Hacking Gateway 3DS Release 1.2

[FireShark]

no just overwrite the update thats all

Thank you, Spzjulien.

 

[BORODA]

No, you should at least buy major releases. 'Cause Pokémon X and Y are likely gonna be NAND-based, as are most other major releases. And maybe Nintendo will hide the update in a new place so SuperTrim trims wrong. So it'll be corrupted, and force 6.2. Or stuff game-breaking data in Super Trim. 'Cause I hate Gateway, it has no other purpose than piracy.





A DSThree, on the other hand, would have emus and homebrew. So would a full exploit.

[/lecture]

Oh suuuuure. DSThree would have emus but wait... it's piracy too, you know (unless you own every single game you want to emulate, otherwise you are still downloading pirated roms for emulators) and I'm 100% sure you would still use it to pirate 3ds games.
You sound like an elitist hypocrite that hates gateway because... Oh well "because".

BTW. If I could buy it, I would (one of the games I would have bought). But 3ds and it's cartridges are not officially sold in Ukraine so I need to buy them from Europe, which almost doubles the price of a cartridge due to delivery fees (50€ for cartridge and 35€ for delivery).

 

[Benshannon]

Oh suuuuure. DSThree would have emus but wait... it's piracy too, you know (unless you own every single game you want to emulate, otherwise you are still downloading pirated roms for emulators) and I'm 100% sure you would still use it to pirate 3ds games.
You sound like an elitist hypocrite that hates gateway because... Oh well "because".

BTW. If I could buy it, I would (one of the games I would have bought). But 3ds and it's cartridges are not officially sold in Ukraine so I need to buy them from Europe, which almost doubles the price of a cartridge due to delivery fees (50€ for cartridge and 35€ for delivery).

Well I know how you feel bro !
Getting games from Japan costs no less for my JP 3DS. Almost the price of the console itself.

 

[tmactx]

sory my bad enghis:

Test 1. FPGA RED
Test 2. SPI write test YELLOW
Test 3. SPI read test TEAL
Test 4: SD

colors:
Blue = No valid SD data
Red = Sd card is slow to load
Blue = Sd card is Fast to load
White = Fat32 partition detected
Green = 3ds ROM header found

Please format SD to fat32 and copy GW_testrom.3ds to root of wour 3ds. (no use win32diskimager or GW3DS_SD_IMAGER_OSX)

My tests:
1º - Prest "L" (horld) with the card (gateway red) out and it seems that locks.
2º - Insert the card with micro sd.
3º - Drop the "L", turn the console for you (to see the led) and carrege in "l" only 1 time.

Test 1: Red (fist light) FPGA RED
Test 2: Green (secung light)
Test 3: Blue (test Sd card is Fast to load and 3 light)
Test 4: White (recognize my sd 4 lihgt)

Please format SD to fat32 and copy GW_testrom.3ds to root of wour 3ds. (no use win32diskimager or GW3DS_SD_IMAGER_OSX)

My card 100% perfect

 

[burboss]

After many attempts I was able to start the test:
when i press the L button the led is:
permanent red for 2/3 second
permanent green 1/2 second
permanent blue 3/4 second
blink red approximately 3/4 minute
permanent green
stop.
i tried the gateway with game but tell me more "the game card is removed......
the test I was able to start it 2 times out of fifty, the other times the test is impossible to do (like in the video)

i think the problem is the flash memory of red card (where the gateway save/restore the game)

I really have to send the card back?

edit: the microsd is a NEW sandisk class 10

 

[tmactx]

After many attempts I was able to start the test:
when i press the L button the led is:
permanent red for 2/3 second
permanent green 1/2 second
permanent blue 3/4 second
blink red approximately 3/4 minute
permanent green
stop.
i tried the gateway with game but tell me more "the game card is removed......
the test I was able to start it 2 times out of fifty, the other times the test is impossible to do (like in the video)

i think the problem is the flash memory of red card (where the gateway save/restore the game)

I really have to send the card back?

I first used the new gateway version blue because there is chosen so that the region is the console. (must be a new). deleted the second fichero at the root of the sd and recorded the new 3ds. dat

 

[skarthebloodchild]

Every time I want to write a new 3ds rom to the microsd for the red gateway do I need to reformat the micro sd or simply run the Win32DiskImager.exe ?

 

[tmactx]

Every time I want to write a new 3ds rom to the microsd for the red gateway do I need to reformat the micro sd or simply run the Win32DiskImager.exe ?

all games have to be official. in this case the test is not presiso. just be in fat32 and copy to the root of the micro sd

 

[burboss]

I first used the new gateway version blue because there is chosen so that the region is the console. (must be a new). deleted the second fichero at the root of the sd and recorded the new 3ds. dat

i use the new gateway firmware (1.2)
and the 3ds tell me what console i have

 

[skarthebloodchild]

all games have to be official. in this case the test is not presiso. just be in fat32 and copy to the root of the micro sd

I do not ask this thing.

Every time i want to write a new 3ds game do i have to reformat the card or simply run the Win32DiskImager and write the game over the old one?

 

[burboss]

all games have to be official. in this case the test is not presiso. just be in fat32 and copy to the root of the micro sd

???????????????
explain me (or i don't understand) you copy the game in the root the microsd without using win32image????

 

[Keylogger]

I do not ask this thing.

Every time i want to write a new 3ds game do i have to reformat the card or simply run the Win32DiskImager and write the game over the old one?

Reformat the card and use Win32DiskImager

 

[tmactx]

Reformat the card and use Win32DiskImager

te file "GW_testrom.3ds" copy to rote of sd. all another roms use Win32DiskImager. the file "GW_testrom.3ds" is especial.

 

[justinkb]

you should use win32diskimager for the gw_testrom.3ds too, stop spreading disinformation!

if you don't, it will simply detect a fat32 partition and show a white led.

if you do it properly and write the actual image with win32diskimager, it will do a lengthy (6 min) verification of your micro-sd card, showing the read speed with a led flashing.

 

[justinkb]

I do not ask this thing.

Every time i want to write a new 3ds game do i have to reformat the card or simply run the Win32DiskImager and write the game over the old one?

no need to reformat.

technically, there isn't even a need to format ever, other than the fact that windows will not assign an initial drive letter to an unformatted drive, which prevents you from 'picking the drive letter' in win32diskimager.

note that the rom header specifies its size, so there is no danger that overwriting a smaller rom over a larger one will cause problems because of trailing 'garbage' from the old, larger rom.

from, say, linux, one can just use dd to copy the 3ds rom directly to the block device, say, /dev/sdc.

 

[burboss]

EXCUSE ME

but your bay of microsd (the red card) have the spring????? (as a bay of 3ds card, so that you must press for release the card)

or you just need to push it like on the blue card??????

 

[JohnnyBlaze1986]

Every time I want to write a new 3ds rom to the microsd for the red gateway do I need to reformat the micro sd or simply run the Win32DiskImager.exe ?

I don't know where all of this wrong information is coming from on here about burning ROMS, but YES, you DO need to reformat the MicroSD card every time you want to write a new game.

Win32 Disk Imager converts the SD card into a 3DS Raw Data card. When you take it out and pop it back in, it will give an error that it needs to be reformatted.

But, if you format it with the built in Windows formatter, most likely when burning a game onto an SD card, you WILL get an "Error 5".

Here's what you do:

-Format the card with Panasonic SD Formatter
-Start Win32 Disk Imager
-Select your ROM file
-Follow the prompts and burn

Repeat when you want to change a game. Better yet, just stock up on 8GB MicroSD's. They are only about $6 a piece off of eBay.

As an added question, for those who've updated, do you need to use the Blue Card again, or am I good just dragging and dropping the new Launcher.dat file on my 3DS SD Card?

 

[skarthebloodchild]

no need to reformat.

technically, there isn't even a need to format ever, other than the fact that windows will not assign an initial drive letter to an unformatted drive, which prevents you from 'picking the drive letter' in win32diskimager.

note that the rom header specifies its size, so there is no danger that overwriting a smaller rom over a larger one will cause problems because of trailing 'garbage' from the old, larger rom.

from, say, linux, one can just use dd to copy the 3ds rom directly to the block device, say, /dev/sdc.

so in windows i have to reformat so I can use the win32diskimager. right?

Edit:
-Format the card with Panasonic SD Formatter
-Start Win32 Disk Imager
-Select your ROM file
-Follow the prompts and burn

Thanks JohnnyBlaze1986!

 

[Keylogger]

I can't get the GW Release 1.2 working on my 3DS.
I put the 1.2 Launcher.dat on the SD Card and when I go to Profile > Nintendo DS profile my 3DS just freeze. It doesn't reboot in Gateway mode.
I can hear the music of the 3DS settings but I have nothing on the screen and my 3DS just freeze here.

I have no problem with 1.0/1.1 Launcher.dat

 

[skarthebloodchild]

I can't get the GW Release 1.2 working on my 3DS.
I put the 1.2 Launcher.dat on the SD Card and when I go to Profile > Nintendo DS profile my 3DS just freeze. It doesn't reboot in Gateway mode.
I can hear the music of the 3DS settings but I have nothing on the screen and my 3DS just freeze here.

I have no problem with 1.0/1.1 Launcher.dat

Did you install with the blue gateway card the gateway installer again?