Hacking Will 3DS Gateway work on making their flashcart support newer 3DS system firmwares?

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I don't exactly have the money to dish out for a 4.x 3DS and I've already bought some games on the eShop.

Does 3DS Gateway plan on doing anything to support newer system firmwares?
 

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They said they are looking at it, however there has been no progress (at least usable for loading roms) at all for any firmware higher than 4.5 for years.
So while there might be a slim chance that we are able to update in the next few years I wouldn't count on it.
 

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No they said they only want to support 4.x consoles.......jkn ofc if the *could* support higher FW version they would, but just because they want something doesn't mean it's technically possible, wait a indefinite about of time or buy a compatible console
 

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Its all just a speculation, no one can give you precise information.

The thing is there is a lot more to be done with current FW support (4.1-4-5), save games, homebrew etc., so I DONT think they ll bother with higher FW support of sysNAND. Dont forget that even newest emuNAND gave problems in the beginning so they need to fix those "launchers" from time to time.

In short, I dont think there will be support for newer FWs, and Nintendo wont allow it either, they are not sitting empty handed while Gateway team is working you know :) ?
 

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Gateway team has been saying since the beginning that they are working on higher firmwares but it's been well over a year, closer to a year and a half since they burst out into the scene.

With their resources, and I'm speculating here, teams of reverse engineers and coders, hardware such as RAM dumping rigs etc. and they haven't figured out how to get into control of the kernel yet, well I've got bad news for you, it probably won't happen for a long time. Sorry.

Best buy yourself a 4.5 3DS and join in on the current developments!
 

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Gateway has a lot to gain by making their flashcart available on a wider range of consoles. But the 3DS is such a bitch to hack...
 

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Maybe just maybe SSSpwn will help achieve this. Remember when Geohot said his ps3 jailbreak would not help piracy?

SSSpwn is user land, it can't and never will enable ROM loading by itself. There needs to be found another vulnerability to enable control of 3DS kernel mode.
 

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I hope Gateway supports newer firmwares cause i'm getting a NN3DS soon & won't update it till someone here finds out how to mod the new console
 

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I hope Gateway supports newer firmwares cause i'm getting a NN3DS soon & won't update it till someone here finds out how to mod the new console

probably be a way to get it hard modded so you can upgrade/downgrade if anything ever does happen but not be restricted to never updating in the meantime

that's assuming the old SD reader method works and they haven't done anything else to prevent downgrades
 

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probably be a way to get it hard modded so you can upgrade/downgrade if anything ever does happen but not be restricted to never updating in the meantime

that's assuming the old SD reader method works and they haven't done anything else to prevent downgrades


I hope it does because its been confirmed that the NN3DS uses micro sd cards & not the regular sd cards
 

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The thing is there is a lot more to be done with current FW support (4.1-4-5), save games, homebrew etc., so I DONT think they ll bother with higher FW support of sysNAND.
You think they're making more profit by updating features for existing customers/a limited quantity systems rather than opening up the exploit to the vast majority, which is on newer firmwares?
If they could, getting more FW compatibility would be the absolute #1 priority no matter what, there's no question about that.
 

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You think they're making more profit by updating features for existing customers/a limited quantity systems rather than opening up the exploit to the vast majority, which is on newer firmwares?
If they could, getting more FW compatibility would be the absolute #1 priority no matter what, there's no question about that.

Not to mention more profit for them since their cart would be the only cart to support higher firmwares
 

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You all are saying that they would make more by supporting higher firmwares but is the time spent worth it though? Nintendo is releasing new firmwares that don't even affect the GW working as long as we don't update SysNand to above 4.5. For every update Nintendo releases GW would have to keep making sure their device still works. The amount of work to be done may not justify the amount of money they would make.
 

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Not really, If a kernel exploit is found people just need to not be stupid enough to update past the workable firmware like they did with 4.5 (myself included, so I bought a new one).
 
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If they are, then they should work on the New 3ds instead of any other old firmware. that way we could just buy brand new New 3ds's while they're still on 9.xx
 

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