Hacking Crappy Bootrate using Menuhax 2.1 and rxTools

[driverdis]

I stuck with the good ol MSET (downgrade) entry point. It has a really high boot rate for RxTools (used it until ReiNAND 10.3 support came out) and ReiNAND on my N3DS XL compared to anything else. for Gateway and decrypt9, I use OOTHax via eShop purchased OOT with a low boot rate but good enough for me since I do not boot them that often.

 

[gallymimu]

Anyway To Increase The Bootrate?

The Restarting Probably Isn't Very "Healthy" For The 3DS or The Battery.

I assure you that booting 10 or 1000 times has no impact on the health of your system.

But I agree that poor bootrate is a pain in the ass.

I'm using latest menuhax, booting to it, and launching RXtools nightly, not sure which one it's a month old i think. My boot rate has been very high the last few weeks but it does vary unfortunately.

 

[The Catboy]

I am using ctrbootmanager, which seems to have a decent boot rate. Once that boots, all 3 of my CFW's (RXTools, ReiNAND, and Cakes) all have about 90% boot success on my old3DS.

 

[driverdis]

I am using ctrbootmanager, which seems to have a decent boot rate. Once that boots, all 3 of my CFW's (RXTools, ReiNAND, and Cakes) all have about 90% boot success on my old3DS.

I have this setup on my O3DS XL as well. It runs pretty well compared to my N3DS XL, which i switched to MSET on as the boot rate was bad.

 

[The Catboy]

I have this setup on my O3DS XL as well. It runs pretty well compared to my N3DS XL, which i switched to MSET on as the boot rate was bad.

I haven't set up MSET because I heard you can't use DS-Mode using that and I love my R4i Gold too much to give that up.
Plus I hardly ever shut down my system, so the boot rate isn't a big deal to me.

 

[wormdood]

Anyway To Increase The Bootrate?

I am Using @ihaveamac 's Modified Payloads (For No Colors or Debug Output) . I Am Also Using This Menuhax Image.

The Restarting Probably Isn't Very "Healthy" For The 3DS or The Battery.

Anyway to Increase The Bootrate?


Thanks Guys.





EDIT: Here Is The rxTools Build I Am Using.

try the good old 9/28 build its excellent bootrate is the reason i use it

I haven't set up MSET because I heard you can't use DS-Mode using that and I love my R4i Gold too much to give that up.
Plus I hardly ever shut down my system, so the boot rate isn't a big deal to me.

most mset rop installers come in a .nds format as well so you can simply load it up when done playing nds roms

 

[reiyu]

Try here, but looks like a new one came out today:
https://www.omicron.pw/

can anyone try out if that rxTools nightly has 9.6+ emunand support for n3DS?

 

[pofer]

can anyone try out if that rxTools nightly has 9.6+ emunand support for n3DS?

there isn't a RxTools version that supports 9.5+ on the n3DS, they said that its coming soon though

 

[driverdis]

can anyone try out if that rxTools nightly has 9.6+ emunand support for n3DS?

no go, it still black screens in the latest nightly.

 

[reiyu]

what are the changes of this nightly from the 5dec2015 one?

 

[rasputin]

set menuhax to activate while pressing a button, see if this improves your boot rate

 

[psvpwner]

What I do is I randomly tap the touchscreen with my fingers and spin the circle pad a little bit during boot. It might sound ridiculous but I have reason to believe that it helps: if you understand how ROP works (I'm not claiming I really do, only to some extent) it reuses the code that's already in your RAM that was generated by the legitimate programs. The more code in RAM to use, the more likely your ROP will find all the data it needs as "gadgets" to run successfully. I'm thinking there must be a program that parses all the input and when you generate input that will affect the memory of that program, which to some extent should help the ROP.
Also my New3DS never failed to boot while doing this (booted fine maybe 40 times now, still pretty new install) but failed at least 15 times while not doing it. Could be coincidence ofcourse but thought I'd share it just in case. Do correct me if it's ridiculous and makes no sense though.

 

[myangel]

I use ctrbootmanager to reinand it like 100% 10.4 emunand never failed even once

but GW sometime ( probably 80% boot rate )

 

[Ailuros27]

I'm having issues just getting CTR boot manager to boot, let alone anything else. I have a simple cfg file on an N3DS with bootfix set to 0, and I'm trying to autoboot reinand. I have the timeout set to 3. But more than 50% of the time, I get frozen on the first garbage screen (top screen) and a white screen (bottom screen). This is really freakin' annoying. I don't want to have to hard power down 3-5 times every time I want to do something on my New 3DS.

 

[psvpwner]

I'm having issues just getting CTR boot manager to boot, let alone anything else. I have a simple cfg file on an N3DS with bootfix set to 0, and I'm trying to autoboot reinand. I have the timeout set to 3. But more than 50% of the time, I get frozen on the first garbage screen (top screen) and a white screen (bottom screen). This is really freakin' annoying. I don't want to have to hard power down 3-5 times every time I want to do something on my New 3DS.

IIRC it says the bootfix should be set to 2 for N3DS.

 

[Ailuros27]

I know. I had issues before setting it to 0 as well. I just realized I'm using CTRbootmanager 1.2, so I'm gonna switch to the latest version and make sure autobootfix = 2 and see if that helps.
It appears the boot rate has improved thus far.

 

[psvpwner]

I know. I had issues before setting it to 0 as well. I just realized I'm using CTRbootmanager 1.2, so I'm gonna switch to the latest version and make sure autobootfix = 2 and see if that helps.

Did you also try switching to the old ROP payloads? Lots of people seem to have had success with that, check http://gbatemp.net/threads/guide-how-to-improve-menuhax-boot-rate-to-nearly-100.410764/

 

[Ailuros27]

Thanks for the help. That suggestion has greatly improved things.