Hacking Luma3DS - Noob-proof 3DS Custom Firmware

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I'm trying to run some VC games and I'm receiving errors. Is there a fix?
All this does is loading the native_firm into RAM, patching it (for signatures, emuNAND and reboots - on O3DS only -), and starting it. If you get problems, maybe they're due to the fact that the 9.6 FIRM is used on O3DS (yeah, that's the latest one Cakes supports as of today). It could be some games require an higher FIRM. If you're talking about GBA VC games, on the O3DS you need to hold A on boot to make them work (this can't be helped, it's either Smash Bros/MH4/etc. or GBA/DS/DSi games for the same boot).
Is it possible to fix the bug where the splash screen sometimes doesn't show up?
Also, can you add support for an error image for bottom screen, in case CFW fails to boot?
I haven't encountered that and I don't know why it fails, this just clears the framebuffer and then loads the splash.bin, there are no conditions for it to happen or not. Also, I doubt there's any way to know if firmlaunchhax fails, if the exploit fails the console just freezes and you can't do anything:P
@Aurora Wright, do you plan on keeping up with @Reisyukaku's releases?
I mean, will you do your mod on future releases?

Personally, I prefer reiNAND over rxToolx. I find rxTools so over bloated (again, this is my personal view of rxTools) with a bunch of features I hardly (or never) used.
Yeah, sure.
 
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So can someone give the checksum of the n3ds 10.4 firmware.bin?
I get a black screen and I'm not sure why.. Someone else had an issue with firmware.bin but I should have the right one (downloaded it today from rei's github page)

I can't get it to work (black screen).. What I did was:
- Removal all old rei-folders
- Downloaded the .rar, extracted it to the microsd, renamed rei-n3ds to rei
- downloaded latest firmware.bin from rei's github page (was updated 4 days ago) and put it into the /rei folder
- I am using ctrboot which worked fine with the previous version, I can boot to homebrew launcher directly and then start rei, but ends up in the same black.
- My emunand is at version 10.3 (and I prefer to keep it at that level)

To make sure it's not related to the firmware.bin, I'm looking for an md5/SHA-checksum to verify. Other thing I can think of, is that emunand 10.3 is not compatible with latest rei/firmware.bin ?

Thanks for the support.
 

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So can someone give the checksum of the n3ds 10.4 firmware.bin?
I get a black screen and I'm not sure why.. Someone else had an issue with firmware.bin but I should have the right one (downloaded it today from rei's github page)

I can't get it to work (black screen).. What I did was:
- Removal all old rei-folders
- Downloaded the .rar, extracted it to the microsd, renamed rei-n3ds to rei
- downloaded latest firmware.bin from rei's github page (was updated 4 days ago) and put it into the /rei folder
- I am using ctrboot which worked fine with the previous version, I can boot to homebrew launcher directly and then start rei, but ends up in the same black.
- My emunand is at version 10.3 (and I prefer to keep it at that level)

To make sure it's not related to the firmware.bin, I'm looking for an md5/SHA-checksum to verify. Other thing I can think of, is that emunand 10.3 is not compatible with latest rei/firmware.bin ?

Thanks for the support.
Read the first page. This is a mod of reinand and doesn't use the firmware from github. That's a 10.2 firmware. It clearly says what you need on the first page.
 

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i get freeze whne i upgrade my emunand to 10.4 - Reinand screen freeze by - Reinand press start to boot -
N3ds - Sysnand fw 9.2

any solution?
 

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Read the first page. This is a mod of reinand and doesn't use the firmware from github. That's a 10.2 firmware. It clearly says what you need on the first page.
That is not very helpfull, like I said, without the checksum I can't verify if I have the correct firmware.bin.

Please provide me the checksum as I asked in my first post.. That would be helpful so I can verify what if I have what is required according to the first page...

The firmware.bin I have has MD5: 7512ABC6BDFDDB2FCF10732888FF81E5 but not sure if that's right... And if it is, then I don't have a clue why I get a black screen...
 
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This is awesome! Thanks! The only issue I seem to have is NTR doesn't work anymore, I'm guessing it's because NTR isn't ready for the 10.4 FW, does anyone know if this is in fact correct and if there is anything we can do?
 

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That is not very helpfull, like I said, without the checksum I can't verify if I have the correct firmware.bin.

Please provide me the checksum as I asked in my first post.. That would be helpful so I can verify what if I have what is required according to the first page...

The firmware.bin I have has MD5: 7512ABC6BDFDDB2FCF10732888FF81E5 but not sure if that's right... And if it is, then I don't have a clue why I get a black screen...
D41D8CD98F00B204E9800998ECF8427E. It's the same for both the Old 3DS and the New 3DS Firmware.bin.

Edit: Did you get the Firmware.bin file off that iso site?
 

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@Aurora Wright
would you be able to put region free patches like what NTR does? i know a lot of people say that running NTR is pretty fast and easy, but in my personal opinion, i really hate having to run it everytime and not to mention there's the inevitable NTR menu that you cannot disable. most of my games require to press the hotkeys and i wouldn't like to be pressing them everytime which pops out the menu during my gameplay. another reason why i use NTR over FMP is that i also use out of region legitimate cartridges.

if you would be able to do that, i will be eternally grateful to you! :D
 

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Eh, if only we could have CFW as simple as reinand but with included region free patch... I would be so happy.
Of course there are rxtools and cakesfw, but they have a bunch of useless (for me) functions and thus making me a little uncomfortable to use them.
 

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Toobad this does not work with v9.2 downgraded it from v 10.3 the other day
O3DS
 
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