Actually, I started doing the old "web-browser-ram-based" exploit, just to inject my old pokemons from veeery old saves to Pokemon X. New updates would have killed the exploit, so I found a "permanent" solution with the almighty rxtools emunand, which I got thanks to a guide on youtube and a famous forum, if I recall correctly. Got me a copy of cubic ninja (I was very lucky, i found it the very day I started looking for it) and got the emunand. Even with the (almost)50% boot-rate, the impossibility to get to system settings without rebooting to sysnand and some titles working bad I was very satisfied with my emunand, I even thought "wow this is amazing, ok, it's difficult to boot but look at all those things I can do".

Imagine when, a couple months later, I've seen what a9lh could do. Built up some courage (passages of THE guide were clear, but still scary) and got me a9lh on my o3ds.

I wanted to upgrade to a N3ds XL and time were ripe in december, when new exploit were announced for version 11.2 and I thought "Latest version is CFW-able, this is my only chance to get the 3DS I want without looking for product code/fw/etc". Literally, went to the shop with the best deal, got me the colour I liked most and got it a9lh the same night. Version was 10.4 lol. But still.