yellows8
Protected BootROM9 Dumping?
I'm seeing that things are slowly being released to be used on the 3DS itself in terms of the BootROM9 image, but is there a chance we'll be seeing the dumping code for the image itself be released? During the 33C3 conference it was explained how to go about it, but the pacing of things could be picked up a lot if the code itself was released. I do understand that distributing the BootROM9 file itself is a bad idea (especially given the console unique stuff), so that's why the dumping tools are required instead.
Until that's done, I'm afraid we can't do much with this and it would be better off not releasing it until the image is able to be dumped by other users to take advantage of other exploits and look for other flaws.
(It's very early in the morning at this time of writing, it may not be written well.)
I'm not the one to ask about dumping boot9 via hardware......(Don't even have all of that info)
"(especially given the console unique stuff)" Huh?
"Until that's done, I'm afraid we can't do much with this and it would be better off not releasing it until the image is able to be dumped by other users to take advantage of other exploits and look for other flaws." There's no reason not to release it just because prot_boot9 image isn't publicly available .............
It's useful for documentation for example.
I was referring to the software dumping method, as detailed during 33C3.
And sorry, I might have had some slight misinformation. I thought console unique stuff was in BootROM9 itself, but apparently it's derived from stuff within the BootROM9 using other things as input. Sorry about that.
You do have a point there... I'm really grumpy when it's in the morning, so that probably sounded really harsh and I greatly apologize for that. It is very useful for documentation as well, and why I didn't realize that I may never know.
I'm personally just hoping the dumping is implemented into an ARM9 payload to perform it sometime soon so this tool can be of use sooner rather than later, is what I believe I meant to say. Again, I greatly apologize for the harshness of my comment. I'm really happy that at least this tool was developed for people to use when it is dumped rather than wait for it to be dumped and then someone takes longer to develop this tool. Thank you for all of your hard work, and please continue your amazingness. You're a gifted talent in this community.
:)
"I was referring to the software dumping method, as detailed during 33C3." <- You're probably thinking of Boot11, not Boot9.
Probably, I just got out of school so I'm tired. o:
It would take a bit to go back over the video, so can I get a tl;dr: of the BootROM9's dump method?