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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[Social_Outlaw]

Mines is still on 11.3
.. haven't really touched it at all.. wanted to download my digital games but am I really missing out on homebrew with updating?

Sent from my SM-A205U using Tapatalk

 

[Shadow#1]

Mines is still on 11.3
.. haven't really touched it at all.. wanted to download my digital games but am I really missing out on homebrew with updating?

Sent from my SM-A205U using Tapatalk

Update after getting 10.2.1 Luma3DS

 

[Julayla Beryl]

Well I did what the guide said, replace the files for the Luma manually (all without updating to the recent update on 3ds), but unfortunately, I'm now getting a "Update Failed" and some errors. What do I do?

 

[josephdin]

Well I did what the guide said, replace the files for the Luma manually (all without updating to the recent update on 3ds), but unfortunately, I'm now getting a "Update Failed" and some errors. What do I do?

you probably updated your luma itself but didn't update lumaupdater app

 

[the_randomizer]

Nintendo, just give up

 

[Shadow#1]

Nintendo, just give up

They won't just like Wii has 2 v4.3 updates

June 10th 2010

Then

September 7th 2010

 

[godreborn]

Nintendo can't patch b9s, but they can make it harder to install.

 

[Shadow#1]

Nintendo can't patch b9s, but they can make it harder to install.

The big word here is "TRY"

 

[Kwyjor]

I really doubt they would have worried about this at all if it wasn't a browser exploit. And as Zoogie noted near the start of the thread:

This update was likely "to tie up loose ends" when the 3ds bounty program ended. There was a flurry of reports in the last two weeks that were probably addressed in this update.

It's like how they had to release 11.12 and 11.13 because of the rather alarming possibility that someone could feasibly build a malicious device that could send console-bricking Streetpasses. I expect there's a nonzero possibility that someone could have been able to use Browserhax 2020 to do Very Bad Things, and then find some way to trick 3DS users into visiting a malicious website, and then suddenly the media gets wind of it and starts pushing headlines about how Nintendo's products will crash your Internet forever, and so on. It was probably just a complete coincidence that whatever they did meant that Luma had to be updated too.

But that's just speculation.

 

[Carefree_dude]

This is an odd thing; I updated my 3DS, and afterwards my subwars homebrew channel still worked.

 

[Shadow#1]

This is an odd thing; I updated my 3DS, and afterwards my subwars homebrew channel still worked.

Why u not cfw yet?

 

[Carefree_dude]

Why u not cfw yet?

Its on my list to do eventually but I haven't really had a big need or want to do so yet. I mostly used hombrew so I could edit my pokemon saves in PkHex.

 

[Kwyjor]

This is an odd thing; I updated my 3DS, and afterwards my subwars homebrew channel still worked.

Not so odd. None of the updates since 11.7 have affected it for U units.

If you don't want to install CFW, I suggest at least installing Pichaxx.

 

[KimKong]

So is it safe to update with CFW, TWiLight++ and so on installed...?

 

[Kwyjor]

So is it safe to update with CFW, TWiLight++ and so on installed...?

There is no shortage of posts that answer that question at this point.

Just make sure you update Luma first.

 

[Centrix]

Does seedminer still work? Friend from Florida sent there o3ds to softmod and it has the latest firmware on it.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Kwyjor]

Does seedminer still work? Friend from Florida sent there o3ds to softmod and it has the latest firmware on it.

An extra minute of reading would tell you that http://3ds.guide is up to date and still works.

Apparently an all-new Browserhax is already being cooked up, but seedminer isn't really that much more difficult.

 

[Centrix]

An extra minute of reading would tell you that http://3ds.guide is up to date and still works.

Apparently an all-new Browserhax is already being cooked up, but seedminer isn't really that much more difficult.

Appreciate ya, thanks for the help, gonna get they're 3DS rooted after work.

 

[Subis]

Does this update block any R4 cards? Want to make sure before I update...

 

[Shadow#1]

Does this update block any R4 cards? Want to make sure before I update...

No Nintendo has not blocked ds flashcards in over 5 years