Hacking Luma3DS - Noob-proof 3DS Custom Firmware

[BaamAlex]

Hello,

Taken from : https://github.com/LumaTeam/Luma3DS/wiki/Optional-features :

Luma3DS has various optional features that are configurable via its config menu. If this is your first time using Luma3DS or you have updated to a version of Luma3DS with a different config version, the menu will be shown automatically.​

Is there a way to prevent the menu from being shown automatically?

Thank-you, Mike

You see this menu only once. Otherwise only if you hold select.

 

[Mikef1]

Well I chain load a different version some times, and like the menu Not to pop up.

 

[BaamAlex]

Well I chain load a different version some times, and like the menu Not to pop up.

Why are you doing this?

 

[Mikef1]

I normally load 10.2, but sometimes need 9.1 for plugins.

 

[BaamAlex]

I normally load 10.2, but sometimes need 9.1 for plugins.

Then you can't skip this menu iirc. Both version saves their configurations in sd:/luma/config.bin (or whatever the file extension is). And there is the "confusion" for luma i think.

 

[Mikef1]

Is it possible to Hex-edit 9.1 to use a different config file?

 

[BaamAlex]

Ask the developer.

 

[zoogie]

Is it possible to Hex-edit 9.1 to use a different config file?

Go ahead and find "config.bin" with the editor's search function and hex edit it to something other than config.bin. The only thing to watch out for is not increasing the size of config.bin to over its current 10 characters. That will cause luma to crash.

 

[The3dsmodder10239]

As per Aurora Wright's request the old official discussion topic has been locked, but since we don't want to leave you our members without a topic to discuss Luma3DS this will from now on be the new discussion topic. Aurora Wright will obviously not be around to answer any of your questions, but other members of GBAtemp will be able to so please feel free to discuss and ask questions to your heart's content.

Original topic post:

I need a little help rn I was busy updating luma3ds and I decided to resart the 3ds and instead of restarting, the 3ds' blue light blinked and didn't stay on, so I went and searched online and saw that I needed a boot.firm backup but I noticed that I don't have a boot.firm backup, so what do I do?

 

[BaamAlex]

I need a little help rn I was busy updating luma3ds and I decided to resart the 3ds and instead of restarting, the 3ds' blue light blinked and didn't stay on, so I went and searched online and saw that I needed a boot.firm backup but I noticed that I don't have a boot.firm backup, so what do I do?

Do you get a error message when you turn on the 3ds?

 

[The3dsmodder10239]

Do you get a error message when you turn on the 3ds?

I did not get a error, the screen was not on, and for some more details the 3ds probably corrupted something because the menu was frozen so I the the luma3ds menu and restarted the 3ds from there. That's when the 3ds menu popped up again but with some glitched textures and the luma3ds menu was still kinda visible. Then a second later I got a error where I think it said, Error Exception and then that's all I could read before it then turned off

 

[Kwyjor]

I need a little help rn I was busy updating luma3ds and I decided to resart the 3ds and instead of restarting, the 3ds' blue light blinked and didn't stay on, so I went and searched online and saw that I needed a boot.firm backup but I noticed that I don't have a boot.firm backup, so what do I do?

This is not clear. What exactly where you doing when you say you were "busy updating luma3ds"? Luma is literally the file named boot.firm, so it's not clear why you wouldn't have that. Please try to be as precise as possible.

 

[Deleted User]

Is it possible to Hex-edit 9.1 to use a different config file?

You can't hexedit a FIRM payload (which is what Luma3DS is) because the security hashes will be mismatched, similarly to a CIA file.

 

[elCerebrain]

Hello, I have a N3DS XL with all the basic homebrew and Luma (everything update as far as this message's date), I had to format my microSD and install everything again, so I ended up losing a lot of data and games, because at some point installing Twilight Menu I broke my system and load anything without an error.

I always could update my games via eShop. Worked with Pokémon Ultra Sun, some Layton games, SMT IV and so on. But now I try to do that for Pokémon Super mystery dungeon and it “downloads” the game yet never installs the update.

Anybody has insight about this problem? If I'm not mistaken my last firmware before this uodate was 10.4.5 or something like that, currently running 11.4 I believe (last firmware update)

 

[Kwyjor]

But now I try to do that for Pokémon Super mystery dungeon and it “downloads” the game yet never installs the update.

Is this a game you legitimately purchased from the eShop? If you installed the version from a different region using FBI, then you will need to find the .cia for the update and install it using FBI as well.

Also, did you test your SD card with h2testw after you formatted it? A failing SD card can cause all sorts of mysterious problems.

 

[elCerebrain]

Is this a game you legitimately purchased from the eShop? If you installed the version from a different region using FBI, then you will need to find the .cia for the update and install it using FBI as well.

Also, did you test your SD card with h2testw after you formatted it? A failing SD card can cause all sorts of mysterious problems.

I always updated the cias installed via FBI through eShop, that's why it is weird to me. Never had any problems before this update that broke DSi support and everything.

Game is proper region, supposedly, I need to check that.

Not a single erroron the SD formatting.

Edit: I checked on it and the problem was indeed unproper region, thank you for the insight! I moved my save with a tutorial in this forum and updated with no problem at all.

 

[Ericlered]

I installed Luma Updater v2.5 from the cia and when i launch it I get the following...

Payload type: SIGHAX
Payload path: /boot.firm
Backup payload: YES

Current installed version: 9.1-89 blah blah

Could not obtain update details.
Check that the console is connected to the internet.

The console is connected though, any ideas what is going wrong with the updater? Thanks

 

[piratesephiroth]

I installed Luma Updater v2.5 from the cia and when i launch it I get the following...

Payload type: SIGHAX
Payload path: /boot.firm
Backup payload: YES

Current installed version: 9.1-89 blah blah

Could not obtain update details.
Check that the console is connected to the internet.

The console is connected though, any ideas what is going wrong with the updater? Thanks

Just download the latest version of Luma3DS manually. It's not like there an update every week,

 

[WraithTDK]

Super-n00b question here. I'm reading about things like EmuNAND, and I'm reading that this makes it so that everything runs off o the microSD card. I'm looking at following the 3DS Hacks Guide to install Luma3DS on a flashcart. Does this mean the system would be booting/running of the flashcart? Would that prevent me from taking the cart out and running an actual retail game? Or would it just boot the the normal system firmware without the mSD in place?

 

[Kwyjor]

Super-n00b question here. I'm reading about things like EmuNAND, and I'm reading that this makes it so that everything runs off o the microSD card.

EmuNAND is completely obsolete and generally no one should be using an EmuNAND anymore. (It was principally of interest when people wanted to keep using 3DS flashcarts while simultaneously being able to keep using features of the latest 3DS firmware – but using 3DS flashcarts is generally inadvisble now and there is no benefit to not upgrading to the latest firmware.)

I'm looking at following the 3DS Hacks Guide to install Luma3DS on a flashcart.

If you read more carefully, you will find that the guide says nothing about installing Luma to a flashcart. Luma is installed on an SD card and the 3DS internal memory. Flashcarts are only used for ntrboot, which can be used in the Luma installation process (or more precisely the boot9strap installation process) – but ntrboot is generally not necessary.