Hi, i just downgraded my new 3ds xl from 9.7 to 9.2. Do i need to delete the files i put in my sd card? And are there any risks (hardbrick) in installing cfw? Thank you
you can delete whatever you want off the SD card I guess. It's up to you. Not sure what files you are talking about (updates? for FW 9.2 downgrade?)
There is always risk when you muck about with stuff. I do not think CFW is more risky than the downgrade but you can absolutely break your 3ds if you do something wrong like deleting a title that you need off SYSNAND, or if you install a CIA that breaks SYSNAND.
If you read and study the forums and the tutorials you should be fine. If you are looking for an easy way to piracy you are much more likely to permanently ruin your 3ds or to find that you put way more time into doing this stuff than it is worth.
In sysNAND settings, you can set your DNS to Smealum's TubeHax DNS - 107.211.140.065 to allow internet access, but block Nintendo's update servers from connecting. You should not do this in emuNAND from what I've been told, though. Also, a rumor has it that Nintendo may be using a new URL for its updates soon, which will prevent the TubeHax DNS from blocking updates.Quick question: can I block my new 3DS from automatically downloading updates and spamming me with PLEASE UPDATE TEH CONSOLE via DNS or something? I don't have the message yet, but I don't want to eventually have it.
Hey, i followed it to the letter but i get frozen in the sysupdater screen. I press Y or B and nothing happens.
I have an O3DS, my firmware is 10.2.0-28E and i'm using the browserhax as an entrypoint
I successfully (I think) downgraded my US N3DS yesterday.
I got stuck at "Rebooting in 10 seconds..." and decided to reboot it myself.
I'm in 9.2 now and everything seems fine, but something doesn't feel right because of what happened earlier. Am I fucked?
That takes a load off my chest.No you're not fucked. I had one of my N3DS acting the same way and I turned it off after 5 or maybe 10 minutes. It works like a charm now, got .cias installed and everything so you can feel safe.
Install rxtools and fbi to install .cia files.Decided to downgrade my 3ds so I can play more games. Did it with success. So what do I do now?
So this works on the latest 10.3 firmware correct?
I was gonna try to get one of those Pokemon New 3DS this february and if they come with 10.x I wanted to make sure this worked on them.
Uhm, since when does it require an update to use the browser? I just used BrowserHax on the 9.1 Japanese N3DS I just got to setup MenuHax and all. It just worked right out of the box. sysNAND remains on the 9.1 it shipped with and I neither upgraded nor downgraded. (Which really takes a load off my mind because the N3DS is still quite a lot more likely to fail than the O3DS it seems, even if it's usually a soft-brick.) It was only some really old systems that didn't ship with the full browser pre-loaded as I understand it.
But Nintendo is probably considering all this khax stuff to be a huge priority. It may well be that something coming out this coming month will be updated even if they have to pull them out of boxes and do it manually...
BTW, on the DNS blocking thing, I saw a much better method suggested a long time ago on a Reddit article. Setup a free OpenDNS.com account. Setup a network and block these addresses in the blocking settings (with the blocking level set to "none" so it only blocks these addresses): c.shop.nintendowifi.net nus.c.shop.nintendowifi.net nus.cdn.c.shop.nintendowifi.net nus.cdn.shop.wii.com nus.cdn.wup.shop.nintendo.net nus.wup.shop.nintendo.net Then just set the system to use both of their DNS servers for DNS. The cool thing about this method is if things go horribly wrong you can just delete those blocks temporarily and put them back when you're done. Much safer than the Tubehax server and probably a lot faster since it's a real major DNS service. If Nintendo gets new DNS addresses you can block those the same way. Though this begs the question of if they'll do DNS at all. If they're smart they'll probably hardcode some specific IP addresses (or perhaps just one and have in redirect as needed.) That would have to be blocked in router settings I guess. But this wouldn't matter for us because they can't actually push changes like that into older system files somehow. Meaning either way our systems will still use the old addresses which can still be blocked in the same manner as always. Thus we can just use this and be safe regardless.