Gateway 3DS v2.0 F.A.Q. New 20th October.

[Genshrooms]

Are you working on multirom support? Yes, we are working on multirom support. We hope to have it ready for the 2.0 release.
What exactly is multirom support? Is it when you can put more than one 3DS ROM/3DS game per microSD card?


Will you support retail gamecards? Yes, we will add an option to launch the original firmware (with emunand support) so you can play retail gamecards.
What do they mean by: support retail game cards?

 

[FAST6191]

Are you working on multirom support? Yes, we are working on multirom support. We hope to have it ready for the 2.0 release.
What exactly is multirom support? Is it when you can put more than one 3DS ROM/3DS game per microSD card?


Will you support retail gamecards? Yes, we will add an option to launch the original firmware (with emunand support) so you can play retail gamecards.
What do they mean by: support retail game cards?

Basically yes on both counts.

To elaborate a bit further
"Yes, we will add an option to launch the original firmware (with emunand support) so you can play retail gamecards."
As I understand it the GW hacked firmware/kernel thing they use changes quite a bit in the underlying code which breaks commercial games. Here they sound like they plan to release an option to make a slightly less hacked (or basically unhacked) kernel be launched which will allow normal games to run, the emunand stuff presumably means that those on 4.5 can launch what the console and games think is a 6.? kernel and act accordingly but still keep 4.5 and all the relevant exploits intact. How it will do for online I am not sure about.

 

[skarthebloodchild]

Nice to hear.

Any estimated release date ? Did they say anything about it?

 

[Genshrooms]

Basically yes on both counts.

To elaborate a bit further
"Yes, we will add an option to launch the original firmware (with emunand support) so you can play retail gamecards."
As I understand it the GW hacked firmware/kernel thing they use changes quite a bit in the underlying code which breaks commercial games. Here they sound like they plan to release an option to make a slightly less hacked (or basically unhacked) kernel be launched which will allow normal games to run, the emunand stuff presumably means that those on 4.5 can launch what the console and games think is a 6.? kernel and act accordingly but still keep 4.5 and all the relevant exploits intact. How it will do for online I am not sure about.

So the multirom support is when you can put more than one 3DS ROM on a microSD card. Right?

Here they sound like they plan to release an option to make a slightly less hacked (or basically unhacked) kernel be launched which will allow normal games to run

What do you mean by normal games?

 

[GBOT]

So the multirom support is when you can put more than one 3DS ROM on a microSD card. Right?

Yes

What do you mean by normal games?

Bought games

 

[Genshrooms]

Bought games

So what does that mean? I will be able to play new bought games without updating the 3ds?

 

[FAST6191]

That would be the implication.

 

[Genshrooms]

Does it mean digitally bought games (for example, bought it from the eShop) or physically bought games? Or both?

 

[ultimatetemper]

I hope Nintendo can keep this card blocked and I hope that it will not support online at all. The gateway team has a lot of tricks in their sleeves it seems which is really neat but I hope Nintendo can keep up their security! :3

Why? The 3DS still doesn't have his own cheating device, why you don't want Gateway people to go online?
PS: If you're gonna say "pokegen" or something, PokeGen and ALL Pokemon save editors work thanks to the Action Replay codes discovered.

 

[FAST6191]

Does it mean digitally bought games (for example, bought it from the eShop) or physically bought games? Or both?

Assuming the emunand can get online it should work for both of them. At this point it could go either way though.

Why? The 3DS still doesn't have his own cheating device, why you don't want Gateway people to go online?
PS: If you're gonna say "pokegen" or something, PokeGen and ALL Pokemon save editors work thanks to the Action Replay codes discovered.

Though I can and certain do use memory hacking type devices/techniques to find out stuff for save editors/editing purposes it is not a requirement. Similarly if you can dump and restore NAND (saves) it possibly allows for a few things including cloning.

 

[The Milkman]

awesome news saw that earlier stop emailing them everyone let them work on the v2 release and get it out. multirom support wow gateway

I doubt the same guy answering emails is also the leader of the development team for the cart.

 

[Kupie]

Hooray for the Gateway Team!

I'm so happy I went to Gamestop and got a new 2012/4.5 XL. So comfy, so many features to be expected soon.

 

[CJL18]

let them whine about the lack of 5.x/6.x support!
everyone knew we shouldnt update past 4.5, they deserve no better

I remember them saying g it would work on 5.0 firmware so I updated then. they came back and say only on firmware 4.1-4.5

 

[yondaiime]

Multi-rom is the most important feature for me in the moment. I'm waiting ansiously for it!

 

[Langin]

Why? The 3DS still doesn't have his own cheating device, why you don't want Gateway people to go online?
PS: If you're gonna say "pokegen" or something, PokeGen and ALL Pokemon save editors work thanks to the Action Replay codes discovered.

It's because of cheat, sooner or later I won't be able to play online anymore because biches are spamming online like shit with their cheats. I'd like to keep my online AS CLEAN AS POSSIBLE and gateway will soon have it's own cheat engine for sure.(Look what they did right now, nand emulation etc.)

I KNOW this is off topic but hey! Why not buy the game to play online against your friends?

 

[placebooooo]

1-) what is multi rom support?
2-) what does it mean when it says it can play retail games or whatever?

 

[Vappy]

1-) what is multi rom support?

Can have more than one ROM per micro SD.

2-) what does it mean when it says it can play retail games or whatever?

Their wording is a bit ambiguous, but the general idea seems to be that there'll be a method for playing retail carts in emuNAND.

 

[pwsincd]

Is multi ROM that much of a deal breaker for people? I certainly would not put it too low on the list but part of it reminds me of the times where futures of carts would be made or broken depending on their support for RTC (and the maybe 6 games that have it) on the GBA, download play on the DS and other such things.

i refer to it with regards to my 8 yr old son who plays the console.. and its for the ease of game switching without the constant demands on me to game swap , unless of course you had multi cards..

 

[JohnnyBlaze1986]

GW 2.0 will be epic. Firmware 4.5 is an open book for them!

It's as I stated a lot since all this started happening. 4.5 is going to be to the 3DS what 3.55 is for the PS3. They may be working on higher firmwares, but I think the closest they are going to get is to add the stuff from those firmwares to their emulated ones. It's practically going to be a "Dual-NAND" custom firmware.

As for retail carts working on Gateway, I would be more impressed if I can play ANY GAME on that one. What I mean is for example, if Zelda isn't working at the time of release, I can just use my retail cart of it and play it like that until Gateway fixes it.

 

[chrisrlink]

sux may need to buy a second 3DS mine is on current FW they also need to add a custom cheat engine and release code files on that too