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Finally, I tried.

Sucessfully downgrade sysnand to 2.1 on n3DS.
But I've got a kind of infinite bootloop when trying to boot Cubic Ninja. (Sky3DS+)

I'm downloading the without Cubic Ninja package right now to try with the browser exploit.
At least, I did not brick my n3DS haha.

EDIT: OTP dumped using Spider!
I'll dump it a second time, just to be sure and then back to the future with 9.2 sysnand backup.

EDIT2: Back to 9.2
Worked flawlessly. Thank you for that amazing guide.

Time to compile the thing.
 
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Can I ask a question on what exactly changed from a year ago to now in terms of injecting your emunand to sysnand. If I recall correctly it was a rule that you never inject your emunand.bin to your sysnand as many said it will cause a brick. So what changed here in these OTP times that allows it?

And I did read the guide but this is more of a why does it work now question. And does it matter if the emunand was created by the gateway menu? Or would you suggest I start over and use emunandtool to make a fresh emunand? I am on old 3ds xl USA.
 
Tieracloud said:
Can I ask a question on what exactly changed from a year ago to now in terms of injecting your emunand to sysnand. If I recall correctly it was a rule that you never inject your emunand.bin to your sysnand as many said it will cause a brick. So what changed here in these OTP times that allows it?

And I did read the guide but this is more of a why does it work now question. And does it matter if the emunand was created by the gateway menu? Or would you suggest I start over and use emunandtool to make a fresh emunand? I am on old 3ds xl USA.
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You should never inject an emunand that was updated through Gateway.
 
pizzatime said:
Where the OTP is physically stored? in the NAND? or in another ROM inside some other chip?
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Pretty sure it's another chip.
OTP stands for One Time Programmable and the NAND... isn't.
I'm a derp, it totally is
 
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one question here section IV
  1. Reinsert your SD card and go to http://dukesrg.github.io/2xrsa.html?arm11.bin on your 3ds.
  2. After Decrypt9 has loaded, follow the options on the main menu to restore your sysNAND and your emuNAND from NAND.bin and emuNAND.bin respectively.

  1. am i supossed to wait until decrypt9 loads or what when i type in that link the screen just flashes to dump OTP.bin one more time please help
one more how do someone recomend to start decrypt 9 browserhax doesnt seems to work on 2.1
 
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LennartL said:
one question here section IV
  1. Reinsert your SD card and go to http://dukesrg.github.io/2xrsa.html?arm11.bin on your 3ds.
  2. After Decrypt9 has loaded, follow the options on the main menu to restore your sysNAND and your emuNAND from NAND.bin and emuNAND.bin respectively.

  1. am i supossed to wait until decrypt9 loads or what when i type in that link the screen just flashes to dump OTP.bin one more time please help
one more how do someone recomend to start decrypt 9 browserhax doesnt seems to work on 2.1
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Copy the Section IV files and replace the arm11.bin that is already on the SD card like the guide instructs.

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dkabot said:
Pretty sure it's another chip.
OTP stands for One Time Programmable and the NAND... isn't.
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It's in NAND, it just cannot be read from. Read the abstract for more info.

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Tieracloud said:
Can I ask a question on what exactly changed from a year ago to now in terms of injecting your emunand to sysnand. If I recall correctly it was a rule that you never inject your emunand.bin to your sysnand as many said it will cause a brick. So what changed here in these OTP times that allows it?

And I did read the guide but this is more of a why does it work now question. And does it matter if the emunand was created by the gateway menu? Or would you suggest I start over and use emunandtool to make a fresh emunand? I am on old 3ds xl USA.
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I honestly have no idea since I don't own a Gateway for testing.

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The guide has been updated to have a better New 3DS unbrick script and no longer requires python. It also now supports Mac!
 
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ok did find the files arm9 and 11 in section iv files but decrypt9 is not loading up
the browser is frezze so have to hold power button to reboot
 
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Plailect said:
Copy the Section IV files and replace the arm11.bin that is already on the SD card like the guide instructs.

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It's in NAND, it just cannot be read from. Read the abstract for more info.

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I honestly have no idea since I don't own a Gateway for testing.

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The guide has been updated to have a better New 3DS unbrick script and no longer requires python. It also now supports Mac!
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Maybe you might want to modify the guide to under the prerequisites then as I think that may be causing some bricks some have had. The part that got me thinking about this was when it said you must have a working emunand. And then as you read through the steps this emunand eventually gets loaded into sysnand.

However, if its true that gateway emunand that were updated with the gateway launcher makes these emunand partitions unusable for this OTP process than it would be good to say that you must have a emunand setup other than through gateway. For myself and others I know that we used gateway and updated through their cart and then eventually moved over to custom firmware.

Just my 2cents to make it even safer.
 
So I been reading from the beginning and might have missed passed revisions of how the steps were done. But for Old 3DS users was the guide at one point using sysupdater directly on sysnand to downgrade? I would think that would be the easiest way. Or is downgrading on emunand to 2.1 then injecting to sysnand suppose to be safer?
 
Tieracloud said:
So I been reading from the beginning and might have missed passed revisions of how the steps were done. But for Old 3DS users was the guide at one point using sysupdater directly on sysnand to downgrade? I would think that would be the easiest way. Or is downgrading on emunand to 2.1 then injecting to sysnand suppose to be safer?
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It's much safer. If sysupdater crashes, I'd be on emunand, so there's less of a brick chance that way, plus D9 is a better way of writing to sysNAND then going the direct route since D9 is more stable and, from what I can tell, more reliable. Doesn't mean that you have a 100% chance of not bricking, but you have a better chance of it not. Just because something is easier doesn't mean it's the best.
 
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