If you were plannin on updating your 3ds with emunand on gateway, but you are too lazy, is too late! A new update is supposely coming out on Monday! It may block the ability to use emunand, who knows? The update is supposed to come after the eshop maintenance (scheduled for Monday 9, from 12 pm to 11pm US East Coast)
Source: http://www.justpushstart.com/2013/12/rumor-nintendo-3ds-receiving-miiverse-update-monday/
Update: Okay i did not know this but it appears that you can update the emunand and do all the process of the emunand without the gateway 3ds but just with a ds flashcart, so if you want to update and you are waiting for your gateway to come, just get a ds flashcart and update now!
Here have a Dummy proof tutorial by kyogre123 (thanks also to Snailface for pointing it out), and edited by Cyan to remove unnecessary information, and add new ones.
Update (10/12/2013) : 7.xx seems to be fine for some people (some say that emunand from 4.xx to 7.xx works fine, others that emunand from 6.3 to 7.xx gives them issues) either way, eshop nor miiverse features seem to work. Better wait for Gateway to give us some info in there.. A note on this. The Gateway website says that their mail will no longer gibe technical support, instead they give you links that thtows you into other forums. (Guess they gpt tired of obnoxious trolls)
Source: http://www.justpushstart.com/2013/12/rumor-nintendo-3ds-receiving-miiverse-update-monday/
Update: Okay i did not know this but it appears that you can update the emunand and do all the process of the emunand without the gateway 3ds but just with a ds flashcart, so if you want to update and you are waiting for your gateway to come, just get a ds flashcart and update now!
Here have a Dummy proof tutorial by kyogre123 (thanks also to Snailface for pointing it out), and edited by Cyan to remove unnecessary information, and add new ones.
- Ensure the 3DS SD card has more than 1GB of free space.
- Boot in GateWay menu by pressing L while selecting the DS Profile.
- In GateWay menu, select "Back up NAND" and wait for the process to complete. Exit (by selecting the first icon BootGateway) and shutdown your 3DS.
- Copy all files and folders from SD card to PC. Then put the SD card back in 3DS
- Launch GateWay menu again, select "Prepare EmuNAND" option and wait for the process to complete.
Attention: This step will format the SD card and delete everything on it. Be sure to backup your SD card to PC before doing it.- Exit the menu (by selecting the first icon BootGateway).
Note: If you get stuck on the grey scanline screen, shutdown and reboot in GateWay mode (without L).
You are now in EmuNAND!
Optional: You can also do some visual changes using your Icons size/position and create/rename folders to differentiate both RealNAND and EmuNAND)
Attention, if you go to System Settings (to see if there's 3DGW text) and exit, the console will reboot and you will be back to RealNAND.- Shut down your 3DS, put the SD card on PC and delete the "Nintendo 3DS" folder visible on the SD card. Copy your previously backed up files and folders from your PC to the SD card (except NAND.bin). Put back the SD card into 3DS.
- Without GW mode, go to System Settings and delete all Internet settings from your Real NAND; then exit to the main menu.
Optional: You can also change your language setting to add even more visual changes to differentiate RealNAND and EmuNAND. If you change the language, you will need to reinstall the DS exploit).- Boot GW mode (without L). You are now in EmuNAND (you should see the Icons/languages are different if you did the previously optional steps)
- verify that Internet settings are intact on emuNAND
- Reboot the console.
(Optional and preventive). Double check that Internet settings are actually deleted from the actual NAND .- Boot GW mode (without L). Go to System Settings, check for the letters GW3D on there and go straight to System Update. DO NOT EXIT SETTINGS OR DO ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE UPDATING. If you did something else, reboot the console and restart GW Mode to launch EmuNAND again.
- Enjoy the latest 3DS firmware.
Also note that this guide was made assuming that the system had already a registered hostpot before doing the EmuNAND partition.
Update (10/12/2013) : 7.xx seems to be fine for some people (some say that emunand from 4.xx to 7.xx works fine, others that emunand from 6.3 to 7.xx gives them issues) either way, eshop nor miiverse features seem to work. Better wait for Gateway to give us some info in there.. A note on this. The Gateway website says that their mail will no longer gibe technical support, instead they give you links that thtows you into other forums. (Guess they gpt tired of obnoxious trolls)