Hacking Gateway Downgrading

[NyaakoXD]

Downgrading worked for me.

 

[AmeenX]

Congrats from a native 4.5 user to all those who managed to downgrade successfully

 

[Justin Bigler]

After I downgrade can I use my r4i 3ds flashcart to install cfw?

 

[ChrisRX]

Others in this thread have stated no, using a DSTWO will not work for installing the blue card exploit. Not sure if that's only when using this downgrade, or what.

I installed the blue card exploit on my DSTWO and it worked fine.

 

[Sammt424]

Ok some questions for my 9.2 3ds if I downgrade to 4.5

1. Will my downloaded eShop games and DSiWare be still there and still playable
2. Can I still play my Alpha Sapphire cartridge and will my save file on the card be still there

 

[Zerousen]

Worked on my Red 3DS XL , originally came with 6.X and upgraded to 9.2, downgraded to 4.2 with no issues whatsoever.

 

[bendrr]

Successfully downgraded my EUR Fire Emblem 3DSXL from 9.2 to 4.5 (Original firmware IIRC was 4.3/4.5)

I want to do away with the browser exploit because I dislike it. Can I do the DS Profile trick with the blue card files under the 3.01 release or should I revert the Gateway launcher back to 2.6/2.7?

If it hasn't been answered, the exploit installer for 4.x is still on the blue card so yes you can use it with the 3.1(3.0+3.0.1) files from the update.

 

[CrispyYoshi]

Ok some questions for my 9.2 3ds if I downgrade to 4.5

1. Will my downloaded eShop games and DSiWare be still there and still playable
2. Can I still play my Alpha Sapphire cartridge and will my save file on the card be still there

Both yes, in EmuNAND. It will require a Gateway Red card if you don't have one.

I'm currently testing if it keeps your Streetpass info intact though.

If it hasn't been answered, the exploit installer for 4.x is still on the blue card so yes you can use it with the 3.1(3.0+3.0.1) files from the update.

I can confirm that the blue card exploit (and card itself) are both working on my 9.2U-downgraded-to-4.2.0-9U Zelda 3DSXL.

 

[jereb]

It appears that if you do not have your sysNAND and emuNAND linked when you downgrade that you cannot open up eShop on 9.4 emuNAND

Does this mean that if you haven't installed emuNAND before you downgrade, that you can't access the eshop period?

 

[Sammt424]

Both yes, in EmuNAND. It will require a Gateway Red card if you don't have one.

I'm currently testing if it keeps your Streetpass info intact though.


I can confirm that the blue card exploit (and card itself) are both working on my 9.2U-downgraded-to-4.2.0-9U Zelda 3DSXL.

I can use my Alpha Sapphire cartridge in emunand? I have the Gateway 3ds red card.

 

[Deleted User]

When downgrading is the flashcard whitelist replaced with the FWV4.5 one or keeps the FWV7 one?

 

[Ray305]

I can use my Alpha Sapphire cartridge in emunand? I have the Gateway 3ds red card.

To play retail game cartridges, you must boot into Gateway classic mode.

 

[Sammt424]

To play retail game cartridges, you must boot into Gateway classic mode.

Ok bruh

 

[Romsstar]

Restored my 4.2.0-9U SysNAND backup before I formatted. Seems like Streetpass data restored, but was corrupted and immediately deleted. I bet it would've worked on EmuNAND but heads up on that.

So, restoring SysNAND is probably safe and I'll restore it again to test if Streetpass is safe in EmuNAND.


You're probably safe to test that if you back up sysNAND before restoring, realize you made a mistake, then restore by holding Up when you select Downgrade on the Gateway menu.

However, I recall seeing someone say, earlier in this thread not even 5 pages ago, that that was the case.

Ok I got one question then:

• EUR downgrade file seems to contains an update file and the console will ask to apply it. You can format the SysNAND to delete the update nag, but you will lose your saves and eshops! it will also unlink your SysNAND to EmuNAND. -> If the SysNAND format unlinks SysNAND and EmuNAND and you don't want the update nag, so if you want to get rid of the update nag you'll lose the ability to go to the eshop?
Do I get that right? And the "fix" you suggest is to go back to 9.2, link emunand and sysnand there and then downgrade back to 4.5?
But then I'll have the update nag again. This seems not logical to me.
Can someone explain it? I think not every user that downgraded had emu and sysnand linked. It can't be that they're screwed now.

 

[Cyan]

Someone tested which version the EUR update nag is installing?

 

[Aaron007]

Sorry for redundant question. Do I have to re-update the Red Card with 3.0.1 or with 3.0 is fine?

 

[wii94]

Is it possible to downgrade to 4.2 EU ?

 

[CrispyYoshi]

Okay, Streetpass is completely intact on SysNAND 4.2.0-9U running EmuNAND 9.4. If you boot streetpass in SysNAND, it will immediately erase the file thinking it's corrupt.

And as Ray305 has said, you must boot in Gateway Classic Mode to play retail games. Alpha Sapphire save corrupted on Game Ver. 1.2 running EmuNAND GW 9.4U in
Gateway Classic mode.

 

[CrispyYoshi]

Sorry for redundant question. Do I have to re-update the Red Card with 3.0.1 or with 3.0 is fine?

I've heard some people accidentally bricking by downgrading to 4.x with 3.0 Gateway. I'd highly recommend using 3.0.1.

 

[Sammt424]

Will my save on Alpha Sapphire be corrupted because I played it on sysnand?