Hacking Oh well, I think my 3DS bricked

[WiiUBricker]

So I bought the new Metroid (retail cartridge) and was playing it on my main regular N3DS. I have an older N3DS XL lying around and I wanted to see how that game looked with bigger pixels, so I put the cartridge in the N3DS XL and the game asked for an update. I don't remember what exact softmod that 3DS had, system version was an older 10.X something and the SD card showed a /rei folder, so it might be an older ReiNAND/AuReiNAND version. No idea if A9LH was installed.

Since it wasn't my main 3DS, I thought the worst thing that can happen is that the softmod gets overwritten. So I let the game install the system update and ever since my 3DS won't turn on, with or without an SD card. Come to think of it, I think I recall a bricking risk when updating from cartridges. I messed up, right?

Edit: So I digged in the contents of the SD card and it seems system version was 10.6, with A9LH installed. I also have a NAND backup. Is there anything I can do to unbrick this?

Edit 2: Thanks to this post, my 3DS came back to life. It wasn't bricked afterall. All it took was to replace the existing arm9loaderhax.bin with a newer one that supported the system version the game installed.

 

[isoboy]

Here's a custom title for you: "3DSBricker".

 

[fenderjaguar]

No offense, but sounds like very schoolboy errors, especially since you can hardly be described as a noob when it comes to this.

Time for NTRboothax?

 

[migles]

ReiNAND/AuReiNAND version. No idea if A9LH was installed.

that's luma, before the name change

 

[WiiUBricker]

No offense, but sounds like very schoolboy errors, especially since you can hardly be described as a noob when it comes to this.

Time for NTRboothax?

I haven't followed the scene for a long time and forgot a lot. In any case, I have updated the OP with a small edit.

 

[MadMageKefka]

So I bought the new Metroid (retail cartridge) and was playing it on my main regular N3DS. I have an older N3DS XL lying around and I wanted to see how that game looked with bigger pixels, so I put the cartridge in the N3DS XL and the game asked for an update. I don't remember what exact softmod that 3DS had, system version was an older 10.X something and the SD card showed a /rei folder, so it might be an older ReiNAND/AuReiNAND version. No idea if A9LH was installed.

Since it wasn't my main 3DS, I thought the worst thing that can happen is that the softmod gets overwritten. So I let the game install the system update and ever since my 3DS won't turn on, with or without an SD card. Come to think of it, I think I recall a bricking risk when updating from cartridges. I messed up, right?

Edit: So I digged in the contents of the SD card and it seems system version was 10.6, with A9LH installed. I also have a NAND backup. Is there anything I can do to unbrick this?

With a NAND backup you should be able to recover. First try to boot gm9 via luma payload and restore the backup. If you can't, then use NTRboot.

 

[Cuphat]

He doesn't need a NAND backup, he needs a CFW that can actually boot 11.3 (or whatever version Metroid cart has).

Easiest solution is Luma 7.0.5.

Download it, replace arm9loaderhax.bin on your SD with it.

 

[wormdood]

He doesn't need a NAND backup, he needs a CFW that can actually boot 11.3 (or whatever version Metroid cart has).

Easiest solution is Luma 7.0.5.

he added that he does in an edit to the op

 

[WiiUBricker]

He doesn't need a NAND backup, he needs a CFW that can actually boot 11.3 (or whatever version Metroid cart has).

Easiest solution is Luma 7.0.5.

Download it, replace arm9loaderhax.bin on your SD with it.

Thanks. I replaced the old arm9loaderhax.bin with the new one and my 3DS came back to life. It seems it wasn't bricked afterall.