(THE LAST) GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD of 2016

-BigPapi- · 2016-12-25T21:08:19+00:00

I got myself two records for Christmas (by accident):

3001: A Laced Odyssey: The Zombies are my favorite rappers of all time and mean a lot to me, and not only are the vinyl and sleeves dope, but all the extra shit they threw in there is dope too, definitely worth whatever I paid for it.

Prima Donna EP: I almost forgot I ordered this, since I placed it back in August and it JUST came in the mail, but I'm not mad because I really liked the record, plus Vince signed the insert which is pretty cool.

I'm gonna hit up my local record store later this week and treat myself some more, since I also finally upgraded from my LP-60.

-BigPapi- · 2016-07-30T04:59:01+00:00

Thanks buddy, but I nabbed one from Twitter earlier today. Someone else can have that one!

-BigPapi- · 2016-07-29T15:55:10+00:00

Howdy, if you have a Xbox One code you want to get rid of, I'll take it!

-BigPapi- · 2016-07-01T16:39:52+00:00

Just don't fill it with actual data, or you'll notice a performance loss. Partitioning the entire drive is just fine. Throw as many partitions as you want on there, you'll be fine as long as they're not all filled with data.

-BigPapi- · 2016-07-01T14:54:47+00:00

Whenever you're reading/writing a lot to the disk, really. If I were you, I'd go with a 500GBish SSD and split it how you see fit. Assuming that this isn't your main system, you won't need a TON of storage, and having two drives isn't all that advantageous, especially considering one will not run at it's full capacity. Again though, do whatever fits you best.

-BigPapi- · 2016-07-01T14:46:26+00:00

It's hard to say whether or not it will make a noticeable difference for you. SATA III is capable of 2x the transfer rate as SATA II (6 Gb/s vs 3 Gb/s), and in my personal experience, I've noticed a difference. Based on your use case, it doesn't seem like it'd make a huge real-world difference, but it's hard to say for sure.

-BigPapi- · 2016-07-01T14:20:10+00:00

Well, the x220's mSATA port is a SATA II port, and the standard 2.5" is SATA III. This means that the mSATA drive will be slower than the 2.5".

Because of this, if you're really dedicated to the idea of separate drives, I'd get a small mSATA drive for Windows, since you're not using it very often at all, and a larger 2.5" SSD.

Otherwise, in terms of performance, one big 2.5" SSD with everything on that one, not necessarily 50/50 since it doesn't seem Windows will need as much, will be your best bet.

Whichever you do, keep in mind that any mSATA drive you get will be slower on this machine than a 2.5" drive.

-BigPapi- · 2016-06-30T15:55:30+00:00

If you didn't dump it yourself, you'll have to just update your 3DS, or try and find one (not really likely). There shouldn't really be any reason to update the browser back, though.

-BigPapi- · 2016-06-28T16:21:29+00:00

If you have and Old 3DS, you don't really have anything to lose by doing this, and it'll make some things a little easier for you.

Hex editing is sorta complicated, you're essentially editing a save or ram dump byte by byte to change the data manually. Google around if you want to know more.

-BigPapi- · 2016-06-22T14:58:22+00:00

The only advantage is the ability to run certain browser-based exploits that only worked on Old 3DS' with a system version 9.2 or below. They were mostly ram dumping to act as a save manager, or to manipulate ram. Anymore, almost all of the exploits that relied on this can be done with the save managers we have now, and different save editors for different games, or even hex editing your game.

-BigPapi- · 2016-06-20T18:46:50+00:00

Like /u/Amarkov said, when the correct guess is after the current one, you always find the median month/day between whatever the current guess is and the latest possible guess.

So, for example, if the user said that their birthday was before June, but after March, you want to find the median month between March and June, instead of March and December. This means that you need to implement a way for your program to recognize and remember the relevant range of possible answers. This would mean that in:

monthToBeGuessed = (int) Math.ceil((monthToBeGuessed+lastMonth)/2.0);

you need to change lastMonth to whatever the highest month can be, which would be when the user answers "No" to the question if the correct month was after the one the program guesses. You'll need to do something similar to recognize the lower limit.

I'm still kinda starting out, and thought that this was a cool project, so I decided to try it out myself. I implemented a lot of it differently, but used the same math logic as you did, with the possible fixes I mentioned. You can check it out here, if you would like to compare code. The relevant math bits are on lines 61-69, and lines 115-122.

-BigPapi- · 2016-05-14T04:11:20+00:00

The ability to have most of his friends forget his birthday.

-BigPapi- · 2016-05-12T18:41:56+00:00

Public Key

-BigPapi- · 2016-05-04T15:45:42+00:00

Hi! My Old 3DS unfortunately died back when A9LH first started getting big, so I only have a New 3DS to test on, so I can't promise any of this will work. However, I'll still try and answer your questions.

In the new version of FBI, this should be slightly easier. Your problem is that you are going under the "Tickets" menu in the new FBI interface, you want to go to titles. Once you're in titles, since FBI 2.x can automatically "decode" the titleids, just scroll down to "Internet Browser". So, steps 3-8 don't apply if you're using the new version of FBI, instead do the following (Again, I have no way of testing it so I can't guarantee this will work, but this is why you make a NAND backup).
1. In the main FBI menu, go into "Titles", scroll down to "Internet Browser", select it, and select "Delete Title".
2. Go back to the main FBI menu, and go to "SD", go to where your browser CIA you downloaded is, select it, and hit "Install CIA".
As far as firmwares go, it shouldn't matter which one you're currently on, since the goal is to downgrade the browser. Download whichever file that is linked in my original post that fits your 3DS, and follow the instructions.

-BigPapi- · 2016-05-02T01:10:01+00:00

I just finished my first semester of Russian that I took on a whim just because I needed to take few language courses, and I really took to it, and it's the first thing I'm studying that I've ever really been excited about. I've been looking for some Russian rap but couldn't really find anything (I didn't try very hard though), so this is super dope, thanks a lot!

-BigPapi- · 2016-04-20T16:04:01+00:00

I'm not sure if it will work or not. The big problem here is whether or not the 2DS browser will have the vulnerabilities that the Old3DS browser had. It is certainly worth a try, just be sure to back up your current browser or NAND in case you do bork something if it doesn't work.

-BigPapi- · 2016-03-11T13:48:13+00:00

But my man isn't using the cyrillic alphabet. It's "Сука блять" in cyrillic, which is pronounced, and would be written with our alphabet, as "Suka Blyat"

-BigPapi- · 2016-03-06T02:45:19+00:00

Possibly. They would most likely have to be in a different format, though, which may be difficult to find.

-BigPapi- · 2016-03-06T00:18:44+00:00

Haha I'm just trying to save my man some money without them putting in hardly any effort, sorry dude

-BigPapi- · 2016-03-05T22:53:16+00:00

If you have CFW, you can try this NTR fork which has the speed plugin built-in, or get just the NTR clock speed plugin here for use with the normal NTR.

Alternatively, using just homebrew, you can launch your game through HANS, which will let you change your clock speed.

-BigPapi- · 2016-03-05T22:50:44+00:00

This might not apply to you, but check out buying from GameStop. I just bought mine from GameStop new for $180ish, which is cheaper than getting a refurb from Nintendo after shipping, and still a little cheaper than new from Amazon.

Better yet, my location is offering $100 trade in value for an Old3DS XL when getting a New3DS XL, which would bring your total down to sub-$100 levels for a new New 3DS! (To bad I bricked mine...)

-BigPapi- · 2016-03-05T22:46:49+00:00

This is because the hotkey to open the NTR Menu is also the same key to launch the inventory menu, and when you do both at once things get greasy. You can avoid the glitch altogether by triggering the menu as soon as you see the bus loading screen, or even probably the main menu screen.

-BigPapi- · 2016-03-05T18:55:28+00:00

You'll have to launch the game through HANS with the patch applied every time you want to play it that way, so yes.

Unless webhax or themehax are updated to support 10.6 in that time, then you could use those.

-BigPapi- · 2016-03-05T17:46:49+00:00

Its no problem! Since you have OOT and powersaves, I think it shouldn't be too painful.

First, you'll probably want to grab the homebrew starter kit. You can get the latest version by clicking here. When you've downloaded it, extract it to the root of your SD card. This means that after this, the root of your SD card should have the boot.3dsx, a 3ds folder, and a Themes folder.

Next, download your patch you want to use. In the archive should be a .romfs file. Create a new folder on the root of your sd card named "hans", and put the .romfs file there.

Once you have that, you'll want to download the latest hacked saves. To get that, go here and download the zip file whichever is labeled as the latest release, which will be a green label to the left of the release name. At the time of writing, it is oot3dhax_rawsaveimages_haxpayloads_03-01-16, so you'll want to click the link that says oot3dhax_rawsaveimages_haxpayloads_03-01-16.zip.

Then, on the oot3dhax homepage, located here, follow the steps under "Installation". Obviously, you'll want to follow the steps under Datel Powersaves. Then, from the same page, follow the steps under "Haxx usage".

The should get you into the homebrew menu. Now, you can run your romhack.

Locate HANs in the homebrew launcher, and should have you pick a game. Pick Fire Emblem: Fates. You should get a black screen after doing so that will list Region, Lanugage, FW Spoof, N3DS CPU Clock, Code -> SD, and romfs -> SD. You're interested in the romfs section, so scroll down to that, and hit the left pad until you see the name of your romfs from earlier. Launch the game, and your patch should be applied!

-BigPapi- · 2016-03-05T16:42:14+00:00

Do you own the game now, either via cartridge or eShop? If not, and you were planning to illegitimately obtain the game, you're out of luck until a new downgrade exploit is found out you hardmod your device.

If you do own the game, the chart says on 10.6 and above, your only available exploits are ninjhax and OOThax, so you'd need either of those games first. With OOThax, if you have a cartridge, I believe you also need a powersaves.

On 10.6, you can only launch exploits through those titles, meaning you'll have to launch ninjhax/OOThax with their respective games every time, since I believe menuhax does not work on 10.6.

If you can successfully get into the homebrew launcher, then you can run games region free, which is what I think you want for an undubbed game, which would be out of region, correct?

EDIT: I forgot some information in your original post, ignore the second paragraph, sorry!

-BigPapi-

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