Homebrew For everybody wondering whether or not it is safe to downgrade - Here is a statement from TuxSH

[Kafke]

102 for n3ds, 126 for o3ds.

So it's just the app crapping out on me I'm guessing? Just chance to see if it'll install all 102? If it's supposed to install all of them, that's definitely the cause for the soft-brick.

 

[thatbooisaspy]

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[Kafke]

Alright, just tried it one more time. Installed 41 cias, Native firm, and it got stuck at the "Rebooting in 10 seconds". rebooting without the SD resulted in a soft-brick. Hmm...

As for my cias.... I have the 9.2(U) full from that iso site. Is that not the one I should be using? Or did something in my extraction/copying go wrong?

 

[Krallen]

Thank you very much , worked on the second attempt on my 2DS 9.9E with menuhax_v2.1

 

[Juiss]

I have the 9.2U ttp files downloaded. Is that all I need?

Don't use the ttp files, download the pack called "9.2.0-20U(Full)", from what I know a lot of the users who used the tpp pack soft-bricked

 

[Deleted User]

I am getting the cia error too.

 

[SterneSchreien]

Alright, just tried it one more time. Installed 41 cias, Native firm, and it got stuck at the "Rebooting in 10 seconds". rebooting without the SD resulted in a soft-brick. Hmm...

As for my cias.... I have the 9.2(U) full from that iso site. Is that not the one I should be using? Or did something in my extraction/copying go wrong?

You're on a mac IIRC, some people on the reddit thread seem to be having problems with macs and some say they fixed it by extracting via a Windows machine.

 

[Kafke]

Another update from the soft-brick master. Since my last post I've soft bricked several times. And indeed each time it seems to install exactly 41 cia files, of which the last one is '0004013000001702.cia'. It then installs native firm, and either reboots or fails to reboot. Both ways end up in a soft-brick.

This is even after redownloading the cia package from that iso site. The new link is even marked as "download this file for N3DS US". I've been extracting with 'The unarchiver', which is an excellent extractor and had never given me problems before. I make sure to dot_clean all the relevant folders.

I'll have to try extracting on a windows machine and see if that helps. I don't have one on me at the moment though.

Has anyone else on a mac/US N3DS get their downgrade to work?

 

[SterneSchreien]

You could try setting up bootcamp? Unsure if it will work as a Windows machine tho.

 

[Dedede]

-snip-

 

[wormdood]

When you say version you're referring to the region and model, not the firmware version, right?

correct thats what i mean
9.2 full is the recommended choice tho

 

[Deleted User]

Strange I did this earlier on my old3ds with no issues.

 

[Cloud9Skywalker]

Is this the most current and safest possibly more preferred method to downgrade my 3ds?
Please see me signature for my current setup.

 

[wormdood]

Is this the most current and safest possibly more preferred method to downgrade my 3ds?
Please see me signature for my current setup.

so far yes . . . but . . . be advised there will be a better solution someday we just dont have a set date for its release

 

[Damon_girl]

Don't use the ttp files, download the pack called "9.2.0-20U(Full)", from what I know a lot of the users who used the tpp pack soft-bricked

Oh okay, but are they safe to use when KTM releases?

 

[SonicHyuga]

And indeed each time it seems to install exactly 41 cia files, of which the last one is '0004013000001702.cia'. It then installs native firm, and either reboots or fails to reboot. Both ways end up in a soft-brick.

If those newer sysUpdater builds check each title version it should not have to install all 102 cias, because there are quite a few that have not been updated anyway.

 

[Kafke]

I just extracted the update files on a windows machine and transferred them. After a few attempts at starting sysupdater, it did the exact same thing. 41 cias installed, stopped on the same one, installed native firm, rebooted into a soft-brick. It's now once again updating back to 10.3.

So it's not my Mac that's causing issues. Either it's the update files themselves (bad source) or the updater. For the update files, I double checked the MD5 and it matches accordingly.

So... what's going on guys?

 

[brkun]

I just extracted the update files on a windows machine and transferred them. After a few attempts at starting sysupdater, it did the exact same thing. 41 cias installed, stopped on the same one, installed native firm, rebooted into a soft-brick. It's now once again updating back to 10.3.

So it's not my Mac that's causing issues. Either it's the update files themselves (bad source) or the updater. For the update files, I double checked the MD5 and it matches accordingly.

So... what's going on guys?

Try to download another zip of 9.2 update. Sorry, can't think of anything besides that. You pack is corrupted, I think.

 

[SterneSchreien]

Try to download another zip of 9.2 update. Sorry, can't think of anything besides that. You pack is corrupted, I think.

If MD5 matches it shouldn't be corrupted.

 

[Kafke]

Try to download another zip of 9.2 update. Sorry, can't think of anything besides that. You pack is corrupted, I think.

My pack's MD5 matches the list.

Here's the MD5 of the pack I'm using:
e5f40c3b155cfd12ef38be35d2e81d2e

And the name: 9.2.0-20U(Full)_n3DS.zip

And here's the one from the list:

"N3DS 9.2.0-20U:
MD5: e5f40c3b155cfd12ef38be35d2e81d2e
SHA-1: 377c140377fb6cf31a0c032c4e1196cc521f87fe?"

I indeed got it from the particular page that the guide along with the list mentions.

As I said, I extracted and transferred with windows, everything seemingly installed okay (41 cias install, then native firm) and it reboots into a soft brick.