Gateway is essentially a CFW that has a flashcart to go along with it. Gateway's Classic Mode or ReiNAND and FreeMultipatcher will allow you to play US carts on a JP N3DS.If I want to use a US physical retail card(no dumping the rom and playing it from gw) and I am using a Japanese n3ds wouldn't I need something like cfw?
Also if a Japanese n3ds is running on 8.1j will gw work? If not I'm assuming I need to update the firmware first to v9.x, how would I do that? Edit: seems some stuff doesn't work on 8.1 but other stuff does, can anyone clarify what? I searched and it said I only need to update emunand for everything to be okay, will updating to the latest emunand break anything?
There's a guide here on updating from 8.1 to 9.2 (unfortunately it requires Cubic Ninja or a Sky3DS). The latest emuNAND update does not work on the N3DS. 9.5.0-23 is the latest emuNAND version the N3DS supports. New encryption was added to the N3DS in 9.6, and nobody has (publicly) found a way around it yet.
Yep, those steps look good to me! The launcher does not spoof the eShop. You can use FreeMultiPatcher to spoof the eShop if you don't want to update emuNAND.So I am running a older version of GATEWAY I think 3.1. and want to update to 3.4
So pretty much all I have to do is..
Then I should be good to? or will the new launcher file spoof the eShop. I am currently on EMUNAND 9.7 / SYSNAND 4.X
- Copy over the launcher.dat to the SD card.
- Load the DS Profile exploit (MSET?)
- While in EMUNAND go to Setting > Update (making sure I'm in GW X.X)
- Update EMUNAND to 10.X
I have also...
- Backed up SYSNAND and EMUNAND, and made a copy of the SD CARD.