Homebrew Clarification Thread - What is going on?

[JustPingo]

They might contribute a little, when the source code to SNShax is released. (They won't release the source for memchunkhax2, because of it not being patched yet)

lol derekk just explained exactly how it works so it WILL get patched

 

[Deleted User]

lol derekk just explained exactly how it works so it WILL get patched

My bad. >_<

 

[TuxSH]

Better buy a brand new 2DS, most, if not all of the old bundle ones are under firmware 9.2

 

[MasterLel]

You lucky n3ds users...

 

[Mrrraou]

You lucky n3ds users...

They will just have downgrading first, and for 10.1 and lower.
All 3DS users will get a downgrading method, soon or later.

 

[Deleted User]

I have a N3DS on 10.1. And I'm not joking!

 

[ihaveahax]

Better buy a brand new 2DS, most, if not all of the old bundle ones are under firmware 9.2

that's exactly what I did. get any brand new 2DS except Yo-Kai Watch bundles. my MK7 bundle came with 6.0.0-12U.

if you particularly want to use emulators, though, definitely get a New 3DS.

 

[c0dex3ds]

I have a N3DS on 10.1. And I'm not joking!

Same. Cant wait to downgrade! <3

 

[Rosselman]

I shouldn't have updated my n3DS to 10.3. But mah eShop.
Well, better dust off that "patience".

 

[ihaveahax]

I shouldn't have updated my n3DS to 10.3. But mah eShop.
Well, better dust off that "patience".

if I'm reading it correctly, "memchunkhax2" will allow for downgrading the system as well.

 

[Rosselman]

if I'm reading it correctly, "memchunkhax2" will allow for downgrading the system as well.

Yes it will, but it'll come later than snshax.

 

[Mrrraou]

if I'm reading it correctly, "memchunkhax2" will allow for downgrading the system as well.

Yes, indeed.

 

[osm70]

Questions:

1. Since ntrcardhax is hardware based exploit, can it be patched?

2. What can we do after we calculate AES key of the console?

 

[Mrrraou]

Questions:

1. Since ntrcardhax is hardware based exploit, can it be patched?

2. What can we do after we calculate AES key of the console?

1. Yes, because the vulnerability is in the ARM9 kernel.

 

[JustPingo]

2. What can we do after we calculate AES key of the console?

Don't take me on that one but I guess you can customize your bootrom?

 

[Damon_girl]

So i can safely buy the cheapest n3ds i find on the internet. Im waiting for this, I hope there's no bricking issue when you downgrade.

Same here! That's what I'm worried about the most. I don't want to ruin my O3DS by downgrading.

 

[JustPingo]

If you're not voluntarily stupid it should be fine.

 

[Pikasack]

If you're not voluntarily stupid it should be fine.

Well, I'm screwed.

 

[dark_samus3]

• arm9loaderhax is a way to inject a payload directly into a N3DS bootrom (just after the the firm boot). This is like a CFW coldboot N3DS-only.

Bootrom isn't messed with, firmware0 has a hax payload put into it, since it fails the hash check firmware1 is put into memory and, since its smaller, the hax payload stays in memory and is (hopefully) executed... Also one of the keys in NAND is replaced so firm0 and 1 decrypt to garbage

EDIT: I believe it's also not just N3DS that can do it

 

[Mrrraou]

Also one of the keys in NAND is replaced so firm0 and 1 decrypt to garbage

Only the N3DS can do it, because only the N3DS has that arm9loader modification.