Homebrew is loader9hax worth it?

[joyoshi]

I have my system for myself only, and I don't care about bootrates. Should I get it?

 

[Salamencizer]

I have my system for myself only, and I don't care about bootrates. Should I get it?

Just wait for sometime. a9lh is still new, so not worth taking the risk yet. But later, this could be used for restoring sysNAND backups if you accidentally brick it.

 

[Teoz Benny]

It is worth It. I keep seeing people say wait etc. If you can follow instructions and have a few hours its really worth It. Ive got arm9loaderhax running on aureinand emunand 10.5 sysnand 9.2 with screen init and a bootloader + decrypt9 + An r4 flash card for ds stuff. Once you use arm9loaderhax you will be pleased to not have to mess around with menuhax as well as this just boots flawlessly every time and its really fast. I was nervous to downgrade to to get my otp.bin because of all the scare storys, but I follow the guide on here and had no problems. I will say downgrading with that sketchy sysupdater I used to come from 10.3 to 9.2 sysnand was making me sweat way more than this did. But of a rant but there is nothing wrong with arm9loaderhax and it actually improves how you use everything. I get annoyed keep seeing people say oh It bricks your 3ds....

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I came back here when I got my new 3ds xl and I learnt a lot by reading and keeping up with the news on arm9loaderhax and saw the guide was updated several time So I could see that It was not going to instantly brick me lol. So my moral of the storys is reading the arm9loaderhax discussion thread on here and you will see about 100+ pages of people with It working perfect.

 

[WiiUBricker]

Isn't wearing off the NAND chip faster also a disadvantage of A9LH?

 

[Teoz Benny]

Its not going to wear out the nand chip any more than menuhax or whatever to be fair. I do understand your point but its not going to wear your nand out within a short space of time. In fact writing loads of cia,s to nand will wear It out faster by a massive amount and even then the nand will last years. So its kind of a mute question to ask. No offence to you for asking by the way just saying...

 

[Hyura]

It is worth It. I keep seeing people say wait etc. If you can follow instructions and have a few hours its really worth It. Ive got arm9loaderhax running on aureinand emunand 10.5 sysnand 9.2 with screen init and a bootloader + decrypt9 + An r4 flash card for ds stuff. Once you use arm9loaderhax you will be pleased to not have to mess around with menuhax as well as this just boots flawlessly every time and its really fast. I was nervous to downgrade to to get my otp.bin because of all the scare storys, but I follow the guide on here and had no problems. I will say downgrading with that sketchy sysupdater I used to come from 10.3 to 9.2 sysnand was making me sweat way more than this did. But of a rant but there is nothing wrong with arm9loaderhax and it actually improves how you use everything. I get annoyed keep seeing people say oh It bricks your 3ds....

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I came back here when I got my new 3ds xl and I learnt a lot by reading and keeping up with the news on arm9loaderhax and saw the guide was updated several time So I could see that It was not going to instantly brick me lol. So my moral of the storys is reading the arm9loaderhax discussion thread on here and you will see about 100+ pages of people with It working perfect.

I saw a lot of people with the a9lhax working with no problems, I'm seriously thinking about it.

Is the only risk of brick the moment of the downgrade?

 

[Teoz Benny]

Yeah and even then its not that risky as long as you just stick to the instructions.

 

[FenrirWolf]

The a9lh installer itself also technically poses a brick risk, as it's directly modifying the FIRM partitions used to boot the console. But the number of people who have successfully downgraded their consoles to get their OTP as well as the number of successful installs of a9lh is quite high.

 

[happydance]

i'm actually not bothered with the boot speed of menuhax. My o3ds boot rate is not that crappy in the first place and I could just go old style with the DS profile exploit since it works. it's not like the end of my world not being to play games fast enough, it's not like i'm competing with others around me whose 3ds boots fast

I can still use decrypt 9 and not afraid of bricks since I got emunand, and I believe that's what's it purpose to begin with, to stop stupid bricks so I won't be needing hard mods any time soon (even tough it's no problem fro me to solder one)

I can still use pasta to play VC games on sysnand if I ever play one.

seriously why so afraid of bricks, unless you don't something stupid on your sysnand and stick with emunand, you won't be needing a hardmod or the a9lh decrrypt9 version.

if a9lh present some real advantage for me in the future dev's advancement then I might give it a go, but now it unnecessary for me.

 

[Space_Goddess_Samus_Aran]

No, sadly it's more harder than that, if you have an O3DS, it's easier, but still need to downgrade sysNAND
If you have a N3DS, it's a lot harder ('cuz there no official version of FW 2.1 for N3DS)

Just use this guide, it's the safest method right now

i have a N3ds

 

[PixelBurst]

i have a N3ds

I wouldn't say it's any harder, if you're making the appropriate backups and putting them in the places the guide tells you too the one difference is you run the script to unbrick the FW meaning you need to make sure your folder layout and files are exactly where they are supposed to be.

 

[Ryu X]

There is a huge risk when flashing the 2.1 unbricked to sysnand even if you follow the guide 100% you can still get a brick due to how unstable the flasher can be especially on new 3ds.

 

[PixelBurst]

There is a huge risk when flashing the 2.1 unbricked to sysnand even if you follow the guide 100% you can still get a brick due to how unstable the flasher can be especially on new 3ds.

Riskier I'd agree with, just not harder

 

[TreyTrent]

Maybe using A9LH isn't quite worth it yet, but I think obtaining your OTP definitely is. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the only thing you need to generate a working NAND to flash to a bricked unit from a donor console.

Isn't wearing off the NAND chip faster also a disadvantage of A9LH?

You do realize that once A9LH is configured you barely load anything from the systems NAND and can immediately redirect to SD to load the rest? Also the systems eMMC likely has wear levelling and most NAND chips are good for a hundred thousand writes on paper and usually more in deployment. If anything A9LH can remove wear from the systems NAND, not that NAND wear should be much an issue for anyone anyway.

 

[nolimits59]

The only thing that makes me actually think about doing it is that anoying yellow screen that appear every 50% time i boot my O3DS menuhax x), so i don't know if it worth it

 

[Jacklack3]

Im not getting it.

I never really shut off my 3ds and i am okay with emunand so i dont need to switch my emunand.