Hacking New 3DS update

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Can't believe they realeased another update. G.... Is it known already if it's safe to update from 11.14 ?
 

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I've heard that it is. iirc, b9s is unpatchable anyway, but there always the chance for some surprise to make things more difficult. I don't think that's the case with this update.
 

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Can't believe they realeased another update. G.... Is it known already if it's safe to update from 11.14 ?
If you have cfw already, it's fine. Luma3ds will not need an update for this one.

As far as the guide methods go for new users, it looks like we will be reverting to Seedminer -> unSAFE_MODE for the meantime.
BrowserhaxXL was patched for 11.15.
 

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I've heard that it is. iirc, b9s is unpatchable anyway, but there always the chance for some surprise to make things more difficult. I don't think that's the case with this update.

In theory it might be patchable by updating the MCU firmware to inject extra verification code into the boot process but that would have an extremely high risk of causing unrecoverable bricks that not even an official recovery cart could fix.
 

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In theory it might be patchable by updating the MCU firmware to inject extra verification code into the boot process but that would have an extremely high risk of causing unrecoverable bricks that not even an official recovery cart could fix.
I'm glad there's at least 1 other person in this world that believes this crackpot theory could come true :P
We know from the old3ds MCU that its firmware listens for the ntrboot button combo (it pauses for a while before power-on). It would stand to reason that Nintendo could fix ntrboot if it was just patched to power-down when it detects the combo.

I wonder if when all new boxed systems are out-of-warranty for a while, that they may actually try it. Still a long shot because they'd have to try more difficult (i.e expensive) methods to recover corrupted NANDs for paid repair service.
 
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I'm glad there's at least 1 other person in this world that believes this crackpot theory could come true :P

I wonder if when all new boxed systems are out-of-warranty, that they may actually try it. Still a long shot.

Well it seems like it would be a fairly obvious idea for anyone who knows what a DMA attack is to come up with. Not sure if doing such a thing with the MCU firmware is doable on the 3ds architecture, though.
 

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