Homebrew Official [Release] EmuNAND9 - Open Source EmuNAND Formatter & Manager

[Asia81]

So...
I need something, when creating the emunand, to format it once created.
With that, we don't need anymore to unlink manually nands, and can use the first settings on the first boot of you new emunand.

Am I understood xD ?

 

[dark_samus3]

So...
I need something, when creating the emunand, to format it once created.
With that, we don't need anymore to unlink manually nands, and can use the first settings on the first boot of you new emunand.

Am I understood xD ?

Yeah I get what you're saying, however this is probably not easily possible from emuNAND9 due to the way it boots (it crashes all of the 3ds's services) this is probably better suited to an arm11 userland homebrew, we'll see what @d0k3 has to say about it though

 

[Shadowtrance]

Speaking of emunand... @dark_samus3 @d0k3 we now have 10.3 emunand on N3DS! WOO! (both cakes and rei atm)
Just thought I'd share that.

 

[Asia81]

@Shadowtrance I wait always my Gateway's EmuNand 9.5+

 

[Shadowtrance]

@Shadowtrance I wait always my Gateway's EmuNand 9.5+

I think we'll see it soon. In the meantime there's always Reinand.

 

[dark_samus3]

I think we'll see it soon. In the meantime there's always Reinand.

I was just thinking, a CFW should pick up gateway support... That way there will be ZERO reason to EVER use gateway software.... Would even benefit the DSTWO+ card that had some reported bricks

 

[cearp]

I was just thinking, a CFW should pick up gateway support... That way there will be ZERO reason to EVER use gateway software.... Would even benefit the DSTWO+ card that had some reported bricks

what is wrong with using the gw software?
i think it has the best features.
gw already has gw support lol

 

[Asia81]

And GW was the very first innovators to share something, as themselves said.
Even if it's a cost solution, we need a begin for all.

 

[dark_samus3]

what is wrong with using the gw software?
i think it has the best features.
gw already has gw support lol

GW might have been first but, the reason for this application (emuNAND9), and other apps (sysupdater, decrypt9, save data managers, cart dumpers, and last but not least CFW) is because gateway does EVERYTHING in a really dirty, unclean, unsafe manner... not to mention intentionally coding in bricking commands into their software... do you want to use software that has the potential advantage to brick your console whenever it feels like it? Sure there are things that have risk (like downgrading) but GW's software will just downright brick a device if certain conditions are met... I don't care WHAT reason you have you DO NOT brick $100+ consoles. Aside from that they hold back a lot of information on their stuff... Sure they got the community going initially, but their support is terrible, their software does everything in the most unsafe way possible (seriously it's like they were trying to brick their paying customers)

let's put it this way....
Who discovered MSET? Ichfly
Who discovered the Cubic Ninja entrypoint? Smea
Who discovered OoT entrypoint? Yellows8
Who discovered kernel exploits for 5.0+? Yellows8 (he discovered memchunkhax and firmlaunchax)
Who made homebrew exploits (which GW now has as an entrypoint)? Smea (and possibly others)
10.3 emuNAND support? (not actually sure who figured it out, but it wasn't GW)
memchunkhax2? derrek
NTRcardhax (which they will most likely end up using)? plutoo

So really GW wouldn't be where it is without the community, yet they give nothing back to it other than an expensive product and a dangerous piece of software to use with it...

tl;dr: GW is bad

 

[cearp]

GW is bad

for me GW is great, cheats, best region free, play games without installing anyting.
i do not care about who did what, about politics, etc.
if we cared so deeply we wouldn't be hacking the 3ds anyway or at least not pirating lol


if i was dirt poor, I'd probably using cfw. but, i can afford the best, in my opinion, solutions

 

[EthanObi]

I hate being the one to ask, but each time I try to dump SysNAND to NAND.BIN I get an error saying the process failed, Downgraded 10.3->9.1 Japanese N3DS, what do I do? is the Nand.Bin necessary or am I just doing something wrong? ;\

 

[dark_samus3]

I hate being the one to ask, but each time I try to dump SysNAND to NAND.BIN I get an error saying the process failed, Downgraded 10.3->9.1 Japanese N3DS, what do I do? is the Nand.Bin necessary or am I just doing something wrong? ;\

you probably got a bad downgrade... try the downgrade process again

 

[Shadow#1]

I hate being the one to ask, but each time I try to dump SysNAND to NAND.BIN I get an error saying the process failed, Downgraded 10.3->9.1 Japanese N3DS, what do I do? is the Nand.Bin necessary or am I just doing something wrong? ;\

Only necessary if u brick sysNAND

 

[EthanObi]

I checked with that downgrade checker and it says my native_firm is correct...?

 

[dark_samus3]

I checked with that downgrade checker and it says my native_firm is correct...?

not sure then... Try with Decrypt9?

 

[Shadowtrance]

not sure then... Try with Decrypt9?

I've noticed a few ppl having this issue with Emunand9 trying to dump their sysnand and it failing.
The thing is as far as i know there's no difference in the nand dumping between this and Decrypt9 (I'd have to inspect the code sections of both to confirm of course), so kinda odd that it fails with this and not D9.

 

[dark_samus3]

I've noticed a few ppl having this issue with Emunand9 trying to dump their sysnand and it failing.
The thing is as far as i know there's no difference in the nand dumping between this and Decrypt9 (I'd have to inspect the code sections of both to confirm of course), so kinda odd that it fails with this and not D9.

maybe d0k3 didn't fully fix the issue where you HAVE to set emuNAND up first to make a sysNAND backup?

 

[Shadowtrance]

maybe d0k3 didn't fully fix the issue where you HAVE to set emuNAND up first to make a sysNAND backup?

That's quite possible i guess. Who knows.
I honestly haven't tried making a sysnand backup with E9 and i haven't downgraded anything yet. Main n3ds is 9.0, old3ds xl is 9.2 and other n3ds is 10.3 (with a 9.0 backup + hard mod).
Haven't tried downgrading the latter since downgrading became available, i don't think it's stable enough or safe enough yet tbh (doesn't bother ME much but i have a mate waiting to downgrade haha).
So can't test if it is actually related to downgrading or just an issue in general... I may very well be, who knows.
Doesn't really explain why sysnand backup works with D9 (downgraded or not) and not E9 though.

 

[d0k3]

i hope there will be a new version of emunandtool which support this partition size.
because back up n restore emunand are much faster on pc. and if i have to do it on 3ds, it actually requires more free space (a size of nand.bin) than that wasted space in gateway emunand.

Try this one, that's the new kid on the block: https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-3ds-multi-emunand-creator.381603/
And, if it works for you, let me know it!

So...
I need something, when creating the emunand, to format it once created.
With that, we don't need anymore to unlink manually nands, and can use the first settings on the first boot of you new emunand.

Am I understood xD ?

Yeah I get what you're saying, however this is probably not easily possible from emuNAND9 due to the way it boots (it crashes all of the 3ds's services) this is probably better suited to an arm11 userland homebrew, we'll see what @d0k3 has to say about it though

You mean, you want EmuNAND9 to do the formatting / unlinking itself, instead of letting the 3DS settings app do it, correct? However, that is a SysNAND operation, and on top of that it's not completely known how this works. So, not possible at the moment. Maybe later on!

Speaking of emunand... @dark_samus3 @d0k3 we now have 10.3 emunand on N3DS! WOO! (both cakes and rei atm)
Just thought I'd share that.

Got to update the extended starter pack. And also have to try that asap .

I hate being the one to ask, but each time I try to dump SysNAND to NAND.BIN I get an error saying the process failed, Downgraded 10.3->9.1 Japanese N3DS, what do I do? is the Nand.Bin necessary or am I just doing something wrong? ;\

Can you give me the exact error message (a photo would be best)? Also, can you try doing the SysNAND backup with Decrypt9 and tell me if it works?

I checked with that downgrade checker and it says my native_firm is correct...?

By now, the downgrade thingie is just too new... Even if your native_firm is correct, there might be other issues in a downgraded firm. I don't have that issue though, so I don't know yet what could cause it.

I've noticed a few ppl having this issue with Emunand9 trying to dump their sysnand and it failing.
The thing is as far as i know there's no difference in the nand dumping between this and Decrypt9 (I'd have to inspect the code sections of both to confirm of course), so kinda odd that it fails with this and not D9.

maybe d0k3 didn't fully fix the issue where you HAVE to set emuNAND up first to make a sysNAND backup?

Nope, that is solved for good. 100% . And NAND dumping (at least the relevant parts) is identical between Decrypt9 and EmuNAND9. You're right, a few people have complained about this issue now. I think they all did the downgrade. A screenshot of the error message would help alot, I guess.

 

[Shadowtrance]

Got to update the extended starter pack. And also have to try that asap .
Can you give me the exact error message (a photo would be best)? Also, can you try doing the SysNAND backup with Decrypt9 and tell me if it works?
By now, the downgrade thingie is just too new... Even if your native_firm is correct, there might be other issues in a downgraded firm. I don't have that issue though, so I don't know yet what could cause it.
Nope, that is solved for good. 100% . And NAND dumping (at least the relevant parts) is identical between Decrypt9 and EmuNAND9. You're right, a few people have complained about this issue now. I think they all did the downgrade. A screenshot of the error message would help alot, I guess.

Yes, join the rest of us on 10.3 emunand! Only thing we're missing is a working NTR for region free at the moment.
And I'm going to downgrade my other n3ds later to test this (for science) and see if the sysnand backup problem IS actually related to downgrading or not. Just because i can, it's hard modded anyway.