Hacking What do the BootRates depend on?

[Deleted member 373223]

I actually agree with the 98-100% a9lh bootrate thing, It tends to work most of the time but like every few weeks-months I get a black screen and have to hold the power button

sorry but it can't be a9lh. it's either faulty sd or the payload, no a9lh

 

[Nyap]

sorry but it can't be a9lh. it's either faulty sd or the payload, no a9lh

I'm pretty sure if it was a faulty sd card it would happen more often

 

[Deleted member 373223]

I'm pretty sure if it was a faulty sd card it would happen more often

not necessarily.

 

[dimmidice]

Stop using shitty entry points and use A9LH. 100% boot rates, no hassle.

no hassle once its installed. it'd quite a hassle to install though

 

[Nyap]

also, CFW's have bootrate? I remember back when I was a rxtools+menuhax scrub rxtools would never fail on me (it was always menuhax causing trouble)

 

[evandixon]

The 98% boot rate with a9lh might have been a bug in Luma. I remember seeing someone report the same thing I experienced in a9lh, except using menuhax.

 

[Deleted member 373223]

also, CFW's have bootrate? I remember back when I was a rxtools+menuhax scrub rxtools would never fail on me (it was always menuhax causing trouble)

yes they do. with menuhax sometimes menuhax loaded but rxtools not.

 

[dark_samus3]

I actually agree with the 98-100% a9lh bootrate thing, It tends to work most of the time but like every few weeks-months I get a black screen and have to hold the power button

Something is wrong with your setup then, a9lh is literally as reliable as booting the FIRM in the FIRM partitions (because it's literally in the FIRM partitions and happens during the process of booting a FIRM, so...)

a9lh is 100% deterministic. So unless your 3DS hardware is failing in some way, a9lh is (regardless of what you think) 100% successful. How successful it is at reading your SD card, however, is another question. If you don't believe me on this, here. the arm9loader/kernel9loader reads the OTP, hashes it, uses the hash as the KeyX and KeyY of keyslot 0x11, which then is used to decrypt the secret sector which contains more encryption keys. From there key #2 of the secret sector is used to decrypt FIRM, after decryption, FIRM is jumped to (this is all normal stuff that happens on every 3ds with the new 3ds FIRM installed) we take advantage of the fact that key #2 isn't checked and we change it, which results in FIRM decrypting to something different. We control this in a manner that executes an instruction that executes code in a memory area we can control. So how do we control it? Well, we take advantage of a "safety" feature. The 3ds has 2 FIRM partitions and if one is corrupt, the other is loaded. So the first partition loads it's arm9 code into RAM, then checks it. It's signature is bad, so load the new (smaller) one. They didn't clear memory here. So since the new one is smaller, we have our code in RAM and a way to jump to it. This is arm9loaderhax. So, if any of that fails (which is impossible unless external factors are present (like failing hardware or maybe a solar flare wreaking havoc on something)) then yes, a9lh failed

So yes, a9lh IS 100% reliable assuming the hardware is working correctly

 

[froggestspirit]

I'm pretty sure if it was a faulty sd card it would happen more often

I actually had to stop using my 32GB sd, becuase it was reading worse than an N64 cartridge. Yes, faulty SD's can be a problem, but then again, that's the SD, not A9LH.

 

[Bubsy Bobcat]

The best way (and probably the only way) of booting Luma3DS on Menuhax with a 100% bootrate is by using the Lesshax payload, and booting Luma from ctrbootmanager with the correct offset (0x12000) and the correct autobootfix for your 3ds (which can be found in the boot.cfg for ctrbootmanager). I have NOT since ever had Luma fail to boot with this setup.
A9LH is still the clear winner here though.

 

[AlucardjX]

for me,with 64 gb microsd,A9LH never lose an hit!pure bootrate of 100%!

 

[astronautlevel]

I actually agree with the 98-100% a9lh bootrate thing, It tends to work most of the time but like every few weeks-months I get a black screen and have to hold the power button

Get a better SD card.

 

[Deleted member 333767]

When executing arbitrary code on a machine that isn't designed to be used in that way, luck is a big factor, one would imagine.

 

[Bullseye]

I'm amused by how people "calculate" probabilities. They make up percentages on the fly.