Homebrew n3ds Downgrading

[Hking0036]

I was downgrading my N3DS and I got a black 'please power down the system screen'. It boots without the SD Card in but if it's in it fails. should I re-run the playsysupdater for 9.2?

 

[cooroxd]

yes, you got incomplete frankenfirmware

 

[Hking0036]

okay, when I'm trying to run it now it's freezing on hax init instead of going on. I rebooted it after waiting a minute and got the the same point but it's freezing again.

I've never done this on an n3ds before lol

 

[astrangeone]

Try it again? I've done a lot of a9lh installations on o3DS XLs, and I've found the software was seriously buggy as heck on an N3DS. I got the same issue, but I had to run it 3 times before it started. Also, OTP helper had the same issue.

 

[Hking0036]

noted. I've only done it on 3 o3ds' and I've never had a problem so this is all new for me.

The homebrew launcher is a lot smoother, though.

 

[Hking0036]

it keeps doing the same thing, should I just get normal safesysupdater and try?

Edit: Or, should I update with Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon and try again?

 

[MadMageKefka]

Did you have menuhax before the downgrade? If so that is your problem. Your menuhax payload is for whatever firmware version you started on. Now that you are on 9.2 it tries to load, but obviously won't work. Boot the system without the sd card in, then insert the sd card, then get into homebrew through the entry point of your choice and re-install menuhax. It will download and install the 9.2 payload. You can remove the old one from your sd card if you wish.

If menuhax isn't the problem, let me know and ill try my best to help you out. Im guessing this is the problem though.

The "please power the system down" message during the downgrade is scary though. You may want to run a downgrade checker to see if any titles were not downgraded properly. If you get any wrong titles from the check, run PlaiSysUpdater again. Keep using that fork of SysUpdater though. PlaiSysUpdater is EASILY the safest at this point. I would not suggest SafeSysUpdater, LOTS of franken-firmwares from that one.

You can get a downgrade checker here: https://github.com/svanheulen/downgrade_check/releases