Homebrew [PSA] eShop spoof likely to be patched on November 1st

[ChaosRipple]

But they DID patch both Tubehax AND Browserhax with a maintenance.
Unless I really misunderstood how the eShop spoof works, I really don't see how it could be difficult to them to patch this. They just need to create a new sort of check upon entrance that didn't exist before, and bye-bye eShop.

IMO, Tubehax and Browserhax weren't really patched. The code that does the check was already there. The youtube app had already been checking for updates since it was on the eshop and nintendo snuck the web browser update check on firmwares 9.9+. So they weren't really patched, they were just notified to not let to user use them until the 3DS receives the latest update. Nintendo probably saw this coming and started doing this on firmware 9.9+.

Now, referring to the eshop, there is a check to see if the current firmware is on the latest version. This could be a client sided check (on your 3ds) or a server sided check (on nintendo's servers). Either way, we are letting the client/server know that we are on the latest firmware and therefore allowing us to access the eshop. Technically speaking, if someone can spoof the youtube app and browser to believe that it has the latest update, we will be able to use Tubehax and Browserhax once again. Of course, no one has done so yet.

Now you can argue that they can technically change everything on their servers, preventing eshop from connecting at all. But if our eshop app cannot even connect, how can it even update our systems? The only way Nintendo can patch this is if Nintendo had seen this since day 1, sort of like what they did to Browserhax. So unless they had code on the 3ds for this since the very first firmware version, they can't really do anything to block our eshop access.

But who knows? Maybe Nintendo has a trick up their sleeves. I highly doubt it though.

 

[GBAFail]

It's happening!!! HURRY!!! RUN FOR THE BUNKERS!

 

[froggestspirit]

Piracy is a very low priority for nintendo, work will be 99% on other things, then perhaps 1% on thinking about patching a exploit.

If only that was the case...
"Stability" update...
"Stability" update...

 

[Februarysn0w]

I wouldn't trust a machine translation, as Google's translation tool says it's a large-scale server transfer, not server replacement. Until NoA gives a definitive statement as to what is going on in English, or someone properly translates that NoJ Tweet, it's anyone's guess what they're actually doing.

I'm native Japanese speaker. they said "server replacement" (サーバー交換).

 

[loco365]

I'm native Japanese speaker. they said server replacement.

Ah. It said the same thing on the Bing translation, and it goes to show how much attention I give to the postbit :U

 

[hacksn5s4]

well if it does get patched soem one on lasted firmware with cubic ninja could jsut dump their eshop rom fs then we use it to patch over the eshop and it works again

 

[James310]

Maintenance is likely for there new "Club Nintendo" System so we shouldn't be worried

-- I put "Club Nintendo" since it doesn't have a official name yet

 

[KingVamp]

Well, hopefully it doesn't.

 

[robot56]

Now you can argue that they can technically change everything on their servers, preventing eshop from connecting at all. But if our eshop app cannot even connect, how can it even update our systems? The only way Nintendo can patch this is if Nintendo had seen this since day 1, sort of like what they did to Browserhax. So unless they had code on the 3ds for this since the very first firmware version, they can't really do anything to block our eshop access.

The system firmware check should occur before the eshop communicates with its servers. If they do update the protocol then yes firmware spoofing would be useless. This could theoretically be worked around by patching the code binary with HANS but even then all Nintendo has to do is update the OS to add a kernel-mode check that can bypass that. It would require cryptographic checks with a remote server to make sure it's not spoofed. If people don't update their firmware then they won't be able to pass on that check.

 

[RikuKawai]

Meanwhile on EmuNAND...

 

[kehkou]

I put "Club Nintendo" since it doesn't have a official name yet

Yes it does. They are calling it "My Nintendo". Whether that's the final name or not remains to be seen though.

 

[Queno138]

Eshop spoof never worked for me.
How did you guys get it to work? (On hans)

 

[MRJPGames]

Eshop spoof never worked for me.
How did you guys get it to work? (On hans)

Did you install *hax 2.5?

 

[Queno138]

Did you install *hax 2.5?

Apparently the themehax installed was only 2.0, so it didn't launch.

I managed to get it working now, but eshop is in maintenance.

but I fear it will all be pointless, because I've read the updates for Pokemon cannot be read by Hans.

 

[GBAFail]

Apparently the themehax installed was only 2.0, so it didn't launch.

I managed to get it working now, but eshop is in maintenance.

but I fear it will all be pointless, because I've read the updates for Pokemon cannot be read by Hans.

You can download the updates via hans then launch them from the home menu.

 

[Queno138]

You can download the updates via hans then launch them from the home menu.

except, I wanted to use HANs to play Pokemon in a different region, for event collections and stuff.

 

[Ryupower]

Maintenance is likely for there new "Club Nintendo" System so we shouldn't be worried

-- I put "Club Nintendo" since it doesn't have a official name yet

there is a name for Nintendo's new thing "My Nintendo" (coming march 2016)

 

[MRJPGames]

except, I wanted to use HANs to play Pokemon in a different region, for event collections and stuff.

If you dump the updates I believe you can actually include them into the romfs then use HANS to load that romfs and you'll have the update. HANS does not load external updates, but I believe this method should work (pokemon neo X/Y is not ver 1.0 I believe so this is already implemented in some romhax if I'm not mistaken)

 

[Queno138]

If you dump the updates I believe you can actually include them into the romfs then use HANS to load that romfs and you'll have the update. HANS does not load external updates, but I believe this method should work

Any page for me to read on how to do that specifically?

(pokemon neo X/Y is not ver 1.0 I believe so this is already implemented in some romhax if I'm not mistaken)

Are you saying Pokemon Neo X/Y running on HANs can go online?

 

[MRJPGames]

Any page for me to read on how to do that specifically?

No... You will need ARM9 to generate xorpads as braindump currently doesn't dump update data.

Are you saying Pokemon Neo X/Y running on HANs can go online?

Maybe... But yeah if the creators included the latest update it should work online too unless they disabled it to avoid conflict with the unaltered game.