Luma3DS 8.0 “Rosalina” Released!

That’s right everyone!  The widely used Luma3DS has an update, and we’re here to tell you all about it. Before we jump into the details, it is absolutely worth mentioning that yes, ‘You’ll need to upgrade to boot9strap v1.2 or higher.’  Before you think to yourself that that isn’t anything you want to do and do not want to update to Luma3DS 8.0 for that reason, hear me out. Read the rest, because as the description of Luma3DS states, ‘Luma3DS is a Noob-proof (N)3DS “Custom Firmware”.’ So it’s definitely worth your time!

At the time of the writing of this, the tweet popped up from dev Tux within the last hour.  Take a look at his fun way of announcing Luma3DS 8.0’s release!

https://twitter.com/TuxSH/status/871529767539027968

Luma3DS 8.0 “Rosalina” boasts a hellacious amount of new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

• ‘A menu which can be opened at any time (combo: L+Down+Select, although you can change it at runtime), featuring:
  • A process list submenu (used to select process to attach when the debugger is enabled)
  • A processes patch submenu: patches FS and SM
  • A N3DS Clock+L2 submenu (hidden on O3DS)
  • A screenshot action. This is slow but it works
  • Other various options, see below
  • A display of the remaining battery percentage in the bottom right of the screen, and of the Luma3DS commit at the bottom left
• Input redirection:
  • Implementation thanks to @Stary2001, based off the work of ShinyQuagsire
  • Allows you to control your 3DS using your PC with, for example, an external controller (Xbox360 controller, etc.)
  • Should work with every game with minimal lag
  • C-stick/ZL/ZR redirection is N3DS-only, possibly only with newer games
  • Use this client (compatible with xinput on Windows, evdev on Linux, should be compatible with OSX) or that one
  • If you activate this feature in Home Menu, applications will be prevented to disconnect the 3DS from the Internet while they’re running. This takes effect until the next boot
• 3DSX loading:
  • Thanks to @fincs
  • 3DSX files can now be loaded seamlessly, and work just like installed titles (meaning you can use the Home Menu and applets while a 3DSX application is running, use the GDB stub (see below), etc.)!
  • No need for *hax payloads anymore!
  • By default, the title used to boot boot.3dsx is hblauncher_loader, but this can be changed at any time (Miscellaneous options > Switch the hb. title to the current app.) : simply launch any title, use that option, close the title ; the next time you launch that title, it will run boot.3dsx
  • *hax payloads don’t work anymore. You’ll have to use version of the Homebrew Menu >= 2.0, which can be found here (and in the homebrew starter pack later on)
• Better language emulation:
  • Language (and region) emulation should now work for all games
  • You can now specify a country (2 letter code) and a state ID (2-digit hex integer), for example: EUR FR FR 01
• A fully-featured GDB stub:
  • Network code and skeleton thanks to @Stary2001
  • Can debug up to 3 processes simultaneously (the process to attach to are to be selected in the process list menu)
    • Use the process menu when the debugger is enabled to select processes to attach to.
  • Use -lctrud and -lcitro3dd instead of -lctru and -lcitro3d, -Og instead of -O2, drop -fomit-frame-pointer build debug versions of your own applications.
  • Compatible with both GDB and IDA PRO:
    • The GDB stub requires a patch to work. This patch will get eventually integrated into devkitARM.
      • Use this patch applied on GDB 7.11 then build using ./configure --prefix=<where you want> --target=arm-none-eabi --disable-werror --with-python --without-guile --with-ncurses --with-expat, or use this Windows 64-bit build of patched GDB 7.12.
    • The GDB stubs also works with IDA (Use single-step support, in the specific debugger options prompt, should be unchecked).
  • Software breakpoints, 2 hardware watchpoints (globally), all basic features and many more, like catch syscall, info os, etc.
  • Can access the 80000000..B0000000 strongly ordered mapping (see below) as well as privileged memory
  • If you activate this feature in Home Menu, applications will be prevented to disconnect the 3DS from the Internet while they’re running. This takes effect until the next boot.’

The github page for Luma3DS 8.0 even goes into further technical details for those hackers, modders, technies, nerds, geeks, and tinkerers that love crazy deep info like that:

• ‘A “kernel extension” extending the features of Kernel11 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°):

If you’re looking for the download link for Luma3DS 8.0 or just want to know more about the release overall, click here.
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