Hey everyone. I’ve recently gotten a 3DS fairly cheap because it’s “broken”. I watched the 3DS scene mature from ninjhax to B9S and have hacked many many 3DS consoles. But I’ve never seen this and searching only gets me “update the Luma3DS boot.firm file”, which I’ve done and it doesn’t help.
This is what the 3DS boots to. Every single time. SD card in, out, doesn’t matter. It always boots this:
“An error has occurred
Unsupported launcher (argc = 0).
Press any key to power off.”
I had a sneaking suspicion that the 3DS was hacked at one point and I wanted to test the SD card that came with it. It mounted on my PC and sure enough, there’s a Luma3DS boot.firm file at the root. There’s also a boot9installer folder with the appropriate files for it. And a GodMode9 file in the Luma/payloads folder.
Holding the usual payloads buttons gets me nowhere. Same boot up screen. I backed up the SD card and ran h2testw on the card. It passed. I decided I’d start over from scratch with a new SD card anyway, just to be safe. All new files on the SD card taken from the usual guide. I replaced everything, including the safeb9sinstaller files, hoping I would be able to update B9S at least.
And as it turns out, that’s all I could do. I was able to replace the boot.firm with the safeb9sinstaller firmware file and boot it. Included is a photo of that. I was even able to install B9S just fine. Also included is a photo of that. I held power to power off and replace the B9S installer firm file with Luma’s. Next boot: An error has occurred.
To sum things up: B9S exploited 3DS will not boot from SD card or eMMC but will boot B9S installer from SD card. Will not boot any other payload in the Luma3DS payloads folder. Attempting to boot anything other than the B9S installer always boots “An error has occurred”.
What the heck is going on? Included is a photo of the error for posterity.
I can only come to the conclusion that the SD card reader in the 3DS is faulty. Sometimes I can boot the B9S installer firm, but often I cannot even boot to that.
Edit: I disassembled the 3DS. Gross. Very gross. I’m in the process of cleaning everything with a hefty amount of isopropyl alcohol. This thing definitely had something sugary spilled on it. I don’t think it was on when it happened but I’m hoping giving it power didn’t fry it.
This is what the 3DS boots to. Every single time. SD card in, out, doesn’t matter. It always boots this:
“An error has occurred
Unsupported launcher (argc = 0).
Press any key to power off.”
I had a sneaking suspicion that the 3DS was hacked at one point and I wanted to test the SD card that came with it. It mounted on my PC and sure enough, there’s a Luma3DS boot.firm file at the root. There’s also a boot9installer folder with the appropriate files for it. And a GodMode9 file in the Luma/payloads folder.
Holding the usual payloads buttons gets me nowhere. Same boot up screen. I backed up the SD card and ran h2testw on the card. It passed. I decided I’d start over from scratch with a new SD card anyway, just to be safe. All new files on the SD card taken from the usual guide. I replaced everything, including the safeb9sinstaller files, hoping I would be able to update B9S at least.
And as it turns out, that’s all I could do. I was able to replace the boot.firm with the safeb9sinstaller firmware file and boot it. Included is a photo of that. I was even able to install B9S just fine. Also included is a photo of that. I held power to power off and replace the B9S installer firm file with Luma’s. Next boot: An error has occurred.
To sum things up: B9S exploited 3DS will not boot from SD card or eMMC but will boot B9S installer from SD card. Will not boot any other payload in the Luma3DS payloads folder. Attempting to boot anything other than the B9S installer always boots “An error has occurred”.
What the heck is going on? Included is a photo of the error for posterity.
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I can only come to the conclusion that the SD card reader in the 3DS is faulty. Sometimes I can boot the B9S installer firm, but often I cannot even boot to that.
Edit: I disassembled the 3DS. Gross. Very gross. I’m in the process of cleaning everything with a hefty amount of isopropyl alcohol. This thing definitely had something sugary spilled on it. I don’t think it was on when it happened but I’m hoping giving it power didn’t fry it.
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