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I am currently using my Gateway on an older version, is there any point me upgrading, what benefits of it?

I don't want a bunch of people telling me to use cfw. I use gateway, get over it.
 
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rickycoe123 said:
I am on 9.2 and want to keep using my Gateway, I have no intention of using CFW.
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A9LH allows you to boot gateway emunand directly in boot, and gives you the chance to backup/recover sysnand whenever you need.

If you change your mind on gateway, you could cfw anytime too.
 
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KiiWii said:
I'm on 4.2, o3dsxl, with gw + sky3ds.... any benefits of alh9?
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Yes - you could sell your GW and your Sky3DS if you want to. And you can have an updated system that behaves like stock but lets you play any game you like :-) No need to worry about updating anything anymore.
 
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Quantumcat said:
Yes - you could sell your GW and your Sky3DS if you want to. And you can have an updated system that behaves like stock but lets you play any game you like :-) No need to worry about updating anything anymore.
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Brilliant.

I have always treated my 3DS with kid gloves, always removing wifi settings in case of update on sys, after updating emu.... I'm going to do it, and use the sky for exploitable games in future.

Thank you.
 
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KiiWii said:
I'm on 4.2, o3dsxl, with gw + sky3ds.... any benefits of alh9?
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Personally, I'm in the same situation, just without Sky.
Probably will switch to A9LH today with new guide for:
- additional protection
- quick boot with 100% success (no need to use Settings/DS Profile)
- no more Emunand
- VC and DSi games

But I will still keep GW cart for:
- cheats (not using them, but just in case)
- quick drag&drop ROMs

I hope, GW team will release proper launcher for A9LH v2 "soon" with FIRM protection and without Sysnand mode warning (if it is still there).
 
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Quantumcat said:
Gateway *IS* CFW, just a paid one.

When finished installing a9lh, follow https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-using-luma3ds-with-gateway-on-v2-a9lh.431691/ to use your Gateway card with it.
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Thank you, I just followed this and Gateway is now booting just by holding [Down] on boot. The only think I'm not sure about now is what to do about updates. MY SysNAND is still on 9.2.0 and when I boot Gateway, it's 10.4.0-29 which must mean I set it up as EmuNAND (it's been a very long time since I set this up and I haven't touched my 3DS in ages). So can I ditch emunand completely, update SysNAND to latest version and Gateway still work or....?

Quantumcat said:
Yes - you could sell your GW and your Sky3DS if you want to. And you can have an updated system that behaves like stock but lets you play any game you like :-) No need to worry about updating anything anymore.
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Oh, I've obviously been under my rock for too long - I don't even need to use my Gateway card to boot games any more?
 
beeswax said:
Thank you, I just followed this and Gateway is now booting just by holding [Down] on boot. The only think I'm not sure about now is what to do about updates. MY SysNAND is still on 9.2.0 and when I boot Gateway, it's 10.4.0-29 which must mean I set it up as EmuNAND (it's been a very long time since I set this up and I haven't touched my 3DS in ages). So can I ditch emunand completely, update SysNAND to latest version and Gateway still work or....?



Oh, I've obviously been under my rock for too long - I don't even need to use my Gateway card to boot games any more?
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You need to be in Gateway mode to use the Select menu to load roms from the Gateway card, but you can be in Luma or Gateway mode to play installed cia games.
You can flash your Gateway emuNAND to sysNAND if you wish, but you have to remember never to update your system while in Gateway mode, as you can brick (updating emuNAND is OK, as always, and you can update sysNAND while in Luma as it has proper protections). The 4.0 and 4.1 versions will have an annoying popup if you boot them in sysNAND, but you can use 3.7.1 to avoid this.
 
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sasha_spb_ru said:
Personally, I'm in the same situation, just without Sky.
Probably will switch to A9LH today with new guide for:
- additional protection
- quick boot with 100% success (no need to use Settings/DS Profile)
- no more Emunand
- VC and DSi games

But I will still keep GW cart for:
- cheats (not using them, but just in case)
- quick drag&drop ROMs

I hope, GW team will release proper launcher for A9LH v2 "soon" with FIRM protection and without Sysnand mode warning (if it is still there).
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So the GW boot cia thingy works on 11.x with a9lh?
 
KiiWii said:
So the GW boot cia thingy works on 11.x with a9lh?
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Hmm, I don't quite understand what you mean...
Can you paraphrase?

Do you mean, that GW can be launched with current A9LH?
Then yes, with couple easy tweaks.
You can boot either Luma by default or GW with pressing down while loading.

Or do you mean, that cia can be used in GW or not?
It was never a problem - everything worked in Emunand and should in Sysnand.
The only downside of GW with Emunand for me were long loading, lack of ability to play VC/GBA and DSi, and impossibility to use DS cards without reinstalling exploit after (with A9LH I can swap R4 and GW freely).
Anyway, in any case, you always can use GW mode for .3ds files and Luma for everything else.
 
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sasha_spb_ru said:
Hmm, I don't quite understand what you mean...
Can you paraphrase?

Do you mean, that GW can be launched with current A9LH?
Then yes, with couple easy tweaks.
You can boot either Luma by default or GW with pressing down while loading.

Or do you mean, that cia can be used in GW or not?
It was never a problem - everything worked in Emunand and should in Sysnand.
The only downside of GW with Emunand for me were long loading, lack of ability to play VC/GBA and DSi, and impossibility to use DS carts without reinstalling exploit after (with A9LH I can swap R4 and GW freely).
Anyway, in any case, you always can use GW mode for .3ds files and Luma for everything else.
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I installed A9HL + luma (downgrading from 4.2 to 2.1 for OTP and then back up to 9.2 and then finally to 11.0.0.33-E), but I'm assuming I cant use GW on 11.x and would have to go back down to 9.2? Or what is this "down" method? I'm guessing some sort of GW payload bin with "down_" prefixed to the file name in luma/payloads?

I have completed the guide fully and have the Gateway.CIA.v1.1.7z dowloaded ready but my issue is with emunand/sysnand differentiation I think.... I assume Luma is booting sysnand, and GW wont boot on anything higher than 9.0-9.2, so I need to somehow set up an emunand of 9.2 OR downgrade back to 9.2 sysnand before doing anything else?

Sorry this is very confusing for me for some unknown reason.... I dont appear to have done anything to suggest I have set up an emunand... yet.
 
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KiiWii said:
I installed A9HL + luma (downgrading from 4.2 to 2.1 for OTP and then back up to 9.2 and then finally to 11.0.0.33-E), but I'm assuming I cant use GW on 11.x and would have to go back down to 9.2? Or what is this "down" method? I'm guessing some sort of GW payload bin with "down_" prefixed to the file name in luma/payloads?

I have completed the guide fully and have the Gateway.CIA.v1.1.7z dowloaded ready but my issue is with emunand/sysnand differentiation I think.... I assume Luma is booting sysnand, and GW wont boot on anything higher than 9.0-9.2, so I need to somehow set up an emunand of 9.2 OR downgrade back to 9.2 sysnand before doing anything else?

Sorry this is very confusing for me for some unknown reason.... I dont appear to have done anything to suggest I have set up an emunand... yet.
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Why you assumed, that GW can't be used with ver 11?
The main problem with GW, I think - unability to execute their launcher on higher system firmwares.
Everything in GW perfectly works in Emunand 11, so it should work in Sysnand.
You can get rid of Emunand (if you have one) - just make Emunand backup and restore it to Sysnand (use Hourglass9 or Decrypt9 keeping A9LH).
And, yes - "down" method is just a payload to run GW launcher on Sysnand 11.
 
sasha_spb_ru said:
Why you assumed, that GW can't be used with ver 11?
The main problem with GW, I think - unability to execute their launcher on higher system firmwares.
Everything in GW perfectly works in Emunand 11, so it should work in Sysnand.
You can get rid of Emunand (if you have one) - just make Emunand backup and restore it to Sysnand (use Hourglass9 or Decrypt9 keeping A9LH).
And, yes - "down" method is just a payload to run GW launcher on Sysnand 11.
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Cool thank you.

So I have A9LH v2, LUMA 6.0.1, and sysnand 11.0.0-33E.

I can use FBI to install Gateway.CIA.v1.1 and then run my GW card as I used to? (the readme mentiond the 9.2 payload bin... which bin do I need please?)
 

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