Hello everyone!,
This is my very first post in this forum... first of all i would like to thank
@usernametaken for his tutorial, this is the simplest I've ever found to do this whole process. I'm a n00b with everything related to the 3DS and it's been a hell of a ride for me... about a month ago I tried following this tutorial, but after 3 or 4 hours trying, i managed to brick the damn thing because I installed the update .cias (for 9.5...) directly into my sysNAND. Yes... i .... did .... it... and i don't even remember how got to that point, really, i was that confused back then.
Luckily i had the nand.bin file and i was able to do the hardmod thing and fix the N3DS. OMG!, that was one of the worst nightmares I've ever had, along with that PS2 modchip i installed 7 or 8 years ago when i was in high school. My soldering skills are not getting any better... sh*t!!!.
Now back to topic, I'd really appreciate if you guys can help me here. This time I managed to install Reinand and updated that emuNAND to 9.5... but i think i've done some bad things in the process. Can you please check the steps i followed and tell me if i did something bad?:
- after unlinking my sysNAND from my emuNAND, i placed the BigBlueMenu.cia and the USA folder into my SDcard so i could update the emuNAND to 9.5.
- Booted into Reinand (emuNAND) and executed DevMenu.
- Instead o selecting BigBlueMenu.cia for install, I selected DevMenu.cia by error and tried to install it. I got an error (something "fail already exists" but i don't remember anymore).
- I immediately selected BigBlueMenu.cia and installed it with no issues.
- back to Reinand, i realized the devmenu shortcut was GONE!, but BigBlueMenu was there... so i updated my emuNAND using that as instructed.
- Back to Reinand, i could see the update process went fine... but the devmenu shortcut was still missing. So i used BigBlueMenu to install DevMenu.cia once again and it all went fine!. DevMenu was back to my home screen and working perfectly fine.
So, what the hell just happened?. Did i screwed up by doing all of this?. Why do i need BigBlueMenu and DevMenu when they're so similar?. There's also many people suggesting me to install the FBI thing so i can install .cia files... aren't these 3 programs the same thing?.
And then there's the 3ds to cia conversion process... which is incredibly confusing for me. Using
3DS Simple CIA Converter it seems like i need some xorpads files which i can only get using rxTools (what!? another CFW/emuNAND!?, how do i do that!?), or with some other program called Decrypt9 (how do i run that? i can only find .3dsx .dat .bin files inside the app .zip folder)
I'm totally lost here!. I would really appreciate if you guys can point me to the right direction.
Edit: I have a N3DS XL (USA) with firmware 9.0... and cubic ninja.