Sorry if this is nooby or spammy. I am hoping to figure this out and hope that my examination will help others. Any help is deeply appreciated. Through the process of setting up and reformatting various 3ds consoles with cfw, i have started to understand the 3ds and its cfw much better. One thing that is still eluding me is a process to achieve a complete head-to-toe system restore. I would like to protect myself from my own silly mistakes or even against SD card or hardware failures. In the past, every time i had to start fresh, i still ended up in a position where i would need to reinstall each CIA or hshop title again, and then manually restore each save with checkpoint. I would really like to avoid that portion if at all possible, or at least learn to do it correctly. Is that something CTR Transfer can be used for? I’m guessing i need encryption key backups from gm9? I’ve made those, just not sure ive used them correctly yet. How do i use properly use Movable.sed? Sorry if these are silly questions, but i would very much like to understand better. About NDS saves: I get that NDS-forwarded saves live on the SD card, ouside of the “Nintendo 3DS” folder. I’m curious if that is always the case for all NDS games, whether installed on-device via NDS Forwarder, or via .cia generated by YANBF, or even installed via hshop. Do they all save to the SD, unencrypted? That makes them much easier to backup and restore. I am one of those hoarders with too many games, VC titles, DS games, and forwarded emulator injects. I’m hoping to limit the number of steps required to achieve a full restore so i can rest easy while playing around with cfw. Any help is greatly appreciated! Figuring out the above stuff and understanding it better is my primary goal. But i do have a bonus question. How different is this process if I also use 1 emunand partition? Yes, i know emunand is unpopular, but I have really enjoyed it as a solution to the 300 title limit (remember, I’m a game hoarder). I know there are other options, that work by renaming the “Nintendo 3DS” folder, but i did not enjoy the UI tradeoffs of that approach. Thanks for the help, yall.

Korean 3DS Firmware could add Themes in Official Home menu Theme Changer?

deebidibi000dabadaba · 2025-03-01T13:12:58+00:00

(Sorry for bad english, I'm not native english speaker because I'm korean) I know, Anemone is working well on Korean 3DS Now, but I want to use Home menu Theme Changer. I tried Howling Theme Tool, but as you know it was not compatible on korean...

Hacking Backing up 3ds nand (arm9loaderhax)

Thread starter Keny299
Start date Jul 3, 2016
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Keny299

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With al9h installed on my new 3ds
which nand do I backup emunand or sysnand (since a9lh modifies sysnand, do I back up and restore from sysnand if any errors occur?)

Also is it best on creating an image of the sd card or using the backup/restore feature by decrypt9 to upgrade the sd card

Davidosky99

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Jul 3, 2016

use hourglass9 with arm9loaderhax to make a backup of sysnand

vb_encryption_vb

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Jul 3, 2016

Or use decrypt9, both do the same. I believe hourglass is noob proof.

The Catboy

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Jul 3, 2016

vb_encryption_vb said:
Or use decrypt9, both do the same. I believe hourglass is noob proof.

They both back your install, but Hourglass9 has the added benefit of being able to restore any NAND and always protect your A9LH install.
Decrypt9, you either need to use the option to protect or restore the NAND with A9LH installed in order to protect your A9LH install.