Hello, fine people!
I was recently attempting to update Luma3DS, and managed to brick my New 2DS XL. The problem was that it was reading the Luma from the CTRNAND rather than the SD card. So, after reading too little on the subject apparently, and thinking that the result of what I read was that if it couldn't read the boot.firm from the CTRNAND, it would look for it on the SD card. So, I used GodMode9 to rename the boot.firm on the CTRNAND to boot.firm.old. Upon rebooting, I got the White LED of Doom. I tried booting in to Safe Mode, which does the same White LED of Doom. Since there's no boot.firm being read, I can't do the Start-Power thing to get back to GodMode9.
So, I decided that since I have an Ace3DS X card, I would do the ntrboot thing and just go about re-installing Luma that way. Following the guide here:
https://3ds.hacks.guide/installing-boot9strap-(ntrboot)
I know where the sweet spot is on the New 2DS XL, it's just above the A Button. When I do the X-Select-Start-Power with the magnet in the right spot, the blue power light comes on, but the White LED of Doom stays off. If the magnet isn't there, that LED lights up as you'd expect. However, it doesn't boot in to boot9strap. I followed the guide verbatim there. I've also tried using sthetix's 6 month old collection of files for it before I decided to follow the guide. Both result in the same thing. The blue LED lights up, the white one stays dark, but the boot9strap menu doesn't appear on the screen. When I remove my fingers from the device, the blue light eventually goes out.
I got the Ace3DS X card from nds-card.com's Amazon affiliated store several months ago. This card supposedly already has the ntxboot already flashed in it's "3DS Mode". So, I'm kind of at a loss here. The Ace3DS X card has the ntrboot_flasher_nds.nds in the root, and the directory of ntrboot with boot9strap_ntr.form in it. Is there something I'm missing? Could it be that Ace3DS X card lacks the flashed ntrboothax thing? I'm stumped here.
EDIT: SOLVED! It wasn't reading the boot.firm from the SD card because the SD card was funky to the 2DS.
I was recently attempting to update Luma3DS, and managed to brick my New 2DS XL. The problem was that it was reading the Luma from the CTRNAND rather than the SD card. So, after reading too little on the subject apparently, and thinking that the result of what I read was that if it couldn't read the boot.firm from the CTRNAND, it would look for it on the SD card. So, I used GodMode9 to rename the boot.firm on the CTRNAND to boot.firm.old. Upon rebooting, I got the White LED of Doom. I tried booting in to Safe Mode, which does the same White LED of Doom. Since there's no boot.firm being read, I can't do the Start-Power thing to get back to GodMode9.
So, I decided that since I have an Ace3DS X card, I would do the ntrboot thing and just go about re-installing Luma that way. Following the guide here:
https://3ds.hacks.guide/installing-boot9strap-(ntrboot)
I know where the sweet spot is on the New 2DS XL, it's just above the A Button. When I do the X-Select-Start-Power with the magnet in the right spot, the blue power light comes on, but the White LED of Doom stays off. If the magnet isn't there, that LED lights up as you'd expect. However, it doesn't boot in to boot9strap. I followed the guide verbatim there. I've also tried using sthetix's 6 month old collection of files for it before I decided to follow the guide. Both result in the same thing. The blue LED lights up, the white one stays dark, but the boot9strap menu doesn't appear on the screen. When I remove my fingers from the device, the blue light eventually goes out.
I got the Ace3DS X card from nds-card.com's Amazon affiliated store several months ago. This card supposedly already has the ntxboot already flashed in it's "3DS Mode". So, I'm kind of at a loss here. The Ace3DS X card has the ntrboot_flasher_nds.nds in the root, and the directory of ntrboot with boot9strap_ntr.form in it. Is there something I'm missing? Could it be that Ace3DS X card lacks the flashed ntrboothax thing? I'm stumped here.
EDIT: SOLVED! It wasn't reading the boot.firm from the SD card because the SD card was funky to the 2DS.
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