Hacking Any Progress On The 300 Title Limit?

[MartinDocNewland]

guys... lets make sure this thread turns into 3 pages when the answer is no. if i was a mod i would ban a lot of people.

Thank god you are not

 

[duffmmann]

I'm curious if it has even been traced down in the code where the 300 limit occurs. You would think that if it has, that some coding patch could be accomplished by Luma upon booting the 3DS to disable or change the 300 title limit.

 

[ih8ih8sn0w]

I'm curious if it has even been traced down in the code where the 300 limit occurs. You would think that if it has, that some coding patch could be accomplished by Luma upon booting the 3DS to disable or change the 300 title limit.

That would require REing home menu and anything else that may be limiting titles (see: my previous post).

 

[MartinDocNewland]

I'm curious if it has even been traced down in the code where the 300 limit occurs. You would think that if it has, that some coding patch could be accomplished by Luma upon booting the 3DS to disable or change the 300 title limit.

I have wondered that too. I don't know why people call it a useless thing to patch it. In my opinion and i'm not judging anyone who uses this but you can have your own user string in settings and I see that as a useless thing to do

 

[duffmmann]

Ahh gbatemp, back at it again with the questions that you don't need to worry about. Daily reminder that 99% of people who ask questions like this ask it because they are having the issue, not because they are curious (why people assumed that you had 300 titles installed). Short answer: you have been given solutions. Long answer: no one is going to RE the console to lift the 300 title limit unless they are paid or it actually becomes a widespread issue. If it becomes a widespread issue, they will probably look for another solution instead of REing everything which could possibly limit titles.

Meh, some coder may take it upon themselves as a challenge. You can't speak for everyone. I know that if I were good enough at this kind of thing, even if I weren't running into this issue, I might look at the problem as a challenge to tackle especially since no one else seems to be attempting it. I guess what it comes down to is that we're looking for the person that is interested in taking on that challenge and thinks they have the know how to make it happen.

 

[CreAtor135]

Well it's a very obvious graphical limitation isn't it? There are 300 tiles in all, so clearly if you place something (a badge) on one, of course it'll take up graphical space. To fix the 'issue' you'd basically have to make a custom home menu.

 

[duffmmann]

Well it's a very obvious graphical limitation isn't it? There are 300 tiles in all, so clearly if you place something (a badge) on one, of course it'll take up graphical space. To fix the 'issue' you'd basically have to make a custom home menu.

No no no, there are far more than 300 spaces to place games and badges (think of all the extra spaces you can make with folders even), its when you reach that 300 title limit that titles and/or badges start disappearing (or the badges will say you can't place anymore).

 

[Maximilious]

Well I must need locking up in an asylum for the rest of my days as I wouldn't mind having more than 300 3DS games if it was possible. It's nice to have a choice, that's why I carry full rom sets of other systems on my 3DS

I ran into this on my O3DS as well when that kind person on that "ONE SITE" started to inject roms to CIA format. That was about 2 years ago now, but I feel your pain as I basically wiped my emuNAND back then and started fresh as I didn't know about the title limit then.

I do think my N3DS will hit that limit soon too, and yes I do play most of them and "hoard" the rest for that one time I feel like playing a game of said type. I'm going to keep @sieroi's suggestion of GridLauncher in mind though, that launcher seems interesting.

 

[duffmmann]

I ran into this on my O3DS as well when that kind person on that "ONE SITE" started to inject roms to CIA format. That was about 2 years ago now, but I feel your pain as I basically wiped my emuNAND back then and started fresh as I didn't know about the title limit then.

I do think my N3DS will hit that limit soon too, and yes I do play most of them and "hoard" the rest for that one time I feel like playing a game of said type. I'm going to keep @sieroi's suggestion of GridLauncher in mind though, that launcher seems interesting.

I really don't think anyone should have to explain themselves. We're on gbatemp, its a site that actively looks for exploits and shares ways to pirate for various platforms. People giving others shit for how many games they have are clearly not aware of where they even are.

 

[MartinDocNewland]

I ran into this on my O3DS as well when that kind person on that "ONE SITE" started to inject roms to CIA format. That was about 2 years ago now, but I feel your pain as I basically wiped my emuNAND back then and started fresh as I didn't know about the title limit then.

I do think my N3DS will hit that limit soon too, and yes I do play most of them and "hoard" the rest for that one time I feel like playing a game of said type. I'm going to keep @sieroi's suggestion of GridLauncher in mind though, that launcher seems interesting.

I personally think and I could be wrong that the limit is not down to ram, hell even the Wii U has a title limit of 300 and that has more ram then the 3DS. I feel your pain tho. I also hot the 300 limit once with VC games and had to restart from scratch

 

[Sketchy1]

I have wondered that too. I don't know why people call it a useless thing to patch it. In my opinion and i'm not judging anyone who uses this but you can have your own user string in settings and I see that as a useless thing to do

again, we don't care about why or even if you have 300 titles, but if you want to request it, go to the homebrew suggestion thread, don't ask here because we're all gonna tell you the same thing, use a title manager to launch them. until this becomes a widespread user problem, no one is gonna patch it.
and the version string is pointless unless you are a noob because it tells what nand your in, which is also pointless cause a9lh exists.

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I personally think and I could be wrong that the limit is not down to ram, hell even the Wii U has a title limit of 300 and that has more ram then the 3DS. I feel your pain tho. I also hot the 300 limit once with VC games and had to restart from scratch

And it seems more like a specific file that holds the menu data from the sounds of it

 

[duffmmann]

I personally think and I could be wrong that the limit is not down to ram, hell even the Wii U has a title limit of 300 and that has more ram then the 3DS. I feel your pain tho. I also hot the 300 limit once with VC games and had to restart from scratch

I'm confused by why you're all starting from scratch though. When you hit the 300 title limit, you can just go to your system settings and delete the titles you don't want anymore. No need to start completely over. (At least that's what I've done, even when i go over the 300 title limit, it works, the extra games will reappear as you delete games that were still showing on the system menu).

 

[MartinDocNewland]

again, we don't care about why or even if you have 300 titles, but if you want to request it, go to the homebrew suggestion thread, don't ask here because we're all gonna tell you the same thing, use a title manager to launch them. until this becomes a widespread user problem, no one is gonna patch it.
and the version string is pointless unless you are a noob because it tells what nand your in, which is also pointless cause a9lh exists.

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If i was wondering about homebrew then yeah I would ask there but i'm not, please reread the title

 

[Maximilious]

I'm confused by why you're all starting from scratch though. When you hit the 300 title limit, you can just go to your system settings and delete the titles you don't want anymore. No need to start completely over. (At least that's what I've done, even when i go over the 300 title limit, it works, the extra games will reappear as you delete games that were still showing on the system menu).

When you batch install 50+ titles, kind of hard to remember what other titles you had installed that were overwritten or removed.

 

[MartinDocNewland]

I'm confused by why you're all starting from scratch though. When you hit the 300 title limit, you can just go to your system settings and delete the titles you don't want anymore. No need to start completely over. (At least that's what I've done, even when i go over the 300 title limit, it works, the extra games will reappear as you delete games that were still showing on the system menu).

Because I want to keep the games just in case I want to replay them. We all have our reasons why

 

[duffmmann]

When you batch install 50+ titles, kind of hard to remember what other titles you had installed that were overwritten or removed.

I understand that, but you can delete titles you don't want and as you do more titles reappear and you can choose to keep or delete those. If you installed a lot at once I realize that could be frustrating, still that shouldn't be reason to start completely over.

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Because I want to keep the games just in case I want to replay them. We all have our reasons why

I understand that. But why would you start over when you hit that 300 title limit? Do you mean you created a separate emuNAND? Or did you delete all your titles and then reinstall all the games you wanted to keep below 300 titles? Cuz if so, there isn't much logic to that when you could have instead just deleted the titles you wanted least to stick below that 300 title limit.

 

[Sketchy1]

Because I want to keep the games just in case I want to replay them. We all have our reasons why

Yes, you can keep every single one, just use a title manager. It's prolly Nintendo who did this on purpose cause they don't exactly expect a legit user to have 300 legit eShop games

 

[OrGoN3]

Let's face it. The only reason people even come close to the 300 titles limit is because they are VC injecting and installing them as CIA. If they would just load up their roms from emulators, they wouldn't have this problem.

Also, no, let's look at this from a programming point of view. There is a hard limit of 300. This most likely means that they programmers used a static array with a size of 300. When the array is full, it can no longer store new information without deleting existing information. There is no easy fix for this. You can't just override this imaginary array I just made up. It doesn't work that way.

So, to reiterate, stop installing every god darn VC injected game you've ever found on any iso site!!

 

[Maximilious]

I understand that, but you can delete titles you don't want and as you do more titles reappear and you can choose to keep or delete those. If you installed a lot at once I realize that could be frustrating, still that shouldn't be reason to start completely over.

At the time for me, N3DS had just come out and I xfered my emuNAND already, so I was setting up O3DS as a ROM haven. It was just easier to start fresh and pick and choose what games I wanted rather than uninstall individual titles. That and I don't bother learning title ID's at all and still use BBM. Each situation is different of course.

I can go into my whole 3DS history if you want more info of course, but PM is probably better for asking peoples life story's and situational questions.

 

[OrGoN3]

Yes, you can keep every single one, just uses title manager. It's prolly Nintendo who did this on purpose cause they don't exactly expect a legit user to have 300 legit eShop games

Are there even more than 300 titles on any one region's eShop right now?

Edit: Nevermind. At least 718 on USA eShop.