Gateway 3DS, News and Information

[MTSoph14]

Hi guys, have you noticed the news that Nintendo has won the lawsuit against flashcard company. Hope this wouldn't affect the gateway 3ds flashcard coming out...

That was only against a reseller in Japan, not a manufacturer. So it doesn't affect Gateway at all

 

[mkdms14]

Well I guess its a step in the right direction still far away from a working 3ds flash card that does home-brew.

 

[TobiasAmaranth]

That firmware 4.5 was like ages ago. I bet none or almost none is still in firmware 4.5

I am! Still sitting on 4.5 because that's when the Acekard stopped being supported.

 

[idleft]

That was only against a reseller in Japan, not a manufacturer. So it doesn't affect Gateway at all

Have gateway3ds ever mentioned region block?
I think it will be much more convenient if the region block is removed...

 

[MTSoph14]

Have gateway3ds ever mentioned region block?
I think it will be much more convenient if the region block is removed...

From what we've seen so far it doesn't effect region locking since it's going to be a 1:1 clone

 

[stephysanrio]

And you guys are willing to brick your system? The blue card doesn't sound right...
There's not much info either, I wouldn't trust running something I know nothing about

Just saying
Either way I have 5x... got a 3ds recently for this card and that's the version it came with. What a fail.

 

[tHciNc]

Obviously the blue card does some sort of exploit to prepare the 3ds, weird its not in actual "red" card, what would be the point, as wouldnt the exploit be 3ds based. not any other mode, are new 3ds XL shipped with 5.X yet or still 4.5 ??

 

[enarky]

So glad they're finally coming through with some info. With the 3DSBrew exploit now obviously in the wild I hope someone will be able to write a loader from SD card for all us who didn't upgrade from 4.5 (really, what did you people expect??).

 

[BORODA]

Till the last moment I was hoping that this is not exploit based and it's something based on 1:1 copy of the card. But meh...

 

[gokujr1000]

I have version 5.1.0 - 11U. Not sure if that's good or bad but I'm still buying a Gateway.

 

[lismati]

Then someone would figure out how to downgrade the console.

If we'd have a software way of downgrading the 3DS, then we'd have no problems of launching roms from the SD card, you know.

 

[fvig2001]

All of a sudden I don't regret owning 2 3DS XLs that I bought mostly out of impulse. Hope I don't end up with 2 Wii Us... because that would be way too crazy for me (I'm not rich and I don't own one yet).

 

[idleft]

And you guys are willing to brick your system? The blue card doesn't sound right...
There's not much info either, I wouldn't trust running something I know nothing about

Just saying
Either way I have 5x... got a 3ds recently for this card and that's the version it came with. What a fail.

I guess this would not be a problem.
The mechanism of this blue card and red card thing is: they use the blue card to pass the validation of system (I guess it might using the ds mode, since the ds card can be recognized properly), and exploit certain bug to side load 3ds game from that so called "console"

 

[MarioFanatic64]

It's weird how the Gateway makes no attempt to pull the "flashcart is meant for homebrew" card, and are developing it purely for piracy reasons, (thus making it 100% illegal), yet they aren't getting arrested or even sued for that matter.

 

[SS4]

Well seems like it hopefully wont be too long until i can buy a 3DS XL

 

[McHaggis]

I have version 5.1.0 - 11U. Not sure if that's good or bad but I'm still buying a Gateway.

You know you won't be able to use it, right?

I guess this would not be a problem.
The mechanism of this blue card and red card thing is: they use the blue card to pass the validation of system (I guess it might using the ds mode, since the ds card can be recognized properly), and exploit certain bug to side load 3ds game from that so called "console"

Not likely. Cards can't be swapped in DS mode and there's no DS mode code that can boot 3DS software. Like I said earlier in the thread, I think the blue card is a clone card with a save exploit preloaded. Kind of like how the CycloDS iEvolution had the Cooking Mama game along with an exploited saved game to run homebrew in DSi mode, except this time it's shipped as a separate card, perhaps because it would be too large to fit alongside the Gateway.

 

[BORODA]

You know you won't be able to use it, right

They didn't say it won't work at all. It will probably work with 5.x and even 6.1 in future, but they will start with 4.5 support. It will, probably, not work with 6.2+ as it's exploit-based

 

[McHaggis]

They didn't say it won't work at all. It will probably work with 5.x and even 6.1 in future, but they will start with 4.5 support.

But there's no guarantee. Also, why didn't they delay the launch to put in the additional effort to make it work? If the exploit they have has been fixed, that means they need to find another exploit, which is no small feat given that it took 2 years for anyone to find the one they're using now. The way gokujr1000 said it, it seemed like he was planning on buying one immediately and just hoping it works, which isn't really a smart move imo.

 

[BORODA]

But there's no guarantee. Also, why didn't they delay the launch to put in the additional effort to make it work? If the exploit they have has been fixed, that means they need to find another exploit, which is no small feat given that it took 2 years for anyone to find the one they're using now. The way gokujr1000 said it, it seemed like he was planning on buying one immediately and just hoping it works, which isn't really a smart move imo.

Well, yes. We need to wait for reviews and confirmations that it actually works. By the way, when 5.x was released, there was no info on Gateway or anything like this, so it's likely not fixed in 5.x series, but it can (and probably is) fixed in 6.0+ so I still believe that 5.x will be ok to work with Gateway.

 

[Prior22]

What version firmware comes installed with XL units?