Hacking Why does one build of rxTools support TWL/AGB and another doesn't?

[wurstpistole]

Hey there,

a technical question here. I was wondering, why does rxTools in some versions support TWL/AGB, but not MH4U/SM4SH and in other versions it's vice versa? I understand that MH4U and SM4SH reboot the device to another mode, as does GBA VC/ DSiWare, but what's the background that not both can be implemented? And is there any way to see which version does what except of trying it out yourself? Thanks!

 

[Tony_93]

There was a time were rxTools didn't support cia installation, the original creator (Roxas75) was anti-piracy, so rxTools was closed source and didn't have signatures patched which means no cia installation.

Some people "hacked" his CFW and released 2 unofficial versions that allowed cia installation. One had Smash/MH4U support but no GBA/DSiware support and the other one had GBA/DSiware support but it didn't have Smash/MH4U support.

That's when he decided to open up rxTools, officially support cia installation and added GBA/DSiware support too.

All versions from 2.5.2 to the latest nighlies suppor both SMASH/MH4U AND GBA/DSIWARE SUPPORT.

Those versions where one of the 2 things are not supported shouldn't be used anymore at this point, they are outdated and more than buggy.

 

[wurstpistole]

People don't seem to get gba VC running with the latest nightly in my tutorial. But these are all people who downgraded and gba VC is also not working in their sysnand. Still suspecting downgrade bugs here. I didn't try gba myself yet on my native 9.0 which was not downgraded.

 

[wurstpistole]

There was a time were rxTools didn't support cia installation, the original creator (Roxas75) was anti-piracy, so rxTools was closed source and didn't have signatures patched which means no cia installation.

Some people "hacked" his CFW and released 2 unofficial versions that allowed cia installation. One had Smash/MH4U support but no GBA/DSiware support and the other one had GBA/DSiware support but it didn't have Smash/MH4U support.

That's when he decided to open up rxTools, officially support cia installation and added GBA/DSiware support too.

All versions from 2.5.2 to the latest nighlies suppor both SMASH/MH4U AND GBA/DSIWARE SUPPORT.

Those versions where one of the 2 things are not supported shouldn't be used anymore at this point, they are outdated and more than buggy.

Could it be that it doesn't work only on n3ds?

 

[wurstpistole]

I tried it myself now on my 9.0 N3DS.

I installed 3 gba titles, two were injected roms, and one was a legit ambassador game. Installed them to both SysNAND and EmuNAND. Drumroll for the result...

- they don't work in SysNAND with Pasta
- they don't work in EmuNAND

None of them works, not even in SysNAND and not even the legit one. Just black screen in EmuNAND and "An error occured" in SysNAND.

How is it @Tony_93 that you say they are supported? I am a bit confused.

 

[NoNAND]

Could the AGB_FIRM patch resolve this?

 

[wurstpistole]

Could the AGB_FIRM patch resolve this?

No idea.

 

[NoNAND]

Ok.

 

[wurstpistole]

I wonder why this isn't explained anywhere. Seems like such a basic issue.

 

[wurstpistole]

Wait a second, would I need to patch agb firm in sysnand manually so that injected VC works? And also in Emunand?

 

[RahFah]

Wait a second, would I need to patch agb firm in sysnand manually so that injected VC works? And also in Emunand?

Hi.
Do you make more tests or have any news about this issue?

 

[wurstpistole]

Yes . legit CIAs (ambassador games) will work in sysnand. For injected VC you need agb firm patched in sysnand. On new 3ds none of those will work in Emunand at the moment, on o3ds they will but you also need to patch agb firm in Emunand and install the cia to both nands.