R4 flashcart can play cia games by using CakesFW with the guide of sky3ds !

CakesFW can be installed into your New 3ds in order to play CIA games. This tutorial is for how to install CakesFW to supports CIA gaming with help of Sky3ds?


Preparation :

Sky3ds
CakesFW
New 3ds V 9.0-9.2
R4 card (like R4i gold 3ds ,Ace3ds plus ,R4i sdhc rts ,gateway flashcart )  

Now ,let have a look it how it works !  

Step 1: Download the CakesFW and unziped, you will get 4 folders: firmware, MicroSD, MSET, R4.

Step 2: Click into MicroSD folder and Copy all the files into the root of your 3ds console sd card.

Step 3: Write Cubic Ninja 3ds game rom into Sky3ds, insert the Sky3ds and run Cubic Ninja, go to EDIT >QR Code >Scan QR Code, ( To get the QR code ,you need to click Ninjhax and select the accrodingly console for your console then submit to get Ninjhax 1.0 QR Code ), scan the QR Code until loading in the Ninjhax 1.0 successfully. If it’s too slow or failed scanning, please be patient to try several times.
Step 4: In the homebrew menu, select the Cakes, enter the CakesFW menu.

Step 5: Select the second option “Select Patches“,  then press button A to confirm the option “Disable signature checks“, press START to save, back to the main menu, select the first option “Boot CFW” to run the CakesFW.

Step 6: Enter to the CakesFW homebrew menu by re-booting the Cubic Ninja, EDIT >QR Code, run the FBI, install the DevMenu.cia file.(If CIA installation failed, back to home menu and pull out console micro sd card and go the the root of console Micro SD card to make an empty folder named by “dbs” and make a file named by “title.db” under this folder dbs in the direction of “Nintendo 3DS/id1/id2/dbs” . and retry the previous steps to instal BigBlueMenu.cia or Devmenu.cia). When CIA installed successfully, press START to continue.

Step 7: Back to the home meau you will see the DevMenu Gift box icon loaded in by Cubic Ninja and CakesFW, by running this DevMenu gift box, you can run partial-installation or run partial-server CIA.

 

Then there should be use the R4 card to write the cia games !

1,Click Floder R4 and Copy all .nds file into root of the TF card, and copy the 2 .cia files in folder MSET also  into root of TF Card of your 3ds console.

2, Run the  Cubic Ninja icon, go to EDIT >QR Code >Homebrew, enter into CakesFW, select option cia, taking use of the DevMenu you installed in Section one to install the 2 .cia files in order to achieve partially downgrade your 3ds console.

3,  Back to main menu, take out Sky3ds, insert R4 card can run .nds file, then click the “3DS ROP Installer”, select your 3ds console version to install the CakesROP.nds, when installation completed, press A to exit.

 

4, After patching for your 3ds console completed, back to home menu, go to settings, select the below options(4-1-4) in order to loading in CakesFW.  then you do not need any flashcart to boot Cubic Ninja to run cia . that is means it much more easy and upgarde !