Tutorial Simple Guide to Downgrading your 3DS

Have you been able to successfully downgrade your 3DS/2DS?


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Its probably already answered but it does work with new3ds aswell on newest firmware? and what happens to all my data upon downgrading i.e. streetpass data etc. ?
 

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Jeez, I must be an idiot. Isn't the sysupdater app on it, among other things? How can you downgrade with just an empty SD card?
Step by step:

  1. Formatted the SD card
  2. Dropped the starter kit(root dir) and sysupdater(3ds dir) on it.
  3. dropped 9.2 into the updates folder in the root directory.
  4. Popped it into the 2ds and let it create its default files
  5. Opened the theme config to create those files as well
  6. Opened the camera and scanned the Browserhax QR code.
  7. Installed menuhax
  8. Rebooted with L back to the homebrew launcher
  9. Ran Sysupdater.
 
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Alright, just to confirm.

I got 10.3, o3DS, USA. MenuHax is installed, IronHax is installed, BrowserHax was used to get into stuff. If I follow the directions in OP, using the .ttp files extracted, everything will work properly until reboot, which will be a black screen. At that point, I take out the SD card and start it up again, and it'll work?

I can understand everything up until the point regarding MenuHax. I see people saying to take out the SD card, but not specifying when. I've seen some people saying to take it out while it's downgrading, but wouldn't that fuck everything up because it's reading the .cia files off the SD card?

Ya they are talking about taking it out after the reboot, the reason being that the installed Menuhax [assuming you are using it] is for a different FW than the 9.2 you are now on and doesn't work.

Jeez, I must be an idiot. Isn't the sysupdater app on it, among other things? How can you downgrade with just an empty SD card?

They mean that they formatted it, and then copied across their files, as clean a card as possible.
 

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Step by step:

  1. Formatted the SD card
  2. Dropped the starter kit(root dir) and sysupdater(3ds dir) on it.
  3. dropped 9.2 into the updates folder in the root directory.
  4. Popped it into the 2ds and let it create its default files
  5. Opened the theme config to create those files as well
  6. Opened the camera and scanned the Browserhax QR code.
  7. Installed menuhax
  8. Rebooted with L back to the homebrew launcher
  9. Ran Sysupdater.

Thanks. Makes sense.
 

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Arrg, that was exactly what you didn't seem to understand...
Code being pushed to github doesn't mean it's released. It means the devs working on the code made a change to the code that was worth saving. Pushing to github is the equivalent of hitting Ctrl-S in Microsoft Word. Would you consider every time an author saved a document in progress as an official release?
 
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