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Update MT-Card 2.3 to latest 10.1 emunand with eshop access!

I know how dead mt-card is right now. I own both gateway and mt-cards & I love my gateway but I also love how mt-card saves games. Originally mt-card 2.3(latest official update) supports only upto 9.4 emunand,but here's how you can update it further to 10.1 with eshop acess.
Original idea goes to Trexxprin at iso site,I am just simplifying the process.

1) Turn off your 3ds Wifi & update your MT-Card launcher.dat to 2.3.
2) Now boot by pressing L and then executing exploit to open MT-Card menu. Here format your emunand(Warning this will format your sd-card). You should now be left with a 4.x emunand.
3) Backup this emunand with emunand tool just in case.
4) Now with 3dnus download 9.4 & 10.1 official update files.

5) Now look for these 4 titiles in 9.4 folder 000400300000CE02,0004003000008F02,0004001000021000,0004001000021900 for US
0004003000009802,0004001000022900,000400300000D602,0004001000022000 for EUR

6) move these 4 titles out of 9.4 update folder & delete these 4 titles from 10.1 folder (if any).
7) With this done move the 10.1 folder to your 3ds sd card and install all the cias in it with Devmenu with L+R+A to install all cias. Reboot and again backup emunand just in case. You should now have 10.1 emunand in MT-card. make sure your wifi is still off.
8) But hold on we still need eshop acess since out of these 4 titles 2 belong to eshop.
9) We now need to spoof these 4 titles version no's to 10.1 so that system update skips them, as these 4 titles cause seems to cause issue for mt-card emunand support higher than 9.4.
10) Now spoof this 4 titles (according to your 3ds region) to a title version like 10.1 or higher. I used 10.1 btw from here http://yls8.mtheall.com/ninupdates/titlelist.php?sys=ctr&wiki=1
11)After spoofing the version install the 4 spoofed cias in 10.1 emunand with devmenu. Check for system updates and there should be none and eshop should work now.
If this didnt work you for you did something wrong. Restore your 10.1 emunand with emunand tool we backed up earlier and try again.


How to spoof the cia version?
In this case I am taking example of 0004001000021000.cia[US].
http://yls8.mtheall.com/ninupdates/titlelist.php?sys=ctr&wiki=1 shows that we have v8203 from 9.0 update and we need to spoof it to atleast v9221(or more if you wish) which was in 9.6 update.
Open hxd and look for offset 00002F90 and then 0C-0D have your version no in hexadecimal. convert it decimal with this. In our case it is 20 0B with means 8203 in decimal and now again use decimal to hex to convert v9221 to hex which is 24 05 in hex. Now just overwrite 20 0B with 24 05 and save.
This completes the spoofing of version. Just repeat the steps for different cias

Alternatively you can also use 3dsnus for spoofing but I prefer the manual way.


Oh here's some proof of concept:
https://imgur.com/a/DpRHZ
 
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Thanks, great step by step guide.

I have it working with most titles but Zelda Triforce heroes. The spoof code for 0004001000022000 only seems to go to 9.6 and Zelda needs 9.9. Is there anywhere else I can get a more up to date code to spoof this cia.

Thanks
No actually that doesn't matter. That list is already updated. It just means that this title wasn't updated beyond 9.6 system update and same goes for other titles. Regarding the issue with the game I'll test it on my 3ds later.
 

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Hi. i've got MT CARD with ultimate firmware and file on SD card, my 3ds have a 9.2 emunand. how do i can update emunand for playing mario e luigi paper jam bros.3ds?
 

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thanks you very much, and it work with 10.3 too?
I sold my old 3ds to buy new 3ds BUT before I did that yes i tried and it worked. But what you need to do is
format emunand to your 4.x version.
Download latest 10.3 from 3dnus.
remove those 4 titles if any from folder. install the files with devmenu
restart and make backup of emunand
only after that install those 4 files spoofed(to latest offical version no, don't go higher, that causes issues sometimes)
restart. Profit!
 

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I sold my old 3ds to buy new 3ds BUT before I did that yes i tried and it worked. But what you need to do is
format emunand to your 4.x version.
Download latest 10.3 from 3dnus.
remove those 4 titles if any from folder. install the files with devmenu
restart and make backup of emunand
only after that install those 4 files spoofed(to latest offical version no, don't go higher, that causes issues sometimes)
restart. Profit!
thanks ^^~
 

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Thanks a lot, you made my MT-Card useable again, was about to buy a Gateway for my second 3DS already before I found this thread.

Edit: Just installed Zelda Triforce Heroes, it unfortunately doesn't work on MT, guess it is missing some AP check Gateway implemented already.
 
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I have tried both 3ds and cia format, no luck with getting Triforce Heroes to work. As I have no idea how to fix this (and probably noone except the former devteam of MT-Card could anyway) I guess I still have to get another Gateway or switch to a CFW.
 

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Great guide.......I have kept my old cosmo 3DS on 9.4 emunand wondering if there ever would be a 'fix'. It seems so many people working on CFW/Launchers that somebody could easily now make a RxTools or Cake read the abandoned MT-Card. I have a GW and have done the other softmods but I did like the MT card primarily because it kept it saves on the Card and not on the 3DS card.

As a comment to the people trying to get Tri-Force working.....both it and SMT Devil Survivor 2 used the new cartridge AP....there may be other games but those are the two that bomb on MT-Card. I just found a .cia from the 'usual' sources and installed it with BBM. So the .cia versions of those games (and other post 9.4) do seem to work with MT launcher 2.3 and Emunand 9.4.

All in all totally do not regret buying MT-Card even though already had GW. It was not 'junk' and they never had the brick problem the other GW cloners seemed to have (always thought they paid GW for their launcher). Still giving good use with a 64gb card and a crap load of roms!
 

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Strange, I couldn't get the .cia of Tri-Force Heroes to work. I updated my 3DS to 9.2 , sadly haven't found a way to launch MT-Card now, MSET is installed for Pasta but couldn't make it work for for Gateway or MT-Card.
 
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Strange, I couldn't get the .cia of Tri-Force Heroes to work. I updated my 3DS to 9.2 , sadly haven't found a way to launch MT-Card now, MSET is installed for Pasta but couldn't make it work for for Gateway or MT-Card.


Yeah I have a .cia working. Pretty sure it is USA region but it was made RF and Spoofed so maybe that's why it worked. Yeah I don't think MT launcher ever supported anything but 4.x but if you are on 9.2 always easy to downgrade using GW. I still don't understand why GW doesn't make a MSET for 9.x for O3DS. I guess they figure you can downgrade or use the web/game launcher but still would like to have a 9.x MSET. GW does have a .3dx launcher now so maybe you could use that with menuhax on 9.2 to launch your GW?
 

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I don't understand how to spoof the cia files...
When I open it in hxd I can't find the offset 00002F90.
Is there a way to spoof the cia files with 3dsnus ?

Thanks !
 

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