Yeah, basically, the choice depend of if you have (lots of) retail games you want to play with, because even if Classic Mode is available on 4.x, the saves won't be recognized if your retail game saves use 7.x+ encryption.
And has Classic mode in 9.2 support 7.x+ encryption, you can still play online to retail games which require updates as you can access eshop on emunand.
Not to mention blue card can also be reactivated with a .cia file installed on sysnand and also the fact that I don't think playing DS games on 9.2 sysnand break the exploit as it don't use the Nintendo DS profile exploit (on 4.x, you have to reinstall the exploit every time, even though it only take a few seconds and you can always reinstall it easily as you can leave the exploit with your other ds roms, if you use the blue card).
For someone who don't care about retail games though, 4.x is probably the best choice.
They are already several mirror websites for the exploit, so this risk is pretty low (maxconsoles have one, for example). Same for the Gateway website, they are several non-official mirror websites.
Stability is more or less the same for both exploits. Both sometimes fail to load, it's quite rare for both but it can happen.
In fact, loading the 4.x exploit take more time than the 9.x exploit (which is balanced by the fact 9.x is a little slower to boot).
4.x (assuming the cursor is on "system settings") : Enter in the settings (one click), Other settings (one click), User profile (one click), DS profile (one click) so four clicks to launch the exploit.
9.x (assuming the cursor is on the browser icon and that you added a favorite for the link). Launch browser (one click), favorites (one click), gateway website (one click) so three clicks to launch the exploit.
So it's more or less the same for both exploits.
And has Classic mode in 9.2 support 7.x+ encryption, you can still play online to retail games which require updates as you can access eshop on emunand.
Not to mention blue card can also be reactivated with a .cia file installed on sysnand and also the fact that I don't think playing DS games on 9.2 sysnand break the exploit as it don't use the Nintendo DS profile exploit (on 4.x, you have to reinstall the exploit every time, even though it only take a few seconds and you can always reinstall it easily as you can leave the exploit with your other ds roms, if you use the blue card).
For someone who don't care about retail games though, 4.x is probably the best choice.
They are already several mirror websites for the exploit, so this risk is pretty low (maxconsoles have one, for example). Same for the Gateway website, they are several non-official mirror websites.
Stability is more or less the same for both exploits. Both sometimes fail to load, it's quite rare for both but it can happen.
In fact, loading the 4.x exploit take more time than the 9.x exploit (which is balanced by the fact 9.x is a little slower to boot).
4.x (assuming the cursor is on "system settings") : Enter in the settings (one click), Other settings (one click), User profile (one click), DS profile (one click) so four clicks to launch the exploit.
9.x (assuming the cursor is on the browser icon and that you added a favorite for the link). Launch browser (one click), favorites (one click), gateway website (one click) so three clicks to launch the exploit.
So it's more or less the same for both exploits.
6.x saves will become corrupt if you downgrade and try to run them in either Emunand or Classic Mode, so staying on 9.2 solves this issue. I had my Smash save get wiped when I downgraded, which wasn't that big of a deal. Don't have any other 6.x games though so it wasn't a huge dealbreaker for me. I could have saved my save though if I had just used savedatafiler, (had the digital version so it was doable for me) but I had no idea how to and never did it. Probably will do that though when I move all my stuff to my N3DS.
I downgraded to 4.2 just so I have a lower firmware to fall back on when CFW improves. I don't have a Gateway so having a higher firmware version doesn't effect me much at the moment.
Only issue with emuNAND is that my saves are now useless. Even working with an emuNAND derived from a copy of my original firmware doesn't work. Fortunately, I don't mind starting Pokemon from the start. But if you do, probably hold off on downgrading (or use a Gateway to backup your save to inject later using some mystery magic).
Only issue with emuNAND is that my saves are now useless. Even working with an emuNAND derived from a copy of my original firmware doesn't work. Fortunately, I don't mind starting Pokemon from the start. But if you do, probably hold off on downgrading (or use a Gateway to backup your save to inject later using some mystery magic).
and for those totally scared about updates : http://gbatemp.net/threads/release-psvproxy-net-proxy-dns-blocker-3ds-update.377880/
I'd downgrade because if the 3DS detects that an update is available, the browser will not be available until you update (I have a NAND backup if it happens, but I don't want to install a hardware mod).
The browser exploit is much quicker if you set the exploit page as the first page you see when you open the browser.
To do this, open your browser, go offline then go to the Gateway GO page and close the browser. Now everytime you open the browser it will automatically load the exploit
The browser exploit is much quicker if you set the exploit page as the first page you see when you open the browser.
To do this, open your browser, go offline then go to the Gateway GO page and close the browser. Now everytime you open the browser it will automatically load the exploit
I say the only advantage to downgrading is no internet or phone needed, im contemplating the same thing myself.
Hey DarkFlare69, do you know if it is possible to restore the nand backup it creates or do i have to stay 4.5? I want to upgrade to 9.4 so i can get on the eshop for a bit but then i want to downgrade it back to 9.2 and i would rather now get it modded
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