Tutorial Simple Guide to Downgrading your 3DS

[LordStarkiller]

Thanks for the tutorial and a now running RxTools on my old 3DS but OP should add that if you have Menuhax installed before you downgrade, once it reboots it will stay a black screen until you delete the files from your SD card cause once I got rid of those and reinserted my SD card my 3DS booted normally but it gave me quite the fright!

 

[Kapaya]

Followed the guide but I used https://gbatemp.net/threads/wip-safesysupdater.409392/ instead as a downgrade after checking. Worked on the first try from N3DS 10.2 to 9.2 EU!

 

[hoist20032002]

How would I go about 6.2U to 9.2U?

 

[deyvid.os]

is it possible to downgrade from 10.4?

 

[Lazyjones]

How would I go about 6.2U to 9.2U?

Follow this guide:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-upgrade-your-old3ds-from-4-1-8-1-to-9-2-0-20.389187/

is it possible to downgrade from 10.4?

Not (yet) without a hardmod. This may change in the future.

 

[oFire]

I am on system version 10.2, and it keeps failing the md5 check every damn time, Ive downloaded the 9.2 files from multiple places and every one of them fails, this is seriously annoying the crap out of me. How do you guys get past this issue? ive even tried different sd cards, xfering the data through wireless and directly through pc port, makes no difference.

 

[DarkFlare69]

I am on system version 10.2, and it keeps failing the md5 check every damn time, Ive downloaded the 9.2 files from multiple places and every one of them fails, this is seriously annoying the crap out of me. How do you guys get past this issue? ive even tried different sd cards, xfering the data through wireless and directly through pc port, makes no difference.

Use normal sysupdater..

 

[oFire]

Use normal sysupdater..

I thought that using that has a higher brick chance?

 

[thedude28]

I thought that using that has a higher brick chance?

If you know what you're doing then using normal sysupdater is no different than SafeSysupdater.

 

[DarkFlare69]

I thought that using that has a higher brick chance?

It's for noobs, if you know you're doing it right then use normal sysupdater. never had an issue and seems very simple that anyone can do it.

 

[felixsrg]

Successfully downgraded an o3DS 9.8 to 9.2, thank you very much for the easy to follow guide!

 

[oFire]

So once we have downgraded, can we still use the menuhax as an entry or do we have to find an old one to use?

 

[thedude28]

So once we have downgraded, can we still use the menuhax as an entry or do we have to find an old one to use?

You'd have to reinstall menuhax as it uses a different payload.

 

[reiyu]

I thought that using that has a higher brick chance?

If you know what you're doing then using normal sysupdater is no different than SafeSysupdater.

seems that more people bricked with safesysupdater than julian's libkhax sysupdater:
http://gbatemp.net/threads/safesysupdater-vs-sysupdater-share-your-brick-story.412245/

 

[keyra]

nvm

 

[fuyukaidesu]

I got a brick using safeSysupdater with homemenuhax...
I can get in recovery but what should I do from here ?

 

[oFire]

eh finally got it first try, i was being retarded and had the updater folder in the wrong spot.

 

[Deleted User]

I just found out about this is there any way to get homebrew if I have no apps on 9.9?

 

[Bryon15]

I think my system bricked. Everything went fine at first. It installed all of the cia files. But when in finished, it got stuck on the reboot phase. It didn't reboot. And I'm just getting a black screen.

 

[molcos]

I think my system bricked. Everything went fine at first. It installed all of the cia files. But when in finished, it got stuck on the reboot phase. It didn't reboot. And I'm just getting a black screen.

Remove your sd card, then empty the 3ds folder.
Copy back the files after booting the 3ds and changing the theme once to remove the menuhax.

Good luck