Wait, what?!Fair enough - with the Gateway master key out and about, I think everyone's made up their mind about the situation anyways and with unbrickers around, the situation can be considered more or less resolved.
Wait, what?!Fair enough - with the Gateway master key out and about, I think everyone's made up their mind about the situation anyways and with unbrickers around, the situation can be considered more or less resolved.
Wait, what?!
Pretty much. Long story short, the key's out and unlocking is possible using the Raspberry Pi kit (the Arduino kit will follow suit, the code is currently being tested). It's not just a simple unlock though - in addition to locking the NAND, the bricking code also disabled writing capabilities. This is why a workaround has been implemented - the unbricker unlocks the NAND, dumps its contents, cleans it with a force erase which re-enables writing capabilities and flashes it with the image it just dumped.The masterkey is out?
I didn't read the news for the last two days. If we can now unlock instead of reseting and reflashing a backup, that's a great news.
Thread has been slightly updated with information regarding Gateway Omega 2.1 and 2.2 which are currently the recommended Gateway firmwares and are said to be free of the bricking code according to mathieulh. It still requires a facelift, but it will do for now.
I'm not a 100% sure if v1.2 is copy-pasted from Gateway or not so I haven't, I didn't miss it, it was intentional. There haven't been any reported bricks on v1.2, but I don't see anyone actively checking the firmware for brick code either.You forgot to edit the MT-card info. It still says only v.1.0 is the only safe version for it.
I'm not a 100% sure if v1.2 is copy-pasted from Gateway or not so I haven't, I didn't miss it, it was intentional. There haven't been any reported bricks on v1.2, but I don't see anyone actively checking the firmware for brick code either.
MT-Card does innovate on their own, but from what I recall, they coincidentally included functionality similar to Gateway's release and the time window between the two was extremely small. I'd love to say that it's 100% safe, but I'd rather if someone relevant to the scene would confirm those suspicions.Fair enough. I think it's their own work though. While omega's was able to support both zelda VC games and HarmoKnight straight out of the gate, theirs didnt until they got a hardware update to go with the software one. Not 100% conclusive proof but way better then R4i gold deluxe promising Gateway features by christmas (maybe they meant christmas of 2014)
From what was gathered so far the bricking code is still there but it was polished to the point that you cannot trigger it by accident.