Hacking emuNAND Tool - Release and Support thread

[Searinox]

Is it possible to use this tool to backup the emuNAND off a 2GB card and write it onto a 4GB card, to be able to play SSB? Do I need to do any partition resizing after exporting the NAND?

 

[Deleted-19228]

Export nand. Insert new SD card. Format emunand. Inject. Profits!

 

[Searinox]

Export nand. Insert new SD card. Format emunand. Inject. Profits!

Good to know, but does it resize the hidden partition to the new card's extra space?

EDIT: If I understand well, the format emuNAND part of the process does that, and the backup is restored into the larger, newly allocated space, yes?

 

[gamesquest1]

Good to know, but does it resize the hidden partition to the new card's extra space?

EDIT: If I understand well, the format emuNAND part of the process does that, and the backup is restored into the larger, newly allocated space, yes?

gateway formats the SD card, emunand tool just injects the old emunand into the newly set up card

 

[Searinox]

gateway formats the SD card, emunand tool just injects the old emunand into the newly set up card

How does gateway decide how much space to allocate for the emuNAND? For example it allocated 1GB on my 2GB SD and left ~800MB for save files and such. How much would it allocate for a 4GB card? How about 8?

 

[gamesquest1]

How does gateway decide how much space to allocate for the emuNAND? For example it allocated 1GB on my 2GB SD and left ~800MB for save files and such. How much would it allocate for a 4GB card? How about 8?

its always (just under) 1GB i.e the size of the nand

 

[Searinox]

its always (just under) 1GB i.e the size of the nand

I'm interested in this whole NAND swapping thing because I've heard that in order to get SSB working(it black screens currently), you need to use an SD card that is 4GB or higher. I'm perplexed as to why this works if the size allocated by the NAND remains the same.

 

[gamesquest1]

I'm interested in this whole NAND swapping thing because I've heard that in order to get SSB working(it black screens currently), you need to use an SD card that is 4GB or higher. I'm perplexed as to why this works if the size allocated by the NAND remains the same.

quite simply idk....not seen any real reason behind it, so for now its "magic"

but if i had to guess, i would say it could be down to card speeds or something i think most people on 2GB cards are using the toshiba cards that came with the 3DS......they are pretty crappy cards, could be timing issues causes it to hang

 

[Searinox]

quite simply idk....not seen any real reason behind it, so for now its "magic"

but if i had to guess, i would say it could be down to card speeds or something i think most people on 2GB cards are using the toshiba cards that came with the 3DS......they are pretty crappy cards, could be timing issues causes it to hang

Funny enough I AM using a 2GB Toshiba, but it did NOT come with the 3DS(got the console used with no memory). It's an ancient card that was expensive at its time, it came with a digital camera way back in 2005. All good to know. So I guess tomorrow when I go to the store I'll look for a card that's class 6 or 10.

 

[gamesquest1]

Funny enough I AM using a 2GB Toshiba, but it did NOT come with the 3DS. It's an ancient card that was expensive at its time, it came with a digital camera way back in 2005. All good to know. So I guess tomorrow when I go to the store I'll look for a card that's class 6 or 10.

well most cards now days are like class 6-10, but the class 4 that came with the XL works fine, but just from experience the toshiba cards in the original 3DS's tend to take longer loading up emunand etc.....not really checked the write speeds or anything but at a guess im would say they may be class 2 or something

 

[MYFW]

And MT-Card Emunand?

 

[drfsupercenter]

Yeah, it would be nice if this tool could support MT-Card's emuNAND.

I had to use the Gateway launcher to create it, then run it with my MT-Card... probably due to the name being different?

It should be a super simple fix if the maker wants to make a 1.02, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Searinox]

The only reason the tool doesn't work with MT-Card is the different label of the SD card. The tool checks for any drives whose label matches GATEWAYEMUNAND or whatever it's called. If you rename your label to whatever MT-Card uses, it should work. I've had success with this tool but I will add my own voice to the others saying it would be better to let the user pick the drive to work with.

 

[pLaYeR^^]

Isnt it possible to rename to GATEWAYNAND, make backup and rename to MTCARDNAND?

 

[gamesquest1]

MT works with a gateway made emunand.....basically gateway is the only card that still checks that its not been tampered with on the grounds that everyone else disabled the check so they could change it to say their name......so all the clones work with gateway emunand(or any of the other clone name), but gateway only works with gateway

so really if you make emunand with gateway it will be cross compatible with any card

 

[drfsupercenter]

The only reason the tool doesn't work with MT-Card is the different label of the SD card. The tool checks for any drives whose label matches GATEWAYEMUNAND or whatever it's called. If you rename your label to whatever MT-Card uses, it should work. I've had success with this tool but I will add my own voice to the others saying it would be better to let the user pick the drive to work with.

That's what I'm saying

It would take like 10 seconds to fix in the source code, probably not even that.

(I actually would like if it lets you select your drive letter rather than auto-finding it, I'd feel a bit better that way)

 

[mvmiranda]

hey n1ghty, your favorite beta tester here kidding... although I'd like to have that merit LOL
I think I'd found a minor issue in version 1.01.

If I try to extract my emuNANd and then inject another copy of it it gives me access violation:
Zugriffsverletzung bei Adresse 005C6C2F in Modul 'emuNANDTool_1.0.1.exe'. Schreiben von Adresse 02E00366.

PS: sent you a PM.

Cheers

 

[SnipeOrigin]

Why can't I use someone elses extracted NAND and inject it on my previously working Card?

If it is possible, where can I find a version? I was too fast on updating and didn't back my NAND up.

Thanks Snipe.

 

[gamesquest1]

Why can't I use someone elses extracted NAND and inject it on my previously working Card?

If it is possible, where can I find a version? I was too fast on updating and didn't back my NAND up.

Thanks Snipe.

no you cant, the nand files are encrypted to the specific console they came from

 

[Oxybelis]

well most cards now days are like class 6-10, but the class 4 that came with the XL works fine, but just from experience the toshiba cards in the original 3DS's tend to take longer loading up emunand etc.....not really checked the write speeds or anything but at a guess im would say they may be class 2 or something

Actually 3DS 2GB Toshiba card is faster than 3DS XL 4GB card.