I sent gateway an email this morning about any updates, here's their response:
"
We will release more info and new video next week.
An early & growing list of retailers is available here:
http://www.gateway-3ds.com/resellers.html
We are adding more each day, so come back if you do not find the right
distributor for you. Remember we just announced the product, so it will take a
week to have a distributor in most countries, please be patient.
Pricing and shipping cost are indicated on the reseller site.
Release date is imminent, next 2 weeks, RRP is $79.95 and a full list of features
and more details will be announced soon. For now, you can check the FAQ on our
homepage.
mailto:[email protected]
Is there any news to this product? Release date time frame etc? When will the
website be updated? Is it safe to preorder?"
Has Devin stated once he receives a Gateway card how long he expects a review to take? I'm just not sure how this process will work. Will he load a rom, play for a few minutes, then save, and see if the save then loads properly. This process could then be repeated with the key 3DS roms.
I'd love to see him start a Twitter account dedicated just for Gateway review updates. Such as "Paper Mario rom loaded properly and I played for a few minutes. Then I saved and it loaded properly a minute later."
Reviews do tend to take a while, unfortunately. The longer he takes, though, take it as a good thing, as he wants to be very thorough with the entire process. When I talked to him last time, he was intent on testing every single US 3DS ROM out there, so it could take quite some time. And keep in mind, that reviews are not just simple articles to throw on the internet, and a lot goes into the process.
Reviews do tend to take a while, unfortunately. The longer he takes, though, take it as a good thing, as he wants to be very thorough with the entire process. When I talked to him last time, he was intent on testing every single US 3DS ROM out there, so it could take quite some time. And keep in mind, that reviews are not just simple articles to throw on the internet, and a lot goes into the process.
I understand the need to be thorough with the completed review. That's why I like my Twitter update idea. That way everyone who is interested in Gateway, which I imagine to be a pretty big list, can find out quickly how well each rom saves and loads. Realistically there are around 20 games or so your typical gamer will want to play most on the 3DS. So it would be a shame to let third party titles no one cares effect how quickly we find out how well games like Paper Mario and Fire Emblem load on Gateway.
The Twitter account could essentially tide us over before the completed review.
Has Devin already got GW3DS? I haven't found this info - however reading carefully WOW
I don't know the details, but I heard some of the people working on 3DS hacking claimed that, and if that's the case they're probably right.
I thought they made a physical copy of an actual cart and hardwired a SD reader to it and that's it, but that comes straight into my question:
IS ANYONE HERE actually more interested in how they achieved that? I confess I started wanting only and exclusively a hack for pirating purposes, but as I grew eager I started to read about chip decapping, security norms, code injection and all the processes behind hacking a console, also I learned how to 'understand' 3DBrew's updates, tho not completely. Playing games for free is now a secondary priority, I want to know how the heck did they made it work, if they got the keys somehow, if they injected code somehow... Any of those things would open the system to a billion possibilities.
That is exactly what has been discussed on this thread for nearly 50 pages, over and over again. Which is getting really annoying, especially for those of us who really do not understand that much about hacking.
However everyone in entitled to their opinions and discussions. As such, I would propose another thread, specifically about the ways the Gateway cart could possibly work.
I know we already have a thread about hacking ideas and conceptions.
What I am proposing is a thread for Gateway's functioning related ideas only.
Can Devin take for we some photo or video of flashcart gw3ds?
I lost a bit confidence for gateway with this delay...
When was it stated at they needed an extra two weeks? Last I heard was the end of the month, and they have no new info up on their site. I saw the email, but the email has no date. Dates would be a much better way of talking about things instead of spans of time which could be from two weeks ago to today.
Let's remember initially they did not give a release date, they just said in about a month. Then vendors started claiming it would be between the 15-25th, I think gateway got slammed with a lot of people saying where is it and now have said 2 more week.
So they release date has been pretty soft all aong and atleast they have had the decency to say don't start pre-ordering until we give the green light, ironically their approved distributors are taking pre-orders and charging people....which in itself is a bad policy as you are not supposed to charge someone CC until an item actually ships.
So lets see what happens next week as this two week window is two weeks from when exactly, and hopefully they will show more video next week and also answer the burning questions of how will save backup/restores be handled, and how will the cart be 'upgradeable' or flashable. If they can show us something on that then we will atleast know they are making progress. If they keep pushig back the date past this two week window then things are looking very fishy and a lot of the vendors that have pre-sold and pre-charged users are going to start taking some heat with people wanting to get a refund.
A don't care to much about delays as hell we have waited over 2 years for a 3DS flashcard, I just hope it doesn't turn out to be a scam as that will really be a downer. Hopefully next week will produce something convincing.
Sadly, that will not be able to solve anything, because closing this thread results in new members creating excess threads asking the same questions you'd see here. More work for the moderators, when you can have one irksomely large thread with a central hub for all the questions.
What the fuck. The formatting suddenly went to hell. Anyways.
I understood your post, but either way it's still another nuisance on the staff laundry list to manage. We can easily discuss those ideals here, but cue GBAtemp tendencies, and we argue for four pages, only to be brought back full circle at someone like me saying that we should just wait things out.
only to be brought back full circle at someone like me saying that we should just wait things out.