Homebrew Drawback to boot.firm on SD only?

[Dave_Chad]

I've done a lot of 3DS for friends and family and with the latest update i am trying to figure out a way of getting them to help themselves as well as doing a lot of the updates myself.

Now i know i can drop the boot.firm on sdcard and it will boot directly from there. The drawback being that the 3DS will not boot if it doesn't have the sdcard in... but is there any other issues with doing only this?

Obviously for any i directly get a hold of it will take me about 20 seconds to copy it to nand as well. Just curious.

 

[lone_wolf323]

I've done a lot of 3DS for friends and family and with the latest update i am trying to figure out a way of getting them to help themselves as well as doing a lot of the updates myself.

Now i know i can drop the boot.firm on sdcard and it will boot directly from there. The drawback being that the 3DS will not boot if it doesn't have the sdcard in... but is there any other issues with doing only this?

Obviously for any i directly get a hold of it will take me about 20 seconds to copy it to nand as well. Just curious.

Well. the issue is that the system WONT BOOT AT ALL without the boot.firm. That is why its highly recommended that the boot.firm also gets placed within the ctrnand aswell.

The issue thats going to be first and foremost. No booting of the system meaning you cannot do a thing with the console.

 

[Jayro]

Their SD card should be fine for now, you can always do the CTR NAND update for them later when it's convenient.

 

[Dave_Chad]

Their SD card should be fine for now, you can always do the CTR NAND update for them later when it's convenient.

Yeah man that was the plan. I've put some files together and written a post up on my local gaming pages to help a lot of them out. I've done that many i can't remember them all!