Im currently trying to something on my 3DS. So I cant try that right now, but how do I open my SD in HxD? Or is that NCSD a hidden file somewhere?
I dont usually need step by step guides, but I am kinda lost here. Sorry!

I tried to restore to a NAND backup I made earlier. Didnt work either.
Still cant figure out how to use HxD properly.

Nevermind! Figured it out.
I now have HxD open and I can see the hex values of my SD. I found NCSD. And now I have to delete the following 512 Bytes? But the hex value for NCSD itself should not be removed?
If so, is there a "counting" feature in HxD so I can just enter 512 bytes and dont have to worry that I delte too much/less?

Warning: Spoilers inside!

Like this? Sorry, I hate beeing spoon fed. I just wanna make sure I dont brick my 3DS I just bought 10 hours ago.
Or does the yellow part has to be 512? I cant "delete" stuff in HxD. I would guess I have to replace anything with 00?

 

nonono that's not the redNAND start. Sorry, I should've just ported the instructions directly, I thought the plaintext 'NCSD' was @ 0x200 to be honest.

Basically, go to 0x200, select 0x200 bytes and replace them with 0x00's or just blank out the 'NCSD' string

 

Why is it that each time when I enter the menu settings, to change one or more cake settings, that I notice that 'Force saving patched firmware' is disabled although I enabled it earlier? I'm using V 175

And do I have to enable this setting each time again after changing one or more cakes settings, or is a forced save only needed once, at the intial install of the Cakes CFW?

 

It's only intended as a work-around in case firmware_patched.bin isn't getting created automatically. I've never even had to use it, because they're being created just fine on my systems. So, I'm fairly certain it's intended to be a per-use setting, not something that stays enabled.

 

Yeah, I'm still using 10.4 myself for the most part. For the moment, I have it setup so that I can quickly rename files in Godmode9 when I do want to switch. It's a good thing Nintendo didn't update MSET or Home Menu I guess. If you ask me, they're telegraphing their moves and pulling their punches for a reason. They know homebrew and "piracy" are good for sales. 11.0 was just a sales tactic -- go buy one while you can still downgrade it. They didn't even fully disable SVCHax, so that the community can easily bring another downgrader out, and they can rinse and repeat. Just my take on their recent activities of course

 

Well, if we get the signing key, then we can just resign 9.2 as 11.1 It will be a few months before 11.0 units start showing up at Wal-Mart and Best Buy anyway. There is time. I still say Nintendo's fight against piracy seems as real as pro wrestling. They have to convince naive third-party developers that they're trying, but I would swear they're throwing it because they've figured out it makes them more money.

 

It enforces it on some of the wrong syscalls. There's still 2 open syscalls that can be used to downgrade.

 

No, there's one call for downgrading NFIRM if I am correct.

 

If it matters, do you have a working cetk and firmware.bin for this? I cant load it from CtrBoot9.

 

here is the arm9loaderhax.bin for the 175 nightly