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Required Reading
This method of using Seedminer for further exploitation uses your movable.sed
file to write a custom save file for Steel Diver: Sub Wars, which can then be used to launch the Homebrew Launcher.
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This process requires your console-specific movable.sed file. If you don't have it yet, you can get it by following Seedminer. (Don't continue to BannerBomb3.) |
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If you already have Steel Diver: Sub Wars, this process will overwrite your game's save file! |
What You Need
- The game "Steel Diver: Sub Wars" (no longer available for download on eShop) installed on your device
- Your
movable.sed
file from completing Seedminer - The latest release of Steelhax (direct download)
- The latest release of Luma3DS (the Luma3DS
.zip
file) - otherapps.zip
Instructions
Section I - Prep Work
- Power off your device
- Insert your SD card into your computer
- Copy
boot.firm
andboot.3dsx
from the Luma3DS.zip
to the root of your SD card- 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
- Copy the
steelhax
folder from theSteelhax-release.zip
to the root of your SD card - Copy the otherapp payload for your region/version/model from the otherapps
.zip
file to the/steelhax/
folder and rename it topayload.bin
- Reinsert your SD card into your device
- Power on your device
Section II - Steelminer
- Launch "Steel Diver: Sub Wars" once and select a Mii to initialize your save file
- Decline the game update when prompted
- If you have already updated the game, use the Data Management menu of the System Settings to delete the update
- Exit "Steel Diver: Sub Wars"
- Power off your device
- Insert your SD card into your computer
- Open the SteelHax Save Tool website on your computer
- Select your
movable.sed
file - Select your region based on your console
- Select "Build and Download"
- Wait for the process to complete
- Navigate to
Nintendo 3DS
-><ID0>
-><32-character-id>
->title
->00040000
-><8-character-region>
->data
on your SD card- EUR Region:
000d7e00
- JPN Region:
000d7c00
- USA Region:
000d7d00
- EUR Region:
- Copy the new downloaded save file to the
data
folder on your SD card- Overwrite the old save file when prompted
- Reinsert your SD card into your device
- Power on your device
- Launch "Steel Diver: Sub Wars"
- If the exploit was successful, your device will have loaded the Homebrew Launcher
Continue to Installing boot9strap (nimdsphax)