Hacking Is it possible to run CIAs for developer consoles on retail consoles?

[ariss]

I have a CIA that normally is supposed to run with developer hardware.
I have emunand installed on my 3ds and when I try to install the cia, I get an error:
"DESCRIPTION_INVALID_NCCH (0x25)"
Is it even possible to do this?

 

[xtheman]

Use the latest luma version and turn on "UNITINFO"
It should install now

 

[Flying Scotsman]

Use the latest luma version and turn on "UNITINFO"
It should install now

Should be noted - if you turn that on, you can't install retail CIAs (it'll give you an error, much like the one you got trying to install a Dev CIA onto a non-dev unit) and any installed Dev CIAs won't work properly until you turn UNITINFO back on again (but then retail CIAs won't launch).

 

[Shawnj]

So it's like a switch for dev mode, then.

 

[Flying Scotsman]

So it's like a switch for dev mode, then.

Basically, yeah. It's a pity you can't have retail functionality under Dev mode like you can with other consoles (like CEX to DEX CFW PS3s. Retail functionality, paired with Developer features like RTMing (real time modding) etc) though.

 

[xtheman]

Should be noted - if you turn that on, you can't install retail CIAs (it'll give you an error, much like the one you got trying to install a Dev CIA onto a non-dev unit) and any installed Dev CIAs won't work properly until you turn UNITINFO back on again (but then retail CIAs won't launch).

What? I've installed every .cia from the sdk (just downloaded from nintendo, not modified in anyway) using UNITINFO and they launch fine without it...

 

[ariss]

Thanks for the feedback

 

[Flying Scotsman]

What? I've installed every .cia from the sdk (just downloaded from nintendo, not modified in anyway) using UNITINFO and they launch fine without it...

The last time I tried to do that, FBI gave me an installer error. It could have changed, I dunno (I gave up trying to install them and went with community made CIAs instead (like JKSM etc)).

 

[ariss]

I just successfully installed a developer CIA with luma

 

[Fishaman P]

From what I understand, the UNITINFO only needs to be set during installation. It doesn't matter what it's set to when launching already installed CIAs.

 

[ariss]

exactly