Isn't a SecureInfo file unique for each 3DS? If I download a foreign SecureInfo and use it, wouldn't that interfere with the 3DS the SecureInfo file was dumped from?
NOT if the secureinfo used is a virgin file. (from a 3ds that has never connected to the internet before)
yeah secureinfo should be treated like a private header use your own and don't share.
if everyone is suddenly connecting to the eshop with the same file nintendo would probably do something about it.
Which means that basically changing eshop region is pointless unless you own an out-of-region 3DS that you don't want to use anymore. So that would mean I need to buy a japanese and american 3DS to have access to all eshops on my main EUR 3DS. That's kind of a bummer :/
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Can it be used to do a system transfer from let's say an US O3ds to Eur (region swapped to US) n3ds?
Well, I guess I won't be quoting this anymore... (hooray!)
@yifan_lu Welcome back! I hope you have a better experience this time around.
Cosmo3ds is great indeed, but according to her blog, 3ds_injector seems more attractive. It seems that to 3ds_injector, cosmo3ds is only "a release of different branches" (I'm not reffering to github's "branch"). So maybe one day cosmo3ds, or other branches, can modify the whole FIRM, or become a Homebrew FIRM?
Splendid attempt.
Splendid attempt.
Enough with the misconceptions about SecureInfo. I feel I have to correct this every time
SecureInfo_A contains only the serial and region information. However serials are NOT used to identify your 3DS to Nintendo! The CtCert is what's used and that's found in your ARM9 OTP and is much harder to dump/spoof. Having bad serials/used serials/used serials online has no effect on eshop access. BUT if you have an NNID linked, the serial is checked to see if it matches the serial attached to your NNID. This is why I need the spoofing. I am using a SecureInfo (valid, signed) from an American 3ds but that contains the American serial. I transferred my NNID to my Japanese console (Nintendo support told me they didn't know it was possible lol) so I have to spoof my Japanese serial to get online.
SecureInfo_A contains only the serial and region information. However serials are NOT used to identify your 3DS to Nintendo! The CtCert is what's used and that's found in your ARM9 OTP and is much harder to dump/spoof. Having bad serials/used serials/used serials online has no effect on eshop access. BUT if you have an NNID linked, the serial is checked to see if it matches the serial attached to your NNID. This is why I need the spoofing. I am using a SecureInfo (valid, signed) from an American 3ds but that contains the American serial. I transferred my NNID to my Japanese console (Nintendo support told me they didn't know it was possible lol) so I have to spoof my Japanese serial to get online.
I wonder if using a public secureinfo_A from a Japanese console with this would allow me to download Japanese game updates from the home menu (not inside eShop). It probably would not be safe but I wonder if it would work.
Edit, from what @yifan_lu mentioned if I read it correctly, this may not work as my NNID is tied to a North American Console and spoofing a Japanese console with serial will not match my NNID and not work.
Edit, from what @yifan_lu mentioned if I read it correctly, this may not work as my NNID is tied to a North American Console and spoofing a Japanese console with serial will not match my NNID and not work.
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What are then the steps to do a system transfer between 2 different region? I'm desperately waiting for this day since I got my Eur N3DS.
Is a region swap needed first?
For the SecureInfo, I only have access to the one from the 3DS to transfer from..or a "public" one.
Nope, from what I can tell @yifan_lu (in my opinion) is on the side of,
She would rather buy games twice to get them digitally or to carry all them (or select games) around like the Gameboy and original DS days rather then to patch signatures, back carts up, then install them as CIAs
this is how I see it as releasing the source defeats the purpose of not patching signature checks other than to inconvenience yourself as others will use this with CFWs with signature patching while CosmoCFW will continue to have to way to backup and play legit carts as digital games.
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desperately waiting?
we have been able to region change for more than a year, i think i did the poc last january.
there are noob guides out, i don't really understand what the problem is...
So does this one has some irreplaceable advantages, compared with other loaders and CFW? or these features will be added to existed CFW in a few weeks? I have seen reinan has Region-free feature, which should be from same exploit source.
I did follow one of the guides and successfully region-swapped my emunand from EUR to US on my N3DS last year and again recently.
But it is still useless to me since I can't transfer my US O3DS system (NNID) to it as I don't have a virgin SecureInfo.
I'm hoping that this cosmo thing would allow this. However, it is possible that I have misread some of the guides or the poc discussions and that this can be done already...
(It would be great to have organized threads, stickies and updated first posts though, it's hard to keep track of anything without checking the forum every 2 hours for noobs, like me.)
Region-free is different from region-change. The former allows you to run games with different region, the latter changes your console's region (and allows you to enter other region's eshop and more).
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