Hacking Patching region-free directly into Home Menu (arm9loaderhax or EmuNAND only)

[Mazamin]

it's up to you if you want to use it, if you're using arm9loaderhax you can use it on your sysnand safely. you could also use other patches to enable region-free such as NTR CFW, Free multi Patcher, and regionFOUR/HANS.

I think I'll setup an emunand with the home menu patched to region free then, to be safer

 

[ihaveahax]

This is great!! Thanks for this.

Odd problem I am having though, I installed 10.6 U spoofed and now I have black boxes on home screen. I just doubled check and restored emunand and ran NTR, no black boxes? Why would I have black boxes with the RF home menu patch and not NTR? Odd?

those are things you might have installed to NAND that shouldn't be there I believe.

I think I'll setup an emunand with the home menu patched to region free then, to be safer

why? that seems a bit pointless to do it on a different NAND than your main one. it doesn't make it any "safer". as long as you back up sysnand you'll be just fine since you have arm9loaderhax.

 

[astronautlevel]

I think I'll setup an emunand with the home menu patched to region free then, to be safer

If you have a9lh, worst come to worst you can just restore a NAND backup.

 

[daxtsu]

Not to be mean, but can't you just use RegionFour or HANS to play Imports?

You can, but if you can run and/or install CIAs, why would you bother when you could either install this, or use something like NTR, Free multi Patcher, or Region Free Patcher? Launching the HBL only to go into HANS is a hassle, even if there's a CIA of a *hax payload launcher..

That being said, HANS' language emulation is one tiny advantage if you refuse to run NTR for some reason.

 

[democracy]

those are things you might have installed to NAND that shouldn't be there I believe.

why? that seems a bit pointless to do it on a different NAND than your main one. it doesn't make it any "safer". as long as you back up sysnand you'll be just fine since you have arm9loaderhax.

Thanks, can you elaborate so I understand? Do other users have this when using this new patch? I don't have this problem with NTR. I would have expected to see this black box when using NTR and home menu patch?

 

[ihaveahax]

Thanks, can you elaborate so I understand? Do other users have this when using this new patch? I don't have this problem with NTR. I would have expected to see this black box when using NTR and home menu patch?

if something is installed to NAND but shouldn't be there, a black icon appears I think. since NTR CFW and things are run after the console has boot, they don't show up. they probably would if you also used rxTools + unmodified Home Menu, so this patch just exposed them. do you get it?

 

[chbinnc]

Ah... After using the patched home menu, it seems I can't use homebrew_launcher_loader.cia any more, the screen just stays in "***hax is ready", also homebrew app ORGANIZ3D stays in grep screen, wonder if anyone also has these problems.

EDIT: ORGANIZ3D can launch by browserhax but not menuhax, it should be by other cause..

 

[wurstpistole]

This is great!! Thanks for this.

Odd problem I am having though, I installed 10.6 U spoofed and now I have black boxes on home screen. I just doubled check and restored emunand and ran NTR, no black boxes? Why would I have black boxes with the RF home menu patch and not NTR? Odd?
Typically this means I have titles installed to namd but not on SD but I have always been carful with that sort of thing. Error with the home menu patch?

Black boxes are the result of something being installed wrong at some time. I also have a black box, but only with region free. Probably have installed something wrong to NAND or similar.

Just move them in a folder far to the right and never see them again. That is at least how I handle it.

Ah... After using the patched home menu, it seems I can't use homebrew_launcher_loader.cia any more, the screen just stays in "***hax is ready", also homebrew app ORGANIZ3D stays in grep screen, wonder if anyone also has these problems.

HBL CIA works for me. Maybe delete the payload and try again.

 

[chbinnc]

Black boxes are the result of something being installed wrong at some time. I also have a black box, but only with region free. Probably have installed something wrong to NAND or similar.

Just move them in a folder far to the right and never see them again. That is at least how I handle it.


HBL CIA works for me. Maybe delete the payload and try again.

Try twice and no luck, even reinstall cia can't solve the problem, guess it's from some other causes. Thank you for the reply.

 

[Frelia]

Try twice and no luck, even reinstall cia can't solve the problem, guess it's from some other causes. Thank you for the reply.

Do you still have 10.6 payload? Might be that.

 

[chbinnc]

Do you still have 10.6 payload? Might be that.

Do you mean the payload for menuhax? I still have it and before I can boot from both of them, now I still can boot by menuhax -> crtmanager -> homebrew, also there are just two payloads for each, no others.

 

[wurstpistole]

Do you mean the payload for menuhax? I still have it and before I can boot from both of them, now I still can boot by menuhax -> crtmanager -> homebrew, also there are just two payloads for each, no others.

I just started up homebrew launcher cia and it downloaded a new 10.7 payload. And it instantly worked.

 

[democracy]

Black boxes are the result of something being installed wrong at some time. I also have a black box, but only with region free. Probably have installed something wrong to NAND or similar.

Just move them in a folder far to the right and never see them again. That is at least how I handle it.


HBL CIA works for me. Maybe delete the payload and try again.

Sorry, not really...

I can use any other region free method, no black box.

Use home menu patch, black boxes?

I'm being told that it's because I have something installed to nand wrongly but it seems to me as I have only this issue with this tweak that it's more likely that the tweak has a bug that needs to be addressed than something I did.

 

[democracy]

Try twice and no luck, even reinstall cia can't solve the problem, guess it's from some other causes. Thank you for the reply.

That's what I think too. I'm going to try to setup a blank new emunand to test results. The odd thing is, I have two men cards each with their own emunands, on card has 4 boxes, the other only one box.

 

[ihaveahax]

@democracy maybe a program to list all of the installed titles to NAND might help find the issue of the black boxes?

 

[izy]

Sorry, not really...

I can use any other region free method, no black box.

Use home menu patch, black boxes?

I'm being told that it's because I have something installed to nand wrongly but it seems to me as I have only this issue with this tweak that it's more likely that the tweak has a bug that needs to be addressed than something I did.

try reading

if something is installed to NAND but shouldn't be there, a black icon appears I think. since NTR CFW and things are run after the console has boot, they don't show up. they probably would if you also used rxTools + unmodified Home Menu, so this patch just exposed them. do you get it?

but yeah i have had black boxes with Rxtools before this is similar.

 

[democracy]

Does everyone here using this tweak have black boxes?

It's a great patch, the patch non the less, just trying to flesh out if there is something I can do or not to get rid of the black box (behind hiding them)

 

[chbinnc]

I just started up homebrew launcher cia and it downloaded a new 10.7 payload. And it instantly worked.

Mine is with no luck, anyway, thank you very much for the reply and testing.

 

[izy]

Does everyone here using this tweak have black boxes?

It's a great patch, the patch non the less, just trying to flesh out if there is something I can do or not to get rid of the black box.

Like I said the issue only persisted when i had wrong titles installed that shouldnt be there for example i had freemultipatcher installed to nand removing it resolved the issue

But seriously can you stop ignoring OP when he gives you a valid answer

@democracy maybe a program to list all of the installed titles to NAND might help find the issue of the black boxes?

*Cough* FBI * Cough*

 

[Shuttleu]

Would this work with AuReinand?

I dont have anyway to compile it
patches.c

const u8 regionPattern[16] = {0x00, 0x00, 0x55, 0xE3, 0x01, 0x10, 0xA0, 0xE3, 0x11, 0x00, 0xA0, 0xE1, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x0A};

void getRegionLoc(void *pos, u32 size, u32 *off){
    *off = (u32)memsearch(pos, regionPattern, Size, sizeof(regionPattern));
}

firm.c (patchfirm)

const u8 regionFree[16] = {0x01, 0x00, 0xA0, 0xE3, 0x70, 0x80, 0xBD, 0xE8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00};

getRegionLoc(firmLocation, firmSize, &regionOffset);
memcpy((void *)regionOffset, regionFree, sizeof(regionFree));