Hacking Any reason to keep my old 3DS?

[Kionea]

Got a new New 3DS (love the way that sounds) and was wondering if I should keep it. Is it possible there will be exploits that only work on the old one due to hardware and software differences like the PSP? Or is it just a door stop now?

 

[Deleted-355425]

If you don't need money desperately then keep it

 

[Ericss]

The only thing you can do with O3DS but not N3DS that I know of is run NTR CFW 1 which, unlike 2, supports .3ds ROMs via GW.

 

[liomajor]

old3DS is faster in generating xorpads and has unlimited support
for upcomming emuNAND Versions (when Nintendo releases updates).

Currently it is only possible to use 9.5.0 emuNAND on new3DS.

 

[gempugs]

If you want to make .cia files yourself from .3ds to install on your n3DS, keep your o3DS if it is on 4.x (whatever, you can downgrade it anyway). o3DS have the fastest and most stable way to generate xorpads at the moment. The only way for n3DS to generate xorpads is the Decrypt9 method which is very unstable and slow and require Cubic Ninja exploit.

 

[stanleyopar2000]

Keep it. Games like Attack on Titan: Humanity In Chains and Puzzles and Dragons Z are requiring the newer firmware for some reason...and god knows knows how long N3DS users could be Gaitwaiting

 

[Kenneth196]

Also, the Spider exploit (ARcodes) only runs on the O3DS currently (well it works on N3DS also but you need to run NTR CFW, and there's a few other requirements as well).

 

[Deleted member 333767]

I heard there's a new thread in the 3DS Tutorials section called How to decide to keep your old 3DS or not

 

[tony_2018]

I heard there's a new thread in the 3DS Tutorials section called How to decide to keep your old 3DS or not

We're going to need about 100 more of those threads, it ain't stopping.

 

[SirByte]

O3DS is on 9.7 EmuNAND with GW and there is no reason to believe at this time that it won't be on 9.8, 9.9, 10.0 etc. N3DS is stuck in the past. You can spoof all you want but some time there's going to be a function call that requires new firmware. For now most games work fine with the O3DS (huge installed base).