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		<title>Geometomas: * Section I - Prep Work */ mention copy everything from Luma3DS zip + what the root is</title>
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		<updated>2025-02-22T06:38:00Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;* Section I - Prep Work */ mention copy everything from Luma3DS zip + what the root is&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 06:38, 22 February 2025&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#Insert your SD card into your computer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#Insert your SD card into your computer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#Copy &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;boot.firm&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;boot.3dsx&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; &lt;/del&gt;from the Luma3DS &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;.zip&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; to the root of your SD card&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#Copy &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;everything &lt;/ins&gt;from the Luma3DS &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;.zip&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; to the root of your SD card&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;#*The root of the SD card refers to the initial directory on your SD card where you can see the Nintendo 3DS folder, but are not inside of it&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#*Replace the files if prompted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#*Replace the files if prompted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#Create a folder named &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;boot9strap&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; on the root of your SD card&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#Create a folder named &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;boot9strap&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; on the root of your SD card&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

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		<title>Tophatted at 21:02, 30 August 2024</title>
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		<updated>2024-08-30T21:02:06Z</updated>

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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#Once you see &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;k11_exploit succeeded!&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;, press (Start) to exit fasthax&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#Once you see &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;k11_exploit succeeded!&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;, press (Start) to exit fasthax&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#Launch safehax from the list of homebrew&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#Launch safehax from the list of homebrew&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#*If you get a &quot;PM INIT FAILED&quot; error, try using the [&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;r19 release of safehax](&lt;/del&gt;https://github.com/TiniVi/safehax/releases/tag/r19&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;)&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#*If you get a &quot;PM INIT FAILED&quot; error, try using the [https://github.com/TiniVi/safehax/releases/tag/r19 &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;r19 release of safehax]&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#*If it freezes, just force the console to power off by holding the power button, then try again&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#*If it freezes, just force the console to power off by holding the power button, then try again&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#If the exploit was successful, you will have booted into SafeB9SInstaller&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;#If the exploit was successful, you will have booted into SafeB9SInstaller&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Lifehackerhansol: fasthax/safehax</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;fasthax/safehax&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Required Reading==&lt;br /&gt;
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| text = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;This method only works on versions 11.2.0 and below.&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; This is because fasthax was fixed in 11.3.0.&lt;br /&gt;
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==What You Need==&lt;br /&gt;
*The latest release of [https://github.com/d0k3/SafeB9SInstaller/releases/download/v0.0.7/SafeB9SInstaller-20170605-122940.zip SafeB9SInstaller] (direct download)&lt;br /&gt;
*The latest release of [https://github.com/SciresM/boot9strap/releases/download/1.4/boot9strap-1.4.zip boot9strap] (direct download)&lt;br /&gt;
* The latest release of [https://github.com/nedwill/fasthax/releases/download/v1.0.1/fasthax.3dsx fasthax] (direct download)&lt;br /&gt;
* The latest release of [https://github.com/TiniVi/safehax/releases/download/r27/safehax.3dsx safehax] (direct download)&lt;br /&gt;
* The latest release of [https://github.com/LumaTeam/Luma3DS/releases/latest/ Luma3DS]&lt;br /&gt;
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==Instructions==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Section I - Prep Work ===&lt;br /&gt;
#Power off your device&lt;br /&gt;
#Insert your SD card into your computer&lt;br /&gt;
#Copy &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;boot.firm&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;boot.3dsx&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; from the Luma3DS &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;.zip&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; to the root of your SD card&lt;br /&gt;
#*Replace the files if prompted&lt;br /&gt;
#Create a folder named &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;boot9strap&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; on the root of your SD card&lt;br /&gt;
#Copy &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;boot9strap.firm&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;boot9strap.firm.sha&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; from the boot9strap &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;.zip&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; to the &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;/boot9strap/&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; folder on your SD card&lt;br /&gt;
#Copy &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;SafeB9SInstaller.bin&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; from the SafeB9SInstaller &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;.zip&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; to the root of your SD card and rename it to &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;safehaxpayload.bin&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
#Create a folder named &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;3ds&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; on the root of your SD card, if it does not already exist&lt;br /&gt;
#Copy &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;fasthax.3dsx&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; to the &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;/3ds/&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; folder on your SD card&lt;br /&gt;
#Copy &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;safehax.3dsx&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; to the &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;/3ds/&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; folder on your SD card&lt;br /&gt;
#Reinsert your SD card into your device&lt;br /&gt;
#Power on your device&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Section II - Launching SafeB9SInstaller ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
#Open the Homebrew Launcher using any method&lt;br /&gt;
#Launch fasthax from the list of homebrew&lt;br /&gt;
#Once you see &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;k11_exploit succeeded!&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;, press (Start) to exit fasthax&lt;br /&gt;
#Launch safehax from the list of homebrew&lt;br /&gt;
#*If you get a &amp;quot;PM INIT FAILED&amp;quot; error, try using the [r19 release of safehax](https://github.com/TiniVi/safehax/releases/tag/r19)&lt;br /&gt;
#*If it freezes, just force the console to power off by holding the power button, then try again&lt;br /&gt;
#If the exploit was successful, you will have booted into SafeB9SInstaller&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Section III - Installing boot9strap===&lt;br /&gt;
#When prompted, input the key combo given on the top screen to install boot9strap&lt;br /&gt;
#Once it is complete, press (A) to reboot your device&lt;br /&gt;
#Your device should have rebooted into the Luma3DS configuration menu&lt;br /&gt;
#*Luma3DS configuration menu are settings for the Luma3DS custom firmware. Many of these settings may be useful for customization or debugging&lt;br /&gt;
#*For the purpose of this guide, these settings will be left on default settings&lt;br /&gt;
#*If your device shuts down when you try to power it on, ensure that you have copied &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;boot.firm&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; from the Luma3DS &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;.zip&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; to the root of your SD card&lt;br /&gt;
#Press (Start) to save and reboot&lt;br /&gt;
#*If you get an error, just continue to the next page&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{Luma3DS is default}}&lt;br /&gt;
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		<author><name>Lifehackerhansol</name></author>
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