Hacking OLD3DS totally f****?

[konsolenumbau.expert]

Hey up lads.

As many of yu know me even i got a question sometimes

So a customer send me hier Old 3DS wich is declared as bricked.

How did the Brick happen?

Well all he can tell is he had an old version of A9 installed and then tryed to wright the
EMUNAND on the SysNAND. Since then nothing anymore.

He sended it to me with "sysNAND_orig" and EmuNAND_orig.

When i wright them back i can see the Displays getting backlight but the Device isn´t
booting up. All Lights (Blue, Yellow and 3D are indicating)

I also tried to deattach the WIFI Module as i had a device where that caused a Problem like this.

But nothing.

Checked every Flex incl. Connector everything just fine.

So. I guess either all the three Backups arent valid or something else goes wrong.

Is there a way by now to check images anyhow on the PC or anything.

Ahh. Recovery doesnt work as well so that thing is clearly totally f***...?!

Thanks for your help guys looking forwars for your answers.

Greetz Seb

 

[proflayton123]

@gamesquest1 @vb_encryption_vb may be able to help

 

[AxlSt00pid]

Is the arm9loaderhax.bin file on the root of the 3ds' SD card?

 

[gamesquest1]

if he nand backups were from another system it would blue screen of death, so the backups are probably from that system, you can check in a hex editor and compare the initial NCSD header to confirm, but I'm pretty certain you just get a blue screen if neither FIRM partition passes signature checks (which it wouldn't if the nand backup is from a different system)

if you have another wifi module at hand try swapping that out, also try reseating all the cables and checking for any shorts that may have happened while doing the hardmod

I too am sitting on a screwed console which the owner decided to not make a nand backup and updated a n3ds on o3ds FW

#prayforsighax

 

[konsolenumbau.expert]

damn @gamesquest1

Yeah well thats the Job we choose isn´t it. Cables were all checked and found good.

That WIFI Switch is defin a thing i can try.

I allready opened too of the dumps in HEX and they look as far as i can say quiet normal. NCSD etc. everything there.

Have a look for shorts.. i will do this again as well.

But.. Is it somehow possible to really kill that thing so it´s doing nothing anymore like this one.

I mean, i had lots and lots of Devices here as you know and got all of them working via Hardmod.
But of cause it might be that i can simply just f*** the NAND that way it´s totally dead.
He told me during the Process of updating the System simply turned of and that was is. But of cause he did the
Backups BEFORE the Update so no point in they should not work. Of cause i checked size and was good as well.

Strange strange...

Thanks Mate i´ll have another go on that Thing

Greetz Seb

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Is the arm9loaderhax.bin file on the root of the 3ds' SD card?

Yes Mate i thought about that as well.

Honestly with the Origin_SYSNAND it should boot without as long as it is valid.

But i tried with the arm9.bin from the old one of my son.

Didn´t work.

But ill have a go with that again as well.

Thanks

 

[gamesquest1]

if you have one to hand you could try doing a force reset on the NAND using the old gateway unbricking tools on a raspberry pi or Arduino, I know at first with the unbricking tools the nand could get stuck in a mode that didn't allow the system to boot but didn't blue screen, idk if a system could find itself in this mode naturally, but if you have a raspberry pi A/B at hand it might be worth a shot if you have exhausted all other options

 

[konsolenumbau.expert]

damn i don´t got a Rasperry but always wanted one. Ill have a look if i can grap one in the bay.

Do you have a link to the Procedure?

Thanks Mate.

 

[gamesquest1]

unfortunately it only works on the original A or B, not the raspberry pi A+/B+/2/3

and it might not even work so I wouldn't really suggest you go buying one unless you don't mind buying a older raspi just for messing with, anyway if you go for it, here is the raspi tools/guide
https://github.com/bkifft/RPU

 

[konsolenumbau.expert]

Thanks Dude.

Ah i get what you are saying..

Well in the end it´s the customers choice anyway.

As longer as i sit here.... You know

I´ll have a look at all the mentioned Options and let yall know whats going on.

Thanks Dudes.

 

[gamesquest1]

good luck

 

[konsolenumbau.expert]

THX