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

[WilliamO7]

So is libctr9 basically like libctru, but for arm9 payloads instead of arm11 ones?

Or is there something I'm missing?

 

[chaoskagami]

autoreconf -if
./configure --host arm-none-eabi
make

All of this inside a unix-like terminal with autoconf, make and devkitPro/dkA

You're gonna love it even more once libctr9 is fully supported (crypto is missing some little things)

Actually no. Just make sure the submodule clones successfully and the build system SHOULD build it itself. I don't use an external one because the API isn't stable yet, and this allows me to fix it at my own rate if Gelex breaks the API.

The chainloader menu has also been fixed for a very long time, and some shims are in place so crypto works. For now.

I just tried the latest commit and it is awesome!!!

The only thing that I saw as a minor problem is that 4 of 5 times I click 'up' or 'down' the selection jumps 2 options
Before the update, it happened sometimes only

I really have no clue what is causing this. Some people have this issue, some don't. I can only assume some consoles have broken dpads. The only fix is to vsync. Luckily, libctr9 now has initial timer support, so this will be much less painful.

So is libctr9 basically like libctru, but for arm9 payloads instead of arm11 ones?

Or is there something I'm missing?

No. libctru is for userland programs - thus the 'u' in it. libctr9 is a sort of abstraction layer for doing more complicated things on ARM9 with less code. I imported it largely to ease maintenance, since I was able to eliminate quite a bit of code.

 

[WilliamO7]

No. libctru is for userland programs - thus the 'u' in it. libctr9 is a sort of abstraction layer for doing more complicated things on ARM9 with less code. I imported it largely to ease maintenance, since I was able to eliminate quite a bit of code.

That's what I meant by it being like libctru - since that is just an abstraction layer for the 3DS ARM11 userspace (through multihax).

Nevertheless, it still looks like a pretty good library.

 

[gnmmarechal]

I just tried the latest commit and it is awesome!!!

The only thing that I saw as a minor problem is that 4 of 5 times I click 'up' or 'down' the selection jumps 2 options
Before the update, it happened sometimes only

I can't reproduce this.

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[chaoskagami]

That's what I meant by it being like libctru - since that is just an abstraction layer for the 3DS ARM11 userspace (through multihax).

Nevertheless, it still looks like a pretty good library.

Gelex is actually a professional, so he's being very careful to design it well. This means making it as flexible as possible and doing things as correctly as possible. Frankly, if people cared as much as him about proper design the whole scene would be a better place.

As a side note unrelated to Corbenik, y'all can throw fatal errors to the global err:f port in ctrulib and trigger ErrDisp now manually.

 

[Orkna]

I just tried the latest commit and it is awesome!!!

The only thing that I saw as a minor problem is that 4 of 5 times I click 'up' or 'down' the selection jumps 2 options
Before the update, it happened sometimes only

"Nice" to see that I'm not the only one with this problem.
We are talking about the problem a couple of posts before yours.

 

[DjoeN]

So,

Updated to last skeith build and when powering on, black screen, no config menu, on O3DS and N3DS (I wiped everything on the SD to start fresh)
So i renamed "arm9loaderhax.bin to arm9loaderhax_si.bin and now it works/boots fine on O3DS and N3DS.

 

[The Catboy]

I just tried the latest commit and it is awesome!!!

The only thing that I saw as a minor problem is that 4 of 5 times I click 'up' or 'down' the selection jumps 2 options
Before the update, it happened sometimes only

I can not replicate this and I am actually trying pretty hard.
You might have a problem with your D-Pad, have you tried cleaning it or using some compressed air on it?

 

[gnmmarechal]

So,

Updated to last skeith build and when powering on, black screen, no config menu, on O3DS and N3DS (I wiped everything on the SD to start fresh)
So i renamed "arm9loaderhax.bin to arm9loaderhax_si.bin and now it works/boots fine on O3DS and N3DS.

That's strange. It used to work even without screeninit, did it not?

 

[DjoeN]

That's strange. It used to work even without screeninit, did it not?

Well, it used to work fine before i updated to latest skeith commit. (6 or 7 days older release)

 

[Kirtai]

I can not replicate this and I am actually trying pretty hard.
You might have a problem with your D-Pad, have you tried cleaning it or using some compressed air on it?

I wonder if it's specific to a particular type of 3DS. Maybe a particular model or region or some combination.

 

[The Catboy]

I wonder if it's specific to a particular type of 3DS. Maybe a particular model or region or some combination.

I can post mine and see if that helps
Old3ds: US Version running A9LH (Aurora Wright mini-CFW version) running the current skeith

So,

Updated to last skeith build and when powering on, black screen, no config menu, on O3DS and N3DS (I wiped everything on the SD to start fresh)
So i renamed "arm9loaderhax.bin to arm9loaderhax_si.bin and now it works/boots fine on O3DS and N3DS.

Did you make sure you kept your firmware files?

 

[DjoeN]

...
Did you make sure you kept your firmware files?

Yupz, i'm sure i used the correct firmware and keys on both systems
(cause it's working now after renaming it to arm9loaderhax_si.bin on both systems)

 

[The Catboy]

Yupz, i'm sure i used the correct firmware and keys on both systems
(cause it's working now after renaming it to arm9loaderhax_si.bin on both systems)

Are you running the screenin version of A9LH?

 

[Kirtai]

Old3ds: US Version running A9LH (Aurora Wright mini-CFW version) running the current skeith

New3DS: EU version with AL9H 2.0.1 & 11.0 SysNAND running todays checkout as of 5 minutes ago. No jumpiness in the menus.

 

[DjoeN]

Are you running the screenin version of A9LH?

There is no seperate screeninit/no screeninit version since last A9LH update. Screeninit and No Screeninit got merged into 1 file (if using AuroraWright's version)
You just use arm9loaderhax.bin for the no screeninit version, rename it arm9loaderhax_si.bin for the screen init version.

 

[The Catboy]

There is no seperate screeninit/no screeninit version since last A9LH update. Screeninit and No Screeninit got merged into 1 file (if using AuroraWright's version)
You just use arm9loaderhax.bin for the no screeninit version, rename it arm9loaderhax_si.bin for the screen init version.

Ok, so I actually decided to test this out since I used arm9loaderhax_si.bin, but renaming it arm9loaderhax.bin, just boots to a black screen as well on me.

 

[DjoeN]

Glad to see it's not me alone
So we can asume, when using AuroraWright's latest A9LH "No Screen Init" doesn't seem to work with latest skeith release.

 

[The Catboy]

Glad to see it's not me alone
So we can asume, when using AuroraWright's latest A9LH "No Screen Init" doesn't seem to work with latest skeith release.

Well it works, just arm9loaderhax.bin seems broken. Otherwise using arm9loaderhax_si.bin works just fine.

 

[gnmmarechal]

Well it works, just arm9loaderhax.bin seems broken. Otherwise using arm9loaderhax_si.bin works just fine.

I've posted an issue on GitHub regarding this.