Homebrew New ways to homebrew on 10.7?

[Logan Pockrus]

Thanks for the help! But aperently one of my friends got cubic ninja as a joke gift for Christmas 2013! I'll ask him if I could borrow it. But do you know any ways I should try to prevent a brick for my second try at a downgrade

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Thanks for the help! But aperently one of my friends got cubic ninja as a joke gift for Christmas 2013! I'll ask him if I could borrow it. But do you know any ways I should try to prevent a brick for my second try at a downgrade

Well, if you can get your hands on that game, completely forget my advice and setup NinjHax the normal way for 10.7, and use the build of sysUpdater I attached in that other post (if I didn't, or you can't download it, just tell me and I'll attach it again to this post). Then, welcome to 9.2!

EDIT: sysUpdater on 10.7 is super™ stable (it actually is). So don't worry. The biggest danger is yourself, you have to be positive that you're making no mistakes. If you don't, everything will be smooth like Link, sailing away from Outset Island....

EDIT 2:

Browserhax may be back sooner than you think. yellows8 has been researching how to crash webkit (which has a ton of vulnerabilities, mind you) in a useful way.

I was actually being a complete fool when I said that. Holes in webkit are very common. MenuHax is the one I really don't see coming back any time soon.

 

[Logan Pockrus]

There is a new FBI version with 10.7 support though. Theoretically it could be used to downgrade just the browser then browserhax would work again.

OP, do not try this, PLEASE! It's much easier to use sysUpdater, and I'm afraid that the method you just described isn't very safe.

 

[Jiro2]

If people keep searching for webkit bugs, and find them, wouldn't that mean Nintendo would fix them? What if we need to find webkit bugs on the NX or some other system that also uses it and we're all out of exploits by then?

 

[Logan Pockrus]

If people keep searching for webkit bugs, and find them, wouldn't that mean Nintendo would fix them? What if we need to find webkit bugs on the NX or some other system that also uses it and we're all out of exploits by then?

Oh Christ, webkit bugs always exist and are inevitable. You simply cannot escape them. And as for the whole "all out of exploits" statement, we'll never run out of exploits. Even the most tirelessly working people on the planet can't write 100% unexploitable code. It'll never happen. Something will crash or act strange, Mr. Hacker over here will say "that doesn't look quite right", and Mr. Hacker will start reverse engineering, find a bug, exploit it, wait for it to be patched, then release the exploit!

 

[KaduPSE]

If people keep searching for webkit bugs, and find them, wouldn't that mean Nintendo would fix them? What if we need to find webkit bugs on the NX or some other system that also uses it and we're all out of exploits by then?

This is why people don't post their WIP exploits here at GBATEMP, they share it privately or via IRC until it's ready for release, this way Nintendo can only patch it after release, not before. As for how this affects other systems... Well, we don't really care. The NX is a rumoured console, it doesn't matter right now how exploitable it will be (And being a Nintendo console, probably some release of Smash for it will be vulnerable), the 3DS homebrew scene cares about 3DS exploits, and that's it.