Hacking Gateway PRIVATE BETA 2.3b

[Vengenceonu]

Well I guess GW were waiting till after Beyonce to drop their update. Late night but still welcomed.

EDIT: Beta is now in the wild. Common sense should tell you not to leak it here but this is the Internet so I'm reminding you now: DO NOT LINK FILES HERE OR GIVE ARBITRARY HINTS TO WHERE IT IS!

Official News Update

Today we are very proud to present Gateway firmware OMEGA 2.3b BETA to our beta testers!

For this update we focused on bringing support back for recent games and applications that use the new encryption method that was introduced in System Firmware 7.x and higher.
It took us a while before it was ready, but here we are today. We always deliver as promised!

With this update we are happy to announce that this brings our game compatibility back to 100% and we want to keep it that way!

But we also want to make a few observations:
* We have noticed that some recent games have started to use features only present on System Firmware 7.x or higher.
Firmware spoofing no longer works for these games, and emunand is currently required for these games to run.

* Classic mode will only boot emunand 8.x or higher if you have a genuine Gateway card inserted. You can still continue without, but
support for emunand 8.x or higher will not work.

We are still investigating if we can improve upon these limitations, but we currently think that this is an acceptable solution for the time being.
That and we also have a lot more interesting features planned that we want to release!

Our next focus will be revising the savegames subsystem. We think a lot of our savegame editing and retail gamecard users will be pleased with what we have planned!

Once approved by our beta testing friends, the final release will be published. If all goes well, this means very soon.

Until next time, ENJOY and as always support the innovators and not the imitators!

Source

2.3b Changelog

What's working:

1. 8.1 emunand
2. eShop
3. 7.x encryption games
4. 7.x encryption applications (tested youtube)
5. Classic mode without Gateway (some features won't work though according to them.)

What's not working:

1. GBA games
2. Booting retail game saves in classic mode
3. 7.x encryption games without emunand
4. They haven't fixed the incompatibility with savefiles of 128kb, as their launcher still creates these as if they were savefiles of 512kb.
5. Their old custom encryption for saves has not been changed, so compatibility remains the same, and retail games that need 6.X or above, played in sysNAND will not work on emuNAND 8.1 as always.

 

[Abcdfv]

Lol, no more emunand without a gateway.

 

[redkeyboard]

Cool, got the email in my junk folder, will test latest emunand, no 7.x games interest me except smash though so I won't test any of that.

 

[stomp_442]

Abcdfv

Who cares as long as there is 100% game compatibility, and the emuNAND works.

 

[zaczac]

Wonder how long before a dl link gets leaked, want to try it out so bad

 

[Schizoanalysis]

Waiting patiently...

 

[Vengenceonu]

trying it out now.

 

[longgt]

Waiting for some pics and video from those beta testers

 

[kyogre123]

Did they add a decryption/encryption feature? Or do saves still use the old GW encryption?

 

[Vengenceonu]

Pokemon Art Academy works which is a 7.x encryption game, any other one someone want me to test?

 

[Schizoanalysis]

Does updating emunand to latest work?

 

[JCR1]

Emunand obligatory for latest games, that's mean more 3ds updated accidentally, all be carefull.

 

[Vengenceonu]

Forgot about updating my emunand. Anyone got a link to the emunand tool? I wanna make a copy of it before i test 8.1

 

[kyogre123]

Forgot about updating my emunand. Anyone got a link to the emunand tool? I wanna make a copy of it before i test 8.1

http://filetrip.net/3ds-downloads/utilities/download-emunand-tool-1-0-1-f32623.html

Please, if you have played a game like Pokemon on emuNAND, tell us if the save still works with this new encryption.

 

[Snailface]

Pokemon Art Academy works which is a 7.x encryption game, any other one someone want me to test?

Any scene GBA game.

 

[dimmujed]

How does one become a beta tester? I need this update pretty badly to get Hoopa and Volcanion traded to my online / US 3DS for streaming purposes. So the sooner the better.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

How does one become a beta tester? I need this update pretty badly to get Hoopa and Volcanion traded to my online / US 3DS for streaming purposes. So the sooner the better.

I was about to ask the exact same thing. I've previously sent them an email to their only public email address (sales), but they seem to have ignored it. They do say that technical/support questions to that email will be ignored.

Vengenceonu redkeyboard Any advice?

 

[Schizoanalysis]

They probably have all the betatesters they need.

People signed up for this before Omega.

 

[Gh0sti]

so we have to update our emunand, does gateway supp lastest 8.0? I was confused at this part

But we also want to make a few observations:
* We have noticed that some recent games have started to use features only present on System Firmware 7.x or higher.
Firmware spoofing no longer works for these games, and emunand is currently required for these games to run.
* Classic mode will only boot emunand 8.x or higher if you have a genuine Gateway card inserted. You can still continue without, but
support for emunand 8.x or higher will not work.
We are still investigating if we can improve upon these limitations, but we currently think that this is an acceptable solution for the time being.
That and we also have a lot more interesting features planned that we want to release!

 

[Vengenceonu]

It's pretty much what Schizoanalysis said. I asked before Omega came out, and told them what I could contribute, I wouldn't leak their updates, etc. After the last private beta they told me the ones who leaked it were removed so I don't think they are accepting news ones after that.

EDIT: Shit I forgot to turn off my Internet switch after updating to 8.1 emunand, now I got the little update nagger on my homescreen. A format erases it right?

 

[logon]

When Public gateway 2.3 or whatever number comes out. I think it would be great if the news post that has it, has a link to how to update emunand to assist people. So that they don't brick their 3ds