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Yup, I'm going to do it tonight. I'm a bit nervous because of inexperience but hey, go big or go home.

I was going to ask this later but I figure I'll get it out of the way. Can someone link me to a current guide to installing freeshop? Thanks in advance.
your lack of exp is a blessing it forces you to read every step . . . while a lot of early a9lh bricks were caused by people assuming they may skip steps (due to prior knowledge that was fast becoming outdated at the time)
oh and there is no guide to install freeshop you need to google for freeshop.cia and (you will understand later how to) install it via fbi
 
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Yup, I'm going to do it tonight. I'm a bit nervous because of inexperience but hey, go big or go home.

I was going to ask this later but I figure I'll get it out of the way. Can someone link me to a current guide to installing freeshop? Thanks in advance.
freeShop was taken down, but you can still find it by searching on that iso site and installing the cia
 

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freeShop was taken down, but you can still find it by searching on that iso site and installing the cia
your lack of exp is a blessing it forces you to read every step . . . while a lot of early a9lh bricks were caused by people assuming they may skip steps (due to prior knowledge that was fast becoming outdated at the time)
oh and there is no guide to install freeshop you need to google for freeshop.cia and (you will understand later how to) install it via fbi
Thanks to both of you.
 

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So, I started my attempt but when I download the DecryptWIP the guide tells me to copy decryptwip.bin to my sd card the folder has no .bin files. There are other various dot files but no .bin

Next problem, I used the h2testw thing to scan my SD card for problems, everything it checked was fine and good but it said it didn't check everywhere. Is that an issue?

EDIT: jk I'm a idiot, that's all sorted out
 
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The guides telling me that I need a backup. How do I do that? Is it as simple as copy/pasting my SD card to another folder?
 

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Geez, sorry for being so problematic but now when I try to download the ctrtransfer image nothing happens when I click the link. Please help.
 

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Gah, what happened to the guide? It... became primitive... and it can't find any pages. I tried it on my phone and it still pulls up weird. Is this happening to anyone else?
 

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