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    Hacking [QUESTION] Insights about the firm0/1 partitions

    It should be the bare plain minimum to perform system updates, formatting and such; after all, it's just a recovery mode. You can find the list of all system titles on 3dbrew (3dbrew.org/wiki/Title_list), it lists which ones are available in safe mode. You can see it's just v0 of native stuff...
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    Hacking [QUESTION] Insights about the firm0/1 partitions

    Thanks, this cleared things up a lot! But also prompted more questions, if you don't mind: First of all, Luma says it patches the native firmwares, does Luma read them from the titles? I would assume so, because its .firm is about 4 times smaller than NATIVE_FIRM, and the native firmware is no...
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    Hacking [QUESTION] Insights about the firm0/1 partitions

    Hi, I'm an CS student new to 3ds hacking. In the last few days I've been reading chunks of 3dbrew to learn my console's architecture. That to say I did my homework, but I still have some unanswered questions (: Specifically, I don't quite understand how the stock firmwares are stored and loaded...