Hacking Official Corbenik - Another CFW for advanced users (with bytecode patches!)

[chaoskagami]

Yeah, I can't believe I forgot Cakes. I even used it when hacking my first 3DS.

Hell, even I used to use Cakes.

 

[The Catboy]

Yeah, I can't believe I forgot Cakes. I even used it when hacking my first 3DS.

I am currently running CakesFW 178. I basically run Nightlies if they are available.
But Corbenik is now my main and has been since launch. I am honestly loving the hell out of this CFW.

 

[GBHAKC75]

No duh. You can't load userland patches without loader. That's not a bug.

EDIT: Apologies if I seem hostile above. Kinda tired at the moment, and I would have thought this would be pretty clear from the README (apparently not).

Maybe you could lock those options if loader isn't enabled ? I know it's a CFW mainly for devs and such, but let's be honest, a lot of users are not devs and if that's not a huge pain it would be nice I think.
Btw, Corbenik (I always spells it as Cobernik, don't know why...) is now my main CFW, and it's great, really. Looks like what I wanted Cakes to be : customizable, with a lot of patches.

Few (more) ideas if you're interrested :
- Display "Sys"/"Emu" instead of "Ver." in System Settings
- Not sure if possible, but load NTR plugins (or have a comparable plugin system as NTR is dead) would be amazing ! I use cheats (I know, it kills the game, it's bad, blah. I don't care, I play my games offline the way I want) but I would like to ditch NTR as it's not active anymore and forces us to use 10.2 FIRM

Anyway, really nice work here, I just love this CFW.

 

[Orkna]

As long as I hit no severe bugs in my usage tomorrow, I'll be releasing end-of-day another version.

As for @Orkna - if you're still having speed issues when recompiling the latest git, something is wrong with your system. I'm rate limiting keypresses to an approximate human measured limit - somewhere around ~4 per second.

Next release will be a while after the next unless anything severe happens. I'm currently sitting here staring at radare2 and doing something utterly insane. I'll refrain from saying what I'm doing unless I actually finish.

Woho! It's much better. It does jump two selections sometimes but not all the time. Thank you!!!

 

[chaoskagami]

Maybe you could lock those options if loader isn't enabled ? I know it's a CFW mainly for devs and such, but let's be honest, a lot of users are not devs and if that's not a huge pain it would be nice I think.
Btw, Corbenik (I always spells it as Cobernik, don't know why...) is now my main CFW, and it's great, really. Looks like what I wanted Cakes to be : customizable, with a lot of patches.

Few (more) ideas if you're interrested :
- Display "Sys"/"Emu" instead of "Ver." in System Settings
- Not sure if possible, but load NTR plugins (or have a comparable plugin system as NTR is dead) would be amazing ! I use cheats (I know, it kills the game, it's bad, blah. I don't care, I play my games offline the way I want) but I would like to ditch NTR as it's not active anymore and forces us to use 10.2 FIRM

Anyway, really nice work here, I just love this CFW.

This isn't for people who don't know what they're doing, and I'm not going to limit my scope to newbies. I'm being plenty honest here, and I've literally told people who would do something stupid to go use Luma3DS.

Anyways, on your suggestions:

1) I've been planning to implement dependencies for patches so enabling a patch which needs another patch (or an option) will automatically toggle it and disabling an option others depend on will automatically disable dependents. The only case I'll be hiding options is if they're physically unsupported (like the n3ds CPU speed stuff, which IS hidden on o3DS)

2) Any advanced user knows whether they're in emunand, and that requires exporting said information to the VM. I can, if people really want this. It isn't that hard. But why, seriously?

3) I will not go out of my way to copy NTR. A plugin system is unreasonable at this time, and I'd rather (again) have the VM be resident somehow for memory modification. That's on the table as 'I'd like to have cheats' but I've not even started that and it's a long project.

I can at least guarantee it will either use the same VM as everything else or GS-style codes. ARM11 binaries are probably out of the question, since the VM provides a certain amount of sandbox that I like.

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As an aside - I've been thinking about this, but the userland patches (aside from sysmodules/HOME) could technically be toggleable while the system is running. I need a menu application.

 

[The Catboy]

Maybe you could lock those options if loader isn't enabled ? I know it's a CFW mainly for devs and such, but let's be honest, a lot of users are not devs and if that's not a huge pain it would be nice I think.
Btw, Corbenik (I always spells it as Cobernik, don't know why...) is now my main CFW, and it's great, really. Looks like what I wanted Cakes to be : customizable, with a lot of patches.

Few (more) ideas if you're interrested :
- Display "Sys"/"Emu" instead of "Ver." in System Settings

The best way to know if you are running in either sysNAND or emuNAND, is to make sure you turned on the emuNAND option. If you turned it on, you really shouldn't need a reminder.

Honestly, there's plenty of User Friendly CFW's on the market right now. There's really no reason to dumb down a project for mass appeal when there's already CFW's that fill the needs of the masses.

 

[GBHAKC75]

This isn't for people who don't know what they're doing, and I'm not going to limit my scope to newbies. I'm being plenty honest here, and I've literally told people who would do something stupid to go use Luma3DS.

Anyways, on your suggestions:

1) I've been planning to implement dependencies for patches so enabling a patch which needs another patch (or an option) will automatically toggle it and disabling an option others depend on will automatically disable dependents. The only case I'll be hiding options is if they're physically unsupported (like the n3ds CPU speed stuff, which IS hidden on o3DS)

2) Any advanced user knows whether they're in emunand, and that requires exporting said information to the VM. I can, if people really want this. It isn't that hard. But why, seriously?

3) I will not go out of my way to copy NTR. A plugin system is unreasonable at this time, and I'd rather (again) have the VM be resident somehow for memory modification. That's on the table as 'I'd like to have cheats' but I've not even started that and it's a long project.

I can at least guarantee it will either use the same VM as everything else or GS-style codes. ARM11 binaries are probably out of the question, since the VM provides a certain amount of sandbox that I like.

---

As an aside - I've been thinking about this, but the userland patches (aside from sysmodules/HOME) could technically be toggleable while the system is running. I need a menu application.

1) Nice, that's exactly what I meant

2) That's true, to be honest it's more a "cosmetic" thing than a real useful feature, I just suggested it because if that's simple I'd like to have it, but clearly this is not a "needed" feature

3) I perfectly understand that. I suggested it because I really like your CFW so I thought you might want to hear features ideas for long-term

But anyway, do as you like, it's only suggestions, it's your CFW and it's already awesome

The best way to know if you are running in either sysNAND or emuNAND, is to make sure you turned on the emuNAND option. If you turned it on, you really shouldn't need a reminder.

Honestly, there's plenty of User Friendly CFW's on the market right now. There's really no reason to dumb down a project for mass appeal when there's already CFW's that fill the needs of the masses.

As I said before, IMO this is not a feature to make the CFW more user-friendly, but it's just a cosmetic feature.

 

[Orkna]

MSET version has changed to ".hack//1100:33E"

 

[chaoskagami]

MSET version has changed to ".hack//1100:33E"

I can revert that if people don't like it. I was just fooling around with the format strings. I'd rather come up with a more permanent way to expand said settings string so I can keep the dots (god why)

 

[The Catboy]

So I've been testing out region-free for a bit. I've tested Ace Attorney trilogy, which is the EU version and Ecco 3D (EU) and thus far the games work just fine on my US system.

I can revert that if people don't like it. I was just fooling around with the format strings.

I actually like it more

 

[chaoskagami]

So I've been testing out region-free for a bit. I've tested Ace Attorney trilogy, which is the EU version and Ecco 3D (EU) and thus far the games work just fine on my US system.

I actually like it more

...Same.

 

[The Catboy]

Quick question, does this support RedNAND? I don't use emuNAND/RedNAND myself, but knowledge is power!

 

[chaoskagami]

Quick question, does this support RedNAND? I don't use emuNAND/RedNAND myself, but knowledge is power!

Yes, it supports first-sector at back (gateway/"emunand") and direct copy (redirected/rednand).

You'll see 'emunand: layout is gateway' in the log with the former and 'emunand: layout is normal' for the latter.

EDIT: By the way, is it me or is 3dbrew guru meditating/503?

 

[Suiginou]

EDIT: By the way, is it me or is 3dbrew guru meditating/503?

<@profi200> mha: 3dbrew down again.

 

[chaoskagami]

<@profi200> mha: 3dbrew down again.

Ouch. Maintenance, or something else?

 

[ketal]

Ouch. Maintenance, or something else?

It was down last night for a couple hours too, I don't think it's maintenance

 

[GBHAKC75]

It was down last night for a couple hours too, I don't think it's maintenance

Actually, 503 is usually used for maintenance. It could be overloaded servers, but then you could see the pages.
It's not a server issue (as it's not 500/502).

Just wait a few moments and it should be fine.

 

[chaoskagami]

Actually, 503 is usually used for maintenance. It could be overloaded servers, but then you could see the pages.
It's not a server issue (as it's not 500/502).

Just wait a few moments and it should be fine.

That actually isn't necessarily correct here. The page is being served through varnish - which is an in-the-middle cache server. Varnish may report 503, but that says nothing of the actual server behind it. It says 'backend fetch failed' which means the actual server could have crashed. Or worse.

Oh well. A couple of months ago I let dumpgenerator get me a copy (I rate limited properly like a nice person, fyi.) Bit out of date, but eh.

 

[GBHAKC75]

That actually isn't necessarily correct here. The page is being served through varnish - which is an in-the-middle cache server. Varnish may report 503, but that says nothing of the actual server behind it. It says 'backend fetch failed' which means the actual server could have crashed. Or worse.

Oh well. A couple of months ago I let dumpgenerator get me a copy (I rate limited properly like a nice person, fyi.) Bit out of date, but eh.

Funny, does Varnish really reports "backend fetch failed" as 503 ? It should be 502...
I have myself Varnish on few servers, but never experienced failure with it.

 

[chaoskagami]

Yeah, it does. https://3dbrew.org/

Error 503 Backend fetch failed

Backend fetch failed
Guru Meditation:

XID: 37555806
Varnish cache server