Hacking [Guide] Install a9lh without buying anything in 11.2

[Hyoretsu]

Srry, double posted.

 

[Zimonson]

So after i am at step 15 but when i put in the browser url it just glitches and nothing else happens!

 

[Spaceboy]

Stuck at ver 2.1 and cant restore sysnand. Anyway to get back to 11.2 safely and start over?

 

[Hyoretsu]

Thank you, If i just format my micro sd and use that with your guide- Im guessing it means that all my data on the micro sd that came with the ds is gone. So any downloaded games etc?

Just backup your microSD. And first make a backup of your NAND at step 9.

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So after i am at step 15 but when i put in the browser url it just glitches and nothing else happens!

Try to follow the guide like nothing happened.

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Stuck at ver 2.1 and cant restore sysnand. Anyway to get back to 11.2 safely and start over?

Follow this and then update.

 

[ReannaN]

Just backup your microSD. And first make a backup of your NAND at step 9.

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Thanks,
I have bought a larger micro sd. Can I do this guide on both micro sd and switch between them, or will this not work?

 

[Hyoretsu]

Just follow the guide in one of them and it should work for all.

 

[Zimonson]

Just backup your microSD. And first make a backup of your NAND at step 9.

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Try to follow the guide like nothing happened.

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Follow this and then update.

How?

 

[Hyoretsu]

How?

Just ignore the glitched screen and go to the next step

 

[karloz25]

So, if im reading this right...

I just bought a 3ds with 11.2, if i follow this guide i can have a 3ds with homebrew and sd rom games, without soldering, eshop download or 2nd 3ds unit for hack?

 

[Hyoretsu]

So, if im reading this right...

I just bought a 3ds with 11.2, if i follow this guide i can have a 3ds with homebrew and sd rom games, without soldering, eshop download or 2nd 3ds unit for hack?

Yes.

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Yes.

And, additionally, download TWLoader for NDS games.

 

[Xeroyamil]

Hyoretsu! Thanks for the guide and response to all the question. I been reading each post, and have few things to ask.

1. I'm using a N3DS (BlackFriday) 11.0.0.33U with Homebrew installed using OoTHax and accesing it with MenuHax. Can I follow your guide skipping the soundhax part?
2. If not, if I update the console using system setting, does it goes to 11.2 so I can follow your guide? (I still have my OoT with the OoTHax installed?

 

[Hyoretsu]

Hyoretsu! Thanks for the guide and response to all the question. I been reading each post, and have few things to ask.

1. I'm using a N3DS (BlackFriday) 11.0.0.33U with Homebrew installed using OoTHax and accesing it with MenuHax. Can I follow your guide skipping the soundhax part?
2. If not, if I update the console using system setting, does it goes to 11.2 so I can follow your guide? (I still have my OoT with the OoTHax installed?

1. Yup
2. As long as Nintendo doesn't releases a 11.3, it'll go to 11.2.

 

[TalYerushalmi]

how do i know that i have a9lh successfully ?????

 

[Spaceboy]

Hyoretsu, I got to the "Delete the 9.2.0 ctrtransfer image .bin and .bin.sha from the /files9/ folder on your SD card" step and did that. Inserted the sd card back into my 3ds. The "Update your CFW SysNAND to the latest version using system settings" is just booting the 3ds normal and updating it like normal?

 

[jack_okami]

how do i know that i have a9lh successfully ?????

If you finished the guide you have it already.

Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

 

[Deleted-19228]

O3DS/2DS v11.2.0-35U with soundhax as entrypoint: https://mega.nz/#!25d2XKCK!nwp7NIdMmYZduFhydSaZsH9zGy2a6DlP71SqXTdXCYE
N3DS v11.2.0-35U with soundax as entrypoint: https://mega.nz/#!j91g2CxI!YrxPgicql_vQ_SK4h5f8KhFUmXoKE4NcpKuVgswBv_k

If you want a video guide, here's one, made by KanterZ:

If you have any error during the process, read this post entirely (the answer might be there). If the answer's not here, just ask (before voting on the poll).

Here are the instructions:

Requirements: uTorrent or Deluge.

WARNING: If you have a 3DS from a region other than USA, read the steps after the "Instructions" section first. IF YOU HAVE N3DS, DO NOT PUT YOUR CONSOLE IN SLEEP MODE WHILE IN 2.1.

Spoiler: Instructions

1. Go to the link above that contains the ZIP for your device.
2. Go to this link and download the SafeA9LHInstaller 7z. We'll get to it later.
3. Go to this link (Note: it's a torrent magnet link, you'll need a torrent client to open it), download the file for your region and extract the zip.
4. Go to this link and scroll down until you reach "Otherapp/ropbin payloads". Download the otherapp for your device and region and put it in your microSD root.
4. Extract the Safehax ZIP you downloaded to your microSD root.
5. Get the 2.1.0 ctrtransfer files and put them in your files9 folder in your microSD root.
6. Put your microSD in your console.
7. Open Nintendo 3DS Sound, press DOWN (d-pad) two times and press A two times.
8. Homebrew will boot. Scroll down and launch Safehax. (If you crash or get a black screen, go to the Troubleshooting Steps)
9. Decrypt9WIP will launch. Choose "SysNAND Options", "CTRNAND tranfer...", "Auto CTRNAND Transfer". Press LEFT, UP, RIGHT, UP and A. Press A twice. (one to select the downgrade file and the other to create a backup)
10. Press B and SELECT.
11. Put your microSD in your PC.
11. Now you can delete the 2.1.0 ctrtransfer files from your files9 folder.
12. Extract the SafeA9LHInstaller 7z and copy the "arm9.bin" to your microSD root.
13. Open the folder: "Nintendo 3DS/(32 Character ID)/(32 Character ID)/extdata/00000000" and delete the folder "0000008f".
14. Put the microSD in your console and press START.
15. Open your browser, do the initial setup, click URL and go to "http://dukesrg.github.io/2xrsa.html?arm11.bin". (If your screen glitches, refer to the bottom of the post)
16. It'll open a black screen with a few things written on it. Press SELECT, wait a few seconds and press any button to shutdown your console.
17. Power it on. The Luma3DS config screen will show. Press A at each one of the options (from "Autoboot SysNAND" to "Patch SVC/service/archive/ARM9 access). If you're on N3DS, also, Press A thrice at "New 3DS CPU". Press START and power off your console. If you get "Failed to Mount CTRNAND", just continue following the guide.
18. Power it on again. Exactly after you press the POWER button, hold START. It'll boot Houglass9.
19. Select "SysNAND Backup/Restore...", "SysNAND Restore (keep a9lh)". Now, press LEFT, UP, RIGHT, UP and A. Press A. After it successfully restores your 11.2 backup, just reboot your console. (If you don't have a backup, follow this)
20. Put your microSD into your PC and backup the "otp.bin" inside your "a9lh" folder.
21. Download this file, extract, rename the "Decrypt9WIP.bin" to "up_Decrypt9WIP.bin".
22. Put it in the folder "payloads" inside "luma" in your microSD root.
24. Go to here and download the "fbi-2.4.2-injectable.zip" in the "What you need" section. Extract the "fbi-2.4.2-injectable.zip" and put all the .app in the files9 folder.
25. Put the microSD back in your 3DS.
26. Press UP while booting your console and choose "SysNAND Options", "Miscellaneous", "Health&Safety Inject". Press LEFT, UP, RIGHT, UP and A. Press A and START to reboot into Home Menu.
27. Now open Health & Safety (which now is FBI), select TitleDB and install "hblauncher_loader v1.2" and "Luma3DS Updater".
28. Select SD, press A on arm9loaderhax.bin, Copy.
29. Press any button and press B.
30. Select CTR NAND, press A on <current directory> and Paste.
31. Press HOME, close FBI and wait a few seconds.
32. Power off your console and put your microSD in your PC.
33. Boot your 3DS and re-follow Step 17.
34. Now you can delete the "a9lh", "files9", "Themes" folders and the "arm9.bin", "arm11.bin", "SafeA9LHInstaller.dat" and "soundhax-usa-o3ds.m4a" (on O3DSes, on N3DSes it's "soundhax-usa-n3ds.m4a") files and put your microSD in your 3DS again.

If you have a 3DS from other region than U, follow these steps.
1. Go to http://soundhax.com/ and select the right config for region and device.
2. Instead of going to "Nintendo 3DS/(32 Character ID)/(32 Character ID)/extdata/00000000" and deleting the "0000008f" folder, delete "00000098" if yours is EUR, "00000082" if yours is JPN and "000000A9" if yours is KOR.
3. Go here, scroll to "Otherapp/ropbin payloads", select your version, click "Download otherapp", rename it to otherapp.bin and move it to your microsD root.

Spoiler: Troubleshooting Steps

If you came here from step 8:
1. Install Steel Diver: Sub Wars.
2. Download and extract this.
3. Open Steel Diver and create a save.
4. Boot homebrew.
5. Open steelhax_installer.
6. Move "otherapp.bin" from your microSD root to the "steelhax" folder
7. rename it to payload.bin
8. Delete "put_payload.bin_here"
9. Open Steel Diver and follow the rest of the guide.

If it still doesn't work, put a game in the cartridge slot. Some users reported it worked after doing this.



If you came here from step 15, just follow the guide imagining nothing happened.


If you can't get to Luma3DS screen after successfully following 16, get the arm9loaderhax.bin from this file and put in your microSD root.
If, after getting a glitched screen on step 15 and continuing like nothing happened you still don't see Luma's config, just re-start step 15.

CREDITS:
Smealum for homebrew: Twitter, GBATemp, Github
Ned Williamson for soundhax and fasthax: Twitter, GBATemp, Github (Couldn't find his profile)
AuroraWright for Luma3DS, SafeA9LHInstaller and her a9lh fork: Twitter, GBATemp, Github (Couldn't find her twitter)
Dark-Samus for the a9lh from which AuroraWright forked her version: Twitter, GBATemp, Github (Couldn't find his Twitter)
Jason Dellaluce, a.k.a Delebile, for the a9lh from which Dark-Samus forked his version: Twitter, GBATemp, Github
Andres Puel , a.k.a TiniVi for safehax: Twitter, GBATemp, Github (I think I got the right Twitter)
Plailect for teaching me the first time I installed CFW with his guide: Twitter, GBATemp, Github

Without each one of you, none of this would be possible.

Spoiler: People who reported mistakes or errors/Helped me

Zoogie and Tsumes for providing the zip with safehax+fasthax already compiled
Quantumcat and Zidapi for helping me when I was still a noob in this whole 3DS thing
KanterZ for the video guide

EDIT: Apparently, some entrypoints not working is luck. Just keep retrying it. A user reported success with soundhax after 50+ attempts. But change exploit first. Might be a time saver.

I waited exactly 24 hours to post this. No one caught it.

"N3DS v11.2.0-35U with soundax"

 

[Hyoretsu]

Hyoretsu, I got to the "Delete the 9.2.0 ctrtransfer image .bin and .bin.sha from the /files9/ folder on your SD card" step and did that. Inserted the sd card back into my 3ds. The "Update your CFW SysNAND to the latest version using system settings" is just booting the 3ds normal and updating it like normal?

how do i know that i have a9lh successfully ?????

Hold START at boot. If it shows something up, you have a9lh.

 

[TDAdvocate]

Try one of the three anwers in the troubleshooting steps in OP.

I back tracked and redid all the files for my SD card and this got me to the point of step 19 of the written tutorial. I apparently did not have a backup get made proper. I am going to attempt to follow the steps on the 9.2.0 ctrtransfer stuff. Is there any way to possibly update back to 11.2.0-35U and just start from scratch?

 

[Hyoretsu]

I back tracked and redid all the files for my SD card and this got me to the point of step 19 of the written tutorial. I apparently did not have a backup get made proper. I am going to attempt to follow the steps on the 9.2.0 ctrtransfer stuff. Is there any way to possibly update back to 11.2.0-35U and just start from scratch?

If you follow the 9.2 ctrtransfer and update to 11.2, it'll do the same thing as the backup. Excluding that you'll have to re-download any games/re-do any saves you had. You'll still have a9lh.

 

[Spaceboy]

I am getting an error that says I can't update.