Homebrew Clarification Thread - What is going on?

[GoodCookie88]

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As long as we aren't getting consistent DEADCAFEs I don't think there is much point for the devs to work on the downgrader app.
They first need to make the kernel hack (more) consistent.

Justpingo is taking care of that

 

[hellionz]

I killed my cafe

 

[itsthenavy]

So how close are we to downgrading now?
Not to rush you, it just seems preeetty close atm.

Closer than before @Steveice10 had kernel access but not much more. Getting arbitrary ARM11 kernel code execution is the first step towards writing code to install the CIAs to downgrade. What's more important now is getting the exploit as consistent as possible. Just wait, it'll come and asking may not slow things down, but it doesn't make it go faster either! Patience is a virtue.

 

[Seriel]

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As long as we aren't getting consistent DEADCAFEs I don't think there is much point for the devs to work on the downgrader app.
They first need to make the kernel hack (more) consistent.

Seems consistent to me.
Almost everyone here has DEADCAFE... right?

 

[MasterLel]

So how close are we to downgrading now?
Not to rush you, it just seems preeetty close atm.

They have to make it more stable and code the real exploit to get am:* services, i'd say a week

 

[Saiyan Prince]

Seems consistent to me.
Almost everyone here has DEADCAFE... right?

yup more or less with the tutorials

 

[yacepi15]

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As long as we aren't getting consistent DEADCAFEs I don't think there is much point for the devs to work on the downgrader app.
They first need to make the kernel hack (more) consistent.

But we need the exploit work only at downgrade and then its another history. Really matters if we need 2/3 tries to enter in the DG app?

 

[Kioku]

Seems consistent to me.
Almost everyone here has DEADCAFE... right?

Everyone getting deadcafe isn't consistent.. Everyone getting it 100% of the time is consistent...

 

[cathalus]

Seems consistent to me.
Almost everyone here has DEADCAFE... right?

Yeah but it is far from working on the first try.
I myself got lucky a few times in a row and it seemed to me as being consistent, but a few tries later it didn't work so it was most probably luck :/.

 

[Pandaxclone2]

I profusely apologise for asking this, but what version of the memchunkhax2 debugger are we using now? Some pages ago it was either release it now or boom, now "release it now" is DEADCAFE. A link would be nice.

 

[Seriel]

Everyone getting deadcafe isn't consistent.. Everyone getting it 100% of the time is consistent...

Even the homebrew launcher isn't 100%. It fails every now and then.

 

[itsthenavy]

Seems consistent to me.
Almost everyone here has DEADCAFE... right?

It needs to be as close to, if not actually, 100% consistent as possible. You wouldn't want to support 100 posts per minute of "DEADCAFEHAX ISN'T WORKING WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?" would you?

 

[cathalus]

But we need the exploit work only at downgrade and then its another history. Really matters if we need 2/3 tries to enter in the DG app?

I don't think it matters to us, but it matters to the devs and I don't think they'll release something that isn't really close to being consistent 100% of the time.

 

[jaksy]

Everyone getting deadcafe isn't consistent.. Everyone getting it 100% of the time is consistent...

The only people who have failed haven't disclosed the hax method they were using to boot into the homebrew menu.
Without knowing this it seems likely the failure rate is due to browserhax or a less privileged entrypoint.

 

[RedHat]

After a few attempts I tried the "force close an application" way and got it on both the 2DS and 3DSXL.

• 3DSXL:
  
  • FW: 10.1
  • latest *hax (2.5) (homemenuhax 2.1 specifically)
  • masher's grid launcher
• 2DS:
  • FW: 9.6
  • some older *hax (still homemenu hax, though)
  • masher's grid launcher.

Not flawless, but it worked.

 

[Kioku]

Even the homebrew launcher isn't 100%. It fails every now and then.

The homebrew launcher isn't the same thing. If this fails to load while executing? Your system is sol.

 

[Goloki]

Got it on my first try.
N3DS 10.3E, Themehax and Mashers' HBL. I first opened the Retroarch CATSFC core, closed it with its Quit option and launched Memchunkhax2.
I won't post a screenshot since it's exactly the same as the one posted a few pages ago.

 

[Seriel]

The homebrew launcher isn't the same thing. If this fails to load while executing? Your system is sol.

Not really.
If it fails to start, try again. It's not likely to fail halfway through is it??

 

[Kioku]

Not really.
If it fails to start, try again. It's not likely to fail halfway through is it??

You don't get it...

 

[HeroPrinny]

Hmm weird.
With Ironhax it works and I get "DEADCAFE" after I selected FTP-Brony and force closed it.
With Menuhax in the same way I just get Overwrite complete

N3DS 10.3 EU
Ironhax, Menuhax