Homebrew [Release] FBI - Open source CIA installer

[MakkipMaster]

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[sweis12]

Once either my initial memchunkhax2 compatibility pull request gets accepted into libkhax or I manage to get it stabilized, I'll be updating FBI for compatibility.

Thanks! The current modified version of FBI has about a 0.0046% bootrate on n3DS!

 

[Emulator]

Thanks! The current modified version of FBI has about a 0.0046% bootrate on n3DS!

I'm not to sure where you got that number but after trying all day and failing to open lol I agree haha (I got in yesterday too xD)

 

[Link_of_Hyrule]

@Steveice10 So I have an odd request. I was wondering if once you get fbi officially working on 10.3 if you could add an option to remove a CIA that you previously installed completely from the tickets or where ever it's stored completely (as an option) when uninstalling so that you're able to actually purchase those titles from the eShop after you uninstall them. Other wise if it's a legit CIA the eShop only let's you redownload them oddly. It would be great if you could add this feature in thanks!

 

[IpsoFact0]

anyone help with this error? everything was working fine now i cant seem to instal any cia's

 

[AmandaRose]

anyone help with this error? everything was working fine now i cant seem to instal any cia's View attachment 34666

Yep nobody seems to know why this is happening myself and several other people have posted asking about it but nobody ever replies with help.

 

[Emulator]

anyone help with this error? everything was working fine now i cant seem to instal any cia's View attachment 34666

It's not loading correctly. It has to say done on the screen. Not just cleaning up. I've only been able to get in once, since then no luck.
Or the cia you downloaded is no good.

 

[sweis12]

anyone help with this error? everything was working fine now i cant seem to instal any cia's View attachment 34666

The CIA you are trying to install is not a legit CIA.

 

[hmp22]

So I'm trying to get GBA games to work on the latest rxTools, and my understanding is that AGB_FIRM is no longer required, and all I need to do is install the CIA to both emuNAND and sysNAND. I understand how to do that now, and am about to try and think it should be fine, but in the process, I made a small mistake.

Instead of injecting FBI to sysNAND, launching it from there, and installing the CIA then, I misunderstood so what I did is I launched FBI from emuNAND, installed it to SD, then pressed L to "switch location" and installed it to "NAND". Now I have an extra copy of the GBA game on my home menu, and it doesn't appear in the 3DS uninstall software list.

My question is, how can I get rid of this thing? I assume I can use the "delete title" option in FBI, but the problem is, I have no idea which of these IDs correspond to the game. Many of them just say <N/A>, in fact. The game is Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow if that helps. Is there any easy way to determine which title is which, or should I use "launch title" mode and just go through the whole

 

[IpsoFact0]

The CIA you are trying to install is not a legit CIA.

why would it need to be legit if im using emunand? or do u mean that the cia is just corrupted?

 

[MdKarel]

anyone help with this error? everything was working fine now i cant seem to instal any cia's

You forgot this:

Q: I'm getting a "DESCRIPTION_DATABASE_DOES_NOT_EXIST" / "DESCRIPTION_INVALID_DATABASE" error!
A: This shouldn't happen any more, as FBI takes care of initializing the database files for you. However, if it does, you likely haven't installed anything from eShop or other locations before. You will need to go to the "Nintendo 3DS/<id0>/<id1>/dbs/" directory on your SD card and create empty "title.db" and "import.db" files. Then, go to System Settings -> Data Management -> Nintendo 3DS -> Software on your 3DS and let it repair the database files.

 

[Quantumcat]

So I'm trying to get GBA games to work on the latest rxTools, and my understanding is that AGB_FIRM is no longer required, and all I need to do is install the CIA to both emuNAND and sysNAND. I understand how to do that now, and am about to try and think it should be fine, but in the process, I made a small mistake.

Instead of injecting FBI to sysNAND, launching it from there, and installing the CIA then, I misunderstood so what I did is I launched FBI from emuNAND, installed it to SD, then pressed L to "switch location" and installed it to "NAND". Now I have an extra copy of the GBA game on my home menu, and it doesn't appear in the 3DS uninstall software list.

My question is, how can I get rid of this thing? I assume I can use the "delete title" option in FBI, but the problem is, I have no idea which of these IDs correspond to the game. Many of them just say <N/A>, in fact. The game is Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow if that helps. Is there any easy way to determine which title is which, or should I use "launch title" mode and just go through the whole

If you look at the titles installed to nand, one of them starts with 04000. That's a game and has to be deleted. All the others are system titles.

Wait till someone agrees with me though. Deleting a system title could be disastrous!

 

[Cruzinats]

What about this error? I read it's N3DS related but I haven't managed to find a fix here yet.

Install failed!
TTCDF0JAPRFCIA.cia
source: SOURCE_FSFILE_WRITE (0x1c)
Module: MODULE_NN_AM (0x20)
Level: LEVEL_STATUS (0x19)
Summary: SUMMARY_INVALID_ARGUMENT (0x7)
Description: <unknown> (0x1)

 

[arcticnoah]

Got a tip for you guys trying to load the edited version of FBI for cia support on 9.2+, try doing these steps!

1 Load the homebrew launcher via menuhax/ironhax/oothax (Basically any except browserhax... xD)
2 Insert a 3DS gamecart into the gamecart slot (Any 3DS one, doesn't matter which one)
3 Launch the edited FBI, eject the gamecart once you are at a blue screen or even before and then spam 'A' until you get to the FBI file browser
4 If you got into the browser, first try installing the CIA, if you get an error, that means that the app didn't manage to call the exploit (Do step 5)
5 If you just got a screen with text but no file browser or didn't manage to successfully install the cia, then I am afraid you have to repeat these steps until it works (It took me around 5-20 tries, so don't give up! )

Hope it helps, as it really helped me! Good luck installing!

What about this error? I read it's N3DS related but I haven't managed to find a fix here yet.

Install failed!
TTCDF0JAPRFCIA.cia
source: SOURCE_FSFILE_WRITE (0x1c)
Module: MODULE_NN_AM (0x20)
Level: LEVEL_STATUS (0x19)
Summary: SUMMARY_INVALID_ARGUMENT (0x7)
Description: <unknown> (0x1)

This just means the exploit (memchunkhax) wasn't able to access the kernel properly, so try doing the steps above!

 

[Quantumcat]

Got a tip for you guys trying to load the edited version of FBI for cia support on 9.2+, try doing these steps!

1 Load the homebrew launcher via menuhax/ironhax/oothax (Basically any except browserhax... xD)
2 Insert a 3DS gamecart into the gamecart slot (Any 3DS one, doesn't matter which one)
3 Launch the edited FBI, eject the gamecart once you are at a blue screen or even before and then spam 'A' until you get to the FBI file browser
4 If you got into the browser, first try installing the CIA, if you get an error, that means that the app didn't manage to call the exploit (Do step 5)
5 If you just got a screen with text but no file browser or didn't manage to successfully install the cia, then I am afraid you have to repeat these steps until it works (It took me around 5-20 tries, so don't give up! )

Hope it helps, as it really helped me! Good luck installing!



This just means the exploit (memchunkhax) wasn't able to access the kernel properly, so try doing the steps above!

This is part of the eject trick, but as far as I can see there's no blue screen unless you launch ftBrony first (otherwise only a red screen).

The eject trick has never worked for me :-( Either gets stuck before cleaning, or gets to file system but says summary wrong argument.

 

[arcticnoah]

I didn't launch ftBrony, and it honestly made it easier in my opinion. Just was trying to help... xD

 

[Quantumcat]

I didn't launch ftBrony, and it honestly made it easier in my opinion. Just was trying to help... xD

Yeah mine has no blue screen without ftBrony. I wonder what you're doing differently?

 

[arcticnoah]

I have a Old 3DS... Pretty sure thats why

 

[Quantumcat]

I have a Old 3DS... Pretty sure thats why

Yeah, I installed some games for a friend with an o3ds and it worked on like the fifth try :-(

 

[Deleted User]

I'm on 10.3 emuNAND and I have a 9.2 sysNAND. If I install the cia of FBI and the homebrew launcher (it has a cia right?) to my emuNAND then even once 10.4 comes out I should be able to update my emuNAND and still have access to FBI and the homebrew launcher, right? I wouldn't even need ironhax or ninjhax or any other entrypoints?

Also, in order to get the eshop/NNID working, after updating emuNAND to 10.3 and fooling around with it for a while, I backed my Nintendo 3DS folder, made an emuNAND backup, formatted emuNAND, signed into NNID, then restored all my backups. If I were to delete games purchased from the eshop on my emuNAND, would I still be able to redownload them or are the games no longer linked to my system? I suppose it doesn't matter much if I lose them due to being able to install CIAs, but it feels good to be legit when possible.