Hacking [WIP] KARL3DS - Kernel access on N3DS via Ninjhax + Loadcode

[AnkitC]

As I mentioned a little while back, it may be possible to re-enable MSET hax on New 3DS, yes. We'll look into it once we're feature-complete and porting to other entrypoints, probably.

If possible this'll be massive. KIU.

Any ETA guys?

 

[ody81]

Wasn't Wulfy in his / aliaks thread aswell?

Yeah, to make sure everyone knew Staplebutter was working on KARL despite it being on KARL page 1. Didn't look like a troll post at all.

 

[Cindakil]

This will be working in New3DS 9.2 with Cubic Ninja?

 

[Artemis-kun]

This will be working in New3DS 9.2 with Cubic Ninja?

Yes, or at least it was mentioned it would somewhere in the thread's history.

 

[Slushie3DS]

From what I can see, this project is coming along well! Currently, we have three notable projects in the community: KARL3DS, rxTools, and OSKA. Just because we have three growing projects doesn't mean that it is a race in any way. Each is different from each other, and it's good that there is diversity. Take your time to make a quality project, and don't allow people to be idiots.

As for the newest release, I am curious as to what it can do. I do not own a copy of Cubic Ninja, otherwise I'd check it out myself. From what I can see from Zoogie's photo, it seem as if you can boot a CFW, choose options for your CFW which I assume are patches, choose some NAND options which I assume are dumping or formating SD for CFW, and crypto options that I have no clue idea what they are.

 

[VinsCool]

From what I can see, this project is coming along well! Currently, we have three notable projects in the community: KARL3DS, rxTools, and OSKA. Just because we have three growing projects doesn't mean that it is a race in any way. Each is different from each other, and it's good that there is diversity. Take your time to make a quality project, and don't allow people to be idiots.

As for the newest release, I am curious as to what it can do. I do not own a copy of Cubic Ninja, otherwise I'd check it out myself. From what I can see from Zoogie's photo, it seem as if you can boot a CFW, choose options for your CFW which I assume are patches, choose some NAND options which I assume are dumping or formating SD for CFW, and crypto options that I have no clue idea what they are.

I HIGHLY suggest you to get a copy of cubic ninja if you want to try by yourself.

 

[shinyquagsire23]

From what I can see, this project is coming along well! Currently, we have three notable projects in the community: KARL3DS, rxTools, and OSKA. Just because we have three growing projects doesn't mean that it is a race in any way. Each is different from each other, and it's good that there is diversity. Take your time to make a quality project, and don't allow people to be idiots.

As for the newest release, I am curious as to what it can do. I do not own a copy of Cubic Ninja, otherwise I'd check it out myself. From what I can see from Zoogie's photo, it seem as if you can boot a CFW, choose options for your CFW which I assume are patches, choose some NAND options which I assume are dumping or formating SD for CFW, and crypto options that I have no clue idea what they are.

Actually no, that was a mistake on my part, you cannot boot any CFW from this at all, period. That menu is a really really early build which was unstable as fak, the SD stuff was still unstable and frequently caused invalid dumps (and like he said earlier, hangs on dumping sometimes). Also couldn't boot any firmware at that point either, we hadn't gotten that sorted out. I've corrected the repository for now, but we have plans to release some sort of "recovery" menu eventually.

 

[VinsCool]

Actually no, that was a mistake on my part, you cannot boot any CFW from this at all, period. That menu is a really really early build which was unstable as fak, the SD stuff was still unstable and frequently caused invalid dumps (and like he said earlier, hangs on dumping sometimes). Also couldn't boot any firmware at that point either, we hadn't gotten that sorted out. I've corrected the repository for now, but we have plans to release some sort of "recovery" menu eventually.

to be honnest, the menu looks like a psp recovery menu

 

[Slushie3DS]

Actually no, that was a mistake on my part, you cannot boot any CFW from this at all, period. That menu is a really really early build which was unstable as fak, the SD stuff was still unstable and frequently caused invalid dumps (and like he said earlier, hangs on dumping sometimes). Also couldn't boot any firmware at that point either, we hadn't gotten that sorted out. I've corrected the repository for now, but we have plans to release some sort of "recovery" menu eventually.

Ah, I understand now. I was very mislead by the menu. Thank you for the response.

 

[Axido]

to be honnest, the menu looks like a psp recovery menu

Yeah, it has a nice touch of the good old days, hasn't it?

 

[shinyquagsire23]

Also to clarify the reason for the mistake, I believe that binary came from my early ARM9 repo before we decided to keep it closed for the time being, so it really is an extremely early build. That repo was eventually moved elsewhere but it seems the old payload remained instead of the usual stripe demo. But like Wolfy said, the SDMMC code wasn't stable yet so the SD and NAND ran a risk of being bricked due to faulty code. We've since fixed this.

 

[VinsCool]

Also to clarify the reason for the mistake, I believe that binary came from my early ARM9 repo before we decided to keep it closed for the time being, so it really is an extremely early build. That repo was eventually moved elsewhere but it seems the old payload remained instead of the usual stripe demo.

so, the stripes everyone esle got means it succeded on arm9 code execution, correct?

 

[shinyquagsire23]

so, the stripes everyone esle got means it succeded on arm9 code execution, correct?

Yes, stripes means it reached ARM9, if you disassemble the current payload you can see that it just dumps 0xFF000000s to the framebuffer and then goes idle.

 

[gamesquest1]

i just get 3 dots personally

 

[GaaraPrime]

Actually no, that was a mistake on my part, you cannot boot any CFW from this at all, period. That menu is a really really early build which was unstable as fak, the SD stuff was still unstable and frequently caused invalid dumps (and like he said earlier, hangs on dumping sometimes). Also couldn't boot any firmware at that point either, we hadn't gotten that sorted out. I've corrected the repository for now, but we have plans to release some sort of "recovery" menu eventually.

Simple query - will we be able to flash a nand image in case of a brick using the said recovery menu? Like we can do in Android?

 

[Shadowtrance]

i just get 3 dots personally

Same result on my n3ds 9.0 (couple of blue dots on bottom screen, bottom left corner), i do get the stripe show on my o3ds 4.5 though.

 

[Dazzozo]

Simple query - will we be able to flash a nand image in case of a brick using the said recovery menu? Like we can do in Android?

Software restoration is basically impossible because you have to be able to get to the point where you can exploit to run ARM9 code.

You can write a NAND backup back to the NAND, but you can't use that to unbrick. Just to go from one working NAND backup to another.

 

[shinyquagsire23]

i just get 3 dots personally

Version/Console?

Simple query - will we be able to flash a nand image in case of a brick using the said recovery menu? Like we can do in Android?

Not without a hardware mod, and even then I'm not even sure what's in that revision, for all I know it could have been one of my testing revisions where I kinda experiment with things. I think in one I attempted to read out the SecureInfo_A and then write to it, but it turned out that it just caused a soft brick due to missing cias. I think I tried out a few other similar things as well, most of which failed and needed a hard mod to flash back.

 

[Death78793]

Tried this with my n3DS XL, it showed the lines briefly and then crashed the system (force closed itself, asking for a system reboot). Don't know what's causing it, but I better not mess around with it too much XD

 

[GaaraPrime]

Software restoration is basically impossible because you have to be able to get to the point where you can exploit to run ARM9 code.

You can write a NAND backup back to the NAND, but you can't use that to unbrick. Just to go from one working NAND backup to another.

Version/Console?

Not without a hardware mod, and even then I'm not even sure what's in that revision, for all I know it could have been one of my testing revisions where I kinda experiment with things. I think in one I attempted to read out the SecureInfo_A and then write to it, but it turned out that it just caused a soft brick due to missing cias. I think I tried out a few other similar things as well, most of which failed and needed a hard mod to flash back.

Thanx a lot for answering that query