Hi!, I have a question about a friends 3ds that needs fixing. This 3ds was a preproduction unit with a rare 3d tech demo and we are looking to dump the game. This game was only accessible through the 3ds dev menu. He did a hard mod to dump the nand to his computer but afterwards, accidentally damaged a trace that connects to the nand (as seen in the photo). We have the nand backup but no key to decrypt the backup. We were thinking we could get the key by somehow making the 3ds boot to GM9, but the 3ds hasnt been hacked yet. We were also thinking that we could do the hardmod to connect the 3ds to the computer again, but I dont know too much about that mod or if you can decrypt the nand through read/write on a computer. What are your suggestions? Heres the image: https://ibb.co/h8d1cN3
Is the nand required for the 3ds to boot? or can it be emulated via the sd card?
Also is there any method of decrypting the nand without a key or GM9? Or can GM9 be accessed without the 3ds's nand chip in tact?
Heres the hardmod in question:
and I was also wondering about emunand, can the 3ds work with emunand and have the regular nand damaged?
One last thought: Where are the nand keys stored? and if we could desolder the nand on the board and possibly the other chip with the keys (the cpu itself I assume) could we get this to boot on a different 3ds motherboard?
Is the nand required for the 3ds to boot? or can it be emulated via the sd card?
Also is there any method of decrypting the nand without a key or GM9? Or can GM9 be accessed without the 3ds's nand chip in tact?
Heres the hardmod in question:
and I was also wondering about emunand, can the 3ds work with emunand and have the regular nand damaged?
One last thought: Where are the nand keys stored? and if we could desolder the nand on the board and possibly the other chip with the keys (the cpu itself I assume) could we get this to boot on a different 3ds motherboard?
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