Disclaimer: This post is for educational purposes only. Modifying or reverse-engineering your console may violate local laws or terms of service. Always own the hardware you are analyzing.
The primary reason is . boot9strap uses boot9.bin to: boot9.bin file
The respected guide 3DS Hacks Guide is crystal clear: They will not provide a download link. They will only teach you how to dump the file from your own console using tools like boot9strap or GodMode9 . This is a deliberate legal shield: if you dump it yourself, you haven’t committed copyright infringement (distribution), even if the underlying code is technically copyrighted. Disclaimer: This post is for educational purposes only
The discovery and extraction of boot9.bin marked the "end of the game" for 3DS security. It transitioned the scene from a cat-and-mouse game of software patches to a state of permanent "homebrew-ability." The primary reason is
By dumping the BootROM into boot9.bin , hackers, developers, and advanced users can:
: Re-dump boot9.bin using GodMode9. If you downloaded it from the internet (which you shouldn’t), delete it and dump your own.