Hacking Official [Release] CakesFW

[DjoeN]

By the way, how does the format work? It seems like sometimes one emunand will get linked to another on format.

Didn't had that problem.

I took safety first , made an sd image and then copied all files to my pc as backup
Took a spare sd (32GB) and used "3ds-multinand" tool to create a second emunand on the sd (used an old emunand backup)
Once everything was setup (Lucky i had my CN by hand, had to reinstall MenuHax etc...) i made sure i booted into emunand2
After that i formatted emunand2, problem was you have to leave your sd in to format emunand or it freezes (thats why i besides the sd image also copied all files as backup)
Anyway i ended up formatting emunand 2 about 3 times before it got unlinked from sysnand, changing theme to black on emunand 2 changed it also on sysnand, was wierd but i didn't wanted to format sysnand again
(it should have been easier i suppose )
But no the 2 emunands where never linked to each other.

Now i wonder what i should do with it, keep it or use my original sd again with only 1 emunand (way much easier i suppose )

 

[mid-kid]

@mid-kid
So, i did try out the emunand selector
Had to make a second emunand and set it up, gone through the whole stuff etc...

But in the end i have sysnand 9.2 (White theme) and 2 unlinked emunands on 10.4 (I call Emunand 1: Blue Emunand (Blue theme) and Emunand 2: Black Emunand (Black theme)
Works nice, but this way you can't autoboot if you like to select an emunand

My question is:
Is it possible to have 2 boot entries so we can setup ctrbootmanager to have 2 Cakes entries "Cakes Blue Emunand" and another entry "Cakes Black Emunand"

For example:
- Entry 1 boots cakes.dat from ctrbootmanager and uses standard Cakes config.dat file (maybe have it called (emuconfig1.dat) to boot Emunand 1
- Entry 2 boots \3ds\cakes\cakes.3dsx from ctrbootmanager and is modified to use (for example) emuconfig2.dat and that is set to autoboot Emunand 2

Or use 2 hombrew launchers:
- Entry 1 boots \3ds\cakes\cakes1.3dsx from ctrbootmanager and is modified to use (for example) emuconfig1.dat and that is set to autoboot Emunand 1
- Entry 2 boots \3ds\cakes\cakes2.3dsx from ctrbootmanager and is modified to use (for example) emuconfig2.dat and that is set to autoboot Emunand 2

I'm no coder, i don't know if cakes.3dsx calls cakes.dat (in that case you need a secondary cakes.dat ) to boot cakes, i don't even understand code, so i'm just asking if it's possible

There's no argument passing between cakes.3dsx and the arm9 payload in Cakes.dat, and that'd be a useless feature, really.
Only thing I can come up with is having CTRBM edit the config.dat's emuNAND offset value on boot, but that'd require changing that in CTRBM.
I don't expect people to be switching out emuNANDs very often, so the current implementation is fine.

 

[Columbo2811]

Didnt robb4 do something to change the offsets here for loading 2 emunands
He called it semunand
https://gbatemp.net/threads/poc-a-s...get-unlinked-dual-emunands-on-an-n3ds.399420/

 

[mid-kid]

Didnt robb4 do something to change the offsets here for loading 2 emunands
He called it semunand
https://gbatemp.net/threads/poc-a-s...get-unlinked-dual-emunands-on-an-n3ds.399420/

Yeah, he changed the offsets in the emunand.cake, and rebuilt it. That solution was fine too, but someone contributed code for changing the emuNAND offset in CakesFW itself, which is also a fine solution.

 

[MassExplosion213]

There's no argument passing between cakes.3dsx and the arm9 payload in Cakes.dat, and that'd be a useless feature, really.
Only thing I can come up with is having CTRBM edit the config.dat's emuNAND offset value on boot, but that'd require changing that in CTRBM.
I don't expect people to be switching out emuNANDs very often, so the current implementation is fine.

Well, normal people won't switch often..

 

[DjoeN]

Anyone has a compiled version of latest armips?
seems CakesForEveryWan doesn't play nice with previous one :/

ARMIPS Assembler v0.7d (May 23 2015 21:39:25) by Kingcom
patches.s(51) error: Invalid expression
patches.s(53) error: Invalid expression
patches.s(51) error: Invalid expression
patches.s(53) error: Invalid expression
patches.s(51) error: Invalid expression
patches.s(53) error: Invalid expression
patches.s(51) error: Undefined label "isarm"
patches.s(51) error: No if clause active
patches.s(51) error: No if clause active
patches.s(52) warning: Opcode not word aligned
patches.s(53) error: Undefined label "isarm"
patches.s(53) error: No if clause active
patches.s(53) error: No if clause active
Aborting.
Couldn't compile version 0x50 for some reason.
make: *** [build/patches/reboot.baked] Error 1

 

[subcon959]

Anyone has a compiled version of latest armips?
seems CakesForEveryWan doesn't play nice with previous one :/

ARMIPS Assembler v0.7d (May 23 2015 21:39:25) by Kingcom
patches.s(51) error: Invalid expression
patches.s(53) error: Invalid expression
patches.s(51) error: Invalid expression
patches.s(53) error: Invalid expression
patches.s(51) error: Invalid expression
patches.s(53) error: Invalid expression
patches.s(51) error: Undefined label "isarm"
patches.s(51) error: No if clause active
patches.s(51) error: No if clause active
patches.s(52) warning: Opcode not word aligned
patches.s(53) error: Undefined label "isarm"
patches.s(53) error: No if clause active
patches.s(53) error: No if clause active
Aborting.
Couldn't compile version 0x50 for some reason.
make: *** [build/patches/reboot.baked] Error 1

https://github.com/d0k3/3DS-Tools-Collection

 

[DjoeN]

https://github.com/d0k3/3DS-Tools-Collection

Thanks, but that's the one i already use 0.7d but there's a newer one out that's needed to compile cakescfw.

 

[dark_samus3]

Thanks, but that's the one i already use 0.7d but there's a newer one out that's needed to compile cakescfw.

I just compiled armips 2 days ago and built on my Linux machine, after updating all of the submodules (Cakehax, libkhax, etc.) I was able to build cakes just fine with the armips I compiled, and unless there's been a release since I built my version then it should be the same for you...

 

[mid-kid]

I just compiled armips 2 days ago and built on my Linux machine, after updating all of the submodules (Cakehax, libkhax, etc.) I was able to build cakes just fine with the armips I compiled, and unless there's been a release since I built my version then it should be the same for you...

The breaking commit was pushed 20 hours ago: https://github.com/Kingcom/armips/commit/9b225d99a5eb1eef957544dc422b08ba3b6efbae :T
And yes, you have to update your armips. Since there isn't any stable version out there, I prefer relying on master instead of a specific revision.

 

[subcon959]

Thanks, but that's the one i already use 0.7d but there's a newer one out that's needed to compile cakescfw.

Ah right, I haven't tried compiling Cakes for some days so didn't realise. I don't have VS or whatever is needed to get armips to build on Windows so I always just grabbed the binary from there. Guess we'll have to wait for someone to post an updated exe for us.

 

[subcon959]

Thanks, but that's the one i already use 0.7d but there's a newer one out that's needed to compile cakescfw.

Ah right, I haven't tried compiling Cakes for some days so didn't realise. I don't have VS or whatever is needed to get armips to build on Windows so I always just grabbed the binary from there. Guess we'll have to wait for someone to post an updated exe for us.

Decided to quit being lazy and try to figure out how to compile it myself.

 

[DjoeN]

Decided to quit being lazy and try to figure out how to compile it myself.
Can someone test it?

Program can't be executed because MSVCP140D.dll is missing
Program can't be executed because VCRUNTIME140D.dll is missing
Program can't be executed because ucrtbased.dll is missing

So after i got the dll's i get:
- Can't correctly execute program (0c000007b) click OK to close application

So i found out i downloaded the 64bit dll's, after getting the 32bit ones i git:
- Program can't be executed because APPCRT140D.dll is missing
- Program can't be executed because DESKTOPCRT140D.dll is missing
- Can't find accesspoint of procedure_Thrd in dll file c:\devkitPro\devkitARM\bin\armips.exe

Those last 2 dll's are wierd, and you can't find them.

 

[subcon959]

Do you have the 2015 MS Visual C++ Redistributable v14?

No idea if that's what it needs but I don't get any of those errors on my machine so I dunno.

 

[DjoeN]

Yes, i have 2015 MS Visual C++ Redistributable v14x installed

 

[pcm720]

Do you have the 2015 MS Visual C++ Redistributable v14?

No idea if that's what it needs but I don't get any of those errors on my machine so I dunno.

You've built "Debug" configuration instead of "Release".
Since Visual Studio is not installed on his system, it doesn't have debug libraries

 

[subcon959]

You've built "Debug" configuration instead of "Release".
Since Visual Studio is not installed on his system, it doesn't have debug libraries

Oh whoops, you're right I uploaded the debug one instead of release.

Here's the proper one..

 

[Arithmatics]

Is there a way to check which cake build you have installed?

 

[DjoeN]

Oh whoops, you're right I uploaded the debug one instead of release.

Here's the proper one..

Thanks for all the effort, still not working.

Rough translation:
- Can't correctly execute program (0c000007b) click OK to close application

 

[mid-kid]

Is there a way to check which cake build you have installed?

Not as of now, but you're right I should add some text on the screen which tells you so, to avoid confusion with nightlies.