The Second Golden Age of The 3DS Has Arrived!
3DS Glory Days Return
With the 3DS scene rapid growth and user involvement becoming a part of the community, we have a new update on current 3DS development!
Exploits
With fully working implementations of the current arm9 and arm11 exploits safehax and fasthax respectively. The 3DS has once again reached its second major golden firmware age, the first being the infamous “frankenfirmware” version 9.2.
Development
The recent releases have barely been about a week old, but thanks to an active community, development has gone from a proof of concept to an actual working exploit in the mere beta stage of fasthax! Prior to fasthax, waithax was used, but not everyone was patient enough to “wait”, thankfully multiple community members were successful in both developing and compiling successful implementations of fasthax. These have gone on to create great success for many users leading up to a stable release. Though not officially in the r phase, the exploit has now gotten to the phase of being added to Plailect’s guide!
Implementation
Thanks to the amazing community and Plailect’s efficiency in guide updates, users no longer need to depend on dsiware games in order to CTRtransfer. Therefore all users can now skip the 9.2 downgrade and go directly to firmware version 2.1 and proceed on to arm9loaderhax. This being done without losing any data on your 3DS system and opening the device up for homebrew via the soundhax/fasthax/safehax combo.
Guide
So fair warning to all users, as always, proceed with caution and pay keen attention once following the guide, since various user errors have been documented, so it is advisable to follow the guide step by step very carefully. I, personally have not encountered any of these issues and having successfully hacked 4 N3DSXL systems within the last 2 days. Using waithax to begin with, up to the most recent fasthax/safehax combo.
Therefore if you wish to brave the down the path that leads to homebrew, you can do so by following the guide below:
Plailect’s Guide can be found HERE
Happy hacking, homebrew for all!
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I was hoping the first post would be something with some intelligence but I guess not. Friggin ***.
You new here?
So what does frankenfirmware actually do?
You say its available but nothing about what it does.
It was considered the “Golden Firmware” that allowed you to do all your hacking needs. It allowed you to install a custom system software on your SD card in EmuNand. After 9.2 you needed to downgrade to 9.2 in order to use CFW or EmuNand.
That’s not what frankenfirmware is, though. From my understanding, it’s when you partially upgrade/downgrade and don’t complete it so you are stuck with an in-between firmware (and it often results in a soft brick). 9.2 is just a normal firmware version.
Is called like that because New 3DS and 2DS lacks of firmware version 2.1 necesary to recover your OTP file which is needed for installing a CFW. So in order to do so, you need to downgrade to 9.2, make a sort of “downgrade” to 2.1 installing certain files from the original 2.1 FW over 9.2 (thus the FrankenFirmware apellation), extract your OTP and “upgrade” again to 9.2
is this mean i can downgrade from fw 11 without hardmod?
Yup, I’ve done it on my friends N3DS, it cant get any simpler.
All you need is to follow the guide carefully and you’ll get Luma+A9LH on your 3ds within 2 hours.
Yes
Yes, no hardmods or purchases need to install a9lh or custom firmware.
Man this is great! I’ve done 2 consoles yesterday(n3ds xl and o3ds xl) using fasthax and everything was perfect(started from 11.2.0.35).
Plailect has the best guide and the community has the greatest solutions. 🙂
yup, did a n3ds yesterday all went perfectly no problems, downgraded straight to 2.1 then up to 11.2 and transferring emunand without losing a single file
Yes finally got cfw on my 3ds after my children kept updating the machine pass the golden fw ,been waiting for two years
finally, and I was about to spend 100$ on a 3ds flashcard, not that I don’t have what to play, got a lot of consoles ( 27 without duplicates and almost all modded or with flashcards except PS4,, Megadrive, Saturn and N64 )
waiting for PS4, got sick of the 10 games that I have for it 🙂
how do i keep from getting banned if i do this and go online?
Don’t play games online before release. That’s all you have to avoid doing to not get banned.
use good judgement.
the only bans so far(to my knowledge) where because people went online in games before release(pokemon S/M), people using cheats online, and people posting impossible/hacked stuff on miiverse.
So I completed this last night but am a little nervous about going on to the eshop and killing my NNID which is also linked to my WiiU and will be used on the Switch
Are these two assumptions correct
The eshop is perfectly safe to use now using my actual NNID?
All future updates are also safe to do now and this hack is essentially locked in no matter what?