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[KleinesSinchen]

I am totally new to this but I was wondering if there was a way to transfer a GBA hack file to a 3DS game cartridge. I know I would have to do some editing to my 3DS, but I just wanted to know the extent.
Thanks

As far as I know there is no way of editing 3DS game cartridges. In theory modifying at least "card2" games could be possible. How? No idea.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/is-there-any-way-to-edit-contents-of-a-3ds-cartidge.555320/

If your goal is building anything like a "reproduction cartridge" to resemble a retail game as close as possible, the logical thing would be putting a GBA romhack on a GBA repro. If I remember correctly there are blank EEPROM cartridges and some bootlegs GBA carts can be overwritten.

It would not make sense to write own software on a 3DS game cartridge anyway as an unmodified 3DS will not start any unsigned software – defeating very much the purpose of such a reproduction… and I guess loading GBA games from cartridge would not work anyway – AGBFIRM was never built to support this (the only official GBA games for the 3DS are those from the ambassador program and those are download software for playing from SD like any eShop game).

To simply play a Game Boy Advance ROM(-hack) on a 2|3DS: Virtual Console injection using NSUI (New Super Ultimate Injector) is near to perfect.

 

[Murph_the_2nd]

Yo, been looking around but can't find an answer to this specific situation.
I've got an old SD card, unhacked, and a new SD card, hacked. How do I safely move my games and saves from the old card to the new one? Will copy-and-pasting work, without overwriting hacked files or somesuch?
Or, alternatively, can I just hack the old one real quick? Is dropping in the latest boot.firm enough, or do I need other stuff? (I'm afraid it's been a while since I first hacked my new one, haha)

 

[Deleted User]

Yo, been looking around but can't find an answer to this specific situation.
I've got an old SD card, unhacked, and a new SD card, hacked. How do I safely move my games and saves from the old card to the new one? Will copy-and-pasting work, without overwriting hacked files or somesuch?
Or, alternatively, can I just hack the old one real quick? Is dropping in the latest boot.firm enough, or do I need other stuff? (I'm afraid it's been a while since I first hacked my new one, haha)

A simple copy and paste should suffice

 

[wormdood]

Yo, been looking around but can't find an answer to this specific situation.
I've got an old SD card, unhacked, and a new SD card, hacked. How do I safely move my games and saves from the old card to the new one? Will copy-and-pasting work, without overwriting hacked files or somesuch?
Or, alternatively, can I just hack the old one real quick? Is dropping in the latest boot.firm enough, or do I need other stuff? (I'm afraid it's been a while since I first hacked my new one, haha)

assuming they're both from the same console in the console has not been formatted sense then yes a simple copy paste should suffice if there was some sort of formatting or if it's from a different console than they will need to be some editing done . . . And by the way the hack doesn't actually live on your SD card it lives in your console but if you wanted to put the boot.firm there and install fbi on a second (your old) SD card that should also be possible (again I am assuming they're both from the same console)

 

[Murph_the_2nd]

Aight, thanks. Seems to have worked, provisionally - at the very least, it hasn't crashed yet, haha. I guess I'll come back later if something does end up going wrong

 

[Grimm]

Thanks for the reply regarding trying to convert .3ds files to .cia on my windows pc.

My next question is regarding nds games on 3ds. So now that I have my fully Luma softmodded 3ds running 3ds games no problem, what is my best option for running nds games on it? I have a plethora of .nds files ripped from carts I used to have in my nds lite days and i'd love to be able to play some of them on my 3ds.

I'm not averse to spending 20 bucks on a flash cart but where might such a device be found and is one type preferable over another?

Being that my 3ds is, as previously mentioned, fully softmodded is there a way to put .nds files on the sd card and run them from there?

All help very much appreciated, as always.

 

[wormdood]

Thanks for the reply regarding trying to convert .3ds files to .cia on my windows pc.

My next question is regarding nds games on 3ds. So now that I have my fully Luma softmodded 3ds running 3ds games no problem, what is my best option for running nds games on it? I have a plethora of .nds files ripped from carts I used to have in my nds lite days and i'd love to be able to play some of them on my 3ds.

I'm not averse to spending 20 bucks on a flash cart but where might such a device be found and is one type preferable over another?

Being that my 3ds is, as previously mentioned, fully softmodded is there a way to put .nds files on the sd card and run them from there?

All help very much appreciated, as always.

here you go
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-i-3d...-ds-i-games-and-ds-i-menu-replacement.472200/

Edit: also any old r4 card would be fine for nds roms but it is advised to buy a ntrboot compatible r4 as it can be used to recover if you brick your console

 

[Grimm]

Awesome. Thanks again.

I still have an acekard 2.1 from my ds lite, a couple of google searches and it sounds like it will boot with the cfw I have but I may need a special launcher?

If so, which one? It might be nice to just use the acekard 2.1 as I already have the sd card set up and ready to go from before. It would also conserve space on my 3ds sd card.

 

[wormdood]

I still have an acekard 2.1

do you mean ak2i https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/Updating_the_AK2i_Bootloader

If so that's perfect ... it should work with no special launcher needed and can not only be flashed with ntrboot but it's the only flashcard that can still be used for roms without needing to be flashed back

Edit: If you really mean acekard 2.1 then it's not ntrboot but you can use it ... https://gbatemp.net/threads/twl-slot-1-launcher-first-custom-dsiware-app.414501/

 

[Grimm]

Yeah mine is definitely a 2.1 and not a 2i. Still great that I can use it even if I need a launcher.

While i'm asking silly questions I thought I would throw out:

If I update the version of a game program will it have any I'll effects (such as bans or bricks) with my cfw?

What about downloading extra game content? Dragon Quest VIII has a button in the menu to 'Download Items' which would be cool if I could utilize that part of the game as well as other games with dlc.

 

[TimX24968B]

Hey, my 3ds has been off for the past (at least) 2 years and i need to get all my pokemon from my pirated pokemon sun game to my switch, whats happened in this community over this whole timeframe and what do i need to do to my 3ds to get it fully up to speed? used to be pretty active in this community back then.

thanks

my 3ds is currently on A9LH and version 11.4.0-37U. what is the least I can do to get all my pokemon off an old pokemon sun game on here? I'd rather not have to move to B9S unless necessary, i don't plan on using my 3ds after this is done, and don't want to rehack and do a ton of stuff just to send my pokemon on a pirated pokemon sun game to the pokemon bank unless absolutely necessary

 

[wormdood]

Yeah mine is definitely a 2.1 and not a 2i. Still great that I can use it even if I need a launcher.

While i'm asking silly questions I thought I would throw out:

If I update the version of a game program will it have any I'll effects (such as bans or bricks) with my cfw?

What about downloading extra game content? Dragon Quest VIII has a button in the menu to 'Download Items' which would be cool if I could utilize that part of the game as well as other games with dlc.

your fine on both

 

[SkyDX]

Is there any FTP Homebrew that can be installed as a cia? Or any other wireless SD transfer that doesn't rely on the old SMB protocol?

 

[KleinesSinchen]

Is there any FTP Homebrew that can be installed as a cia? Or any other wireless SD transfer that doesn't rely on the old SMB protocol?

Yes, there are alternatives to the SMB based file transfer:
https://github.com/mtheall/ftpd ←"Just" an FTP server
https://github.com/joel16/3DShell ← Filemanager that also has an FTP server

Sometimes it worked right away for me with Filezilla, sometimes I had to start the FTP server multiple times. Don't know what causes this… but unlike the SMB based transfer¹ it worked for me.

Nice list of homebrew with QR codes for easy installing:
https://tinydb.eiphax.tech/

Good luck and have fun!

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¹Technically I had success with mounting the SMB share under Linux following some guide from the internet… but the result was unstable and not satisfying.
Windows 10 has no support for SMBv1 by default and will not open the SMB share of a 2|3DS.

 

[SkyDX]

Yes, there are alternatives to the SMB based file transfer:
https://github.com/mtheall/ftpd ←"Just" an FTP server
https://github.com/joel16/3DShell ← Filemanager that also has an FTP server

Sometimes it worked right away for me with Filezilla, sometimes I had to start the FTP server multiple times. Don't know what causes this… but unlike the SMB based transfer¹ it worked for me.

Nice list of homebrew with QR codes for easy installing:
https://tinydb.eiphax.tech/

Good luck and have fun!

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¹Technically I had success with mounting the SMB share under Linux following some guide from the internet… but the result was unstable and not satisfying.
Windows 10 has no support for SMBv1 by default and will not open the SMB share of a 2|3DS.

Thank you, I'll look into these! Yeah the shutdown of SMBv1 made things annoying :/

 

[Grimm]

I play Dragon Quest X on my PS4 and would like to try the 3ds version.

Seeing as how I can't buy a cart for it (the box just comes with a download code), can't access the JP eshop to download it on my US 3ds and I can't seem to find a .3ds or .cia of it anywhere in the dark alleys of the internet, does anyone have any other ideas on how I might be able to get this set up?

 

[SkyDX]

Are there any DSi custom-themes for TWILight Menu++? I couldn't find any anywhere.

 

[Diag]

hi, didnt use my n3ds a while and wanted to start with a fresh setup..

i used gateway and atm i´m on sysnand 9.0 and emunand 11.0 with a9lh.. now i want to switch to luma3ds with a new bigger micro sd..

can i just use the new micro sd and follow the tut on 3ds.hacks the soundhax way? or do i need to do something about a9lh first (and/or use the a9lh to b9s instructions there?)

sadly i forgot a lot of stuff, and trying to get back into it, but i´m not sure which is the safest way^^

thx

 

[wormdood]

can i just use the new micro sd and follow the tut on 3ds.hacks the soundhax way? or do i need to do something about a9lh first

for your answer I will quote you as ... it's the correct answer

use the a9lh to b9s instructions

 

[TimX24968B]

Hey, my 3ds has been off for the past (at least) 2 years and i need to get all my pokemon from my pirated pokemon sun game to my switch, whats happened in this community over this whole timeframe and what do i need to do to my 3ds to get it fully up to speed? used to be pretty active in this community back then.

thanks

my 3ds is currently on A9LH and version 11.4.0-37U. what is the least I can do to get all my pokemon off an old pokemon sun game on here? I'd rather not have to move to B9S unless necessary, i don't plan on using my 3ds after this is done, and don't want to rehack and do a ton of stuff just to send my pokemon on a pirated pokemon sun game to the pokemon bank unless absolutely necessary

bump? really trying to get all my pokemon off sun and into home