Black Screen 3ds Fix!

I was messing around with the official eshop themes in anemone.
When trying to seperate the bgm from the visuals, it managed to cause my 3ds to boot to a black screen. No audio, no feedback, nothing. Last time, I saw someone in a thread mention that deleting "0000008f" in extdata is a fix, however, it caused my game tiles to move around + I had to unwrap 20~ icons. Because it didn't move my badges, I knew that there had to be a better way. I recreated the glitch on accident, and tested a new method.

Instead of deleting all of 8f, I instead deleted the file "00000003" which is located inside of 8f. It handles theme management. My 3ds booted, and the tiles and badges were both okay! The only thing is, after you have to go to the default theme application and have it generate a new "00000003" file for you.

To recreate-
Put an official eshop theme inside of anemone.
Apply a "bgm-only" or a "no-bgm" install. Either works.
Close anenome the normal way.
Tada. Your 3ds is basically bricked.

To fix-
Open the bootloader menu and click gm9.
Go to SD data > Nintendo 3ds > Id0 > Id1 > Extdata > 0000008f
Delete "00000003"
Exit bootloader and reboot device to homescreen.
Your 3ds now should have the white (default) theme if you did it properly.
Go to the default theme manager.
Try to apply a theme and have it create the theme management file for you.

Your 3ds is now fully functional and you can apply anemone themes again.

For reference, incase this changes anything, I'm on an o3ds on the latest update for both luma and nintendo (11.15.0-47U and v10.2.1 respectively)

Thought I'd post so someone who makes a similar mistake can try this fix instead of the more extreme option.
 
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  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    That sums it up right.
  • Megadriver94 @ Megadriver94:
    I am not it the loop on this, why take it so personally, though? Its just a video game and a work of fiction, at the end of the day.
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    I'm sure the devs don't mind refunding my .torrent for it
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    @Megadriver94, because these devs take child hood movies and make them look like shit expecting to profit off it
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @K3N1, That's what happens to every movie franchise.
  • Megadriver94 @ Megadriver94:
    Oh alright then, I can see what you are getting at.
  • Sonic Angel Knight @ Sonic Angel Knight:
    Sunday.... sunday dessert night :ninja:
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    With unreal engine their should be no excuse to make any animated figure look like complete shit whent hey have rights to it
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    The voice actor sounds like he didn't get casted for a tim Burton movie
  • linuxares @ linuxares:
    but you got to pay for the elvish voices
  • linuxares @ linuxares:
    and emotes... in a singleplayer game...
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Damn the rights to LOTR is like all over the place lol
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    Deserved
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    At least we can point and laugh to an indie game that is not worth playing.
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Last I read Amazon owns some rights you'd think a billion dollar company could fork more over for a decent game but their last game bricked GPUs so theirs that
    +1
  • linuxares @ linuxares:
    Be an e-commerce. Build a game that destroy the GPUs. Sell new GPUs. PROFITS!
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Don't forget your 4090 we promise the next LOTR MMO will make it work for more than a year
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    Yay for user end replacement parts
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    If your graphics card doesn't work with your game then don't blame us for shitty game performance.
  • K3N1 @ K3N1:
    At least @AncientBoi can run games released in his childhood
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    Marbles and pick up sticks 10/10
    SylverReZ @ SylverReZ: @K3N1, DOOM