I was just thinking about Rorona on 3DS today after finding the Atelier wiki had zero information (as matter of a fact still listed it as being announced.) They did add another segment called Atelier Astrid which is supposed to be a prequel so it's not just dropping in the Vita translation and...
It's not the using online part (no doubt reviewers are using it right now) but the bad ID on the rom making it prompt for an update. Nintendo sees an attempt to update or that unit online and bans it. There's no excuse you can give.
I think only a handful of people are actually interested in homebrew for anything other than piracy, especially in the days of Android/iOS phones with higher resolution than a PSVita screen and controllers. The enthusiasts are excited they could trick the Vita to run arbitrary code, while...
There was an infinite use Smash demo that was sent out to promote the game. People were given 4 codes to play the demo a week early. I've now got 4 ways (ironhax, Tubehax, Smash, Cubic Ninja) to launch homebrew channel on my up to date 3DS.
There's at most one or two copies per state now. Prior to Monday it was a crappy game no one wanted with plenty of stock. Now all of a sudden they only have a couple copies and high demand. Probably if you go to the store and they have a $5 price tag still on it, you could ask a manager to honor...
GTS spoofers only worked for so long because they didn't encrypt the traffic. Strides were being made into the 3DS version as well (with battle checker and instacheck) but since the 3DS supports software updates they were able to nip it in the bud by adding an encryption layer. It worked for so...
Az's Floette, Latiosite, and Diancie were removed, but probably not for the reasons you think. They're probably getting just as many phone calls and emails about how they can't trade the items/pokemon. You can even still make Pokemon shiny.