Really? I was under he impression all you needed was a way to install the rop loader and a internet connection. I was looking at the CIA guide and it seams to say you need a ds flash cart. I could have read it wrong.
I'm trying to get the CFW up and running on my 3DS without a Gateway card, but when I try to trigger the exploit for the blue top screen and white bottom screen, all I get is a blue top screen. Bottom screen stays black or white. I've rebooted numerous times to retry it, but it's always the same outcome! Do I have to wait awhile after triggering the exploit for the white screen to flash?
So did you ever get the dev menu installed? I can get as far as step 12 but I'm having problems this part.I've had better luck using Gateway's exploit and Launcher_GW.dat (renamed as Launcher.dat, of course).
Waiting for the system to load the SD card titles also helps.
The bottom screen should flash white, and then swap to redNAND (modified emuNAND) afterwards. If it never flashed, or it hangs after, even 30 seconds, go ahead and reboot.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/4-x-only-cia-cfw-complete-guide.373532/page-11#post-5145746 helped out a lot, especially with the bat file.
Doesn't the go exploit work more less like the rop loader?