Monday, June 19, 2017

How to use SkyDock and sky3ds+ V140 to get pirvate header from Monster Hunter XX for online play?

Maybe most of players have known, recently, sky3ds team released a new product, named "SkyDock". This is an adapter worked with sky3ds+. It enable you to get the private header from your original 3DS game card and play online games properly.

SkyDock Features:
  •  Build your own private header file for online game play (the original 3DS game card needed);
  •  Read the original game saved data directly;
  •  Dump any original game card to .3DS file format
First, you need to update your sky3ds+ to the latest firmware V140
Copy the file V140 firmware.bin to the FAT32 microSD card, and insert to sky3ds+, then connect with PC. The update is finished after the red light flash about 30 seconds. It's same as the method of firmware upgrade. 

How to use?
 1. Insert the updated sky3ds+ and 3DS original cartridge to the slot of conventer. Then connect sky3ds+ to your PC with USB cable, there will flash blue light, and a new savekeys.txt file will be created automatically in microSD card, this is used for saving private header.

 2. Press orange button, the red light will flash for a seconds, then two files (.cfg and .sav) will be created in microSD card, it's readed from the original cartridge. The save date can be used directly with sky3ds+

 3. Press orange button again, don't release until the red light flash. It will keep some minutes then turn to green. After the green light disappear, a new .3ds file will be created automatically in microSD card, that is the game rom from original cartridge.
PS: The flash time depends on the game size, the bigger game, the longer time, please wait with patience. Don't remove the USB cable when the processing, or else the rom will can't be load.
Note: The created.cfg file only support the current game rom connected to the Internet. If you want to ensure the other games can also be connected to the Internet, please open savekeys.txt file, then copy GAMESAVE_KEY to settings.txt file.


How to use SkyDock and sky3ds+ V140 to play Monster Hunter XX online? 
Sky3ds team also released a short video about the user guide, please view below