Hacking Luma3DS - Noob-proof 3DS Custom Firmware

[Lerhein]

God9 works with luma 8?

 

[KunoichiZ]

God9 works with luma 8?

Download the latest release and it will.

 

[Sakura1]

Section VII - Backup SysNAND

1. Press (Home) to bring up the action menu
2. Select “More…”
3. Select “Backup NAND”
4. Press (A) to continue
5. Hold (R) and press (B) at the same time to eject your SD card
6. Insert your SD card into your computer
7. Copy nand.bin from the /gm9out/ folder on your SD card to a safe location on your computer
   • If you previously used SafeCTRTransfer and have a NAND backup named <serialnumber>_nand.bin, replace it with this one (rename nand.bin to match <serialnumber>_nand.bin)
   • Make backups in multiple locations (such as online file storage)
   • This backup will save you from a brick if anything goes wrong in the future
8. Delete nand.bin from the /gm9out/ folder on your SD card after copying it
9. Backup every file on your SD card to a folder on your computer; all files will be deleted in the following steps

Bit confuse here, when I select NAND my Sysnand and EMunand appear, which one do I choose? since I did the
Section IV - Copy EmuNAND to SysNAND

do I choose Sysnand or Emunand?

 

[KunoichiZ]

@Sakura1 You do not need to repost. Someone with more knowledge will answer when they can. Have patience. Also, the section is called Backup SysNAND.

 

[Garro]

Section VII - Backup SysNAND

1. Press (Home) to bring up the action menu
2. Select “More…”
3. Select “Backup NAND”
4. Press (A) to continue
5. Hold (R) and press (B) at the same time to eject your SD card
6. Insert your SD card into your computer
7. Copy nand.bin from the /gm9out/ folder on your SD card to a safe location on your computer
   • If you previously used SafeCTRTransfer and have a NAND backup named <serialnumber>_nand.bin, replace it with this one (rename nand.bin to match <serialnumber>_nand.bin)
   • Make backups in multiple locations (such as online file storage)
   • This backup will save you from a brick if anything goes wrong in the future
8. Delete nand.bin from the /gm9out/ folder on your SD card after copying it
9. Backup every file on your SD card to a folder on your computer; all files will be deleted in the following steps

Bit confuse here, when I select NAND my Sysnand and EMunand appear, which one do I choose? since I did the
Section IV - Copy EmuNAND to SysNAND

do I choose Sysnand or Emunand?

Fixed.

Also, since you copied your Emunand to the Sysnand, it doesn't even matter, both will result in the same thing.

 

[Zaphod77]

Rosalina menu works for me 02ds.

It seems we finally get homebrew launcher virtually injected into a cia of your choice.

And when you suspend it, it says it's the original app.

So this new Luma3ds seems to give a safe way to load homebrew launcher without hax.

How it actually works.

1) load up app you want to load the homebrew menu.
2) rosalina menu combo
3) misc options
4) set current app as homebrew.
5) exit menu and close the app.

of course this requires new menu. but now an 3dsx homebrew loaded from that menu properly suspends.

This change is not permanent. you have to do it each time you reboot.

Yes this means you CAN use online requiring .3dsx homebrew. still doesn't help with cias though.

 

[Ryumaru]

@Aurora Wright
A doubt: I changed the access command to the Rosalina menu, but when I turn off the 3DS, the command I created is deleted.
How can I make it permanent ?

 

[Lerhein]

Right after updating b9s will I be able to launch god9mod? Or I need to replace luma first? The thing is my PC can't read my SD card

 

[Zaphod77]

is there a working version of DSP dump for new homebrew menu? when i try and run it it says it needs a hax payload....

I already had it dumped, but this could seriously trip people up.

 

[TheCyberQuake]

It's nice to see NTR-like functionality coming to Luma. The only things I actually need NTR at this point for are NTRStream and using cheat plugins (Mostly the corruption plugin for 3ds corruption streams).
I would love to see the day where Luma is basically all you need for 3ds.

 

[Zaphod77]

Also, what ARE the FS and SM patches?

 

[violentthot]

Just updated B9S and Luma but the console just flashes blue light once and nothing

Any help would be appreciated pls and thank you

 

[pixelmasher]

Section VII - Backup SysNAND

1. Press (Home) to bring up the action menu
2. Select “More…”
3. Select “Backup NAND”
4. Press (A) to continue
5. Hold (R) and press (B) at the same time to eject your SD card
6. Insert your SD card into your computer
7. Copy nand.bin from the /gm9out/ folder on your SD card to a safe location on your computer
   • If you previously used SafeCTRTransfer and have a NAND backup named <serialnumber>_nand.bin, replace it with this one (rename nand.bin to match <serialnumber>_nand.bin)
   • Make backups in multiple locations (such as online file storage)
   • This backup will save you from a brick if anything goes wrong in the future
8. Delete nand.bin from the /gm9out/ folder on your SD card after copying it
9. Backup every file on your SD card to a folder on your computer; all files will be deleted in the following steps

Bit confuse here, when I select NAND my Sysnand and EMunand appear, which one do I choose? since I did the
Section IV - Copy EmuNAND to SysNAND

do I choose Sysnand or Emunand?

As already answered above, SysNAND is what you want. If it's giving you both options, it might mean you still have EmuNAND. You better copy everything off your SD card to PC, make a SysNAND backup (if you haven't done it already), format your SD card with GodMode9 using NO EmuNAND option, then copy everything back from PC to SD card.

 

[KunoichiZ]

As already answered above, SysNAND is what you want. If it's giving you both options, it might mean you still have EmuNAND. You better copy everything off your SD card to PC, make a SysNAND backup (if you haven't done it already), format your SD card with GodMode9 using NO EmuNAND option, then copy everything back from PC to SD card.

Funny part is, the next section after that is formatting the card to get rid of emuNAND.

 

[Queno138]

Rosalina menu works for me 02ds.

It seems we finally get homebrew launcher virtually injected into a cia of your choice.

And when you suspend it, it says it's the original app.

So this new Luma3ds seems to give a safe way to load homebrew launcher without hax.

How it actually works.

1) load up app you want to load the homebrew menu.
2) rosalina menu combo
3) misc options
4) set current app as homebrew.
5) exit menu and close the app.

of course this requires new menu. but now an 3dsx homebrew loaded from that menu properly suspends.

This change is not permanent. you have to do it each time you reboot.

Yes this means you CAN use online requiring .3dsx homebrew. still doesn't help with cias though.

This helped me a lot, thanks!

Now, to get Homebrew Launcher to load as English on my Japanese 3DS.

Also, JKSM isn't working for me from HBL

 

[Cuphat]

is there a working version of DSP dump for new homebrew menu? when i try and run it it says it needs a hax payload....

I already had it dumped, but this could seriously trip people up.

There's a CIA to dump the DSP: https://github.com/zoogie/DSP1/releases/latest

 

[Zaphod77]

ok but for a clean homebrew only system we can't use that. need .3dsx that works from new hb_launcher with luma.

 

[TheCyberQuake]

ok but for a clean homebrew only system we can't use that. need .3dsx that works from new hb_launcher with luma.

If you are using Luma, you probably aren't planning on having a .3dsx homebrew only system, because if you were you wouldn't need Luma in the first place

 

[GizmoTheGreen]

having some troubles with the new homebrew launcher, not sure what's wrong

it works perfectly on my o3ds, but on both my n3ds's it fails to load any homebrew it just freezes and I have to hard reboot my console.

 

[Zaphod77]

does it actually say version 2.0 Rosalina when you load it?

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If you are using Luma, you probably aren't planning on having a .3dsx homebrew only system, because if you were you wouldn't need Luma in the first place

Unlikely, yes, but possible if you were suffering with 11.4 ofw first.