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Before beginning the guide, you must know the risks of 3DS hacking: EVERY time you modify your system, there is always the potential for an UNRECOVERABLE brick. They're rare, but still a possibility so make sure you follow ALL directions EXACTLY. If you hard brick, you can always restore a backup with Hourglass9. If you soft brick and are using SaltFW or Luma3DS (Not ShadowNAND's miniCFW), Hold L+R+A+Up on the D-pad and accept the update. However, If you brick during installing ShadowNAND, you'll need to get a hardmod. Make sure to restore a A9LH backup when you do a hardmod

This guide is designed to help a user pick what to do after Plailect's guide.

There has been some confusion among users about what devices they own and their names. See this page for images of each kind of 3DS. A NEW 3DS (XL) has a 2nd circle pad and the ZL and ZR shoulder buttons. A 2DS has 1 speaker and no 3D.

This guide will work on New 3DS, Old 3DS, and 2DS in the EUR, JAP, or USA regions that has A9LH.

This guide uses ShadowNAND, the newest and best method of Custom Firmware that gives us nearly full control of the system only milliseconds into boot, which is similar to the effect of BootMii for the Wii. The benefits of this are numerous, and as such it is recommended to use this guide over any other that relies on outdated software (such as menuhax or rxTools).

This guide will take you through the steps of Changing your CFW, getting ShadowNAND, downgrading to dev firmware, updating back to 11.0 and then editing the home menu.

If everything goes according to plan, you will lose no data and end up with everything that you started with (games, NNID, saves, etc will be preserved).

This guide was written by maorninja.