Hacking Luma3DS - Noob-proof 3DS Custom Firmware

[leonmagnus99]

anyone with updated sysNAND (Wiped emuNAND) you can safely update to the latest 11.x ,it took me only 1 minute to finish the update XD

all looks good, cheers.

 

[REDALiCE]

How would I go about upgrading from rxtools to this?
I have the latest last release of rxtools and am looking to finally make the change without losing anything.

 

[kfgtboy808]

How would I go about upgrading from rxtools to this?
I have the latest last release of rxtools and am looking to finally make the change without losing anything.

Everything you need to know is here to setup Luma.
https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki

 

[The Catboy]

*snip

It seems like a weird theme is going on these days with members from 08 attacking CFW devs left and right. It's like they came out of a hibernation and are pissed off that things changed without them.

 

[a9lh-1user]

 

[The Catboy]

On topic! I've been testing the latest nightlies on 11.0.0-33. Thus far, I am suffering no side-effects since updating both my sysNAND and CFW to the latest. All features are working without hassle (including bootsplash, GBA/DS(i), flashcards, out of region games, and system setting modifcation.) I haven't done any testing for NTR because I honestly don't use that feature.
I can also confirm that I didn't need to update any other files nor add a firmware.bin to get Luma3DS to work.

 

[swnny]

On topic! I've been testing the latest nightlies on 11.0.0-33. Thus far, I am suffering no side-effects since updating both my sysNAND and CFW to the latest. All features are working without hassle (including bootsplash, GBA/DS(i), flashcards, out of region games, and system setting modifcation.) I haven't done any testing for NTR because I honestly don't use that feature.
I can also confirm that I didn't need to update any other files nor add a firmware.bin to get Luma3DS to work.

What DS Flashcard do you have?
I'm using a R4i-SDHC with patched 1.83 kernel. It works great on ReiNAND 4.0 (11.0.0-33E), but it gives me a black screen when I try to launch it from Luma3DS... Any help?

 

[simon66]

Hi,

I was wondering how can I use CTRBootManager9 with Luma3DS?
On the wiki it says for me to use "changepath" on Luma3DS.bin, but I don't have a Luma3DS.bin (All I have is the Luma3DS.dat). And what are these payloads? I couldn't find anything explaining what they are.

Also, how can I run HomeBrewLauncher with a9lh? I see a lot of benefits using A9LH but there doesn't seem to be that much support for it.

Thanks! I'll keep searching in the mean time.

 

[The Catboy]

What DS Flashcard do you have?
I'm using a R4i-SDHC with patched 1.83 kernel. It works great on ReiNAND 4.0 (11.0.0-33E), but it gives me a black screen when I try to launch it from Luma3DS... Any help?

I have tested an R4i Gold (http://www.r4ids.cn/) and Supercard DSonei. Are you running a clean firmware or did you patch the whitelist?
Also have you tried using TWL Slot-1 Launcher?

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Hi,

I was wondering how can I use CTRBootManager9 with Luma3DS?
On the wiki it says for me to use "changepath" on Luma3DS.bin, but I don't have a Luma3DS.bin (All I have is the Luma3DS.dat). And what are these payloads? I couldn't find anything explaining what they are.

Also, how can I run HomeBrewLauncher with a9lh? I see a lot of benefits using A9LH but there doesn't seem to be that much support for it.

Thanks! I'll keep searching in the mean time.

You need to change the payload patch manually or to make it easier, simply download your desired payload path using this site
http://luma3ds.ericchu.net/
You can't launch Homebrew launcher from A9LH (yet.) You can install it using the CIA form though
I am not sure how to explain payloads other than the parts used to help launch the program and make sure the code is executed properly.

 

[Supster131]

Hi,

I was wondering how can I use CTRBootManager9 with Luma3DS?
On the wiki it says for me to use "changepath" on Luma3DS.bin, but I don't have a Luma3DS.bin (All I have is the Luma3DS.dat). And what are these payloads? I couldn't find anything explaining what they are.

Also, how can I run HomeBrewLauncher with a9lh? I see a lot of benefits using A9LH but there doesn't seem to be that much support for it.

Thanks! I'll keep searching in the mean time.

You would rename arm9loaderhax.bin to Luma3DS.bin to use for ctrbootmanager9.

As for using HBL, just use the Homebrew Launcher CIA.

 

[simon66]

You need to change the payload patch manually or to make it easier, simply download your desired payload path using this site
http://luma3ds.ericchu.net/
You can't launch Homebrew launcher from A9LH (yet.) You can install it using the CIA form though
I am not sure how to explain payloads other than the parts used to help launch the program and make sure the code is executed properly.

Awesome! Thanks! I got it to work! Now I need to find a way to run HomebrewLauncher with A9LH installed

You would rename arm9loaderhax.bin to Luma3DS.bin to use for ctrbootmanager9.

As for using HBL, just use the Homebrew Launcher CIA.

The thing is that I'm running Luma3DS on 11.0 and I don't have FBI installed on my unit.

 

[Supster131]

The thing is that I'm running Luma3DS on 11.0 and I don't have FBI installed on my unit.

Use Decrypt9WIP to inject FBI into your Health and Safety app.

 

[The Catboy]

The thing is that I'm running Luma3DS on 11.0 and I don't have FBI installed on my unit.

You can use decrypt9 to inject FBI into the H&S app
https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki/Part-4-(Getting-the-OTP)

 

[Deleted User]

Is this CFW supposed to block those sleep mode update downloads?
I left my o3ds [email protected] in sleep mode and upon opening it offered the update, I deleted it through fbi, but I'm still curious about this.

 

[sj33]

I don't believe it should - it simply blocks updates to the FIRM 0 and 1 sectors to avoid overwriting A9LH.

 

[swnny]

I have tested an R4i Gold (http://www.r4ids.cn/) and Supercard DSonei. Are you running a clean firmware or did you patch the whitelist?
Also have you tried using TWL Slot-1 Launcher?

I'm using a R4iSDHC RTS LITE card with a clean firmware. 9.2 SysNAND and 11.0.0-33E EmuNAND.
I have no idea what TWL launcher is, care to elaborate?

 

[Supster131]

Is this CFW supposed to block those sleep mode update downloads?
I left my o3ds [email protected] in sleep mode and upon opening it offered the update, I deleted it through fbi, but I'm still curious about this.

No but you're safe to update (just make sure you're on emuNAND if you're not using A9LH).

 

[The Catboy]

I'm using a R4iSDHC RTS LITE card with a clean firmware. 9.2 SysNAND and 11.0.0-33E EmuNAND.
I have no idea what TWL launcher is, care to elaborate?

It's basically a DSi homebrew launcher (that works on the 3DS,) that launches flashcards with a header. So if your card has either it's own DS header or a DS game header, it should launch it.

 

[swnny]

It's basically a DSi homebrew launcher (that works on the 3DS,) that launches flashcards with a header. So if your card has either it's own DS header or a DS game header, it should launch it.

Thank you for clearing that up! Just one more stupid question:
From the linked thread it says that TWL_FIRM must be patched. Do I have to patch it in SysNAND, or Luma3DS does that automatically (again, I'm menuhax peasant with EmuNAND)?

 

[The Catboy]

Thank you for clearing that up! Just one more stupid question:
From the linked thread it says that TWL_FIRM must be patched. Do I have to patch it in SysNAND, or Luma3DS does that automatically (again, I'm menuhax peasant with EmuNAND)?

I know Luma3DS has the patches built into the A9LH version and I think the patches should be built into the MenuHAX version. So you should just be able to launch the App if you have the payloads properly set up (basically either not renaming your stock launcher or having changed the payloads yourself.)
I am not sure how menuhax works with Luma3DS, since I don't have any system running MenuHAX