Homebrew ARM9Loader -- Technical Details and Discussion

[Svaethier]

They are doing it wrong. They just have to take the emuNAND CTRNAND and putting it on sysNAND (backup your sysNAND CTRNAND first!). Then they can use the updated sysNAND mod from Aurora's mod, and they'll have all their emuNAND stuff on sysNAND.

I thought it was all the partitions except the firm 0 and firm1 that needed to be dumped and injected into sysnand.

 

[daxtsu]

I thought it was all the partitions except the firm 0 and firm1 that needed to be dumped and injected into sysnand.

You can leave out AGBSAVE and TWLNAND if you don't care about that stuff.

 

[Mrrraou]

I thought it was all the partitions except the firm 0 and firm1 that needed to be dumped and injected into sysnand.

The other partitions are just for DSiWares and GBA games.

 

[Svaethier]

The other partitions are just for DSiWares and GBA games.

Ah, OK. Isn't the chance of messing up sysnand by doing this high though?

 

[daxtsu]

Ah, OK. Isn't the chance of messing up sysnand by doing this high though?

Not really. Even if you bricked TWLNAND/TWL_FIRM, the rest of the system would still function, and AGBSAVE is just for AGB_FIRM save data.

 

[Mrrraou]

Ah, OK. Isn't the chance of messing up sysnand by doing this high though?

It is. CTRNAND contains all the installed titles on NAND (so titles like Home Menu, etc)

 

[runetoonxx2]

waiting for arm9 development now XD

 

[daxtsu]

It is. CTRNAND contains all the installed titles on NAND (so titles like Home Menu, etc)

Oh, shoot, I thought he meant leaving out the other partitions.

 

[Svaethier]

It is. CTRNAND contains all the installed titles on NAND (so titles like Home Menu, etc)

Yea that's what I thought, I'll just wait for a better way to do this come along.

 

[Mrrraou]

waiting for arm9 development now XD

What you're saying is nonsense.

 

[cpasjuste]

I did the non-hardmod route on a EUR N3DS (maybe I was the first?), and I don't have CN either. That route is pretty safe now.

You were not

 

[Mrrraou]

You were not

Are you sure on that ? When did you do it ?

 

[cpasjuste]

Are you sure on that ? When did you do it ?

We did that a few days ago on #cakey (there was maybe 5 pages only in this thread). And I was totally drunked (and some people did it before me).

 

[Mrrraou]

We did that a few days ago on #cakes (there was maybe 5 pages in this thread). And I was totally drunked (and some people did it before me).

oh, so you were on Cakey... I should go here sometimes, I only came here once, when Steveice, delebile, TuxSH and julian20 were working on mch2
EDIT: @cpasjuste https://twitter.com/Mrrraou/status/700092588548874244 You can see when I did it; but I got it to work like 1h before I was slowed down because of Windows refusing to read my µSD

 

[Zm1231]

I don't post often but I was able to get 4 n3ds's set up with a9lh. Also if people need help compiling thier otp file I can help them just pm me

 

[wsquan171]

Is it normal to encounter some warnings in the process of compilation? Although the script successfully generated all the files needed, I received a bunch of warnings like function not explicitly declared and variables not initiated, which sounds pretty dangerous if I use the complied files. I have the latest release of devkit, installed pycrpyto and also used libctru ver 1.1.0.

 

[Mrrraou]

Is it normal to encounter some warnings in the process of compilation? Although the script successfully generated all the files needed, I received a bunch of warnings like function not explicitly declared and variables not initiated, which sounds pretty dangerous if I use the complied files. I have the latest release of devkit, installed pycrpyto and also used libctru ver 1.1.0.

It is normal. As long it doesn't error, it's fine.

 

[Earth97]

Sorry for bothering you, I've just dumped my OTP. Is there a tutorial I can follow to install A9LH + ReiNAND on Old3DS?

 

[Deleted User]

How does one dump their O3DS secret sector? Also, the GitHub states to get N3DS firmware CIAs; surely you'd require O3DS ones for an O3DS?

 

[Orkna]

Also, the GitHub states to get N3DS firmware CIAs; surely you'd require O3DS ones for an O3DS?

Nope. It uses the same as the ones for N3DS. Just follow the guide at GitHub.