2020 hasn't been the most stable year, but at least Nintendo is hard at work making sure that above all else, the Nintendo 3DS is the most stable thing in your life during these trying times. The system has just received a brand new firmware update, the first of 2020, to be exact, bringing the revision number to 11.14.0-46. Currently, the yls8 page shows us that a few changes were made regarding the web browser, NATIVE_FIRM, and more. The official changelog from Nintendo says the oh so popular phrase you've come to love:

• Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience.

Considering the random nature of this update, and the first few initial claims of those that took the plunge already, you might want to hold off on updating for right now, if you value having homebrew on your console. Reports state that Luma3DS is crashing, and that BrowserHax has been patched.

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[The Catboy]

Random fact, CakesFW still works. So that's something for those of us who still might be using it for reasons. It still requires old firmware files and I wouldn't recommend it, so wait until Luma3DS updates.

 

[Alvaro_130720]

Hi.
One question, I have updated my 3DS to version 11.14 before seeing that Luma did not work. I wanted to ask if this can be a problem or cause Brick or when Luma is fixed my 3DS will work fine again. It may be an absurd question but it is to keep me calm.
Sorry for my English if something is misspelled.

 

[plasma]

Hi.
One question, I have updated my 3DS to version 11.14 before seeing that Luma did not work. I wanted to ask if this can be a problem or cause Brick or when Luma is fixed my 3DS will work fine again. It may be an absurd question but it is to keep me calm.
Sorry for my English if something is misspelled.

Once Luma is updated, yes it'll work. Though never ever ever update without checking places like here to see whats broken.

 

[Alvaro_130720]

Once Luma is updated, yes it'll work. Though never ever ever update without checking places like here to see whats broken.

Okay, thank you very much for answering me

 

[DJPlace]

enough of this shit nintendo focus on the switch. just leave the 3ds the FUCK alone!!

 

[xdarkx]

Surprised they are even putting any updates they are no longer making. Guess they want to keep their systems as stable as possible before they end their support.

 

[AkikoKumagara]

I wish they did this sooner. Could have used that extra stability for hurricane season.

 

[mranonymous]

I guess there isn't a way to bypass Luma and log into normal FW, right? I stupidly updated and am now locked out

 

[AmandaRose]

Random fact, CakesFW still works. So that's something for those of us who still might be using it for reasons. It still requires old firmware files and I wouldn't recommend it, so wait until Luma3DS updates.

Just a shame my favourite 3ds cfw died. I liked it because it never had all the fancy features of Luma I never use. If only someone was here that used to be a part of the team that made that old cfw and would hear my wish and revive it for me lol.

 

[The Catboy]

Hi.
One question, I have updated my 3DS to version 11.14 before seeing that Luma did not work. I wanted to ask if this can be a problem or cause Brick or when Luma is fixed my 3DS will work fine again. It may be an absurd question but it is to keep me calm.
Sorry for my English if something is misspelled.

This has actually happened before. From my little testing over here, the system is fine after the updated, just Luma3DS needs to be updated to work again on it.

It's now so stable that had It been around in biblical times Mary would have gave birth to baby Jesus on one.

Sorry for the terrible joke I just wanted to join in for once )

Just a shame my favourite 3ds cfw died. I liked it because it never had all the fancy features of Luma I never use. If only someone was here that used to be a part of the team that made that old cfw and would hear my wish and revive it for me lol.

I actually tried doing something like that with a few of my friends but ended up running into issues with time management and personal life issues. We were trying to make a spiritual successor to corbenik cfw but it ended up falling behind and fizzling out due to some personal issues, mostly my personal life falling apart at that time and I wasn't able to lead the team or do much for the team. Kind of sad that it didn't end up being a thing or going very far.

 

[AmandaRose]

I guess there isn't a way to bypass Luma and log into normal FW, right? I stupidly updated and am now locked out

Can be done with native.firm. But that requires godmode9 to get it. Does godmode9 boot or is that fucked like luma on latest.firmware?

 

[mranonymous]

Can be done with native.firm. But that requires godmode9 to get it. Does godmode9 boot or is that fucked like luma on latest.firmware?

Looks like Godmode works! Is native.firm part of Godmode? Or do I need to drop something on the SD card first?

 

[MikaDubbz]

Just a shame my favourite 3ds cfw died. I liked it because it never had all the fancy features of Luma I never use. If only someone was here that used to be a part of the team that made that old cfw and would hear my wish and revive it for me lol.

But it's not like you're ever required to utilize all the extra bells and whistles of Luma. Luma can essentially behave just like Cakes if you want it to, so I don't see any major loss.

I will say, that as Luma has gotten more complex, it has become a bit more unstable compared to older builds and older cfws. I've seen Luma crash far more often than old cfws, sometimes when I boot luma (i have a custom boot animation too), it will get past the boot animation and I'll get a code dump and have to restart it again, I swear there was a point where I had such a boot animation but never saw code dumps after it loaded and it would always load up after without fail. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm crashing all the time or anything, it's just noticeable enough to me that it crashes more than older builds and cfws used to.

 

[mranonymous]

Can be done with native.firm. But that requires godmode9 to get it. Does godmode9 boot or is that fucked like luma on latest.firmware?

Thank you! I found a tutorial and got it booted into native firm. Never knew this was possible

 

[huma_dawii]

It breaks the CFW if you update, be careful and wait for LUMA to update.


Quick fix for now, turn it on without the SD card then put the SD card in after turning it on.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Just checked and you can still connect and play games online on the last firmware prior to this one's release. Literally no need for anyone to rush and update at this point.

 

[Plasmaster09]

Just checked and you can still connect and play games online on the last firmware prior to this one's release. Literally no need for anyone to rush and update at this point.

so this update is literally nothing but a trap for people stupid enough to update without thinking while using CFW

 

[VzUh]

- Browserhax patched.

congrats on your first exploit to be patched by nintendo =D

 

[MikaDubbz]

so this update is literally nothing but a trap for people stupid enough to update without thinking while using CFW

I seem to recall holding off on a 3DS update in the past and still having online functionality for a while, but then at a certain point I couldn't play online anymore and had to update the firmware. Seems that the way they work is they don't immediately stop supporting online functionality when a new fw update drops, but do drop it eventually all the same.

 

[Ryccardo]

Looks like Godmode works! Is native.firm part of Godmode? Or do I need to drop something on the SD card first?

All arm9 homebrews, such as .firm files, are themselves kernels and are inherently independent of the official kernels (of course the arbitrary category of "cfws" tries to interact with them, but whether they'll succeed at doing so is separate from whether they can run themselves)

Surprised they are even putting any updates

This was a browser exploit though, ie not just something people willingly used to mod their console (for which there's since mid 2017 an infinitely cleaner method that works on literally any version or a corrupted nand anyway), but also something a (probably very theoretical, but still) malicious website could have used