Homebrew Why 100% of the DSi tutorials let you install Hiya CFW AND TWiLight Menu?

[Blesmore]

I got an used dsi, and the guy sold it to me for pennies ($10 including charger and a 32gb sd, added bonus he bought 6 games from dsiware shop) because it took a whole two minutes to boot and he was thinking it was faulty.

It took this much time to booot because:

• unlaunch 1.4 splash screen
• loading hiya cfw from the sdcard
  
• loading TWiLight menu automatically
  
• fake health and safety screen from TWiLight menu
• TWiLight menu video intro

so i tried to make it faster and i did this:

• unlaunch 1.9 who doesn't have a splash screen (saves 3 seconds)
  
• unlaunch directly boots twilight.nds (saves a whole minute)
  
• fake health and safety screen disabled (saves 3 seconds)
  
• video intro disabled (saves 10 seconds)

and, I did not notice anything wrong with twilight menu launched directly from unlaunch, i was able to launch 100% of the ds games i tried, including games via gbarunner2

so, what's the reason 100% of the tutorials online bother with installing hiya cfw on the sdcard? (which is not really that user friendly)

 

[Ryccardo]

"Guide" is often misunderstood as "only true way", but it really means "this is how it worked for me, if you'd like to copy my setup here's how I arrived to it"*;
in fact if I posted a criticism like yours I would have ended it with "why bother installing twilightmenu++, when Hiya already gives you emunand, you can run DSi mode emulators directly from the DSi Menu and DS games run much better on a quality flashcard, and I dislike inaccurate ripoffs of official console UIs?"

The ability to have TWM++ work fully without Hiya is also a fairly recent development;
"Two minutes", though, sounds quite excessive...

* which is why I'm fairly skeptical of recommending any "guide" when they often fail to explain what you're doing and why, in fact often promoting automation to disguise complexity, & recommend optional software while failing to fairly acknowledge the major alternatives

 

[Blesmore]

Probably it was slower than average because the guy found a "easy zip" from somewhere online, instead of making hiya cfw from his own nand backup.

Inside the sd card i found a nand.bin which, when loaded in no$gba, had a totally different console nickname, had a load of stuff already inside, and a different serial. Plus the nand backup had already unlaunch inside... so the backup was totally useless

when i changed the console nickname in hiya cfw or even the color theme, the console crashed with an error on black screen