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Greetings! I'm a new user here, although I've been lurking for a long time. I've been following the whole Lurantis's Cia craze and I am one of those unfortunate fellows that have been banned. Seeing how these bans seem to be permanent, I've been looking for a way to unban myself and saw there IS a way, but considering I have a MenuHax + Luma setup, I decided to hold off for a bit. Running Decrypt9 to try and inject the file without solid proof that I can do it scares me, and I'm not in a position to go get a new 3DS right now :P


Now that I bought a new SD Card, I'm willing to try and get an Arm9Loader + Luma setup. I barely care about my old data: only thing I backupped would be my Moon save which I plan on importing once the whole thing is done.

Considering this: following this guide (https://plailect.github.io/Guide/) should I just put in the new clean SD and treat it as a fresh install, or should I take special precautions?

My main concern is being able to run Decrypt9 with the less risks possible, and once done then benefit of all the positive traits arm9loader has over Menuhax.

Thanks in advance for the help!
 
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Its best to do it with a new sd card. You don't need to do anything special to install. Just follow the guide normally and you shouldn't run into any problems.
 
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Really sorry to be a bother: I've understood that with the arm9loaderhax I don't really have a SysNand + EmuNand situation, but sort of a patched SysNand. How do system update work then? Would it be safe to update or do I have follow some particular procedure?

I just really want to be sure about what I'm doing and not mess up anything. I've been reading a lot and the more I read the more I get confused.
 

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    I really would like to make a hack that I would enjoy playing, and maybe other people would too. swapping to the EU version would also mean my US friends could not legally play it
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    I am definitely considering porting over some of the EU features without using the actual ROM itself, tbh that would probably be the best way to go about it... but i'm sad that the voice acting is so.... not good on the US version. May not be a way around that though
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    I appreciate the insight!
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    @TwoSpikedHands just switch, all the knowledge you learned still applies and most of the code and assets should be the same anyway
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    do y'all think having an sd card that has a write speed of 700kb/s is a bad idea?
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    @Karma177 that sd card is 100% faulty so yes, its a bad idea
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    even the slowest non-sdhc sd cards are a few MB/s
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    run h2testw on it
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    when SD cards/microSD write speeds drop below a meg a sec, they're usually on the verge of dying
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    Samsung SD format can sometimes fix them too
  • Purple_Heart @ Purple_Heart:
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    @Psionic Roshambo i may try that with my dead sd cards
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