Hacking Help! Restored Backup without "keep A9LH" option. Still in Decrypt9. Can I keep A9LH? New 11.0.0-33E

[MiePx3]

Hey guys, title explains my situation!
The backup had A9LH installed. Does my 3DS still have A9LH? If not, can I help myself anyway?

 

[ihaveahax]

are you absolutely sure the backup had arm9loaderhax? then it should be fine. in the future you should use "keep a9lh" to be safe.

 

[MiePx3]

Yeah, 100% sure. I just made it about 2 hours ago. I always do use "keep A9LH", but I restored three different backups on two different 3DSs and I was kinda distracted.

 

[Lacius]

If the backup had A9LH installed, you should be fine.

 

[MiePx3]

Oh thank fucking god. I nearly pissed myself. Thanks for the clarification guys. Ill keep that in mind!
3DS working just fine!

 

[Oishikatta]

You should be using Hourglass9 instead. Hourglass9 explicitly never overwrites a9lh.

 

[TheCyberQuake]

You should be using Hourglass9 instead. Hourglass9 explicitly never overwrites a9lh.

I second that. I exclusively use Hourglass 9 when I make and restore backups, just to keep myself from accidentally doing something stupid. I only use Decrypt9 for it's other functionalities like Cart dumping and it's ability to dump and restore other files.

 

[Quantumcat]

I second that. I exclusively use Hourglass 9 when I make and restore backups, just to keep myself from accidentally doing something stupid. I only use Decrypt9 for it's other functionalities like Cart dumping and it's ability to dump and restore other files.

Someone should make a Decrypt9 that has the sysNAND restore feature removed - people already have both Decrypt9 and Hourglass9, so it wouldn't be too onerous to have the two payloads Hourglass9 and whatever the new name is they come up with.

 

[gamesquest1]

fwiw if that hadn't been the case and you had restored a none a9lh nand backup but was still on the decrypt9 screen (just incase someone else does this and searches for a solution),

(making sure you do not accidentally power down until this is done)

you could have pressed B to go back to the menu, pressed select to unmount the SD, then find and copy a pre 11.0 nand backup to your SD, pop the SD back in and restore that nand backup