A few years ago I downloaded CFW for my 3DS in hopes of being able to play a Pokemon game and bypass the region lock. I don't exactly remember what I downloaded, but I know that on my SD card I have Luma, GM9. ect...
Fast forward to now, I start playing my 3DS again which works completely fine and download the latest system version. This then leads me to the Arm11 error menu when I try to boot it up again, but I look online and hear it's easily fixed. I replace my current boot.firm and boot.3dsx files on my SD card with the files from Luma v10.2.1 and put the SD card back in. The problem is, my 3DS doesn't boot, the blue light just flashes for a second and then shuts off. But I definitely have the boot files on the root of my SD card, have tried redownloading them multiple times ect.
I can turn on my 3DS without my SD card but then when it turns on it still reaches the Arm11 error screen. When I press select whilst booting without the SD card, it shows me that I'm on Luma v.10.0.1 and booted from CTRNAND.
The only thing that works with having the SD card in my 3DS was when I downloaded the Luma v7.0.5 and replaced my boot files with the arm9loaderhax.bin file. Then my 3DS turns on with my SD card in (yay!) but it still reaches the arm11 error because I have an old version of Luma.
I'm sort of at a major loss of what to do and how this all works. I have no idea why my 3DS with an SD card only boots with an arm9 file. I assumed from looking online that what I had installed was BS9 because of the version of Luma I'm on. I currently have no way of accessing the home menu so I don't know how to update any CFW's that need updating through the 3DS which may be causing my problem.
It's worth reiterating that my 3DS was previously booting fine and the only thing I did was replace older boot files with the newest ones.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
Fast forward to now, I start playing my 3DS again which works completely fine and download the latest system version. This then leads me to the Arm11 error menu when I try to boot it up again, but I look online and hear it's easily fixed. I replace my current boot.firm and boot.3dsx files on my SD card with the files from Luma v10.2.1 and put the SD card back in. The problem is, my 3DS doesn't boot, the blue light just flashes for a second and then shuts off. But I definitely have the boot files on the root of my SD card, have tried redownloading them multiple times ect.
I can turn on my 3DS without my SD card but then when it turns on it still reaches the Arm11 error screen. When I press select whilst booting without the SD card, it shows me that I'm on Luma v.10.0.1 and booted from CTRNAND.
The only thing that works with having the SD card in my 3DS was when I downloaded the Luma v7.0.5 and replaced my boot files with the arm9loaderhax.bin file. Then my 3DS turns on with my SD card in (yay!) but it still reaches the arm11 error because I have an old version of Luma.
I'm sort of at a major loss of what to do and how this all works. I have no idea why my 3DS with an SD card only boots with an arm9 file. I assumed from looking online that what I had installed was BS9 because of the version of Luma I'm on. I currently have no way of accessing the home menu so I don't know how to update any CFW's that need updating through the 3DS which may be causing my problem.
It's worth reiterating that my 3DS was previously booting fine and the only thing I did was replace older boot files with the newest ones.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!