Hacking Keep using rxTools

[RikuKawai]

To be fair, A9LH is a good degree more complicated to install. Took me around 3 hours.

 

[rasputin]

Either you are ignorant, or you wanted to turn your 3DS to be an expensive door jammer.
@Crystal the Glaceon already made numerous reason why you have to stay away from rxTools, and here you still say it is not risking a brick?

There, fixed it for you.

OK, I'm ignorant. Please tell me how it bricks a 3ds? Do you mean it might brick the emunand?

 

[gnmmarechal]

How is it old? That happens when time passes.

Latest commit was 5 days ago, pretty sure that's not old.

 

[thekarter104]

Because it sucks, no politics, no bullshit. It's old and it sucks.

Because Donald Trump still uses rxTools ^^

 

[gnmmarechal]

To be fair, A9LH is a good degree more complicated to install. Took me around 3 hours.

The process is much simpler now.

 

[ih8ih8sn0w]

How is it old? That happens when time passes.

just because there arent commits every day doesnt mean its dead.

 

[RikuKawai]

The process is much simpler now.

Good to hear, because 3 NAND backups and downgrading to 2.1 was not fun. Would have taken me probably 5-6 hours if I didn't already have EmuNAND due to the sheer amount of games on my SD card.

 

[mikefor20]

uh oh, I struck a chord with the rxfools and the carbonik guys ! Lol! Look, running emunand and the cfw's is old and outdated. Fight a crusade for something that doesn't suck and go a9lh already.

 

[gnmmarechal]

Good to hear, because 3 NAND backups and downgrading to 2.1 was not fun. Would have taken me probably 5-6 hours if I didn't already have EmuNAND due to the sheer amount of games on my SD card.

CTRTransfer for the o3DS and OTPless A9LH for n3DS make it much faster, especially for the n3DS.

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uh oh, July struck a chord with the rxfools and the carbonik guys ! Lol! Look, running emunand and the cfw's is old and outdated. Fight a crusade for something that doesn't suck and go a9lh already.

huh.... learn something - Corbenik is an A9LH-exclusive CFW. lmao. I run A9LH + Corbenik with SysNAND.... please. Learn before posting.

 

[ih8ih8sn0w]

uh oh, July struck a chord with the rxfools and the carbonik guys ! Lol! Look, running emunand and the cfw's is old and outdated. Fight a crusade for something that doesn't suck and go a9lh already.

>a9lh only
>has had features luma didn't have for a while
>its old and sucks

 

[gnmmarechal]

>a9lh only
>has had features luma didn't have for a while
>its old and sucks

I'm not sure if he's serious or trolling

 

[chocoboss]

Well, if ppl want to use RxTools, they are free to !
I have dual-boot my o3DS on RxTools / Luma over emunand, I can install CIA, I can play my games this is nice !!!!

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I can do the same with RxTools !

For D9, you can setup CTR + RX + D9WIP and then you will be able to use D9 as with luma

But something I can not disagree is that maybe in futur an update will probably kill RxTools, and we will be forces to switch forever

 

[mikefor20]

How does running rxtools risk a brick? I'm not sure that makes sense.

You guys, it doesn't protect your firmware.

What? Old? How is it old? Corbenik is not old. RXTools is old.

Carbonik works better than rxtools but it's inferior to Luma. There are people out ther making games for the dreamcast, just cause things are being developed doesn't make it new.

To be fair, A9LH is a good degree more complicated to install. Took me around 3 hours.

Not anymore, besides it wasn't hard, just time consuming.

Latest commit was 5 days ago, pretty sure that's not old.

New does not mean good. See above.

 

[gnmmarechal]

You guys, it doesn't protect your firmware.



Carbonik works better than rxtools but it's inferior to Luma. There are people out ther making games for the dreamcast, just cause things are being developed doesn't make it new.



Not anymore, besides it wasn't hard, just time consuming.


New does not mean good. See above.

Oh really? What in Corbenik is inferior to Luma? Corbenik is a power user-oriented CFW, with control over every patch. It IS more recent than Luma, it IS A9LH-only, and it has more features! lmao. It's not meant for noobs either. I'd like to know, what is it you find inferior?

 

[chocoboss]

RxTools doesn't protect your 3DS ( nand ), but this doen't mean that it will brick your 3DS !

 

[hyprskllz]

OK, I'm ignorant. Please tell me how it bricks a 3ds? Do you mean it might brick the emunand?

you would already know this. rxTools is unstable, even more so if you keep using it on N3DS.
It's a common sense if you keep using an unstable software, you're running the security risks, ends up corrupting your emunand. Not only emunand, but your sysnand might suffer too.
Maybe right now you're safe, but in the future, nobody knows what will happen.

 

[gnmmarechal]

You guys, it doesn't protect your firmware.



Carbonik works better than rxtools but it's inferior to Luma. There are people out ther making games for the dreamcast, just cause things are being developed doesn't make it new.



Not anymore, besides it wasn't hard, just time consuming.


New does not mean good. See above.

Corbenik allows for control over every patch.
Corbenik supports SysNAND and up to 10 EmuNANDs.
Corbenik does pretty much everything Luma does, except being noob-proof, which isn't its aim as a power-user CFW.
Corbenik was created at "2016-06-04T09:19:35Z", and was last updated 5 days ago.
Luma3DS was created at "2016-02-08T02:26:12Z". As you see, it was created BEFORE Corbenik, so I have no idea why you say Corbenik is old.
Corbenik is not old nor is it outdated.

 

[Wolfvak]

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I can do the same with RxTools !

Not really. Alright, lets address a few points here:
Number 1 - I have no clue on how this thread is still active, it shoulve died hours ago yet I wake up to find this... stay classy gbafail.

Number 2 - We all know that "haha rxfools is evil because youll brick lolz xdddd" but what nobody is able to answer is why. Even I didnt explicitly explain why myself.

Here's a small explanation as to why rxTools is unsafe to use: rxTools was pretty innovative in a lot of fronts, particularly the "tools" part - back then there was no such thing as nand partition dumps/injections, or file injections in a standalone fashion. The exisiting methods were clunky (for lack of a better word) and used "primitive" techniques (again, for lack of a better word).
This caused rxTools to have an endless amount of bugs (check the issues tab on GitHub, its quite impressive if I do say so myself...) that were never fixed - you can even say it simply does not work at all on some 2DS models due to a new unrecognized NAND (N3DS-only 1.8GB NAND on 2DS models), and some "features" like TWLN/TWLP dumps are outright broken.

But the grandest daddy of all issues is FBI injection: replacing a file inside a FAT filesystem should be easy right...? Well, theres something the devs didnt take into account - fragmentation. Thats right, the 3DS' OS isnt particularly fond of fragmented files, and has been known to cause boot-time softlocks (aka "black screen brick") on some occassions. This is ridiculous, and one of the many many reasons why Gateway has been panned as well - their downgrade to 4.x cause fragmentation of most files. So instead of having a small chance of bricking, GW has a bigger chance.

If anyone wants to, I might make a second post detailing why the CFW part sucks too, but since Im currenty typing on a tablet... yeah. Its awkward


EDIT: someone might argue "but why not use dukesrgs version?" well youre free to use it but even he himself has said it contained bugs. Besides the part where the CFW part wasnt modified *at all*.

 

[ih8ih8sn0w]

Oh really? What in Corbenik is inferior to Luma? Corbenik is a power user-oriented CFW, with control over every patch. It IS more recent than Luma, it IS A9LH-only, and it has more features! lmao. It's not meant for noobs either. I'd like to know, what is it you find inferior?

minor upkeep and work = an inferior cfw

 

[mikefor20]

Oh really? What in Corbenik is inferior to Luma? Corbenik is a power user-oriented CFW, with control over every patch. It IS more recent than Luma, it IS A9LH-only, and it has more features! lmao. It's not meant for noobs either. I'd like to know, what is it you find inferior?

Yes, from the stand point of someone arguing that they can't let go of rxtools, carbonik is inferior. These are not power users. They can't comprehend a9lh. Carbonik is an inferior cfw for them. It's not as polished or user friendly. Luma is a superior choice for the mASSES. Besides, what's it to you Gargamel?