Since this is the route I have to go now I have a couple questions I just want to clarify for myself as far as what I need to do. I haven't done cfw or homebrew since the regular DS days, so I figured I'd be spending time on gbatemp reading and relearning about how to do all that for 3ds.
I dug up my o3ds XL and it's on 9.7. I have a rom for the JP SE already (no physical cart yet, it's on the way but really far out). I'd like to play all 3 routes.
Can I get it working with just the rom and the work needed to setup cfw, or do I absolutely need the physical cart? For collector's value, I don't mind saving the physical SE and leaving it sealed if it's a route I can take. IK/3rd route, it's DLC only and not on the physical cart for the JP version right? From what I understand the JP SE is not like the NA SE which comes with all 3 routes, giving NA players a 3 week head-start access to it before it officially releases as DLC for NA. If it is DLC only (which I'm assuming is the case) I'll be able to access the JP eshop to get it, somehow right? I absolutely must downgrade my o3ds to 9.2 then if the above is true, to patch the translation in for the 3rd route, correct? I see some back and forth about requiring 9.2 to patch the DLC, but others saying some CFW's at 10.3 work perfectly...?
Thanks for the hard work you guys are doing in translating this. I sadly don't know any japanese myself so I can't help with it, but otherwise looking forward to your releases.