Hacking Luma3DS - Noob-proof 3DS Custom Firmware

Pk11 · Oct 4, 2022

Slash1 said:
But I copied exactly what the guide said
I even copied some ALL-In-One files from YouTube(3 diffrent all in one)

Have you tried 3ds.hacks.guide? There's a reason video guides aren't recommended, they're usually outdated or just missing information to begin with.

Edit: oh see you did, not sure why you're trying to use pichaxx as it hasn't been updated if its even possible. You should be able to use use unSAFE_MODE and be good

Slash1 · Oct 4, 2022

Pk11 said:
Have you tried 3ds.hacks.guide? There's a reason video guides aren't recommended, they're usually outdated or just missing information to begin with.

i did it ten times from this guide. it's super easy but i dont khow why not worked for me :wacko:

Pk11 · Oct 4, 2022

Slash1 said:
i did it ten times from this guide. it's super easy but i dont khow why not worked for me

Read your older posts (didn't see them at first since I'm on my phone) and try unSAFE_MODE again and make sure the F00D43D5.bin is in the right place, it's a pretty common issue to put that in the wrong place and that'll make it crash.

There's a troubleshooting page with more details: https://3ds.hacks.guide/troubleshooting#dsiware-management-menu-crashes-without-showing-usm-menu

Slash1 · Oct 4, 2022

Pk11 said:
Read your older posts (didn't see them at first since I'm on my phone) and try unSAFE_MODE again and make sure the F00D43D5.bin is in the right place, it's a pretty common issue to put that in the wrong place and that'll make it crash.

There's a troubleshooting page with more details: https://3ds.hacks.guide/troubleshooting#dsiware-management-menu-crashes-without-showing-usm-menu

I also used this method and the device crashes, so you have to restart it
After this, I came across this article because my device does not have custom firmware. i updated sysnand to 11.16.0.49u
from 3ds.hacks.guide:
((If neither of these solutions fixes this problem, then custom firmware may have been uninstalled on this device in a way that makes this method impossible to perform. If this is the case, you will need to follow an alternate branch of Seedminer. For assistance with this matter, join Nintendo Homebrew on Discord and ask, in English, for help.))

alternate branch of Seedminer is pichaxx :wacko:

also i have blue red gateway card can i use nrtboot?

Pk11 · Oct 4, 2022

Slash1 said:
I also used this method and the device crashes, so you have to restart it
After this, I came across this article because my device does not have custom firmware. i updated sysnand to 11.16.0.49u
from 3ds.hacks.guide:
((If neither of these solutions fixes this problem, then custom firmware may have been uninstalled on this device in a way that makes this method impossible to perform. If this is the case, you will need to follow an alternate branch of Seedminer. For assistance with this matter, join Nintendo Homebrew on Discord and ask, in English, for help.))

alternate branch of Seedminer is pichaxx
also i have blue red gateway card can i use nrtboot?

Sorry about my last couple replies not being that helpful, was on my phone and not fully up to date on the guide

I think your error in Pokémon Picross is probably that you either don't have otherapp.bin in your SD root or you have the wrong one (this is a prime example of why AIO downloads are bad).

As per:

3ds.hacks.guide said:
Copy the otherapp payload for your region/version from the unSAFE_MODE .zip’s otherapps_with_CfgS folder to the root of your SD card and rename it to otherapp.bin

Make sure that you're copying the right one for the region of your 3DS and that you're using the "old3ds" one (from your picture I'm pretty sure you've got an old 3DS, the original model right?). And make sure that you're renaming it to exactly "otherapp.bin", note that if you're on Windows and didn't enable file extensions it'll just be "otherapp" (if you named it "otherapp.bin" with extensions of it'd really be "otherapp.bin.bin")

Also make sure it's in the SD root, aka not in any folder.

Edit: Gateway Blue should be compatible with ntrboot so you should be able to do that

Slash1 · Oct 4, 2022

Pk11 said:
Sorry about my last couple replies not being that helpful, was on my phone and not fully up to date on the guide

I think your error in Pokémon Picross is probably that you either don't have otherapp.bin in your SD root or you have the wrong one (this is a prime example of why AIO downloads are bad).

As per:

Make sure that you're copying the right one for the region of your 3DS and that you're using the "old3ds" one (from your picture I'm pretty sure you've got an old 3DS, the original model right?). And make sure that you're renaming it to exactly "otherapp.bin", note that if you're on Windows and didn't enable file extensions it'll just be "otherapp" (if you named it "otherapp.bin" with extensions of it'd really be "otherapp.bin.bin")

If otherapp.bin is written incorrectly or not correctly in place, the hex will not be executed, and the device crash message will appear(diffrent from my pic)
if i use universal otherapp 3ds get red screen(becuase it already patched)
if i use from this archieve and change the name to otherapp.bin, I am faced with a photo that I uploaded
i have old 3ds usa version(firmware 11.16.0.49U)
release v1.3 said otherapp for 11.7 to 11.15

Pk11 · Oct 4, 2022

Slash1 said:
If otherapp.bin is written incorrectly or not correctly in place, the hex will not be executed, and the device crash message will appear(diffrent from my pic)
if i use universal otherapp 3ds get red screen(becuase it already patched)
if i use from this archieve and change the name to otherapp.bin, I am faced with a photo that I uploaded
i have old 3ds usa version(firmware 11.16.0.49U)
release v1.3 said otherapp for 11.7 to 11.15

Weird, I'm not finding much information on that error so I'm not really sure what's wrong then... I'd say try join the Nintendo Homebrew Discord the guide links and ask there, they're more likely to know what's wrong.

Kwyjor · Oct 5, 2022

Look, it's this simple: before 11.16 was released, universal-otherapp could be used with Pokemon Picross to install boot9strap on an unhacked 3DS. The 11.16 release patched the exploit used by universal-otherapp and it cannot be used to install boot9stap anymore. Period.

While you can use one of the older versions of otherapp.bin with Pokemon Picross to access the Homebrew Launcher, you will not be able to install boot9strap that way – that's only good for "userland" access. You can use it to run SlotTool and insert an exploited Wi-Fi connection profile, used by USM, but this is the same thing accomplished by using Bannerbomb3, as discussed in the Guide. If boot9strap and Luma have already been installed, then this will not work.

Slash1 said:
if i use universal otherapp 3ds get red screen(becuase it already patched)

So what exactly do you mean by "already patched" here?

Slash1 · Oct 5, 2022

Kwyjor said:
Look, it's this simple: before 11.16 was released, universal-otherapp could be used with Pokemon Picross to install boot9strap on an unhacked 3DS. The 11.16 release patched the exploit used by universal-otherapp and it cannot be used to install boot9stap anymore. Period.

While you can use one of the older versions of otherapp.bin with Pokemon Picross to access the Homebrew Launcher, you will not be able to install boot9strap that way – that's only good for "userland" access. You can use it to run SlotTool and insert an exploited Wi-Fi connection profile, used by USM, but this is the same thing accomplished by using Bannerbomb3, as discussed in the Guide. If boot9strap and Luma have already been installed, then this will not work.

So what exactly do you mean by "already patched" here?

smpwn has been patched in 11.16.0-48
please see my sd card everthings seems right

Pk11 · Oct 5, 2022

Slash1 said:
smpwn has been patched in 11.16.0-48
please see my sd card everthings seems right
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Do you have multiple ID0 folders? I assume probably not the issue if you made it this far, but that would break it if you put it in the wrong ID0 folder.

If you didn't format your SD card with SD Formatter maybe reformatting could help, I don't think it's as much of an issue on 3DS but on DSi at least formatting with any other tool sometimes just doens't work right.

That all looks good to me so really weird that it's not working for you...

Slash1 · Oct 5, 2022

Pk11 said:
Do you have multiple ID0 folders? I assume probably not the issue if you made it this far, but that would break it if you put it in the wrong ID0 folder.

If you didn't format your SD card with SD Formatter maybe reformatting could help, I don't think it's as much of an issue on 3DS but on DSi at least formatting with any other tool sometimes just doens't work right.

That all looks good to me so really weird that it's not working for you...

i formated with sdformater and nothing changed.
only one id0
i also factory reset my 3ds and again not worked just id0 changed to another codes
also i used previous movable.sed and pokemon run just as game and dsiware load normaly
It shows that I built correctly movable.sed and unsafemod files for exploiting

lone_wolf323 · Oct 5, 2022

Slash1 said:
i formated with sdformater and nothing changed.
only one id0
i also factory reset my 3ds and again not worked just id0 changed to another codes
also i used previous movable.sed and pokemon run just as game and dsiware load normaly
It shows that I built correctly movable.sed and unsafemod files for exploiting

Are you generating a new moveable.sed each time you system format the console? It makes a new friend code which does alter what that sed file will be.

Kwyjor · Oct 5, 2022

Well, as per the old eiphax troubleshooter, the only reason the "failed to locate takeover object" message should be appearing is if the wrong otherapp.bin is in place. (I miss that old troubleshooter.)

I am very hesitant about complicating things further, but what the hey. Try http://smealum.github.io/ninjhax2/JL1Xf2KFVm/otherapp/POST5_U_29697_usa_9221.bin . Rename it to otherapp.bin and see if the Homebrew Launcher starts.

Slash1 · Oct 5, 2022

lone_wolf323 said:
Are you generating a new moveable.sed each time you system format the console? It makes a new friend code which does alter what that sed file will be.

yes if not game runs normaly(id0 and freind code will be changed)

Kwyjor said:
Well, as per the old eiphax troubleshooter, the only reason the "failed to locate takeover object" message should be appearing is if the wrong otherapp.bin is in place. (I miss that old troubleshooter.)

I am very hesitant about complicating things further, but what the hey. Try http://smealum.github.io/ninjhax2/JL1Xf2KFVm/otherapp/POST5_U_29697_usa_9221.bin . Rename it to otherapp.bin and see if the Homebrew Launcher starts.

i use this otherapp.bin and again takeover error

Kwyjor · Oct 6, 2022

Okay, you said you had a Gateway. Does that mean you still have the Gateway A9LH one way or another?

I have no experience in dealing with that or whether it can be removed by a System Format, but that's the only thing I can think of at this point.

Slash1 · Oct 6, 2022

Kwyjor said:
Okay, you said you had a Gateway. Does that mean you still have the Gateway A9LH one way or another?

I have no experience in dealing with that or whether it can be removed by a System Format, but that's the only thing I can think of at this point.

NO blue gateway doent work anymore but i want to ask can i use blue gateway on cfw to run ds games

DKH6789 · Oct 14, 2022

So is there anyway Luma can support custom texture like Citra?

The Catboy · Oct 19, 2022

DKH6789 said:
So is there anyway Luma can support custom texture like Citra?

I know it has LayeredFS, which can support custom textures.

SylverReZ · Oct 19, 2022

Slash1 said:
NO blue gateway doent work anymore but i want to ask can i use blue gateway on cfw to run ds games

Yes, if you have CFW installed.

DKH6789 · Oct 27, 2022

The Catboy said:
I know it has LayeredFS, which can support custom textures.

Wow! Could you please show me how (which folder)? I tried but no luck.

In Citra, it's Load\textures\GameID
but in Luma3ds, I can't use the same link, though mods folder in GameId\romfs works fine.

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