Tutorial Simple Guide to Downgrading your 3DS

[Harvest God]

If only Time-Machines existed....

 

[Ar7ific1al]

If I remove extdata (where theme is stored for homemenuhax) from my SD card, I get "an error has occurred." With the homemenuhax extdata, I am able to press power at the home screen then home to get a "Home Menu" screen which just stays there. At this point, the system is NOT frozen; I can turn wifi on/off, and repeat the power button process to get the "press home/power" prompt.

 

[vlasp01]

Okay is there anything special I must do, when I downgrade to play any rom online? I'm on 10.3 currently.

Use a CFW with FBI to install the game's CIA.

 

[Substance12]

I have read that you may need to delete the file 000400102002CA00.cia before hand, is this the case?

Only if you have a Japanese N3DS.

 

[Panic.exe]

Use a CFW with FBI to install the game's CIA.

It's probably better to use/setup an updated emunand

 

[Banamy]

Use a CFW with FBI to install the game's CIA.

okay thank you. I'll attempt downgrading soon.

 

[bbcali89]

"Rebooting in 10 seconds"... been on this for about a minute now...

 

[Substance12]

"Rebooting in 10 seconds"... been on this for about a minute now...

Keep waiting.

 

[Hikenkami]

Browserhax or menuhax?

Menuhax 2.1

 

[Santaros]

Every time I try I get the error:

titleException:
main.cpp:100: Result: 0xD8E08067
Failed to get CIA file info!

Any advice? I've tried with both menuhax and ironhax

Are you 100% sure you have the right pack, from other posts I have read, that error seems to mean you are trying to install o3ds FW on n3ds or vice versa. Which would have resulted in a brick btw.

 

[Sielrok]

Reporting that My downgrade was successful! Am now on 9.2! Great job guys o.o
Only had one freeze and that was on the App bootup(For sysupdater)
After a restart it worked fine!

 

[bbcali89]

Keep waiting.

how long does it take?

 

[Arbazkool]

I downgraded then this happened http://m.imgur.com/tqypWe6 what do I do

 

[Ar7ific1al]

"Rebooting in 10 seconds"... been on this for about a minute now...

Someone advised that it's safe to force shutdown if it doesn't reboot on its own, but it might be too late, I don't know... I think it's too late for mine in general; no matter what I do, can't get recover mode or boot. :/

EDIT: SCRATCH that. Got recovery mode literally as I posted. o_o

 

[ultramario1998]

so, how has everyone been able to run sysupdater?

I've been trying 10 times using all of my availible *hax entrypoints, still haven't gotten anything.

 

[bbcali89]

uhhhhh what do i do guys. it still says rebooting in 10 seconds.

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I'm not even a pirate. if I brick i'll be pissed ! LOL

 

[Substance12]

I downgraded then this happened http://m.imgur.com/tqypWe6 what do I do

Try booting in recovery mode or taking out your SD card (or both)

 

[bbcali89]

Try booting in recovery mode or taking out your SD card (or both)

Still getting rebooting in 10 seconds bro

 

[Ar7ific1al]

If you are getting "an error has occurred" after "successfully" downgrading, and you used HomeMenuHax as your entry point, try the following:
BACKUP and REMOVE payload files from SD card root. BACKUP and REMOVE homemenu extdata (/Nintendo 3DS/<a bunch of numbers and letters>/<a bunch of numbers and letters>/extdata/00000000/0000008f). Insert SD card back into 3DS. Hold L+R+UP+A before powering on, power on, and continue to hold the buttons.
This got me into recovery mode.

 

[Substance12]

Still getting rebooting in 10 seconds bro

No clue... sorry