So, legit firmware already does everything I need - except make backups, which I would like to make and then fervently pray I will never, ever have to use.*
I have 11.6 on an N3DS XL with stickerhax, and that's enough to run the 3dsx version of JKSM through Homebrew Launcher, which is great – except it can't back up Mii Plaza, because apparently that requires the CIA version of JKSM, and that would require CFW. (When you try to use the 3dsx version on Mii Plaza, JKSM spews a bunch of cryptic messages. I started with the 3dsx version from the GBAtemp thread, but JKSM Rosalina and the version from the tarball at archive.org both bring up the title selector when launched, so I assume they're no good either.)
I've been reading about decrypt9 in a thread here about manual system transfers, and it looks like – even in the 3dsx version – I can use it to dump the NAND and XORpads and accordingly extract and decyrpt all the relevant Mii Plaza data, if necessary though copying the encrpyted data from the SD card and then working with it on Windows. (That guide seems to suggest that Decrypt9 cannot dump the NAND, but it's also three years old and the readme on the Decrypt9WIP page seems to suggest it can. Or does that not apply to the 3dsx version?)
Do I understand that correctly? Or is there yet another utility I can run through *hax/Homebrew Launcher that I should be looking at?
(I do have an R4i 3DS Gold Plus – mostly for running DS games – and I was going to ask if I could safely run GodMode9 direct from ntrboot, as implied by one of the issue pages at the GodMode9 github, but if decrypt9 can already dump the NAND, that would seem to be unnecessary.)
*Yes, I appreciate all the hard work people have done on CFW (and the people supporting it), I'm sure it works great for you, I understand it's very easy and has 0% chance of bricking, but I want to keep things simple and avoid installing it if at all possible.
**I had links in this post originally, but apparently I can't post those yet. Oh well.
I have 11.6 on an N3DS XL with stickerhax, and that's enough to run the 3dsx version of JKSM through Homebrew Launcher, which is great – except it can't back up Mii Plaza, because apparently that requires the CIA version of JKSM, and that would require CFW. (When you try to use the 3dsx version on Mii Plaza, JKSM spews a bunch of cryptic messages. I started with the 3dsx version from the GBAtemp thread, but JKSM Rosalina and the version from the tarball at archive.org both bring up the title selector when launched, so I assume they're no good either.)
I've been reading about decrypt9 in a thread here about manual system transfers, and it looks like – even in the 3dsx version – I can use it to dump the NAND and XORpads and accordingly extract and decyrpt all the relevant Mii Plaza data, if necessary though copying the encrpyted data from the SD card and then working with it on Windows. (That guide seems to suggest that Decrypt9 cannot dump the NAND, but it's also three years old and the readme on the Decrypt9WIP page seems to suggest it can. Or does that not apply to the 3dsx version?)
Do I understand that correctly? Or is there yet another utility I can run through *hax/Homebrew Launcher that I should be looking at?
(I do have an R4i 3DS Gold Plus – mostly for running DS games – and I was going to ask if I could safely run GodMode9 direct from ntrboot, as implied by one of the issue pages at the GodMode9 github, but if decrypt9 can already dump the NAND, that would seem to be unnecessary.)
*Yes, I appreciate all the hard work people have done on CFW (and the people supporting it), I'm sure it works great for you, I understand it's very easy and has 0% chance of bricking, but I want to keep things simple and avoid installing it if at all possible.
**I had links in this post originally, but apparently I can't post those yet. Oh well.
