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.

Pages

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.

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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
•  WIP Switch:Things to do
• Wii: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)) Formatting with ChromeOS results in a card that consoles (at least the 3DS) don't like. ihaveahax (talk) 05:35, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
• 3DS:Keyboard Unbrick
• 3DS:Export saves
• 3DS:System Transfer
  •  WIP 3DS:System Transfer/Target has CFW
  •  WIP 3DS:System Transfer/Target is stock
  •  WIP 3DS:System Transfer/Manual (to copy over all the files manually, and maybe also NNID/eShop)
• 3DS:GBA games
• 3DS:Setting game locales
• 3DS:Remove outlines in Pokémon games
• 3DS:Virtual Console

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

• switchguide:extras/theming Switch:Theming -  WIP
• switchguide:extras/save_management Switch:Save Management -  Done
• switchguide:extras/game_modding Switch:Game Modding
• switchguide:extras/cheats Switch:Cheats -  Done (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  Done Transferring save data from emuMMC to sysMMC
• Switch:Gamecard Reader  Done Gamecard reader firmware info page
• Switch:zadig Manually install libusbk for TegraRCMGui

Move from Kurisu commands

Some stuff that's currently in nh-server/Kurisu could also be put here. Look inside assistance-cmds. 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  Done
• Moving to a new SD card
  • 3DS:Moving SD Cards  Done
• Wii_U:VC_Extract  Done
• Switch:exFAT -  Done
• Error codes
  • 3DS:Error codes  WIP (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? StarlitSkies (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)
  •  Done 3DS:Where is the CFW?
• 3DS Linux setup
  •  WIP 3DS:Linux
• Splash creation and 'installation'
  •  Done 3DS:Splash screens
• Custom theme creation and installation
  •  Done 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 StarlitSkies (talk) 04:14, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
  •  Done 3DS:Custom themes
• Boot animations (here)
  •  Done 3DS:BAX
  •  WIP 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...)
  •  WIP 3DS:Flashcarts
• Luma3DS fork information/installation tutorial
  •  Done 3DS:Luma3DS forks
• fastboot3DS information/tutorial
  •  Done 3DS:fastboot3DS
• Explain what a Luma3DS exception is in more detail, and how to understand it better
  •  WIP 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 StarlitSkies (talk) 04:05, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
• Game plugin tutorial (both PLG and 3GX format)
  •  Done 3DS:Game plugins
  •  WIP 3DS:Game plugins/3GX
  •  Done 3DS:Game plugins/PLG
• Streaming tutorial (here)
  •  WIP 3DS:Wireless streaming
• ModMoon usage
  •  WIP 3DS:ModMoon
• FTP (ftpd) usage (here)
  •  Done 3DS:FTP
• PKSM usage
• PKHeX usage (here)
•  Done Rehid 3DS:Rehid
• Checkpoint...
  • Save usage  WIP 3DS:Export saves
  • Cheat usage (here)
• LayeredFS usage (here)
• Pokemon randomization (here)
  •  Done 3DS:Randomizing Pokémon
• ACNL web-based save editor (here)
  • 3DS:Animal Crossing: New Leaf/Save editing
• Input redirection tutorial
  •  Done 3DS:Input redirection
• GBA BIOS dumping from VC (here)
• ROM dumping from VC (here)
• HOME Menu editing (here)
  •  Done 3DS:Editing the HOME menu
• Old CFW migration stuff
  • menuhax-based setups  WIP 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
  •  Done 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  Done 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  Done 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, ihaveamac/mediawiki-extensions-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).