Homebrew Is there something wrong with A9LH?

[Margen67]

Oh no! That's the same chance that a masterball will fail against a wild pokemon!
*turns off ds*
Never touching it again.

nothinghax is pretty great if you're looking for a stable exploit. No installation, no risk, no stupid mistakes to make, no boot times, no nothing.
Just leave your 3DS alone. You can also imagine it to be hacked, but that's a different exploit: imaginehax

 

[Shadowtrance]

Seeing as you have to dedicate 4 hours of your time and make 10 gigabytes of NAND backups for a 256b file, and downgrade your sysNAND to 2.1 just to get it, I see why people would be deterred. Doing any step wrong can make you lost data or hardbrick,
It's great though, but most undedicated people would rather do Menuhax and call it a day.

10GB of nand backups? What are you smoking? lol

 

[regnad]

I have A9LH on my O3DS. It took forever and made me a nervous wreck.

I'd like to do it with my main system, a N3DSXL, but I'm too nervous. At seems like a lot more people are bricking N3DS than O3DS doing this. 9.2 with auto boot EmuNAND/CFW works fine on it, so I'm in no rush.

 

[Halvorsen]

10GB of nand backups? What are you smoking? lol

Original sysNAND/emuNAND backups-4GB.
Emunand_formatted-6GB
2.1 unbricked emunand (sysnand) 8GB
Okay, 8gb. But still. (this was using an old guide)

 

[Margen67]

10GB of nand backups? What are you smoking? lol

Menuhax peasant paranoia.

I have A9LH on my O3DS. It took forever and made me a nervous wreck.

I'd like to do it with my main system, a N3DSXL, but I'm too nervous. At seems like a lot more people are bricking N3DS than O3DS doing this. 9.2 with auto boot EmuNAND/CFW works fine on it, so I'm in no rush.

I did it on my N3DS and it worked.
You shouldn't worry since most bricks are user error anyway.

 

[wurstpistole]

For me, laziness. Autobooting into EmuNAND with HomeMenuHax works just fine for me so I don't really have much desire to bother with setting up a9lh.

Same for me. Boots like 95 percent.

 

[Shadowtrance]

Original sysNAND/emuNAND backups-4GB.
Emunand_formatted-6GB
2.1 unbricked emunand (sysnand) 8GB
Okay, 8gb. But still. (this was using an old guide)

Yeah makes sense now that you put it like that.
Either way, if 10gb space used during the process is an issue you have bigger problems. You need a bigger hdd! haha

 

[Halvorsen]

Yeah makes sense now that you put it like that.
Either way, if 10gb space used during the process is an issue you have bigger problems. You need a bigger hdd! haha

It's more of the fact that you need that much space for a 256 byte file. That feeling when. Haha.

 

[Shadowtrance]

It's more of the fact that you need that much space for a 256 byte file. That feeling when. Haha.

haha yeah good point, shitload of effort for a tiny ass file...

 

[Arubaro]

For me it's like... "Does menuhax work? then let it be..."
Unless a9lh becomes totally necessary in a future or something... personally, I'm not going to install it in a near future.

 

[Shadowtrance]

For me it's like... "Does menuhax work? then let it be..."
Unless a9lh becomes totally necessary in a future or something... personally, I'm not going to install it in a near future.

Instant boot > menuhax any day.

 

[tubbyman2000]

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[Deleted User]

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[Deleted User]

Because I'm a lazy ass and don't really care about coldbooting, which is the only thing I'd use it for.

 

[KytuzuEX]

Ugh, I don't know if I should take the risk ... I followed this tutorial and I don't know if it will be compatible with A9hl

 

[raystriker]

For me, laziness. Autobooting into EmuNAND with HomeMenuHax works just fine for me so I don't really have much desire to bother with setting up a9lh.

Exactly. When you have a perfectly working setup, why would you wanna change that.

 

[gudenau]

Did you know that there is a small chance that your n3DS will brick every instant?

Edit:
There is nothing wrong with A9LH itself, the process of installing it is quite scary and a little nerve wracking.

 

[pre10c]

nope, didn't know that because it's absolute horseshit.

Every boot writes to the nand, so in matter of fact he is right, every boot potentially can break your nand

 

[SG6000]

Instant boot > menuhax any day.

I totally get this. But for me - as an almost exclusive Retroarch user - the time saving equation doesn't make sense:

It would probably take me longer than the average 4 hours the process seems to take most. Call it 6 hours, taking toilet breaks / changing of underwear and a mini heart-attack or two into account.

When I switch my N3DS on, menuhax on autoboot gets me into grid launcher and ready to boot an emulator core within 25 seconds, and I can be playing a game within 30 seconds of initial power on.

Assuming that the every super quick A9LH launch saves me, say 20 seconds of time and I can be playing a game within 10 seconds of initial power on, if I play two sessions daily that's 40 seconds saved per day.

By my very rough calculations it'll take me the best part of around 12 months to break even on the time spent installing A9LH. It's just not worth it for me.

 

[jpxdude]

I concur that other than the risk of bricking, the fact that it takes hours to complete the entire process successfully will hold many back. From my own personal experiences, it took between 6-8 hours on my N3DS from scratch, and most of that was due to copying files back and forth (I have a lot of files on my SD card which has been migrated from a launch day 3DS!!)