The State of the 3DS CFW scene

As many people may know, I created a small guide to understanding CFWs and to explain the current CFWs. I did this because I love CFWs and I believe one glove does not fit all. I also did this to help the community by explaining the features of these CFWs and break them down into an easy to follow and understandable guide. But I also did this to bring attention to difference CFWs to help the community really figure out what CFW works best for them. I like I said, I love Luma3DS and I see how it got to the number one spot, but it's not the only CFW. Which brings to why I am making this blog/rant.

Luma3DS isn't the only CFW, it's great, but it's not the only CFW. I respect and adore Aurora Wright, her and I go way back. But the simple truth is, there's more than just Luma3DS and Luma3DS does not fit the needs for everyone. I say this because all of this Luma3DS spam has actually hurt the community. I've seen countless CFW threads get spammed with, "WHY WOULD MAKE ANOTHER CFW WHEN WE HAVE LUMA?!?!?" and devs are basically bullied off this site in the name of Luma3DS. Devs have to defend their project or announce that it's no threat to Luma3DS or community will attack them. This is not acceptable, we are a homebrew community. We used to never hinder projects, when Wood R4 came out it wasn't spammed with, "JUST BUY AN ACEKARD 2I AND USES AKAIO!" The community was just happy to see more projects coming from the community. Nowadays devs are actually wary of releasing their projects on the Temp, I know this because I have been talking with burned devs. Devs who released their work and were burned from the community for simply trying something different. Devs who do tough it out just end up ignored and their work gets forgotten about, then abandoned. There was even a few times when the Temp Wiki was vandalized changing the CFW page "There's only Luma3DS :P" Funny as it is, it still shows just how bad the community is becoming.

I am not blaming Luma3DS for this because it's neither Luma3DS nor Aurora Wright who created this problem. It's completely the community that is at fault. The community seems to have become this cult movement where they feel the need to spread the name of Luma3DS and defend it from any thing they see as a threat. The community has become stagnant and the idea of breaking the mold has become scary to the community. And this is not ok. This community is killing itself from within by not allowing projects to thrive, they are basically hurting the community. And this doesn't just hurt the CFW community, this has been hurting the Temp as a whole. Devs see how our community treats other devs and they just don't want to deal with the community if they think their project is only going to get attacked. This is not something a Homebrew community wants to have happen, we want devs to come to our site, and we want them to be welcome here.

This is something I've been watching for months and even experienced on my own thread and in other threads.This mindset has really tore the community apart and killed projects before they could even get off the ground. And it saddens me to talk/work with these devs who were burned by the community that should have welcomed them.

Just to make one thing clear, I don't say this because I am a Corbenik user. In fact I don't just use Corbenik, I also have Luma3DS on my CTRNAND. As well I have been using several privately developed CFWs. I say this because these private CFWs I use shouldn't be private and these devs should be allowed to share their work without fearing the community.
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this is just........sad . these people put so much time , effort and thought into creating something FOR THEM . and the ungrateful bastards don't appreciate it . rather they are content with hating on anything that they think challenges what they see as the best....just plain stupid.
 
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you forgot gateway. nearly everyone hates it now cuz they added a brick code to those who used fake cards. its still great and theyve done incredible things. but nope, all credit and respect out the window cuz they wanted their software to be kept to their customers.
 
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@McWhiters9511 Its not cool to brick users who have no clue that gateway exists. They might think a clone card is legit.
 
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@McWhiters951
Gateway earned it's lumps. Long waits, stolen code, the brick code, high price tag. Ect. It would be one thing if people hated for no reason, it's another when Gateway gave them reason to hate on it
 
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Agreed, and the pushing and pressuring everyone into a9lh was annoying as hell. I switched it, but it is not GBATemp that made me decide haha
 
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gamefan5
Honestly, switching to A9LH is actually helping not hindering. Sometimes we go overboard and it gets a little too much, but it's really time people start using A9LH.
 
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Toxicity is everywhere now. Not just in gaming, it has already infected the homebrew scene. I wonder if people psychologically devolve into being toxic or what could have lead into this type of attitude. Remember, cyber-bullying is now rampant even in social media. I think this is related somehow. It keeps me wondering what lead to this type of thinking. People should just shut up if they have nothing constructive to say or criticize rather than troll the community, person, developer, etc.
 
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IMO, using a9lh is like perm-flashing on a psp. Correct me if i'm wrong, but its just convenience and update safety, but its riskier than just MenuHax.
 
As a user of Luma this is sickening, sure it is noob friendly and does what a CFW should do. But to people like Dev's that simply may not be enough. The reason I use Luma is that it gets the job done for what I need and is updated quite often (with Nighties). So seeing this is honestly stupid, people need to stop being biased retards and actually see if the CFW is good rather than going "ANOTHER CFW?! F**K YOU THERE IS ONLY LUMA!"



F**king disgusting.
 
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I hear you! Innovation needs to be encouraged not discouraged also competition makes others strive to make their work even better for the community there is no denying that. Innovation and competition are good and healthy and I don't get why people don't see that. Believe me I really like Luma3DS and it works for me but you're not going to see me go bashing on a CFW just because it's not one I currently use but with the nature of innovation and the way it works I'd never rule out switching to a different CFW if it suited my needs better at the time. Yeah people really should not run people who try to innovate and make new things off the site that is just horrible! Just my two cents for what it's worth.
 
ov3rkill
It is a rather new thing and for someone like me, it's jarring. Like I said before, when I started the scene, no one complained about new projects. It didn't matter if it was a new homebrew menu for Flashcarts or a whole new Kernel, people were happy to see it. Nowadays no one wants to see anything new. The second a CFW is even rumored, the community flips shit like it's trying to tumble Luma3DS.

ItsKipz
It's more like perm-flashing Menuhax. A9LH is just the means of loading a CFW, not actually the CFW itself. It has a small risk, but it's been boiled down to near flawless science. Basically just follow the guide and use common scene and you will end up just fine.
You can however use A9LH to copy a CFW like Luma3DS (currently the only CFW to support this) to CTRNAND. Which basically is like perma-flashing a CFW to your 3DS.
 
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In all fairness, 95% of the people who have CFW use it for piracy only.
Luma happens to be the most popular CFW.
Those people don't care about any system related thing, they just want to pirate.

You can thank margen and his A9LH crusade for that.
As well as those self entitled pirates.
 
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Okay, if your using cfw to do illegal shit . then why are you complaining and flaming when someone cooks up another way for you to do it?


my conclusion: they're a buncha retards.
 
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Completely agreed. And if one tries to defend a different CFW than Luma, he is called a fanboy. It is quite... annoying. GBATemp, 3DShacks, are not exactly... friendly and mature communities. Frankly, we've had multiple devs either quit the scene, GBATemp, or both. Yet, nothing seems to ever change. By comparison, Wololo and the Vita scene seem significantly more grown-up, and some devs have indeed abandoned the 3DS scene for the Vita one. Ex. Rinnegatamante.
 
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Toxic trolls and meme spamming self entitled pirates.
That's what the 3DS scene is really ;/

Now I'm not saying the entire 3DS scene is like that but the vast majority unfortunately is.

Every hacking scene has its share of toxicity.
Ego trippers like Gregory rasputin for the PS3.
A9LH warrior like margen for the 3DS.
But the Nintendo one has by far the worst ;/
 
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True, I have seen this happen with many other CFW because it doesn't have the features luma has. I use luma3ds as my main CFW, however, I sometimes side-load corbenik or if needed, cakesfw, and I would like to see new CFW in the future. So who cares what others say about luma, if you are a developer with a good idea for CFW and you want to release it, release it.
 
DinohScene
But is more than just meme spreading and a few toxic members. This is an entire community of people who will attack a CFW the second it's posted. 40% of CFW threads are just devs having to defend their project and reassuring the community that they aren't competing with Luma3DS. Then like 30% is the small community around that CFW trying to back the dev up. Only like 30% of thread is actually talking about the CFW.
In rare cases does the dev actually withstand this assault and actually stick around to support their CFW with future updates. The majority of the time the community bullies them into submission and the project dies off. This is something that is becoming far too common practice here on the Temp.
 
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I'm not very sure what cfw is for except it allows cool things but the popular use of CFW on any system has always been "Back up loading" While many methods of loading homebrew require no CFW or any real console threatning modifications, is just seem like CFW is for "Backup loading"

Now i am not saying it is but is just by observation. CFW is a powerful tool to break through many of the consoles limitations by the creator to do things like we do now, but we don't really need CFW for homebrew right? there very few homebrew that is actually just a game or emulator, most of them are system tools to do almost anything imaginable and even fewer require CFW to use.

I never really had the term CFW until someone found a way to play emulators on psp like 10 years ago. Still as i learn about what the term is, it seem very common that people associate it with CFW = Piracy. Though I never know the reason behind why someone make these things.

Probably no one is reading this but is just some thoughts i had that may not mean anything to some people, but i mean hope is not any trouble for anyone.
 

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