Tutorial  Updated

Convert .3DS To .CIA Easy And Fast!

With the new update of Decrypt9 we can now convert .3ds roms to .cia files WITHOUT NEEDING OF XORPADS and this makes the process EXTREMELY FAST AND EASY!​


---Requirements---

-O3DS/N3DS (9.0 - 9.2 for 3DSX Method)



--Part 1--


--Decryption--

--A9LH Method--

1) Insert The SD Card Of Your O3DS/N3DS In To Your PC
2) Download Latest Update Of Decrypt9WIP Here
3) Open The .rar File And Extract The "Decrypt9WIP.bin"
4) Copy And Paste The "Decrypt9WIP.bin" File to sd:\luma\payloads
5) Rename "Decrypt9WIP.bin To "left_Decrypt9WIP.bin"
6) Create A New Folder In The root Of Your SD Card And Name It "D9Game"
7) Copy And Paste Your .3ds Rom To sd:\D9Game
8) Remove The SD Card From Your Computer
9) Insert The SD Card In To Your O3DS/N3DS
10) Turn ON Your O3DS/N3DS And Boot To Luma3DS While Holding The LEFT_DPAD
11) Now You Are In Decrypt9 Scroll Down And Select "Content Decryptor Options"
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12) Select "NCCH/NCSD Decryptor" And Wait Until Finished
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13) When It's Finished Turn OFF Your O3DS/N3DS
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--OR--

--3DSX Method--

1) Insert The SD Card Of Your O3DS/N3DS In To Your PC
2) Download Latest Update Of Decrypt9WIP Here
3) Open The .rar File And Extract The "Decrypt9WIP" Folder
4) Copy And Paste "Decrypt9WIP" Folder To sd:\3ds
5) Create A New Folder In The root Of Your SD Card And Name It "D9Game"
6) Copy And Paste Your .3ds Rom To sd:\D9Game
7) Remove The SD Card From Your Computer
8) Insert The SD Card In To Your O3DS/N3DS
9) Turn ON Your O3DS/N3DS
10) Open The Homebrew Launcher And Select "Decrypt9WIP"
11) You Are Now In Decrypt9 Scroll Down And Select "Content Decryptor Options"
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12) Select "NCCH/NCSD Decryptor" And Wait Until Finished
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13) When It's Finished Turn OFF Your O3DS/N3DS
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--Part 2--


--Conversion--


1) Insert The SD Card Of Your O3DS/N3DS In To Your PC
2) Download This File Here
3) Open The "Decrypted 3DS Rom To CIA" .rar File And Extract The Folder "Decrypted 3DS Rom To CIA"
4) Copy The .3ds Rom From sd:\D9Game And Paste It To The Folder "Decrypted 3DS Rom To CIA"
5) Drag&Drop The .3ds Rom To "3dsconv.exe"
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6) Wait Until Finished
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7) Copy The .cia File From "Decrypted 3DS Rom To CIA" Folder And Paste It To The Root Of Your SD Card
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8) Power ON Your O3DS/N3DS
9) Install The .cia File With Your Favorite CIA Installer
10) Enjoy!
 
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Using 3ds_simple_cia:

By the time i have copied the .3ds file to SD, i have created ncchinfo.bin and copied it to SD, way faster.
rest is kinda the same :P
Put it on sd and Run Decrypt9 and create xorpads on 3ds
remove sd and copy xorpads to pc and create cia with it
copy cia to sd and install
 
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There's also the one I wrote. Lol. But that's on the second page by now. :(
Link: http://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial...o-cia-plus-extracting-private-headers.432600/

Using 3ds_simple_cia:

By the time i have copied the .3ds file to SD, i have created ncchinfo.bin and copied it to SD, way faster.
rest is kinda the same :P
Put it on sd and Run Decrypt9 and create xorpads on 3ds
remove sd and copy xorpads to pc and create cia with it
copy cia to sd and install
This is why I didn't add this to my guide, it doesn't make much sense to do the decryption on an encrypted .3ds dump, only to just drag-and-drop in the end on the PC, when the decryption process is faster with xorpads on a PC. The only benefit I can see to this, is when we actually get a .3ds to .cia built right into Decrypt9, then it makes sense to decrypt the .3ds on the fly, and on the fly also convert it to a .cia. So I guess, it's there because we might get that one day? Maybe? :P

Edit: Another thing I don't get is why you didn't link directly to the release pages of makerom and 3dsconv. But I guess it's whatever.
 
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does already made .cia games can ban our online play? Does they have same header? If I convert my own header games is it good for me?
 

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*YAWN* This is like, the third thread for this I've seen this week... and none of them have a computerless solution to convert a .3ds to .cia format.
 

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*YAWN* This is like, the third thread for this I've seen this week... and none of them have a computerless solution to convert a .3ds to .cia format.
You can't convert .3ds -> .cia without a computer, because the conversion (which actually is not just a conversion and means building TMDs / Tickets) is far from trivial and actually needs a good tool (makerom), which isn't easy to port.
 

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You can't convert .3ds -> .cia without a computer, because the conversion (which actually is not just a conversion and means building TMDs / Tickets) is far from trivial and actually needs a good tool (makerom), which isn't easy to port.
Ah, thank you for a clear answer on this. I appreciate it, and all your hard work. :)
 

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Signed up to say thanks for this guide. Just wanted to add that you can do multiple titles at once in both part 1 and part 2. wasn't clear from the instructions, so might be worth mentioning if you revise the tutorial at some point.
 

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Having a bit of a strange problem with the new .cia files - on an o3ds (sysnand 11/a9lh/luma) setup with phailect's guide I can install them no problem, but with a n3ds (emunand 11/gateway), the smaller cia file installs fine, but the larger one fails. I've tested with dev menu and with FBI (both as cia and 3ds). I get:

Failed to install CIA file.
Result code: 0xD8E08025
Level: Permanent (27)
Summary: Invalid argument (7)
Module: AM (27)
Desc: Invalid NCCH (37)​

Am I doing something wrong/missing something obvious here?
 

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Having a bit of a strange problem with the new .cia files - on an o3ds (sysnand 11/a9lh/luma) setup with phailect's guide I can install them no problem, but with a n3ds (emunand 11/gateway), the smaller cia file installs fine, but the larger one fails. I've tested with dev menu and with FBI (both as cia and 3ds). I get:

Failed to install CIA file.
Result code: 0xD8E08025
Level: Permanent (27)
Summary: Invalid argument (7)
Module: AM (27)
Desc: Invalid NCCH (37)​

Am I doing something wrong/missing something obvious here?
Are you fully up to date using the Luma3DS Updater? And have you updated FBI to it's latest? Those should help, if you haven't.
 

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I tried this but it when I was installing the CIA to my 3ds, it failed to install.
The error was, "invalid ncch (37)"???
 

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You can't convert .3ds -> .cia without a computer, because the conversion (which actually is not just a conversion and means building TMDs / Tickets) is far from trivial and actually needs a good tool (makerom), which isn't easy to port.
Ah, thank you for a clear answer on this. I appreciate it, and all your hard work. :)
Proving myself wrong (see above): just use Decrypt9WIP to generate CIAs. It was updated to be able to do so a while ago.
 

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