Hacks Guide Wiki:To-do list

This is where we can keep a list of things that should be done, such as pages that need creating or adding to.

Organization
Once this wiki has "enough content" (whatever that means), before we can start advertising it publicly, we need better page organzation.


 * Index/contents pages? Generally anything someone might want or need to do with hacks. Save backup and restore, transfers, troubleshooting, informational pages, etc. Similar to 3DS:Things to do but that one is more like "here's a list of cool things you can do".

Main Page
A nice Main Page should be made. It should include a simple explanation of what homebrew is, then links to the main guides, the "Things to do" pages, and maybe troubleshooting.

A search box could be put here too.

Console introductions
These pages should be like an all-around intro to things about hacking a console. Links to guides on getting hacks set up, links to the "things to do", maybe troubleshooting for when things go wrong...

I'm not sure how necessary these pages are though, if there isn't enough stuff that can't also go on the "Things to do" pages. ihaveahax (talk) 02:52, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
 * In my opinion they should be the main hub for everything related to the console itself with quick and easy access/links to the most important articles and console related help pages. Could also include highlights from the "things to do" page or apps -zsotroav (Cantact me here!) @ 18:34, 12 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Nintendo 3DS
 * Wii U
 * Nintendo Switch

"Things to do" pages
A simple page that someone new to homebrew/cfw can use to start doing something with their newly-hacked console.


 * 3DS:Things to do
 * Wii U:Things to do
 * Switch:Things to do

Game pages
I think we should have pages for individual games with lists of mods, save editors, guides, and maybe other things.

I just picked a random assortment of some popular games. Any game with a mod, save editor, useful hacking guide, etc. can have its own page!


 * 3DS:Animal Crossing: New Leaf
 * 3DS:Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
 * 3DS:Pokémon X and Y
 * 3DS:Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire
 * 3DS:Pokémon Sun and Moon
 * 3DS:Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon
 * 3DS:Mario Kart 7
 * Wii U:Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
 * Wii U:Mario Kart 8
 * Switch:Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Guides
Any sort of guides that could be useful, game-specific or not.


 * Formatting an SD card/Windows
 * Formatting an SD card/Mac
 * Formatting an SD card/Linux
 * Formatting an SD card/ChromeOS (may be useful since i've seen the occasional chromebook user in NH and r/3DS --ihaveahax (talk) 11:15, 31 October 2022 (UTC))
 * 3DS:Keyboard Unbrick
 * 3DS:Export saves
 * 3DS:System Transfer
 * 3DS:System Transfer/Target has CFW
 * 3DS:System Transfer/Target is stock
 * 3DS:GBA games
 * 3DS:Setting game locales
 * 3DS:Remove outlines in Pokémon games

Move from main guides
Some pages could be moved from the main guides to here.

Don't actually delete these from the main guide until we think this site is ready.


 * 3dsguide:formatting-sd-(windows) - ✅ Formatting an SD card/Windows
 * 3dsguide:formatting-sd-(mac) - ✅ Formatting an SD card/Mac
 * 3dsguide:formatting-sd-(linux) - ✅ Formatting an SD card/Linux
 * 3dsguide:file-extensions-(windows) - ✅ File Extensions on Windows
 * 3dsguide:move-emunand - ✅ 3DS:Move EmuNAND
 * 3dsguide:f3-(linux) - ✅ Checking SD card integrity/Linux
 * 3dsguide:f3x-(mac) - ✅ Checking SD card integrity/Mac/legacy
 * 3dsguide:f3xswift-(mac) - ✅ Checking SD card integrity/Mac
 * 3dsguide:h2testw-(windows) - ✅ Checking SD card integrity/Windows
 * 3dsguide:godmode9-usage - ✅ 3DS:GodMode9 Usage
 * 3dsguide:dumping-titles-and-game-cartridges - ✅ 3DS:Dump titles and game cartridges
 * 3dsguide:ctrtransfer - ✅ 3DS:CTRTransfer


 * switchguide:extras/theming Switch:Theming -
 * switchguide:extras/save_management Switch:Save Management - ✅
 * switchguide:extras/game_modding Switch:Game Modding
 * switchguide:extras/cheats Switch:Cheats - ✅ (could say where/how to get cheat files ie what to put in buildid.txt?)

Move from pins in NH channels
A lot of useful stuff is probably stored in pins in the NH server. Those should be put here for ease of access.


 * Switch:Transferring_Saves ✅ Transferring save data from emuMMC to sysMMC
 * Switch:Gamecard Reader ✅ Gamecard reader firmware info page
 * Switch:zadig Manually install libusbk for TegraRCMGui

Move from Kurisu commands
Some stuff that's currently in could also be put here. Look inside. Like in the next section, any external guides probably could not just be copied here since we may not have permission to do that.


 * Checking 3DS local IP
 * 3DS:Check local IP address ✅
 * Moving to a new SD card
 * 3DS:Moving SD Cards ✅
 * Wii_U:VC_Extract ✅
 * Switch:exFAT - ✅
 * Error codes
 * 3DS:Error codes (there's a few codes this has that Kurisu doesn't, but quite a few Kurisu does but this doesn't. we might be best off pulling from Kurisu's codebase for most of the remainder, marking as done, and just adding any others we find at will?  Starlit Skies  ( talk ) 04:05, 23 January 2023 (UTC))

General concepts
Ideas for new pages. Some of these pages already have established guides, which can be used as a reference (but may not be copied directly, depending on permission, and some of them may be out of date anyway)

I think it might be of some use to add a "piracy" page, explaining what piracy is, how to determine if you are a pirate, and why we don't allow piracy talk, sorta like https://3ds.eiphax.tech/piracy, but with some more detail on how it applies to the wiki and Discord server in specific. Hifinerd (talk) 01:21, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

3DS

 * Explain the difference between boot9strap and Luma3DS (some people are confused about what they do)
 * ✅ 3DS:Where is the CFW?
 * 3DS Linux setup
 * 3DS:Linux
 * Splash creation and 'installation'
 * ✅ 3DS:Splash screens
 * Custom theme creation and installation
 * ✅ 3DS:Custom themes/creation
 * Tentative name. Alternative, "Custom themes/creation"? Page would be too long to keep on the page itself without impacting readability Lily (talk) 07:55, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * sounds good to me. now it's changed here, too Starlit Skies  ( talk ) 04:14, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ 3DS:Custom themes
 * Boot animations (here)
 * ✅ 3DS:BAX
 * 3DS:BAX/makebax (needs macOS and Linux binaries built, but the instructions themselves are entirely finished)
 * Flashcart information (recommended DS flashcarts, why 3DS-mode flashcarts shouldn't be used...)
 * 3DS:Flashcarts
 * Luma3DS fork information/installation tutorial
 * ✅ 3DS:Luma3DS forks
 * fastboot3DS information/tutorial
 * ✅ 3DS:fastboot3DS
 * Explain what a Luma3DS exception is in more detail, and how to understand it better
 * 3DS:Error screens/Luma3DS exception screen
 * Pending another major overhaul, maybe? I've already done one, but it's still really badly assorted and doesn't have a lot of the more common errors it should Starlit Skies  ( talk ) 04:05, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Game plugin tutorial (both PLG and 3GX format)
 * ✅ 3DS:Game plugins
 * 3DS:Game plugins/3GX
 * ✅ 3DS:Game plugins/PLG
 * Streaming tutorial (here)
 * 3DS:Wireless streaming
 * ModMoon usage
 * 3DS:ModMoon
 * FTP (ftpd) usage (here)
 * ✅ 3DS:FTP
 * PKSM usage
 * PKHeX usage (here)
 * Checkpoint...
 * Save usage 3DS:Export saves
 * Cheat usage (here)
 * LayeredFS usage (here)
 * Pokemon randomization (here)
 * 3DS:Pokémon randomization
 * ACNL web-based save editor (here)
 * 3DS:Animal Crossing: New Leaf/Save editing
 * Input redirection tutorial
 * ✅ 3DS:Input redirection
 * GBA BIOS dumping from VC (here)
 * ROM dumping from VC (here)
 * HOME Menu editing (here)
 * ✅ 3DS:Editing the HOME menu
 * Old CFW migration stuff
 * menuhax-based setups 3DS:Migrate from menuhax
 * Gateway-based setups 3DS:Migrate from Gateway
 * General landing page for *.firm-based payloads
 * 3DS:FIRM payloads, maybe?
 * Japanese browser filter removal
 * ✅ 3DS:JPN Browser Filter
 * Running DS games through TWiLight Menu++ or HOME Menu forwarders
 * Detail how EmuNAND/RedNAND works and why people should not start using it today
 * GodMode9 advanced usage (things most people don't need to do but that are useful in certain cases) e.g. manual system transfer
 * since this technically counts, we have ✅ 3DS:CTRTransfer/Manual
 * Overview of Lazarus3DS and a TWL-only Lazarus3DS, if only so people can understand what they are
 * 3DS:Lazarus3DS
 * 3DS:Lazarus3DS/TWL laz
 * Certain super-niche or super-advanced fixes, or at least an overview of them - examples might be 3DS:CTRNAND data yeet, 3DS:PTM data yeet, and 3DS:Fix NVRAM

Wii U

 * FTP guide ✅ Wii U:FTP

Switch

 * Dump guide (here)
 * "What is a patched" page - terms related to this are in the glossary, I was considering a page that went through all models similar to the table in Switchguide:Getting_Started but don't really know how to put it all together

Translations
The pages being moved from 3ds.hacks.guide or wiiu.hacks.guide might have translations that need to be brought over.

Also pages on how to translate stuff on this wiki need to be made too.

Technical

 * Create lots of redirect pages. Someone will probably search things like "Pokemon x" or "Fix black screen" so we should create those pages that point to the right place. This needs some automation too.
 * Special:BulkPageCreate,
 * Make it more obvious that a revision other than the main one is being viewed. Preferably with a MediaWiki hook but JS will probably do.

Project pages

 * Create a page about how game pages should be designed.
 * Hacks Guide Wiki:Game pages
 * Create a game template page, so anyone who wants to make a page for a specific game knows where to start.
 * Hacks Guide Wiki:Game pages/Template (maybe even make it a preload-able template?)
 * A manual of style for guides, information pages, game pages (though that one already kinda exists).