Homebrew How to install legit CIA files 9.3-10.3

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Alrighty, here goes.

- System: o3DS XL, n3DS XL
- Sysnand: 10.3
- Booted HBL with: MenuHax v2.1, Ironhax (Ironfall ver. 1.1)
- Homebrew Version: Original Smea, Grid Launcher
- How many tries before FBI worked: Hundreds of tries for multiple seperate CIA installations
- How many tries before Legit CIA installation worked: Only a couple - when FBI worked CIA installation worked all but twice, IIRC
- Did it work: Yes... eventually.
 

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- System: o3DS XL USA
- Sysnand: 10.3-28U
- Booted HBL with: MenuHax v2.1
- Homebrew Version: smea latest version
- How many tries before FBI worked: around 10 - 20 times
- How many tries before Legit CIA installation worked: 1 (currently installing at 20%)
- Did it work: so far
- mario kart 7
- also i previously tried with 10.1 and couldnt get fbi to load at all so i updated to 10.3 specifically for this and its actually working a lot better.
 
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I actually tried this with a difference of an amount of time, which certainly didn't matter, but I'll write three times .
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- System: EUR O3DS
- Sysnand: 10.3
- Booted HBL with: IronHax
- Homebrew Version: Original Smea
- How many tries before FBI worked: 46
- How many tries before Legit CIA installation worked: 0
- Did it work: Never
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- System: EUR O3DS
- Sysnand: 10.3
- Booted HBL with: MenuHax
- Homebrew Version: Original Smea
- How many tries before FBI worked: 2
- How many tries before Legit CIA installation worked: 0
- Did it work: Yes
- Games installed: Mario Kart 7
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- System: EUR O3DS
- Sysnand: 10.3
- Booted HBL with: MenuHax
- Homebrew Version: Original Smea
- How many tries before FBI worked: 0
- How many tries before Legit CIA installation worked: 0
- Did it work: Yes
- Games installed: AC New Leaf & NSMB. 2 Special Edition
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Yes I just installed two consecutive .cia on the first session of FBI without rebooting my 3DS a single time by using menuhax.
Even I hate not having shuffle feature for my custom themes for now I'll stick with menuhax since works fairly better than ironhax.
 

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Ok, I have 7 hours of trying this and I'm about to give up. Sometimes the text looks broken, other times the text shows up until "cleaning" but doesn't load anything else, but if I hit any button it shows me the sd card with the cias, but when I try to load one of them it says that the installation failed, and sometimes the text shows perfectly, but frozen. Is it supposed to be like this? I just want to know if there's something else I'm supposed to do. I know that I'm supposed to keep trying, but it's been a long while of trying. Thanks.
 
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Ok, I have 7 hours of trying this and I'm about to give up. Sometimes the text looks broken, other times the text shows up until "cleaning" but doesn't load anything else, but if I hit any button it shows me the sd card with the cias, but when I try to load one of them it says that the installation failed, and sometimes the text shows perfectly, but frozen. Is it supposed to be like this? I just want to know if there's something else I'm supposed to do. I know that I'm supposed to keep trying, but it's been a long while of trying. Thanks.
Same problem as this guy, i don't know if it has to do but I have a 2DS instead of a 3DS, but I checked that the firmware is correct and everything is all right, just having the same problem as this guy.
 

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Finally got myself a successful run.

N3DS 10.3.0.28U (Or whatever the latest is.)
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Ran the OoTHax installer first. Even though that failed, I went back to launcher and started FBI. First time I did this cycle, it froze after Done (which, seeing that I knew was progress because I hadn't seen the exploit load at all in previous attempts). Second attempt, same process (starting with OoTHax installer), installing Mario and Luigi now!

Minor Edit: Froze when trying to exit FBI, but a hard reboot showed the software on my home screen. Did an official update to latest version, and it launched just fine! Playing now!
 
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- System: O3DS
- Sysnand: 10.3.0-28U
- Booted HBL with: IronHax
- Homebrew Version: Original Smea
- How many tries before FBI worked: Nearly 100
- How many tries before Legit CIA installation worked: 1
- Did it work: Yes

I found that opening and closing the screenshot tool, then opening FBI helped make it work. It took about three reboots after that, but it eventually worked. I wish I would've thought of that seven hours ago.
 

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