Homebrew [Release] Hourglass9 - Noob friendly & safe NAND dumper / restorer

[8BitWonder]

Nice work as always! Going to install this later.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

No .3dsx Brahma-based loader?
Also, at first I thought you put one of Ridley's sprites from Super Metriod as the bottom-screen dragon.

 

[d0k3]

No .3dsx Brahma-based loader?
Also, at first I thought you put one of Ridley's sprites from Super Metriod as the bottom-screen dragon.

Nope. I can't guarantee the same safety from Brahma that I can guarantee from a9lh.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Nope. I can't guarantee the same safety from Brahma that I can guarantee from a9lh.

That makes sense.

 

[PaiiNSteven]

Added onto wiki aswell.

 

[Giodude]

Oooooo I wanna test it out. I Want to see if I can find a way to brick. I gots a9lh so its ok.

 

[tony_2018]

That's not as simple as you may think (I'd almost say, impossible). 3DS type (N3DS / O3DS) can be recognized by the backup size (only N3DS is > 1GB). FW can only be recognized with a database of FIRM hash, and region needs to decrypt and extract a file from NAND. BUT: you can't look into NANDs that are not dumped from the console you are running Hourglass9 from, so identifying a different consoles NAND backup is out of question. So, that's that.

Not only that but I believe you made this tool to dump/restore nand/emunand, right? Not dealing with roms/cia's?

Anything other than that will be ...I dunno..something more?

 

[PaiiNSteven]

Oooooo I wanna test it out. I Want to see if I can find a way to brick. I gots a9lh so its ok.

Honestly with a tool like this, im pretty sure the only way to brick is by installing a wrong nand dump. Even with a9lh this isnt possible though because you can always reinstall a valid dump. Unless theres something wrong with the program though, its pretty noob-proof.

 

[Giodude]

Honestly with a tool like this, im pretty sure the only way to brick is by installing a wrong nand dump. Even with a9lh this isnt possible though because you can always reinstall a valid dump. Unless theres something wrong with the program though, its pretty noob-proof.

I can believe

 

[d0k3]

Honestly with a tool like this, im pretty sure the only way to brick is by installing a wrong nand dump. Even with a9lh this isnt possible though because you can always reinstall a valid dump. Unless theres something wrong with the program though, its pretty noob-proof.

Well, and just try to flash a wrong / corrupted NAND dump. You will have a hard time, guaranteed. And you can recover from it via a9lh, even if you manage to do it.

 

[DjoeN]

@d0k3 It would be cool to have an option to have the backup named with date.
- sysnand_20160525.bin
- emunand_20160525.bin

I put my backups straight in a folder named with date:
- \2016-05-25\sysnand.bin
- \2016-05-25\emunand.bin

But i can imagine some ppl just copy them in folders like \01\sysnand.bin \02\sysnand.bin etc...

 

[d0k3]

@d0k3 It would be cool to have an option to have the backup named with date.
- sysnand_20160525.bin
- emunand_20160525.bin

I put my backups straight in a folder named with date:
- \2016-05-25\sysnand.bin
- \2016-05-25\emunand.bin

But i can imagine some ppl just copy them in folders like \01\sysnand.bin \02\sysnand.bin etc...

Not possible, has already been brought up. We have no access to the real time clock.

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By the way, to be fair, there is one way you can brick (irreparably that means) even with this. You'd need a pristine, uncorrupted, unchanged NAND dump (from your console, of course), and you'd need to use a hex editor to change something in one very specific place. Won't put this out, though, but anyone with a hardmod and some knowledge about the NAND structure can go figure.

 

[MsMidnight]

Much Gateway dragon, now we need the brick code :^)

 

[MassExplosion213]

Not possible, has already been brought up. We have no access to the real time clock.

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By the way, to be fair, there is one way you can brick (irreparably that means) even with this. You'd need a pristine, uncorrupted, unchanged NAND dump (from your console, of course), and you'd need to use a hex editor to change something in one very specific place. Won't put this out, though, but anyone with a hardmod and some knowledge about the NAND structure can go figure.

Well...it's not that hard to find out..btw, on a non-a9lh console, it's two.

 

[The Catboy]

This is once again, a useful tool for both my 2DS and for my boyfriend. In both cases, there's no need for the countless menus of Decrypt 9, just a back up and restore option is all that's needed.

 

[Shadowtrance]

@d0k3

Spoiler

 

[Salamencizer]

Nice tool. This truly makes you, the 3DS Homebrew Legend. Thank you for all of your hard work.

 

[d0k3]

@d0k3

Spoiler

I like it, especially the background graphic .

 

[Vondosaurusrex]

just installed A9LH on my cousin's 3ds. This was honestly the perfect recovery tool for his situation, thanks man!

 

[RacsoSakuraba]

@d0k3 You can add an option to name your backup tools where the nand are made, besides sysnand, nand_sys, nand, emunand, nand_emu? Like "A9LH_nand.bin" for A9LH users also give an example as well as you do in OTP helper. Apology my bad english.

PD: Great work!!!