempts, but without seeing anything onscreen somehow disabled the ability or missed my chance to back up essential files. Is there any way I can still get them, or am I just totally screwed?