Hacking Your CFW experience

[Deleted member 366698]

Non-Hax --» Sky3DS+10.4 SysNand --» RxTools emunand+ 9.2 SysNand without coldboot ---» RxTools emunand+ 9.2 sysnand with coldboot(ctrbootmanager) ---» 10.7 A9LH Updated Sysnand(glorious a9lh)

 

[PrestoX]

I had an excess of 3DS consoles. 2 broken-hinged XLs, 2 o3DSXL, and 2 n3DSXL. So, I decided to try CFW. First I experimented on the broken ones. Fortunately, Plailect's guide was there to help me along. After missing a step that cost me 4 hours of work, I had AuReiNand + a9lh. I proceeded to do to the other o3DS units, using browserhax as the entry point. I got stuck on the last console because it was running 10.7. Fortunately, Best Buy just got a bunch of stock OoT.

Since I had access to hbl, the OoT3DHax installer made prepping the OoT card a snap. When I moved onto the n3DS consoles, I was wondering why my OoTHax wasn't working. It turns out that I needed to have a different save file for the n3DS. So, back to OoT3DHax Installer where I chose the correct save. Bam! I was able to carry out Plailect's guide for the 2 n3DS consoles.

It took a few days, but I was able to transfer all my game cards to the SD using uncart and 3DS Simple CIA Converter. I also transferred my saves with JK's Save Manager (JKSM). It's fantastic to have my entire library with me. I love it. Thanks to all the people that contributed to make this happen!

 

[Halvorsen]

My entire hacking life story.
It was July of 2015. I heard of a free exploit and a required game. Cubic Ninja. It's a blank area, but later I discovered Tubehax. On my o3DS XL, I did it and showed EarthBound and custom themes running on my 3DS. A little while later, the console broke and I sold it. To temporarily remedy the situation, I got a 2DS with a cracked screen for like $20, but it was perfectly playable. I got it on 9.x (couldn't tell). I continued my homebrew journey until I saved enough to get a n3DS XL. A little before this I stupidly scalped Cubic Ninja.
While my n3DS and a 64gb microSD was shipping (it arrived on the last day of 2015), there was a downgrade discovery. As I had a n3DS there was a supposed alternative to memchunkhax2, which comes early. My n3DS arrived on 9.6. I held off doing anything until the flaw was successfully exploited and released. I had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what anything meant and held off for about a day before downgrading. Eventually I downgraded and set up rxTools for emuNAND, *hax 2.5 and an old build on rx. Autobooting never worked out. I pirated only like three games on a (truly 8gb microSD labelled as 64gb).
I then upgraded to ReiNAND, but it had worse performance than rx. Unfortunately, I deleted the rx folder and never got it to work ever again. From then to before a9lh, I was a loyal CakesCFW user. Hey, this finally got rid of the 3D bug! Later on, I tried to update StreetPass Mii Plaza and it kept throwing an error. I started to blame the people who made the CIA for the update and realized my SD was fake. I returned it but never got a refund. I'm done using eBad.
Then came February. Arm9Loaderhax? Well, I have truly deeper understanding in the 3DS and this was BEFORE OTPHelper, so we had to actually downgrade emuNAND, use a batch file uo unbrick the emunand and hex edit certain parts. Then, you cloned emunand to sysnand, crossing your fingers. During getting tte OTP and restoring my system, Decrypt9 said "restoring (my 10.6 emunand) to sysnand. And this was before there were 10.4+ downgraders." Worse, the screen went black in the middle. I was SCARED. Turns out I was actually restoring my 9.2 sysnand after all and it was a Decrypt9 error. Sadly I actually had no idea what % it was restored and could have bricked while taking the battery out. Anyway, every hing is awesome until I realize I have been banned from the eShop.
Anyway, got a9lh by compiling a 3dsx from my OTP. I was using emunand until late March. Now I am an AuReiNAND updated sysNAND/regionswap emuNAND user. This is my setup since. My HOME Menu Is almost completely full and every viable retail, VC and VC injects (plus homebrew/dev apps and DSiWare, including things like Mario Kart DS demo and DSi Browser) I have a real 64gb now, but it is completely full. 0gb left. I want a 200gb.
I installed a9lh on a friend's system, my brother's, and my own. I guided someone on the Internet to set up their a9lh. And I guided two others to the regular Menuhax setup. I'm saying I link to the files and spoodfeed directions. I should get paid..
And just two days ago, I unbanned myself from eShop.
This system was bought used and is falling apart, so I'll be looking for people who can motherboard swap.
So yeah. Mii.

 

[ThePanchamBros]

I want this thread to be like a life telling experience (tell me if it is in the wrong subforum), about how you discovered cfw and what have you done until now (good and bad things equal).

So i think ill start:
Well i got a black o3ds on release and got into tubehax a couple months after it was released and used to brag about me playing megaman x in front of my friends jealous eyes, tubehax broke and i cried (because i couldnt buy a cubic ninja since im from costa rica).
Months passed and a friend sent me a pm where he sent a beutiful post with browserhax and since then ive used oothax, ninjahax, browserhax and installed a whole bunch of a9lh (i have a crush with a9lh).

So whats your cfw story?

I started with regular homebrew with ironhax, using emulators, custom themes, etc back in October, after stumbling upon a youtube guide for menuhax, and clicking on the link for gbatemp in the description. I was hyped.
Then, I updated to 10.4 and was heartbroken b/c ironhax was patched, but I had installed menuhax before it. I continued to use homebrew, until Februrary of this year, when I decided to finally research cfw, as I had heard of it but didn't know how to install/ how to use it. I read about it for 2 days, and finally downgraded to 9.2 (I was worried, but it worked.) Then I installed AuReinand, and started installing cias (free games! Yay!). Back in march of this year, I finally read about arm9loaderhax and knew I needed it. I was a noob, but with the help of GBATemp and the guide, it took me about 6 hours to install Arm9loaderhax, and am now a member of the Arm9loaderhax master race. No regrets, a9lh+ AuReinand is the best!!!

 

[ValouIka]

Hi, squid friend.

>I discovered CFW after HomebrewLauncher (in last august with tubehax), but since I was under a non-exploitable firmware, I couldn't install one.
>Then, in January, I downgraded my 3ds then I installed ReiNand, with Menuhax.
>And now, I'm on Arm9LoaderHax with AuReiNand

 

[CitizenSnips]

I had a red o3dsxl past 9.2, then
I first modded it with tubehax when that came out, and instantly installed ironhax afterwards. I was so happy when I did that. Then menuhax came around and that was sweet, not having to boot a game to get into HBL. After that it was a wait for a while, and then the nearly impossible happened... downgrade to 9.2. after I downgraded to 9.2 I first installed Cakes, as it was easy to set up. After a while I decided to get RxTools and setup an emunand. I was rocking with a emunand and i was content with coldbooting with menuhax. Then A9LH came around so i installed that with Aureinand, and deleted emunand. Now i have an updated sysnand with all the capabilities i could want. That's my 3ds's story, from no hax, to the wonderous A9LH

 

[hobbledehoy899]

lol back when Tubehax was just released and was an actual exploit and not just a DNS sever-blocker

 

[Ryuzaki_MrL]

I got my o3DS on mid-2013, and I was very upset 'cause it came with 5.0.
After months of waiting, buying and selling games as I finished them, smea released ninjhax 1.0.
Again, I was pretty upset 'cause I DIDN'T HAD A FUCKIN' CUBIC NINJA.
Then the spider exploit was released, but there was still no CFW nor cool homebrews out there, the only thing I ever used it for was running out-of-region gamecards with regionthree.
One day I bought a game that needed 9.6 to run, plus I was participating online Pokémon leagues when SUDDENLY... ..."Please update Pokémon X in order to use online services."
OH SHITZ, I WANT TO BE THE VERY BEST LIKE NO ONE EVER WAS! WHEN I REALIZED IT WAS TOO LATE, MY SYSNAND WAS ON 9.6... (I blame Gamefreak lol)
I decided to take on and keep my system updated. Bought myself a sky3ds, HOWEVER NINJHAX 1 WAS PATCHED ON 9.3.
After another long wait, Ninjhax 2 was released. I was pretty hyped!!!
I still remember the first homebrew I booted, it was

Spoiler

the Homebrew Launcher, of course.

That was enough to make me happy, since I love homebrew and homebrew development!
So after learning a little about the 3DS's hardware, and reading the ctrulib examples, I was getting quite bored.
Meanwhile, the small CFW userbase started growing and I've started to get interest in it.
After almost getting another 3DS solely for CFW, I decided to wait...
...and wait...
...and wait...
...and BOOM! MEMCHUNKHAX2, NTRCARDHAX AND ARM9LOADERHAX!
Downgraded, installed rxTools with menuhax coldboot.
Downgraded again, got OTP, installed arm9loaderhax.
And now I'm proudly a member of the A9LH Master Race, learning more about the 3DS everyday!
I was never so involved into a scene before, and I have a fully hacked Wii and a DS Lite.
I love you all

 

[CitizenSnips]

lol back when Tubehax was just released and was an actual exploit and not just a DNS sever-blocker

Lol. I remember having to install Tubehax with a Goodwill store's wifi because my ISP wouldn't let me use the DNS XD

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Lol. I remember having to install it on a Goodwill store's wifi because my ISP wouldn't let me use the DNS XD

I remember having to remember the DNS' number off of the top of my head so I could play Pokemon Adventure (lol GameYob 3DS) at church.

 

[Deleted User]

Had a Dream Team edition 3DS XL, downgraded to 9.2. It was great, couldn't access the eshop tho, and setting up cfw was a pain in the ass. My friend updated it without my knowledge, after I told him what I did. I tried to downgrade again and while doing so, I got a system error. Bricked, R.I.P.
Now I have a red New 3DS XL, not trying that shit again. I learned my lesson. (I don't even have that much SD card space anyway)

 

[hobbledehoy899]

not trying that shit again.

You obviously don't know the magic that is PlaiSysUpdater.

 

[Pikm]

I want this thread to be like a life telling experience (tell me if it is in the wrong subforum), about how you discovered cfw and what have you done until now (good and bad things equal).

So i think ill start:
Well i got a black o3ds on release and got into tubehax a couple months after it was released and used to brag about me playing megaman x in front of my friends jealous eyes, tubehax broke and i cried (because i couldnt buy a cubic ninja since im from costa rica).
Months passed and a friend sent me a pm where he sent a beutiful post with browserhax and since then ive used oothax, ninjahax, browserhax and installed a whole bunch of a9lh (i have a crush with a9lh).

So whats your cfw story?

I first got into the scene back in January, and when I was looking up 3DS hardware mods on youtube, I saw a tutorial for Browserhax, and I was like "cool what is this I'mma try it". So then I started with Browserhax. The latest update at the time was 10.3.0, so after that, I installed Menuhax. After they were patched temporarily on 10.4, I stayed on 10.3 for a while. Then, I got oot3dhax and started going to all of the latest firmwares, up to 10.6. Then the real stuff started. When the new ARM11 exploit came out, I downgraded to 9.2, and set up a ReiNand CFW EmuNand. I stayed on that for a while, until I made the plunge into getting a9lh. It was so worth it.

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Had a Dream Team edition 3DS XL, downgraded to 9.2. It was great, couldn't access the eshop tho, and setting up cfw was a pain in the ass. My friend updated it without my knowledge, after I told him what I did. I tried to downgrade again and while doing so, I got a system error. Bricked, R.I.P.
Now I have a red New 3DS XL, not trying that shit again. I learned my lesson. (I don't even have that much SD card space anyway)

Do it, but follow Plailect's guide (it's 99.9% noob and brick free), and keep your 3DS the fuck away from your friends. Seriously though. The only people who have bricked on Plailect's guide are the ones who didn't follow the directions properly.

 

[xile6]

Well my whole reason for wanting cfw was to copy my games and play them. My son likes to play my games and delete my saves.
Frist i statted off with a power save, but it couldnt backup all the games. Plus i had to have a pc and internet in order to tranfers.

Then i went with a sky3ds.
Work out pretty good but suck that i couldnt transfer my saves, and getting on line wasnt there. Then someone made a guide for dumping headers which was good.
Then i hated waiting for sky3ds to make a templet file.

So finally i saw that i could downgrade my 3ds and install homebrew on it.
So i went ahead and did that.
Dump pretty much all the games i got.
I now carry them all around with me on a big sd card. Which is great plus i can tranfer my saves and get online no problem.
At the same time i have access to all the homebrew.

So overall cfw is great to me. Not alot of back and fore with nintendo patching it.

 

[NekoMichi]

I initially started off with IronHax (through TubeHax) when Smealum announced NinjHax 2, which was one of the reasons I joined GBAtemp. This was around the time of Mr. Iwata's passing and there was a lot of drama on here; some people supported Smea in postponing the release of NH2 due to the events at the time while others were impatient and called for an immediate release. I had a Zelda 25th anniversary O3DS and N3DS XL, which were both equipped with IronHax for playing old games via emulation and testing extdata mods. Around then, I was also doing the final research project and thesis for my degree and didn't have much time for games. I eventually got a SKY3DS purely to use as a Cubic Ninja cart for a permanent entrypoint as at the time it was actually cheaper than getting a real Cubic Ninja cart (yeah I know, it's piracy even if I just used it for NinjHax). Homebrew also allowed me to make ROM "hacks" of games I owned by loading custom data via HANS, as well as take screenshots that weren't all compressed and blurry, unlike the Miiverse pictures. The first mod I made was taking some manga-style drawings I did of my friends and adding them into Pokémon X as NPCs. They were really impressed.

Towards Christmas last year I read up on MenuHax and eventually applied it to my N3DS XL so that the Homebrew Menu could be booted quickly without having to go into IronFall first. I also shifted from using individual emulators such as mGBA and BlargSNES to unifying everything under RetroArch cores because they share the same configs and system controls, thus providing a more consistent user experience overall. Back then, being able to boot into homebrew via MenuHax was pretty much the perfect setup for me.

Towards the end of the year and early this year, Memchunkhax2 was revealed and people started using it to downgrade their consoles and install CFWs. Also because I had graduated by then, I had a lot more time on my hands to research about everything that had happened in the history of 3DS homebrew and custom firmwares. Against the warnings of not using Memchunkhax2 on N3DS consoles, I was able to downgrade my N3DS XL to 9.2 however didn't go ahead with installing a CFW just yet. Most of the risky business was tested on my O3DS and only when I determined it was safe did I begin trying more complicated things with the N3DS XL. I remember that the first CFW I used was rxTools on the O3DS. Originally I thought rxTools was a suite of PC applications for developing 3DS software and had to do a lot of reading before getting just a basic understanding of it. It took an entire day for me to set up my first emuNAND and configure the console to boot into it (via NinjHax). CTR Boot Manager came in handy then because it allowed me to not only enter emuNAND CFW, but also directly start up specific homebrew apps at system boot without even entering the Homebrew Launcher. Of course, I learned the hard way of the consequences of having linked NANDs and soon parted ways with sysNAND in favour of doing everything in emuNAND.

I had also gotten employed at that point and could afford a N3DS (since the N3DS XL had the IPS scanline problem and was inconvenient to carry around in a pocket). All of my consoles had been set up with emuNAND CFWs with rxTools for the O3DS and ReiNAND for both N3DS consoles. The N3DS became the daily driver while the N3DS XL was used for testing and homebrew/ROM mods. The best thing was being able to have homebrews right on the Home Menu as well as converting all of my carts to .cias and having them installed onto the systems instead of having to carry a bunch of physical game cards (again, still technically piracy but I paid for the games I play and did not distribute the .cias to anyone else, nor did I sell the carts so at least it was a restricted form of software backup).

With .cia versions of homebrews now available, I could use dynarec with RetroArch for better speed in GPSP and PCSX. This was awesome, as I completed The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap from scratch on a 3DS without any problems whatsoever. Using MenuHax to boot into CFW gave me a ~80% success rate, but that was good enough for me. I started to learn more about homebrew that could be used with a CFW, particularly with things like the Video Channels Creator, which led me to create and release the "Pointless Fake Game Icons" pack (essentially a few icons that looked like nonexistent 3DS games such as Twilight Princess 3D, after launching one you would then be able to send the icons over StreetPass to other people and it would show up as your last played title).

At the end of February, A9LH had taken off and despite the risks of bricking, more and more people got on board. I was in the group of people who decided to wait and see how the early adopters were getting on before trying it myself. The first A9LH setup I did was on the O3DS, which took an entire day of SD and NAND backups and restores (I worked through the night over a weekend and stayed up until 6AM!), but I was pleased with the result as well as the added security of being able to repair NAND data without a hard mod. Having gained some confidence from adding A9LH to the O3DS, I moved onto the N3DS XL, and was able to get the whole process done in less time. Finally, I worked on the N3DS and by then I knew what I was doing and finished the task in a few hours. I has one O3DS and 2 N3DS consoles all running A9LH AuReiNAND on the latest emuNAND.

Last month, I upgraded the N3DS to a 128GB micro SD card and found that it had almost doubled the boot time. Seeing as A9LH and AuReiNAND had made CFWs much safer, I bit the bullet and migrated all consoles over to sysNAND-only and erased all emuNAND partitions, which significantly reduced the waiting times. This also gave me some more free space on the memory cards, which was nice.

Fast forward to today, I'm now using A9LH + sysAuReiNAND and the latest NTR CFW preview on top. This allows me to have all of my games on the console plus home-brews and a means to test my own homebrew/mods as well as restore NANDs without a hard mod and record 3DS gameplay without a capture card. The last 2 feats were originally thought to be impossible only 2 months ago, now we can do so much with CFWs, and I'm excited to see what they can bring in the future.

 

[Deleted User]

TL;DR - Got into CFW for the native GBA games, ended up installing A9LH this week just to have updated sysNAND and emuNAND to circumvent what I thought was a permaban on Miiverse without changing my 3DS's serial number.

Spoiler: Long Story

Didn't start homebrew until I found about about tubehax, but only after having checked 3dbrew.com frequently for quite some time. Stopped checking for a while, missed the Cubic Ninja boom. Fast forward until memchunkhax2 was brought about by that hacking talk back in December, and I had to discipline myself not to downgrade until things got better. Figured I'd wait for KernelTimeMachine (RIP x2), but you all know how that went. After reading 100+ pages on @TheStoneBanana's downgrade thread (thank you, by the way for the tubehax tutorial + this one), I jumped in.

My heart was racing like everyone else's. It only worked for me when I was complaining to a friend that it didn't, and things went smoothly from there. Setup emuNAND with rxTools, then moved to ReiNAND, and things were great. I used it for some GBA games and injected VC that didn't depend on HANS or NTR. I had plans to buy Labyrinth no Kanata for the region free as well, but haven't gotten around to it yet. I was content. Up until two weeks ago, that is.

My alternate NNID I had linked to emuNAND at one point got an admin notification on Miiverse. At that time, my actual NNID was linked to emuNAND with a 9.2 sysNAND. Now, I expected it, but because of that, the system realized it wasn't actually linked to my 3DS. Not much of a problem until I got permabanned on my actual NNID. I held off from A9LH because of the hassle and brick possibility for a while - 9.2 was good enough for me. Menuhax worked well enough for my tastes, and it was obvious which NAND was which so I wouldn't mistake updating. But because I got banned on my actual NNID, I wanted to have updated sysNAND and emuNAND. That way I could link both NNIDs at the same time like I had before (in a sense). So I did my reading. Made sure I understood the process. Asked a fellow temper who had done the process a couple of times about stuff. Then I dove in. With @Giodude's support (thanks again, man), everything went superbly. Except for this - A9LH Process Abnormality. No idea what that was about.

Finally having done it, I thought my idea would work. Nothing doing, of course - it was a console ban as well. I didn't want to change my 3DS's serial number (what if I got someone's actual serial, you know?), so instead, I tried this. I ended up doing that anyway for a short time just to communicate with someone, but at the end of the day, I've got A9LH installed. And for what...

 

[kingaz]

This should prolly get moved to the Flashcarts and Custom Firmwares subforum.

My time with the 3DS CFW/Flashcarts/Hax/Exploits stuff was a lot of lurking, punctuated by bouts of frustration, and capped off with a frenzy of downgrading, upgrading, and triumph.

And at the end of the day, the sad part is that I was super happy with Spiderhax. Oh, it was super limited, required a web browser, and involved a painful amount of screwing around with my SD card, but it did most everything that I wanted: messing with Pokemon.

So here's how the "saga" went:

• Kept upgrading past Gateway-compatible firmware right before they announced it.
  
• Blue balled by Smealum after he revealed secret Pokemon on X and Y. We knew it could be done, but we didn't know how.
• Caved and got a Powersaves. Save scumming now possible, but super limited. Also, paranoid about using the device much since it used to have a small risk of bricking your fucking cartridge
• Project Pokemon folks figure out how to inject saves with Powersaves. As soon as they publicly release the method, Datel, fearing increased sales and customer satisfaction, immediately patch their system with great prejudice.
• Cybergadget editor comes out, is only compatible with Japanese hardware. Refuse to blow that much money on something so dumb.
• Spiderhax comes out. QR Pokemon injection now possible.
• I proceed to become giddy and drunk with power.
• Spiderhax continues to be awesome by way of firmware spoofing. Can continue accessing eshop and Pokebank without giving up my beautiful browser exploits.
• 3DS XL begins to show signs of wear and tear. Hinge begins to crack, and gets worse with time. Circle pad breaks, leaving painful nub in its wake.
• I look into repairing my system, realize I'll probably fuck up my system.
• Solution: buy a new system once the New 3DS (the name that drove 1,000 retail salespeople mad) drives prices of the old system down, use Spiderhax to do a system transfer while staying at magical hacking land.
• Prices stubbornly remain high.
• Nintendo surprises with moment of technical competence, changing things server-side to prevent firmware spoofing.
• Fuck.
• Seriously, I have no excuse for being so lazy.
• Am now left without immediate way of getting data to a new system, and my Pokebank subscription is about to expire in a few months.
• To reiterate: I literally allowed Nintendo to hold my Pokemon hostage.
• Rather than give up my precious hax, I save up some money, and do something I'm not proud of: I bought a Gatewait. A Brickway.
• I'm sorry
• Brickway proves surprisingly useful. Still not proud of owning it.
• Throughout this, custom firmware progresses from incomprehensible buggy garbage to relatively stable and versatile software.
• Ninjahax (which I had ignored due to Cubic Ninja getting gobbled up) gets updates and entrypoints with browserhax and menuhax.
• memchunkhax becomes a reality, and with it, downgrades for everyone.
• Overall: smealum completely makes up for prior blue-balling.
• Finally find a really good sale on a new system.
• Update, system transfer, downgrade, and Cakes CFW on my new 3ds.
• Restore emuNAND backup on old system, now I have all of my data on two systems (unnecessary with signature patches, but still felt kinda fun to give the finger to Nintendo).
• Arm9 Loader Hax becomes a thing, along with AuReiNAND. Plailect and company make OTP and installation super easy and safe.

As of last week: I have a hacked New 3DS XL with A9LH, AuReiNAND on 10.7, and everything set up in a nigh-perfect configuration with a 64GB micro SD (with 64K clusters for increased performance). Along with a battered but functional O3DS XL with A9LH, AuReiNAND on 10.7, and everything set up in a night-perfect configuration with a 32GB SD card. Once again, I am giddy with excitement and power.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

This should prolly get moved to the Flashcarts and Custom Firmwares subforum.

My time with the 3DS CFW/Flashcarts/Hax/Exploits stuff was a lot of lurking, punctuated by bouts of frustration, and capped off with a frenzy of downgrading, upgrading, and triumph.

And at the end of the day, the sad part is that I was super happy with Spiderhax. Oh, it was super limited, required a web browser, and involved a painful amount of screwing around with my SD card, but it did most everything that I wanted: messing with Pokemon.

So here's how the "saga" went:

• Kept upgrading past Gateway-compatible firmware right before they announced it.
  
• Blue balled by Smealum after he revealed secret Pokemon on X and Y. We knew it could be done, but we didn't know how.
• Caved and got a Powersaves. Save scumming now possible, but super limited. Also, paranoid about using the device much since it used to have a small risk of bricking your fucking cartridge
• Project Pokemon folks figure out how to inject saves with Powersaves. As soon as they publicly release the method, Datel, fearing increased sales and customer satisfaction, immediately patch their system with great prejudice.
• Cybergadget editor comes out, is only compatible with Japanese hardware. Refuse to blow that much money on something so dumb.
• Spiderhax comes out. QR Pokemon injection now possible.
• I proceed to become giddy and drunk with power.
• Spiderhax continues to be awesome by way of firmware spoofing. Can continue accessing eshop and Pokebank without giving up my beautiful browser exploits.
• 3DS XL begins to show signs of wear and tear. Hinge begins to crack, and gets worse with time. Circle pad breaks, leaving painful nub in its wake.
• I look into repairing my system, realize I'll probably fuck up my system.
• Solution: buy a new system once the New 3DS (the name that drove 1,000 retail salespeople mad) drives prices of the old system down, use Spiderhax to do a system transfer while staying at magical hacking land.
• Prices stubbornly remain high.
• Nintendo surprises with moment of technical competence, changing things server-side to prevent firmware spoofing.
• Fuck.
• Seriously, I have no excuse for being so lazy.
• Am now left without immediate way of getting data to a new system, and my Pokebank subscription is about to expire in a few months.
• To reiterate: I literally allowed Nintendo to hold my Pokemon hostage.
• Rather than give up my precious hax, I save up some money, and do something I'm not proud of: I bought a Gatewait. A Brickway.
• I'm sorry
• Brickway proves surprisingly useful. Still not proud of owning it.
• Throughout this, custom firmware progresses from incomprehensible buggy garbage to relatively stable and versatile software.
• Ninjahax (which I had ignored due to Cubic Ninja getting gobbled up) gets updates and entrypoints with browserhax and menuhax.
• memchunkhax becomes a reality, and with it, downgrades for everyone.
• Overall: smealum completely makes up for prior blue-balling.
• Finally find a really good sale on a new system.
• Update, system transfer, downgrade, and Cakes CFW on my new 3ds.
• Restore emuNAND backup on old system, now I have all of my data on two systems (unnecessary with signature patches, but still felt kinda fun to give the finger to Nintendo).
• Arm9 Loader Hax becomes a thing, along with AuReiNAND. Plailect and company make OTP and installation super easy and safe.

As of last week: I have a hacked New 3DS XL with A9LH, AuReiNAND on 10.7, and everything set up in a nigh-perfect configuration with a 64GB micro SD (with 64K clusters for increased performance). Along with a battered but functional O3DS XL with A9LH, AuReiNAND on 10.7, and everything set up in a night-perfect configuration with a 32GB SD card. Once again, I am giddy with excitement and power.

Do you still have the Brickwait?

 

[kingaz]

Do you still have the Brickwait?

I do. I should sell it. Maybe give it away. I mean, it still has Gateshark I suppose. Granted, between NTR save editing and plugins, that functionality too can be replaced, and it is only a matter of time before this too is rendered obsolete. I dunno.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

I do. I should sell it. Maybe give it away. I mean, it still has Gateshark I suppose. Granted, between NTR save editing and plugins, that functionality too can be replaced, and it is only a matter of time before this too is rendered obsolete. I dunno.

Depending on the price you could give it to me.