Hacking After installing A9HL on 4 differnt 3DS', I dont see why people are scared to do it
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Of course. The hax relies on your console, not on your SD. If you lost your SD or you broke it, just download a CFW that has arm9loaderhax.bin to boot. You will lose your games tho.
Haven't you read the very beginning of the guide?
"EVERY time you modify your system, there is always the potential for an UNRECOVERABLE brick"
The chance is small, but it's there
"EVERY time you modify your system, there is always the potential for an UNRECOVERABLE brick"
The chance is small, but it's there
That chance of an unrecovable brick might even happen when you're setting up emunand or updating your system from the official servers, it even happend to me when I was updating my ps4 before , unless you don't know follow the new guide as you're supposed to the chance of a brick is close to zero.Haven't you read the very beginning of the guide?
"EVERY time you modify your system, there is always the potential for an UNRECOVERABLE brick"
The chance is small, but it's there
some people might not trust themselves to follow the instructions right. it only takes a skipped line and stuff. and i still feel that the part 1 table isn't 100% noob-proof in its design.
some might also still be waiting for an official boot without sd card version
some might also still be waiting for an official boot without sd card version
Haven't you read the very beginning of the guide?
"EVERY time you modify your system, there is always the potential for an UNRECOVERABLE brick"
The chance is small, but it's there
You know you also have a small chance to brick your unmodified console doing an official system update?
I'm perfectly aware of the chance of scrweing up my system with something as simple as an official update. Heck, I remember it being quite the issue when back in the Wii days, Nintendo released a system update meant to block the homebrew channel among other things, but it ended up affecting legit users as well. However, the reason why people may not be so scared of the brick chance from an official update is that those systems are likely covered by warranty, but if you send in a console that's been modified in any way, you're out of luck. Imagine sending a downgraded or partially downgraded New 3DS or a 2DS to Nintendo. Good luck with that
Personally, I've already followed the guide twice and have succesfully gone through it with both systems (old and new 3DS). Well, the N3DS went smoothly, but the old 3DS didn't want to update once I was in 2.1 and ready to do so. Restoring the nand back up fixed the issue anyway.
Pretty sure they don't care and wouldn't even find out , if you brick your nand during the downgrade you can update via recovery mode, if that didn't work ,when you send it to nintendo it would look like something was wrong during the update and they will swap the nand with a new one.Imagine sending a downgraded or partially downgraded New 3DS or a 2DS to Nintendo. Good luck with that
Plus when you send a downgraded 3ds know that they will update it to the latest firmware for sure.
Oh yes, the procedure that doesn't help N3DS users: "Try booting into recovery mode and updating your system. This will BRICK a New 3DS downgraded to 2.1.0" (Plailect's troubleshooting, 'Black screen on SysNAND boot' section)
Which is effectively the same as using recovery mode on your own in case it can help you, because now you can't downgrade as easily as you could before. But hey, at least you still have a working console~
No, the updated guide is NOT bad. You just had trouble following it and that's on you, pal. Plenty of people have had no issues at all when installing A9LH using that guide and it's flawless. The only people that do have issues can't read properly. Don't bash one of the most important guides for installing A9LH because you're incompetent. You're misleading others into avoiding Phialect's guide, and as a result they might instead watch an outdated YouTube tutorial.
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https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki/Troubleshooting
I don't think so at all. Seems to be recent.
"Plailect edited this page 6 days ago"
The problem is that there's no up to date translation of the new guide like there was for the provious one I followed in July...people who don't understand english well can't really follow the new guide since they can't understand the instructions well...
Seems like he's probably referring the old guide , why would you try to update from recovery mode after doing the CTR transfer instead of proceeding with the installation of arm9loadhax ? that just doesn't makes no sense.
Since you're all saying it's easy, help me get started:
I haven't beeing using my N3DS because I was VERY busy on the last months, but I want to install a9hl on it before I get back into it.
-I have N3DS on 9.9.0-26U. WiFi has been disabled since forever (so I can still use the browser without the nag).
-First step is adding tubehax DNS so I can still use the browser, correct?
-I bought a 64gb microSD card. Can I perform the downgrade with this card or should I first downgrade with the default card and then copy the files to the 64gb card?
-How much time do I have before the N3DS goes into sleep mode on 2.1? Or is it only if I close the screen?
-Should I download stuff as I go or download everything and get it ready beforehand?
I'm planning on doing it later today or this week.
extra questions:
-Do I lose any saves/etc by doing the downgrade+restore?
-Are there any disadvantages to doing a9hl?
-Powering off means: power off, screens pops up, power off again, right? (and hold power button if that doesn't work)
-On Section III (Configuring Luma3DS). Does it have to be done on 2.1? Can I change the settings once I upgrade (since many settings cause instability/crashes according to the guide)?
Thanks!
I haven't beeing using my N3DS because I was VERY busy on the last months, but I want to install a9hl on it before I get back into it.
-I have N3DS on 9.9.0-26U. WiFi has been disabled since forever (so I can still use the browser without the nag).
-First step is adding tubehax DNS so I can still use the browser, correct?
-I bought a 64gb microSD card. Can I perform the downgrade with this card or should I first downgrade with the default card and then copy the files to the 64gb card?
-How much time do I have before the N3DS goes into sleep mode on 2.1? Or is it only if I close the screen?
-Should I download stuff as I go or download everything and get it ready beforehand?
I'm planning on doing it later today or this week.
extra questions:
-Do I lose any saves/etc by doing the downgrade+restore?
-Are there any disadvantages to doing a9hl?
-Powering off means: power off, screens pops up, power off again, right? (and hold power button if that doesn't work)
-On Section III (Configuring Luma3DS). Does it have to be done on 2.1? Can I change the settings once I upgrade (since many settings cause instability/crashes according to the guide)?
Thanks!
- Disable tubehax (From what i hear you wont be able to use recovery mode if anything goes wrong , i'm not sure)and keep your WIFI on and go here https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki/Homebrew-Launcher-(Browser)
- Install menuhax via browserhax
- Downgrade your sysnand to 9.2 via browserhax or menuhax from here https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki/9.2.0-Downgrade
- Do the CTRtransfer via decrypt9 https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki/Part-2-(2.1.0-ctrtransfer)
- Never close your screen once you do the CTRtransfer , it's a hardbrick granted ! just proceed to the installation of amrloaderhax
* In my case i downloaded everything before hand and put them on the SD card before starting , then proceeded without having to add anything else , it's your choice..
- You won't lose any saves , if you're too worried just backitup ; once your done u will restore your sysnand / with it you restore your saves and data
- There are no disadvantages unless you count not being able to use your system without an SD card as one
- Configuring Luma isn't a primary thing to do , you can do it anytime once you're done by holding Select on boot.
Thanks! IIRC, on 9.9 they added a "nag" if you enabled wifi without tubehax and went into the browser (it was nintendo's way of blocking browserhax and forcing an update). There was a workaround to remove the nag and do the browserhax again (which I don't need since I haven't connected to the internet since then). Maybe I should just keep tubehax to install the menuhax and then remove it (so browserhax isn't needed anymore)?
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