Homebrew Smealum, Creator of Portal DS/Aperture Science, has hacked the 3DS

[Pong20302000]

ok, so I think it's time to make a couple things clear here.
first off, and this is completely trivial information, my first pic was blurry because my phone is broken; there's a crack in the glass in front of the camera's lens, so that kind of makes taking good pics difficult.
so here's a clear video to make up for that :

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secondly, yeah this runs on 4.5 only.
thirdly, on the status of me releasing this or not. I'd like to start by saying that I didn't say I would never release anything... in fact the only caption accompanying the original pic on twitter was "lalala" so I feel like some of the reactions here may have been a bit strong.
that being said, as you're not seeing a download link anywhere, I guess you've figure out that nothing has been released yet. the reason for that is simply that this is nowhere even near being in a "releasable" state and releasing it wouldn't do any good to anyone. there are no libraries, no toolchains and I have such little understanding of how to properly use the hardware as of yet that it's almost laughable. now you might object by saying something like "there are no libraries and no toolchains because there aren't any public exploits you dick"; and that does make sense. but on the other hand, anyone who has the skill AND time to put in the immense amount of work these things require would probably also have the skill and time to get unsigned code running themselves. same goes for warezers actually; I of course don't want my own work to serve piracy, but anyone who has the skill to write a rom loader or whatever will probably also be able to get code running themselves...
so I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think I'm going to let potential warez applications ruin the possibility of legitimate homebrew, but that I'm not releasing anything yet because there's essentially nothing to release.

hope you all understand.

pretty awesome what you have done and very interesting

was the image/video on the screen using the 3D?

what have been been able to show and incorporate?

does sound work?
make one that plays the gullie theme

 

[BORTZ]

The reactions to this thread remind me what a rombegging/pokatard grubbing forum I belong to.

Smealum, congrats, and if you are doing something you love, do it.

 

[Arizato]

Most interesting news in a very long while. This interests me so much more than the Gateway 3DS.

 

[yuyuyup]

Most interesting news in a very long while. This interests me so much more than the Gateway 3DS.

Big deal, another hacker showing off something they will never release. This aint the first example, but I certainly hope it will be the last.

 

[Boy12]

It doesn't matter if he will release it or not, somebody will release a hack someday i think.
What i find important, is that there actually IS interest in the system itself.
This is the most important, look at the PS Vita for example.
If i am right, only the PSP mode is hacked, the Vita mode still remains unhacked.
This means that there isn't just enough interest in the system.
So let's just be happy that there is progress made on the 3DS.

 

[Fishaman P]

omg 3ds hakd wer i get roms

it wasn't hacked. its this kind of n00b talk that makes our forum look bad.

It's this kind of response that makes trolls look good.

 

[Arizato]

Big deal, another hacker showing off something they will never release. This aint the first example, but I certainly hope it will be the last.

 

[Deleted User]

Smealum, maybe you can work together with Gateway to make a homebrew library??

 

[weatMod]

but is this the same exploit as gateway? and is it using a red card to load the code? or does it load from the SD card? i assume since its 4.5 it is kernel level and you can load code from either the cart slot or the SD right?

 

[morphius]

ok, so I think it's time to make a couple things clear here.
first off, and this is completely trivial information, my first pic was blurry because my phone is broken; there's a crack in the glass in front of the camera's lens, so that kind of makes taking good pics difficult.
so here's a clear video to make up for that :

​

secondly, yeah this runs on 4.5 only.
thirdly, on the status of me releasing this or not. I'd like to start by saying that I didn't say I would never release anything... in fact the only caption accompanying the original pic on twitter was "lalala" so I feel like some of the reactions here may have been a bit strong.
that being said, as you're not seeing a download link anywhere, I guess you've figure out that nothing has been released yet. the reason for that is simply that this is nowhere even near being in a "releasable" state and releasing it wouldn't do any good to anyone. there are no libraries, no toolchains and I have such little understanding of how to properly use the hardware as of yet that it's almost laughable. now you might object by saying something like "there are no libraries and no toolchains because there aren't any public exploits you dick"; and that does make sense. but on the other hand, anyone who has the skill AND time to put in the immense amount of work these things require would probably also have the skill and time to get unsigned code running themselves. same goes for warezers actually; I of course don't want my own work to serve piracy, but anyone who has the skill to write a rom loader or whatever will probably also be able to get code running themselves...
so I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think I'm going to let potential warez applications ruin the possibility of legitimate homebrew, but that I'm not releasing anything yet because there's essentially nothing to release.

hope you all understand.

why you using a pencil as a stylus? hehe

 

[Zaneris]

Smealum, maybe you can work together with Gateway to make a homebrew library??

Gateway has no interest in making a library, I don't know why they would, that is a massive effort that doesn't earn them any money... They're in the business of making money as can be seen by them requiring you to buy a custom cart to run roms when they could've easily released an installer file that launches roms from the built in SD slot letting anyone with an existing R4 make use of it...

 

[luigi90210]

same goes for warezers actually; I of course don't want my own work to serve piracy, but anyone who has the skill to write a rom loader or whatever will probably also be able to get code running themselves...
so I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think I'm going to let potential warez applications ruin the possibility of legitimate homebrew, but that I'm not releasing anything yet because there's essentially nothing to release.

hope you all understand.

i understand what you're saying for the most part, if there is nothing to release and/or worth releasing then it shouldnt be released

i am specifically responding to this though

just because you release a method to run unsigned code doesn't mean you are contributing to piracy, that kind of logic needs to stop being spread around everywhere, microsoft is not responsible for piracy just because windows can run emulators, play pirated movies, music, ect. and it can play pirated games

the person who is responsible for piracy is the person who codes the emulator and the people who use the emulator to run games illegally

honestly i think it is stupid that people who used the exploit say they will only release it if they block rom launchers and such

 

[Foxi4]

If there's anyone we should count on in terms of a library, it's WinterMute.

 

[SifJar]

Looks like the same exploit as the video that was released a week or two ago, whether shared with smealum or rediscovered independently (or discovered by smealum in the first place and shared with whoever made the other video).

 

[DinohScene]

I doubt Smealum would release it.

Ohwell.
Here's it once again.
The good ol' faith of hoping that it will be released.

 

[Rinnux]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but what I'm understanding from all these recent threads about homebrew apps is that we need libraries before we can get homebrew and not an exploit to be released since we already have one. My question is anybody actually working on making a library?

 

[Boy12]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but what I'm understanding from all these recent threads about homebrew apps is that we need libraries before we can get homebrew and not an exploit to be released since we already have one. My question is anybody actually working on making a library?

Yeah, i would like to know aswell.
I think we need more documentation to write a full library.

 

[the_randomizer]

I doubt Smealum would release it.

Ohwell.
Here's it once again.
The good ol' faith of hoping that it will be released.

Much less for those who accidentally updated to 6.2. Gonna be one helluva ride I'm sure

 

[Rinnux]

Yeah, i would like to know aswell.
I think we need more documentation to write a full library.

That makes sense. Can't devs use homebrew to get information from the system?

 

[the_randomizer]

If the time comes that Snes emulators are ported over to the 3DS....