Hacking (4.x only) CIA CFW Complete Guide

[coolfuze]

Is there any way to increase the success rate of acually booting CFW correctly?

I would like to link Joao Nuno Cravinhos post but the site it's from distributes roms so don't think gbatemp will like it so I will instead copy paste what he said.

Most people got some problems for start the xploit , and here i give some tipps for load CFW faster ..
 
 
TIPP 1 SD cards
32 GB SD cards got more problems than 16 GB cards to boot the xploit ,
32 GB SD - between 6 and 10 attempts .. and sometimes more than 10 .
16 GB SD - sometimes boot direkt on first time , maximal 5 ..
 
TIPP 2 wathing time .
turn on the console 3ds just whait some time like 30 seconds or boot an app from OFW nand before boot the xploit .
with this most launch the xploit in the second time ...
 
TIPP 3 pressing L buton before touch the nintendo profil , just press 1 or 2 times the L and whait 5 seconds after enter on nintendo profil .dont let press L buton on the launch of xploit ..
 
TIPP 4 - standby
well this is for me the easy way , just left console on standby after launch xploit ,connect to power cable cause batery go fast empty with standby , just closing the case
after hours u xploit its aktive , somethimes cann freeze but until now got no problems and got 4 days one of my 3ds activ with CFW  and the another one for extract xors
 
the TIPP 4 helps me alot cause i dont need whait 15 or 30 minuts to launch xploit .. that happen somethimes ..

 

[jackotrades]

I can definitely confirm what he says about cards--it takes more attempts for me on the 32GB card I switched to today as opposed to the 4GB I was using earlier.

The rest, eh. Not in my experience. I'm still trying to get everything sorted out so I haven't run on standby in CFW for long periods, but I've been able to come back from standby after an hour here or two there.

 

[Deleted User]

Palantine, first I want to thank you! Can you please explain the process of run.bat? When I ran this program sniffing the network, I see the PC trying to connect on 3DS 8333 TCP, is there any way to know when I'm on your CFW?

I'm asking this because i'm getting "fail connect", but apparently the CFW is loaded because I ran exploit and the bottom screen blink white and black then returned to home, and i try to scan 8333 port on 3DS and its closed, maybe because this the CTRCLIENT cant connect to 3DS.

 

[Asia81]

any way to run SaveDatafiler in this Custom Firmware ?
I have "The SD Card has been removed"

 

[ChrisX930]

any way to run SaveDatafiler in this Custom Firmware ?
I have "The SD Card has been removed"

There's a working version somewhere in the Internet. I've one installed that works.

 

[Asia81]

Can you send me the cia ?

 

[ChrisX930]

Can you send me the cia ?

Don 't know if I have the cia on my PC. Will check it later after I'm at home

 

[Asia81]

thanks

 

[Asia81]

it's easy to find the good sdf.cia for a cfw ?

 

[iZackefx]

I have a question. I have successfully installed cia and everything. I purchased a bigger GB sd card and I was wondering what else I needed to do since I couldn't simply copy the files from my old sd card to the one i purchased. Thanks!

 

[dubbz82]

I have a question. I have successfully installed cia and everything. I purchased a bigger GB sd card and I was wondering what else I needed to do since I couldn't simply copy the files from my old sd card to the one i purchased. Thanks!

You could use a disk cloning utility, though you might have to find a way to get both the old and the new ones plugged in at the same time...something like acronis true image or minitool partition editor i think has it....or if you're on linux, I believe gparted should be able to do it too (though my memory might be a little fuzzy on that one). Or one better, go back to the first post in this thread, there's the win32 disk imager that will do it as well, if you're on windows, and it's also a free tool.

 

[tomixnscale89]

Just be careful. I tried to copy over the Nintendo 3DS folder from my smaller SD card to my larger one, and it ended up corrupting my Friendlist on both the emuNand and SysNand. Luckly I had a nand backup so I was safe, but I'd recommend starting from scratch. It's painful yes, but remember if you have a larger one you only have to do this once.

 

[coolfuze]

You could use a disk cloning utility, though you might have to find a way to get both the old and the new ones plugged in at the same time...something like acronis true image or minitool partition editor i think has it....or if you're on linux, I believe gparted should be able to do it too (though my memory might be a little fuzzy on that one). Or one better, go back to the first post in this thread, there's the win32 disk imager that will do it as well, if you're on windows, and it's also a free tool.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/switching-sd-cards-cfw.380926/reply?quote=5328150

 

[razielleonhart]

how do i get the games i made into CIA to work. i had shantae and the pirate's curse locks up on the Nintendo 3ds black screen and monster hunter 4 i get a black screen then the turn off screen

 

[iZackefx]

Thanks guys, I got it to work. One question, though. Whenever I launch Devmenu from my new SD card I get ' An error has occured. ' and it's the black screen. Any ideas?

 

[codeclutch]

I was having the same problem others have had where I was getting stuck on the teal screen after installing cfw, I had just about given up, when I fixed the issue out of sheer luck. I fixed it by installing the update off of Monster Hunter 3, and then re-attempted to launch cfw, which by some miracle worked. Not sure why this worked but figured I would share for others to see.

 

[hremerald]

Hi, I have put the CFW on my console.
But there is a problem, the Dev Menu came on my Sysnand sometimes but can not be used.
On the CFW, I can use it, but it makes a black screen on the top and bottom screens.
What can I do ?

 

[54321]

how do i get the games i made into CIA to work. i had shantae and the pirate's curse locks up on the Nintendo 3ds black screen and monster hunter 4 i get a black screen then the turn off screen

I'm pretty sure the firmware of those games are too high for cfw. Nothing can be done atm to fix this.

 

[hremerald]

ok so now i can launch title manager on the cfw, the problem is that just zelda a link between world have work, for the other games, the app freeze before installing any cia..

 

[razielleonhart]

I'm pretty sure the firmware of those games are too high for cfw. Nothing can be done atm to fix this.

i thought as much i just wanted to ask