please describe what you have done and what happens with the console when you try.

 

does it turn on without the sd card?

 

which step did you run into problems with, and what files of someone else's did you use? did you manage to get boot9 installed? might be as simple as having a boot.firm on your sd card for luma 3ds.

 

the last public build is here
https://github.com/AuroraWright/Luma3DS/releases

and nightly builds are here
https://github.com/hax0kartik/luma-hourlies/releases

depending on your firmware, i'd try public first then work my way back with the nightlies, make sure your sd card is formatted to fat32 and put the boot.firm at the root of it.

good luck man.

 

B9S i think

 

There is a way to check, the latest version of Luma supported by A9LH is 7.0.5 so if you download 7.0.5 and put the arm9loaderhax.bin on your SD and it works, then you have A9LH. https://github.com/AuroraWright/Luma3DS/releases

If it doesn't, try the latest release and place the boot.firm on your SD. If that gives an error or black screens the 3DS then you likely have an older version of B9S and should follow https://3ds.hacks.guide/updating-b9s
But if it just loads as normal in both cases, you likely don't have either of them.

You'll still want to follow the finalizing part of the guide if it turns out you have B9S already and get it working with boot.firm, just to get the essential homebrew back and such. In addition, you should grab boot.3dsx from https://github.com/fincs/new-hbmenu/releases and place it on the SD, it's needed for some of the steps in the finalizing setup part of the guide.

 

Good tip. 1.2 or 1.3 shouldn't matter too much, as long as he has 1.2+ the latest Luma should work just fine. But on 1.0/1.1 only Luma3DS 7.1 works.

 

@MrToxidoCat, did you use this CFW starter kit?

Okay, let's start from the beginning.

1. Copy everything off the SD card over to a computer.
   • If you have a spare card, preferably 4 GB in size, temporarily use that as a substitution.
2. Reformat the card with MiniTool Partition Wizard (free edition) with the following settings:
   • Do not install the Lavasoft Adaware Web Companion (bloatware). See this.
     
   • • Format: FAT32
     • Cluster Size: 32 KB
     • Partition: Primary
     • Disk: MBR
   • MiniTool Partition Wizard Software Tutorial Guide
     1. Delete Partition (for both partitions)
     2. Initialize to MBR Disk -or- Convert GPT to MBR Disk (if it's in GPT Disk)
     3. Rebuild MBR
     4. Create a New Partition [ Create as: Primary | File System: FAT32 | Cluster Size: 32 KB ]
3. Full Write + Verify test the empty card using H2testw (Windows), F3 (Linux), or F3X (Mac). Do not skip this step.
   • Here's where having a small card comes in handy.
4. If the card passes inspection, delete the *.h2w test files.
   • If an hardware error was reported, replace the failed card and go back to step 1.
5. Add these two (2) files on the root of your card:
   • Luma3DS v7.0.5
     • sdmc:/arm9loaderhax.bin
   • SafeB9SInstaller v0.0.7
     • Rename SafeB9SInstaller.firm → boot.firm
     • sdmc:/boot.firm
6. Insert the SD card in the 3DS, turn on the system, and hold (SELECT) button.

On the bottom screen, which of these do you see?

• Luma3DS v7.0.5 configuration → A9LH to B9S
• SafeB9SInstaller v0.0.7 → Updating B9S
  • Keep SafeB9SInstaller as boot.firm. After the update, replace boot.firm with Luma3DS.
• Nothing. My 3DS boots blank.

7. If booting is successful, continue with upgrading to boot9strap v1.3 followed by CTRNAND Luma3DS.

• CTRNAND Luma3DS allows for booting without an SD card.

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