What to Do With Custom Firmware 3ds
Thanks to a new kernel mode exploit information technology is now possible to downgrade your Nintendo 3DS device to a previous firmware version.
Downgrading your Nintendo 3DS device can give you admission to older exploits and also to a 3DS Custom Firmware, which allows Custom Channels, Backup playback and even more!
In the following Tutorial I am going to explain how to successfully downgrade your Nintendo 2DS, 3DS or 3DSXL from 10.three to 9.ii!
Uniform devices and firmwares for the Downgrade:
Before we start to gather necessary files, let’southward check which devices and system versions are supported.
At the moment the Downgrader supports Firmwares up to Version 10.3.0-28.
The Downgrader besides supports the Nintendo 2DS, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DSXL.
The New3DS & New3DSXL are technically supported, but as of at present it is recommended to not downgrade these devices still, due to a risk of bricking them!
Your device and Firmware seem to be supported? Great! Let’s continue…
You can either but watch this thorough video tutorial or just continue with the text tutorial below. The pick is yours!
Go on AT YOUR OWN Chance! IF YOU Make A MISTAKE You Volition BRICK YOUR DEVICE! – YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Necessary steps to follow on your Computer:
Necessary Files for the Downgrade:
In general we need at least 1 entry point (userland exploit) to launch Homebrews with, and a few files that take to be copied onto your SD card.
The Userland exploit tin can either be an exploit game, or one of the free exploits, such as BrowserHax & MenuHax. We are going to use the gratis ones (yeah, both of them).
We demand the
starter package files, because they are necessary for BrowserHax to properly work.
We need the
new & improved
SysUpdater.zip
from
TuxSH’due south Github
GBATemp
, since this tool is pretty much the downgrader.
Nosotros also need the
HomeMenuHax files, to ready up the HomeMenuHax, which volition exist our entry betoken to offset the downgrader Homebrew.
We will also need the Full Updater Files (e.one thousand. 9.2.0-20X(Total).zip) – Employ the Firmware files that fit your devices Region: Eastward files for EU, U files for United states of america, J files for JP, etc. – considering those are the necessary firmware files we are going to install.
(Due to copyright reasons we cannot link to the download page – Watch the video & and so google it)
That should be it. We gathered all the necessary files and now we have to copy them onto our 3DS SD carte.
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Where to copy the necessary files?!
At first you accept to connect your 3DS’ SD card to your figurer; either via a bill of fare reader or via a USB SD card connector.
It does non thing how you connect it, it simply matters that yous’re able to write to your 3DS’ SD bill of fare.
We take four Goose egg files that we have to copy to our SD card, let’s start with the showtime one.
Starter.zip:
Just copy it to the Root of your SD Card (e.g. Due east:/).
Menuhax_v2.ane.zip:
Aforementioned place as the Starter.zip, the root of your SD Card.
SysUpdater.zip:
Inside of this ZIP we take a sysUpdater binder. Copy the sysUpdater folder into your 3ds folder (e.one thousand. E:/3ds/).
Full Firmware Package.zip:
Create a new “updates” folder on the root of your SD Carte du jour (Eastward:/updates/). Next open the Firmware ZIP and drag & drop all the CIA files into your newly created updates folder.
In the end we should end up with the following files & paths:
E:/kick.3dsx
(this is a file, not a folder)
East:/Themes/
(this folder is empty)
E:/3ds/menuhax_manager/
(this folder contains a few files)
E:/3ds/sysUpdater/
(this folder contains a few files)
Eastward:/3ds/
(this folder contains all the folders from the 3ds folder that was inside the starter.zero)
E:/updates/”Numbers&Letters”.cia
(over 100 CIA files!)
Additional Note for Japanese New3DS/LL Users:
If you happen to use a japanese New3DS or japanese New3DSLL you volition have to delete a specific CIA file from your updates folder.
JAPAN N3DS Only:
Delete the
000400102002CA00.cia
file from your updates folder.
If you do not delete this file, you will end up with a bricked device. Once again, this
ONLY
applies to a
Japanese New3DS/LL!
You have been warned twice! Once almost the New3DS’ in general and once nigh the japanese New3DS’!
Remaining steps to follow on your Nintendo 3DS:
This should be everything nosotros have to exercise on our Reckoner. As long as we did everything right, we can now continue to utilize the 3DS.
We may need the Computer to go a URL, but it is a simple copy the URL & paste it into the 3DS’ Browser task.
Setting up & starting the BrowserHax:
Reinsert the SD card into your Nintendo 3DS and turn it on.
Start the 3DS’ Browser and visit the
necessary BrowserHax website
for your device & your firmware (Old3DS ≤x.one.0-27|Old3DS =x.3.0-28|New3DS ≤nine.8.0-25|New3DS ≤10.one.0-27|New3DS ≤10.3.0-28).
Now look for the lesser screen to turn yellowish, then nighttime and back to yellow. Next the acme screen should glitch a scrap and the Homebrew Launcher starts itself.
If your device gets stuck or freezes, be sure to reboot your 3DS and attempt information technology again. You may also visit your Browsers Settings and reset the Browsers Settings back to default.
Installing the HomeMenuHax:
After using the BrowserHax we should now have access to the Homebrew Launcher. Inside of the Homebrew Launcher we commencement the MenuHax Manager, which will allow us to install the MenuHax.
After starting the MenuHax Manager we select Install and and then press A. This should successfully install the MenuHax onto our device.
Later this is done we press B & then Kickoff to exit the Manager. Now we reboot our Nintendo 3DS.
Afterward rebooting our Nintendo 3DS we click the Theme button at the peak-left corner and select Change Theme. The 3DS volition loads for a few seconds and then nosotros can but leave the Theme bill of fare (click abort/abolish).
At present we can press the Power push button and shutdown our Nintendo 3DS.
Using MenuHax to launch the SysUpdater:
Our 3DS should exist powered off. Before we plow information technology dorsum on, we keep the L-Trigger pressed.
While the L-Trigger is existence pressed, we press the Power push. Our 3DS should plow on.
We should be greeted by a black screen, followed by a glitchy upper screen.
We should be dorsum in the Homebrew Launcher, which allows united states to start Homebrews.
Now we curlicue downward and search for the SysUpdater – Which is the Downgrade Homebrew!
Click on SysUpdater and offset it.
Downgrading the Nintendo 3DS via SysUpdater:
Nosotros should see the following on our upper 3DS screen:
Nosotros should see 8 different lines, which showtime with #1, #2, …, #viii and it should end in
Success!
If we happen to see the following error on our screen:
And then we have to reboot our device and try it again, until we see the successful message.
Next we have 3 different options: Update, Downgrade and Exit.
Since we desire to downgrade our Nintendo 3DS, we are going to select the downgrade selection (Press Y).
Press the Y button 2 or 3 times and then don’t impact your 3DS anymore. The 3DS should now start the downgrading process and information technology will show a few letters on the screen.
Wait until the 3DS is fully done and tells you to reboot the device.
Afterwards the Nintendo 3DS should reboot itself and your device should at present run version 9.2.ten (or whatever version you wanted to downgrade to).
You may remove the SD Carte du jour
AFTER
the “reboot in x seconds” message appeared, if you happen to be stuck on a black screen. This may be acquired past MenuHax.
Simply switch to a different Theme in the Theme settings and MenuHax should exist disabled. Y’all tin at present re-insert your SD Card.
This Bug does not e’er appear, merely if it does announced you volition know how to solve information technology.
Credits:
- @Steveice10, @TuxSH, @julian20, @mid-child, @delebile, and @MassExplosion213 and @motezazer for working on memchunkhax2.
- profi200 for sysUpdater, and @TuxSH for getting it to work for properly downgrading.
- @JustPingo for diverse research efforts and for the upcoming KTM, a safer way to do this.