so the encryption is doublechecked by an encrypted wifi connection??
Wow guys, I'm so interested in this. It looks a good enough solution for having both retail games with (or without) online capabilities on newer firmware, and pirated ones on the Gateway in 4.5.
I have version 4.5, thank God.
Other than that, a good tutorial with detailed high res images would be excellent. I won't risk my 3DS Xl if I'm not following a guide thoroughly.
Aside from wires, soldering iron, a solder (i have a cheap one, and won't be buying a $100 soldering station for this, I'd rather buy a 2nd 3DS) and Multimeter (which also I don't have, but shouldn't be too expensive, do I need something more? Well apart from the Micro SD to SD adapter and SD reader.
I have very basic soldering skills (I soldered succesfuly a PAL Mega Drive to work at 60Hz, which seemed more simple than this), but I can practice in an old external DVD drive to get better skills. I just hope that my cheap solder is enough, or if it's not, a not very expansive one can make the work (€10-20?)
How does the end result looks on the 3DS XL. Do you have the case broken somewhere, or taped hanging cables?
Can you do that on an XL? That pic looks like a regular 3DS.
What I want to know is if it would be possible (in theory) to use a ROM and Gateway-style firmware spoofing to "update" the DS to a different region. For example, say you have an American 3DS on 4.4U and want to play Japanese games. You would find a Jap ROM with 4.5J, run it using firmware spoofing, and let it install the 4.5J update. Now your American 3DS is running 4.5J. If you took a NAND dump beforehand you could then swap back and forth between regions.
Feasible? Or would the 4.5J update fail for some reason?
What I want to know is if it would be possible (in theory) to use a ROM and Gateway-style firmware spoofing to "update" the DS to a different region. For example, say you have an American 3DS on 4.4U and want to play Japanese games. You would find a Jap ROM with 4.5J, run it using firmware spoofing, and let it install the 4.5J update. Now your American 3DS is running 4.5J. If you took a NAND dump beforehand you could then swap back and forth between regions.
Feasible? Or would the 4.5J update fail for some reason?
Ah, that makes sense.I don't believe that's how Gateway works. I think it just disables the checks the 3DS does to make sure it has the firmware version or the check it does for the region.
I guess I misunderstood how the firmware encryption is set up, then. Sorry, I'm still new to this stuff.2. to move to a different region, you need to re encrypt a proper signature for firmwares. Or find a correct way to load decrypted data in a chain payload
this sounds right, there must be something going on in the memory of the 3ds, not just the sd card. buying the game and going to a dump where the game was not bought, well, i guess the game will not be 'activated'.I belive, if you dump 4.5, update and buy the game, dump 6.2, downgrade to 4.5 it will work but I don't think the game will show in 4.5 and will have to flash 6.2 to see and play it. Maybe I'm totaly wrong so the best to do is just to try. If you have 3DS XL it seams easy to do. If you have 3DS, do it with caution (Otherwise you may do as I do and broke the camera connector...)