Hacking Gateway 3DS - First 3DS flash card?!

[Hanafuda]

I'm surprised this thread is only on page 10 ... gbatemp's getting downright moderate in its responses to these kind of announcements these days. Or maybe jaded is the more correct term.

I think it is very unlikely the retail version of this thing will work exactly as pong described, but as the first product to hit the market, no matter how it functions it'll be far from being exactly what we all want. I'm probably going to wait for supercard team and all the other usual suspects to reverse engineer the thing and start making their own ripoffs interpretations of it first. In fact, I'll probably wait for at least their second gen versions.

I'd like to just bypass this whole phase of things altogether this time around:

 

[Deleted member 194275]

Once this is released, clones with follow. And only a lot later a decent cart will be released.

True, I've never seen the first "hack" as better hack for more than few months, it was true from SNES until Wii, so it may be true now.

 

[hhs]

If this thing ends up being real it will have completely blindsided me. I didn't even know anything was in the works. I was sort of looking forward to a pokemon generation of legit shinies and ev/iv trained pokes in the meta. But at the same time this could have its own merits.

 

[KingVamp]

I didn't have time to look at all this right now, but if it is real, but doesn't play homebrew then forget it.

 

[eyecat14]

I didn't have time to look at all this right now, but if it is real, but doesn't play homebrew then forget it.

I agree, what's the point of having one game at a time? This thing just SCREAMS "Piracy!"

 

[Metoroid0]

Would be interesting to use, but its going be blocked rather fast though..

It's going to be blocked and it might be blocked are two different things. But i guess we will just have to wait to see that.

 

[zero2exe]

So if assumptions are right so far this would pretty much turn SDs into reuseable bootlegs .-.

 

[Zaide]

If this thing ends up being real it will have completely blindsided me. I didn't even know anything was in the works. I was sort of looking forward to a pokemon generation of legit shinies and ev/iv trained pokes in the meta. But at the same time this could have its own merits.

This doesn't look like it will enable cheats of any kind so we might still have a generation of legit pokemon.

 

[Kadin]

Looks like the oh-so-familiar sticky at the very top might ACTUALLY need to be edited/removed soon. I've so waited for that to happen...

 

[RedCoreZero]

OMFG IT'S HACKED, HERE WE GO, YES,YES,YEEEESSSSS!BALLIN MY HEAD OFF!

Okay, this is basically a Crown3DS.At least we know that it's not limited to one game, which that information might be considered pointless to some of us.

The only thing that's good about this, is that you can get games cheaper just by buying a storm of SDs.This cart will be blocked by,like, next week?

 

[DiabloStorm]

OMFG IT'S HACKED, HERE WE GO, YES,YES,YEEEESSSSS!BALLIN MY HEAD OFF!

Okay, this is basically a Crown3DS.At least we know that it's not limited to one game, which that information might be considered pointless to some of us.

The only thing that's good about this, is that you can get games cheaper just by buying a storm of SDs.This cart will be blocked by,like, next week?

Why couldn't one just replace the rom file on the sd and resize the capacity instead of buying tons of sd cards? Either way it's not exactly convenient...

 

[AngryGeek416]

is this the real deal?

 

[medoli900]

I don't really care if it's practical or not. If I can avoid spending $70 per game (which is the price around here) it's a deal for me. Even if it costs double the price of a retail card and forces me to never update my 3ds again.

Why are you saying that 3DS games are costly?How much a PS3 game cost in your country?

$ of new games in Canada:
3DS:19.99$-49.99$
PS3:29.99$-69.99$

 

[Pong20302000]

Which ultimately undermines everything Pong tried to pass as facts

The only thing I'm now curious is about save games... It might just be that they still haven't finalized the Game Manager, so it corrupts saves because it doesn't correctly saves them to the microSD yet.

how does it undermine everything i said?
i was stating my analysis
you will need to lock down the MicroSD to the correct format and size, like when you make a disc and then lock off the rest of the size as the cart data size is checked and confirmed

you cant have a Game Manager due to it running on a Retail 3DS and needing to be Signed by the Nintendo Key, the only way a manager would exist would be one signed by a Dev Key which only works on Dev Units, no other Data can be loaded on a 3DS

 

[Chary]

Yeah, even in 720p and full screen, I can't make out the writing on the SD cards. Speaking of Luigi's Mansion 2, does the US even have the all white 3DS XL? If not, that's a pretty clear giveaway that the 3DS XL in the video is european.

Huh. That's an idea. Could it be possible that the Flashcart works only on European 3DS'es?

 

[Memfis]

I´ll wait for Homebrew Channel. Dont want to buy a card.

 

[ken28]

how does it undermine everything i said?
i was stating my analysis
you will need to lock down the MicroSD to the correct format and size, like when you make a disc and then lock off the rest of the size as the cart data size is checked and confirmed

you cant have a Game Manager due to it running on a Retail 3DS and needing to be Signed by the Nintendo Key, the only way a manager would exist would be one signed by a Dev Key which only works on Dev Units, no other Data can be loaded on a 3DS

yet garyopa claims it works so now its word against word and even you cant know if unsigned code is running.
And as you know the key isnt persay needed if the found a exploit that let them execute unsigned code, trough i am skeptical of this.
But we will see if he is right in about 2-3 week since he claimed to that it will be released in 2weeks.

 

[Metoroid0]

Once this is released, clones with follow. And only a lot later a decent cart will be released.

That's from experience i guess.. but what is reality? I guess only time will tell...

 

[WiiUBricker]

That's from experience i guess.. but what is reality? I guess only time will tell...

That's how the chinese market works.

 

[Ykr1113]

Well to figure out if we'll be limited to using multiple micro - SD cards, we need to figure out the size of a 3DS Rom, what the hell do we have those yet ?