Hacking 3DS Flashcarts - News, Updates, and Support Thread

[JohnnyBlaze1986]

Got this email back from Gateway:

It seems you get an almost immediate answer when you show them that you've made a video or review. I sent them two copies of this. One had the links and one didn't. I got the one with the links responded to and the one without hasn't come back yet. So, multi-ROM and NAND saving are guaranteed, as well as the confirmation about Gateway working with 32GB SDHC and below as asked on this thread. 64GB SDXC and 7.0 patches, however, are NOT guaranteed.

That's fine to me as there's no titles coming out for the 3DS that will require 7.0 anytime soon and I really don't know anyone with a 64GB MicroSD card.

 

[MichiS97]

First they said "before christmas", now it's "around christmas"

 

[kyogre123]

Yay, they may support emuNAND 7.0 I don't care about the patches, I just want a functional emuNAND on 7.0.

 

[kyogre123]

It seems you get an almost immediate answer when you show them that you've made a video or review.

LOL I actually had the same situation. A first time I sent to them a email requesting something, then I asked a completely different thing and I also gave them a mirror link for their GW1.2 (when their only link was down) and they replied me only this second email.

 

[mznova]

Do we know if online play is going to come in 2.0 or the near future?

 

[Idaho]

First they said "before christmas", now it's "around christmas"

yeah well I don't bother waiting as soon as its polished well, like the bad saving shit is getting me nervous sometimes, let them do their job, it'll only be better if we don't be stupid kidos waiting for our candies...

I'm curious about how multirom will be done, It'd be damn sexy if games were displayed from the 3DS GUI like e-shop games...

 

[JohnnyBlaze1986]

I'm curious about how multirom will be done, It'd be damn sexy if games were displayed from the 3DS GUI like e-shop games...

I heard it's going to be drag and drop, at least as far as putting games on the SD card. Something tells me it's going to be a part of the Gateway menu for "Select Game" or something.

 

[Idaho]

I heard it's going to be drag and drop, at least as far as putting games on the SD card. Something tells me it's going to be a part of the Gateway menu for "Select Game" or something.

Yeah they said by themselves that it was going to be drag and drop, but around the display none is known, as you I think it'd be displayed through the Gateway menu, but I'm wondering if it could not be displayed via the 3DS GUI like e-shop games, I kinda hope it'll be like this, it'd be very neat, but i'd be satisfied with the other solution though...

 

[justinkb]

I highly doubt it could be integrated into the 3DS GUI. If you look closely at the cartridge icon, you'll see it actually has a cartridge form factor-esque border around it. I doubt they'll be able to have the 3DS display more than one of these 'special' 'physical cart' icons.

 

[Mr_Pichu]

I am sure the Gateway team will take their time, as they want their customers to have a trouble free experience. This next update is a bit tricky because it looks like it will require the FPGA to be reprogrammed. I can just see the posts about bricked Gateway cards. If they can add support for 7 in emuNAND that is just icing on the cake. I sure hope they get a handle on a way to slow down support on the clone cards.

 

[kyogre123]

I am sure the Gateway team will take their time, as they want their customers to have a trouble free experience. This next update is a bit tricky because it looks like it will require the FPGA to be reprogrammed. I can just see the posts about bricked Gateway cards. If they can add support for 7 in emuNAND that is just icing on the cake. I sure hope they get a handle on a way to slow down support on the clone cards.

Why could someone brick a Gateway with the FPGA update?
Serious question, I haven't had a flashcart that had required an update other than for its OS.

 

[MooseHead]

So I'm a stupid impatient fool and I updated my newly-acquired 3DS from 4.1 to 7.0, purely to access the eShop without knowing the whole emuNAND thing is working pretty well currently.
Is there reason to expect a 7.0-compatible flashcard in the future or is it possible to somehow downgrade the firmware?
Should I just cut my losses and get another 3DS?

I'm new to all this, so I'm sorry if my question has an obvious answer.

 

[kyogre123]

So I'm a stupid impatient fool and I updated my newly-acquired 3DS from 4.1 to 7.0, purely to access the eShop without knowing the whole emuNAND thing is working pretty well currently.
Is there reason to expect a 7.0-compatible flashcard in the future or is it possible to somehow downgrade the firmware?
Should I just cut my losses and get another 3DS?

I'm new to all this, so I'm sorry if my question has an obvious answer.

Get a new 3DS, there are no more existent solutions.

 

[MooseHead]

Get a new 3DS, there are no more existent solutions.

Well fuck.
Not even a tiny glimmer of hope that they'll support 7.0 in the near-future?

 

[kyogre123]

Well fuck.
Not even a tiny glimmer of hope that they'll support 7.0 in the near-future?

Sorry, no; there was a user mode exploit unpatched upto the 6.3 version, it was patched at last in 7.0. So don't hold out your hopes.

 

[gha_razor]

May I ask, does the eShop title ROM that released by BigBlueBox is working in gateway?
they are releasing demo games and other, and I hope they will release Phoenix Wright soon

 

[kyogre123]

May I ask, does the eShop title ROM that released by BigBlueBox is working in gateway?
they are releasing demo games and other, and I hope they will release Phoenix Wright soon

eShop ROM? there's no such a thing, at least not on 3ds.essh.co nor on inforush

 

[hypertek]

got my gateway in today, and updated emunand to 7.0, system otherwise is 4.4.. Played a few back ups, now I have a question. I currently have only 1 micro sd card (32gb), hoping they bust out multi rom support in the next update. But for now, I want to try out different roms. How can I backup my saves from the micro sd?? I am running windows 7 64bit if that helps. I originally used win32 disk imager per gateway instructions to create the micro sd card, but i just want to know how to get my saves off it so I can wipe the micro sd and put something else on it.

 

[kyogre123]

got my gateway in today, and updated emunand to 7.0, system otherwise is 4.4.. Played a few back ups, now I have a question. I currently have only 1 micro sd card (32gb), hoping they bust out multi rom support in the next update. But for now, I want to try out different roms. How can I backup my saves from the micro sd?? I am running windows 7 64bit if that helps. I originally used win32 disk imager per gateway instructions to create the micro sd card, but i just want to know how to get my saves off it so I can wipe the micro sd and put something else on it.

Plug the SD to your computer and copy those files with .SAV extension.

 

[kyogre123]

got my gateway in today, and updated emunand to 7.0, system otherwise is 4.4.. Played a few back ups, now I have a question. I currently have only 1 micro sd card (32gb), hoping they bust out multi rom support in the next update. But for now, I want to try out different roms. How can I backup my saves from the micro sd?? I am running windows 7 64bit if that helps. I originally used win32 disk imager per gateway instructions to create the micro sd card, but i just want to know how to get my saves off it so I can wipe the micro sd and put something else on it.

Plug the SD to your computer and copy those files with .SAV extension.

 

[JohnnyBlaze1986]

BTW, does anyone here know if Gateway TRULY supports trimmed roms? I always heard it's best not to trim them but with multi-ROM coming, it would actually be beneficial.....