Hacking [RELEASE] GATEWAY 4.0 BETA (Private Beta Program)

[Hayleia]

I know, but I haven't installed any traditional al9h exploits before.

You hadn't installed any GW a9lh exploit either so that argument isn't in favor of GW (neither is it for traditional)

I also don't need it cause it's just to play my games using the gateway and prevent my nephew from accidentally updating sysNAND.

Even in that case, the traditional a9lh is better. Because right now, your nephew can boot with L held down, get to the GW menu, press B+A to boot to sysNAND then update (and actually, with a traditional a9lh and another CFW than GW, updating sysNAND wouldn't even be a problem). Or even without pressing B+A (since that's not a visible option), he can do annoying stuff such as formatting emuNAND or whatever, just because he held L down by chance when booting.

With a traditional a9lh, you would have been able to block the L key. For example, my setup is that arm9loaderhay (a boot manager with multi key and password support) boots Luma by default, boots a shutdown payload when L is held down (so no one can get to sysNAND) and boots CtrBootManager9 when A+B is down and when ABXY is inputted as password. And from there only you can choose Luma or Gateway (and other things) and hold L to get to sysNAND. Remove Luma to that setup and you have your Gateway setup where your nephew will really never be able to update sysNAND nor do anything harmful from the Gateway menu.

edit for the ones who like to coin words out of my mouth, I am not saying "ditch Gateway", just "use Gateway if you want but the traditional a9lh is better".

 

[Jiro2]

Hi All,

Haven't read the full topic, but I know a guy who helped with the gateway community and I succesfully installed the gateway method.

Don't do that.

The Gateway method has safety precautions removed and if you follow it you won't be able to use anything else except Gateway.

 

[Temptress Cerise]

I know, but I haven't installed any traditional al9h exploits before.
I also don't need it cause it's just to play my games using the gateway and prevent my nephew from accidentally updating sysNAND.

Since I strumbled a lot with their tutorial, I thought those who'd like to use just the gateway exploit could use a more detailed tutorial.

The reason there isn't a decent tutorial for "GATEWAY FAST BOOT" is because this is still a public Private Beta Program. Only people who should even be messing with GW's method is people who understand the risks or who have hardmods.

Oh and I'd like to point out again, this following disclaimer on their openly public Private Beta Program:
DISCLAIMER: Files on this page should be treated with extreme care and only used by advanced users who have access to a way to restore their 3DS NAND. Users should have a valid/known good copy of their NAND before proceeding! Use at your own risk!

There are also people who have tried to follow the GW method and had it fail on them, there are others who report the installer throws out errors that don't even pertain to them.

Standard A9LH has a great tutorial with a lot of safety nets, a FAQ and a lot of Tempers would be glad to answer questions if you were to ever run into any problems.

GW's method skips a lot of those safety methods, has a poor tutorial, and good luck finding Tempers willing to help you.

Again, GW Users, who don't mind locking themselves to "GATEWAY FAST BOOT" aka "GW-A9LH," please wait for a more polished installer. If you can't wait for Soon, then consider using standard A9LH.

Edit: Like to add, that I am not a Gateway3DS hater. I own 2! I'd just hate to see people brick, because they avoided all the signs.

 

[mijuu]

Why can't cfw load .3ds files?

 

[pbanj]

Why can't cfw load .3ds files?

Because it uses CIA files. To use .3ds would need private headers for online just like they do for flash carts and no one wants that.

 

[mijuu]

Because it uses CIA files. To use .3ds would need private headers for online just like they do for flash carts and no one wants that.

I don't see why private headers in a cfw or on a flash card would make any difference whatsoever, it seems me that no one knows how to do it. I'm just wondering why it hasn't been done yet...

 

[Lumince]

I don't see why private headers in a cfw or on a flash card would make any difference whatsoever, it seems me that no one knows how to do it. I'm just wondering why it hasn't been done yet...

Because with 100+ GB sd cards available now a days, a seperate storage isnt needed and most with a cfw (Luma, Cakes, ect..) dont really see it as a needed thing. CIA's work just fine.
Edit- the only big reason would be for modded roms.

 

[mijuu]

Because with 100+ GB sd cards available now a days, a seperate storage isnt needed and most with a cfw (Luma, Cakes, ect..) dont really see it as a needed thing. CIA's work just fine.
Edit- the only big reason would be for modded roms.

and it would take 2 minutes to transfer a game across as apposed to 2 hours. I would really like to know why this hasn't been done yet, I assume it's because nobody knows how to do it.

 

[Lumince]

and it would take 2 minutes to transfer a game across as apposed to 2 hours. I would really like to know why this hasn't been done yet, I assume it's because nobody knows how to do it.

2 hours??? For what? To install a cia? The longest its taken me to install a game is a few minutes apposed to injecting a private header and moving it over to the gw card.

 

[kheldar]

2 hours??? For what? To install a cia? The longest its taken me to install a game is a few minutes apposed to injecting a private header and moving it over to the gw card.

Few minutes? That's a bit exaggeration. try installing a 2gb or 4gb cia. 20-30 minutes. debending on mSD

 

[samiam144]

Injecting a header and transferring it to a mSD can be fairly quick, although very inconvenient if your header(s) happens to not work with certain games.

 

[Lumince]

Few minutes? That's a bit exaggeration. try installing a 2gb or 4gb cia. 20-30 minutes. debending on mSD

Ehhh not that long. If rather install a cia and be done with it than inject a private header onto every .3ds file and it possibly not work with some and then have to go back and redo it until it works.
What im trying to say, is that a .3ds reader on other cfws hasnt really been seen as a needed thing. People may have looked into it but the .3ds is more for people that are full gateway while other people that use cfws only like cias or just cant afford a gw card at the time.

 

[Temptress Cerise]

Ehhh not that long. If rather install a cia and be done with it than inject a private header onto every .3ds file and it possibly not work with some and then have to go back and redo it until it works.
What im trying to say, is that a .3ds reader on other cfws hasnt really been seen as a needed thing. People may have looked into it but the .3ds is more for people that are full gateway while other people that use cfws only like cias or just cant afford a gw card at the time.

Don't forget that Sky3DS+ (and it's past two revisions?) also use .3ds files. (Please don't bash the SKY3DS users. )

Anyways, I use my Gateway3DS for cheats and romhacks, so I have no interest in private headers being injected into my roms.

 

[Lumince]

Don't forget that Sky3DS+ (and it's past two revisions?) also use .3ds files. (Please don't bash the SKY3DS users. )

Anyways, I use my Gateway3DS for cheats and romhacks, so I have no interest in private headers being injected into my roms.

Yea i mean i have a sky3ds and a gateway but i have no use for the sky3ds now. I used it for ninjhax xD And the gateway i just use for cheats when i feel like messing around on a game. Other than that I just install cias.

 

[StevenLexon]

Hi All,

Haven't read the full topic, but I know a guy who helped with the gateway community and I succesfully installed the gateway method.

First of all:
You MUST have a 9.2 sysnand backup (or be able to create one)
You cannot use browserHAX as the exploit to trigger the gateway timemachine (black screen), but using browserhax you can install menuhax, which does work.

So, quick tut.:

- Download the 4.0 folder AND the OTP file for your region from the gateway tutorial and extract approprietly
- Boot gateway 4.0b Launcher.dat (browser exploit), which you obviously placed on the root of your system's SD card
- Hold L to go into you menu
- Create 9.2 sysnand backup if you haven't already and copy it to your pc
- Start DS in gateway mode
- Press select and launch the timemachine
- perform UPGRADE to 10.3 (this is where the 9.2 sysnand backup is REALLY IMPORTANT)
- When your DS is rebooted in 10.3, user browserhax to boot the homebrewlauncher (package can easily be found on Google)
- Install menuhax and reboot your DS holding the L button. You should immediatly be in the homebrew launcher (through menuhax, not browserhax-
- Here comes something they FORGOT to add to the tutorial
- (!!) Copy the BOOT.3dsx provided by gateway from the root of your system's SD to the 3ds folder on your gateway microSD!
- rename it to gw_timemachine.3dsx
- This previous step (menuhax) allows you to load the timemachine app (otherwise a black screen on browserhax)
- Choose downgrade 2.X and if you placed you .otp in the right folder (system SD root) it should start the downgrade.

Now you should boot to firmware 2.x

- Start the gateway menu by opening the browser and surf to go.gateway-3ds.com
- Don't forget to hold the L button for the menu to pop up or your system will freeze until you reboot

- Make sure the 9.2 sysnand backup is in the root your system's SD card and is called nand.bin
- In the menu choose AL9H install and BAM, if you NAND.bin is found it'll copy you 9.2 sysnand back and automagically install the arm hax.

- Reboot machine

--- SUCCES!!

You're all welcome


Edit:
I have emuNAND already installed on the system's SD card.
Format emuNAND if you haven't done already right after you dumped you sysnand.

I was also able to update the emunand from 10.7 to 11.0 succesfully.

is that also suitable for a new3ds to install gateway a9lh or not？

 

[Lumince]

is that also suitable for a new3ds to install gateway a9lh or not？

I don't really recommend using Gateways a9lh installer on a N3DS or a 3ds without a hardmod :/ Gateway downgrades tend to brick especially this because they skip crucial safety steps. This is a "Private Beta" that is said to be used my advanced users. I would recommend following Plailect's Guide when you have an hour or 2 to spare.

 

[sj33]

Seriously, even if you love and adore Gateway and only ever intend to use Gateway and nothing else - USE PLAILECT'S METHOD instead of Gateway's. You can still use Gateway using the Plailect method.

The reason is this - the Gateway's method locks you to Gateway, meaning YOUR 3DS WILL NEVER AGAIN BOOT WITHOUT A GATEWAY CART INSERTED! This might not seem like a big deal now, but it may be in the future if your Gateway cart stops working or Gateway stop providing updates. You won't be able to switch to another CFW, your 3DS will essentially be a brick.

This is nothing to do with Gateway vs. free CFW, this is about not permenently locking your 3DS to one specific vendor.

 

[Thirty3Three]

Whenever I boot into the Time Machine, I get that fun "please make sure wifi is configured..."

Um.. it is... Why the error...?

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"Fatal Error: Please configure WiFi before downgrade"... what the fack?

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@ihaveamac was having this problem testing also, not sure if he fixed it.

me too. What the fuck?

 

[Temptress Cerise]

Whenever I boot into the Time Machine, I get that fun "please make sure wifi is configured..."

Um.. it is... Why the error...?

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"Fatal Error: Please configure WiFi before downgrade"... what the fack?

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me too. What the fuck?

It's a beta.... What do you expect? I mean, even GateWay has this disclaimer on their openly public Private Beta Page.
"DISCLAIMER: Files on this page should be treated with extreme care and only used by advanced users who have access to a way to restore their 3DS NAND. Users should have a valid/known good copy of their NAND before proceeding! Use at your own risk!"

Honestly, contact Gateway if you want help troubleshooting this. I doubt you'll get much support here, if any.

My advice, if you don't mind being completely locked down to GW-A9LH, wait until they polish out their installer more. Otherwise, consider using standard A9LH, which has a whole lot more features than GW-A9LH, oh and which doesn't make your 3DS useless without a Gateway Red Card.

 

[djricekcn]

Can someone give me a really dumbed down step-by-step instruction on this? I keep getting ERROR screen when i do the Hold B then A part. Also, what's the point in doing all this? Just so it won't boot into sysnand when it boots up? How do you get back to sysnand if you do this?