Hi
I need help figuring out how to get this hack to work. I'm going to try to be as coherent as possible but I'm kinda ready to start pulling hair out of my head because I've spent the past two days straight trying to get this to work.
I installed the homebrew launcher, luma3ds, and several other applications the tutorial I used to install those two things insisted I install alongside it, one of these being FBI (later BBMenu just for insurance if any CIAs didn't work), onto my old 2DS (v 11.9.0, 11.6 pre-homebrew installation, but the installation required me to update the console) (I own a new 2DS if this is the problem, but opted for the old 2DS because that was easier to do (no need for the magnet trick) and because my digital copy of fates was on that 2DS). Luma is up to date, and everything cannot possibly be anything but the latest version unless there was a major update within the past two days.
I then proceeded to make the "luma/titles/'TID'/romfs/gamedata" folders and do the copypasting as instructed by the replies on this thread and various tumblr posts. I did the same with the Jakob-Felicia switch hack as it instructed to apply the hack in the same way. I also copied over the gamedata.bin.lz to replace the original "gamedata.bin" files, with the paralogue unlock hack as shared via google drive on this thread. I did both of these things
identically for the TIDs of USA Birthright and USA Special Edition, since I had a digital copy of birthright with revelations DLC (I know now this will not allow the hack to work on revelations, but I leave this detail in to specify I still have both those TIDs sitting on my SD card). Luma is set to enable patching on games.
Of course, as I stated I now understand, these hacks didn't work on my digital copy when I insisted on playing the revelations route (the entire reason I wanted this hack in the first place was for leo/takumi s supports), and so I found a CIA of the USA special edition, as well as a CIA for all the DLC, and promptly installed the SE onto my 2DS (leaving the DLC uninstalled for fear it might interfere with any of the hacks.)
At first I started off with M!Corrin, which was my desired avatar, and played through from the beginning, and immediately noticed the J-F switch hack didn't work as I was still being accompanied by Felicia. As I couldn't even get Azura and Felicia to C-support at all upon getting my castle within a short amount of time (scouting/challenging) in order to test if S-supporting was available between them, I decided to make a new save file with F!Corrin to see if a F/F S-support was possible between F!Corrin and Azura. I started from the beginning this time, as well, NOT starting from the branching path. Of course, I ended up with Jakob and was unable to S-support Azura. This game appears to be about as vanilla as it can be.
I've attached photos to give visualizations of what I have just described.
Please, someone, tell me what I'm doing wrong, I just want to know where I screwed up because I feel like I've been following instructions to the best of my ability. Thank you, to anyone who took the time to read all this, I really appreciate it.