i just wanted to add my $0.02 to the end of this thread to possibly help people who have an M3 Real, who might have had to go through the same process i did: reading this thread a few times -- without understanding very well the first time around. i believe i have now grokked it correctly and am going to summarize here with what i hope is helpful advice for others who are not regular denizens of this forum, but want the new hotness
M3 NineTail *instructions* excerpted and clarified:
[How to use]
once booted into M3 Sakura, you can launch the nds roms in the root of the microsd card (woodm3.nds, TouchPod.nds, others*) to switch to other firmware.
But please note that once you have booted another firmware, you cannot go back to M3Sakura until you reboot the DS.
*: on my M3 Real, not all roms in the root of the card are bootable from M3Sakura, but most are. for instance, woodm3.nds worked but yswood.nds did not. i'm pretty sure it depends on which firmware you've booted from. i'll leave this one to the experts to clarify.
[How to install, assuming blank microSD card and use of a pc that can run .bat files]
1. "Install latest M3Sakura" -- clarified:
1a. get latest M3Sakura from the M3Sakura thread in this subforum, or from linfoxdomain.com.
1b. unpack what you've downloaded, and copy the M3Sakura 'SYSTEM' folder to the root of your card.
2. Download M3 NineTail from this thread and unpack -- it should unpack into a folder called 'm3_ninetail'
3. "Put YSMenu as YSM3.nds then execute ysm3.bat" -- clarified:
3a. aquire YSMenu from Yasu's site:
http://home.usay.jp/pc/etc/nds
3b. unpack what you've downloaded, and rename YSMenu.nds to YSM3.nds
3c. copy YSM3.nds to the m3_ninetail folder that contains ysm3.bat
3d. run ysm3.bat -- you should get a brief window that will tell you if you patched YSM3.nds successfully or not. hopefully you did.
4. "Put extinfo.dat / infolib.dat / savlib.dat to TTMenu/."
4a. to be honest, those 3 files were already present in the m3_ninetail/TTMenu folder when i downloaded my copy, so i'm not 100% sure if this instruction is still valid/necessary.
5. If you want to set Sakura/Kaura lng to Japanese, extract system_japanese.7z (overwriting system folder)
5a. if you want to run Sakura or Kaura in japanese, extract the contents of system_japanese.7z to the m3_ninetail folder.
6. "Copy all files in this folder to your microSD" -- clarified:
6a. now that your m3_ninetail folder is prepped, copy all the contents (various folders and files) to the root of your card, allowing the contents to overwrite anything that may already be present in the SYSTEM folder that you copied in step 1b. (Mac users, take note -- copying a folder on top of a folder with the same name will *replace* the contents instead of merging them, you may wish to do this step on a pc)
7. "(On your opinion) extract iTouch.7z and copy iTouch folder to your microSD" -- i believe this is self-explanatory.
if you're like me and have an M3 Real, launching woodm3.nds from the browser in M3Sakura will get you to the Wood release with the 1.15 core, if that's the thing you're after.
i'm pretty sure that's it -- go forth and have fun! if i've missed anything, pm me and i'll edit this post.
and big ups to Xenon++ for a sweet release, thanks very much.
