@hundshamer on the forum does hardmods in US.old 3ds XL
getting all the equipment might cost more than what makes the job worth doing. may be be easier and cheaper to just pay someone to do it for me. Would any kind of shops do this?
Then again feel like having a crack at it myself. hmmmm. Gonna get some prices for someone else to do it and go from there.
Cant seem to find the hardware downgrade guide all guides are to downgrade 9.5 and below.
I'm afraid it's hard to find someone to do for you since it's not an actual repair nor is it endorsed by Nintendo. Anyway, It's so much fun to do things yourself and it's much easier than you think especially that you have a xl model.
Oh, I see. Sucks .wasn't me id never do something so daft. it was my mrs's family theyve had her 3ds for sometime and one of the wallies at some point has updated it.
was getting ready to install rxtools so she can play the new animal crossing as she has the old r4 delux card however didn't bother going any further when seeing system versiom 9.6
i seriously cant find the dam guide for it. been looking for the past half an hour all links go to <9.2 downgrade guide. I have a rough idea how to do it vaguely you need a donor sd some soldering and a raspberry PI. Can you please link the guide?
The question that keeps popping up in my mind is, How was Gw able to figure out how to downgrade to 4.5...should there be some files that are signed?
If you're familiar with how Android recovery works, I believe that that's how Gateway downgrader works. The Gateway downgrader sits between the system and the nand (probably the ram or SD card) and basically erases all files from the nand (which is fine because the gateway downgrader isn't running from the nand). It then copies the older firmware byte for bye to the nand, thus making the nand into a 1:1 copy of an older firmware installation. The whole process is very similar to nand dumping and restoring, so no signing trickery involved.The question that keeps popping up in my mind is, How was Gw able to figure out how to downgrade to 4.5...should there be some files that are signed?