Hacking Luma3DS - Noob-proof 3DS Custom Firmware

[Stack3r]

Is the luma3ds.dat needed?

 

[daxtsu]

Is the luma3ds.dat needed?

On A9LH? No.

 

[kheldar]

I have a question, after installing ah9l there appeared a sysnand.bin file (1.2gb) inside emunand9 folder, is it safe to delete this?

 

[pbanj]

I have a question, after installing ah9l there appeared a sysnand.bin file (1.2gb) inside emunand9 folder, is it safe to delete this?

Back it up on PC and delete it off the sd card.

 

[Stack3r]

On A9LH? No.

Ok thanks pal

 

[kheldar]

I have a problem guys I heard that formatting my sd card to 64kb cluster makes it faster so i backed up all the stuff, formatted it and put all the stuff back. now when i turn o my 3ds it automatically turns itself off. the blue led turns on then goes off. what might be causing this?

 

[RealityNinja]

I have a problem guys I heard that formatting my sd card to 64kb cluster makes it faster so i backed up all the stuff, formatted it and put all the stuff back. now when i turn o my 3ds it automatically turns itself off. the blue led turns on then goes off. what might be causing this?

have you a arm9loaderhax.bin file on the root of the sd card? You know, a9lh? The cfw?

 

[kheldar]

have you a arm9loaderhax.bin file on the root of the sd card? You know, a9lh? The cfw?

I didn't change anything. It was working before. all the files are where they should be. The file system is exFAT , could be this the problem?

 

[RealityNinja]

I didn't change anything. It was working before. all the files are where they should be. The file system is exFAT , could be this the problem?

OK, maybe the sd card isn't recognize???

 

[pbanj]

I didn't change anything. It was working before. all the files are where they should be. The file system is exFAT , could be this the problem?

Yup it needs to be fat32

 

[kheldar]

Yup it needs to be fat32

Would formatting a 60gb sd card to FAT32 with 64 kb clusters cause a problem?

 

[RealityNinja]

Would formatting a 60gb sd card to FAT32 with 64 kb clusters cause a problem?

Nope

 

[BabyBichu]

Colors! 3D's background when picking what painting you want to work on breaks when the cache is on. Doesn't crash, and I'm not sure if anything else happens, but that's another example of a bug anyway.

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...did you reinstall it from a fresh not patched copy after deleting it?

No,I couldn't get in and then I reinstalled,same problem

 

[9thSage]

No,I couldn't get in and then I reinstalled,same problem

how are you loading Luma on that 3DS?

 

[BabyBichu]

how are you loading Luma on that 3DS?

Just did as Plailect's guide

 

[9thSage]

Just did as Plailect's guide

So...loading arm9loaderhax.bin directly then. Just making sure it's not a bootloader causing the problem.

I'm not really sure what to suggest...if the TWL firm is unhacked and you aren't using a bootloader, I'm running out of ideas unless when you installed the fresh and unhacked copy it was meant for a different 3DS (that is you installed the New 3DS version of this on an 'old 3DS and vice versa).

 

[BabyBichu]

So...loading arm9loaderhax.bin directly then. Just making sure it's not a bootloader causing the problem.

I'm not really sure what to suggest...if the TWL firm is unhacked and you aren't using a bootloader, I'm running out of ideas unless when you installed the fresh and unhacked copy it was meant for a different 3DS (that is you installed the New 3DS version of this on an 'old 3DS and vice versa).

Maybe I should restore(keep A9) sys with sysNAND_original.bin and emu emuNAND_original.bin,and then extract and inject the emu's CTRNAND into sys

 

[sj33]

Would formatting a 60gb sd card to FAT32 with 64 kb clusters cause a problem?

Is it definately FAT32? Windows usually formats as exFAT. Use fat32format http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm

 

[9thSage]

Maybe I should restore(keep A9) sys with sysNAND_original.bin and emu emuNAND_original.bin,and then extract and inject the emu's CTRNAND into sys

Hm...do you know if DS/DSi things worked on the sysNAND? If so I suppose that could perhaps help. I suppose if you want to try that and you have the sysNAND installed somewhere you could extract just it's TWL partition and just inject that into the emu's NAND. Making backups beforehand of course.

 

[Kourin]

Gonna point it out here since I wound up having to help myself after no one responded to my thread.
Something's wrong with Luma3DS' region/language emulation.

I downloaded a Japanese copy of ACNL but the game crashes as soon as you open it whether or not region free/language emulation is selected.
Using HANS the game boots just fine. I found in order to make the game crash loading with HANS I had to switch it's region to something other to JPN.

NTR's language emulation also makes the game boot just fine so Luma seems to be the issue here.