The Big N didn't give a rat's left nut about the NDS testing tools.
Oh, well sweet! I thought that was also in the list of stuff they care about XD
Thx for the Help I will take a look at it tomorrow
Yeah the thing is that I live in Europe :/
Oh well to be honest like I told you all allready I had to salvage the Motherboard and bottom Part as somebody tryed to Filed Destroy it allready Halveway ripped of Upper Screen )Considering how far he is and how careful he should be with the console, no offense, but I think he's better off himself.
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Okay 1 Problem I dont have any Idea what kind it is ... I dont have any Idea if its a Panda Snake CTR FRC or what ever ;3; ( And on top of that I will have to install a newer Firmware on top of that too x.x )
If it's an Old 3DS dev unit, it's
System codenames:
- CTR: Old 3DS
- SPR: Old 3DS XL
- FTR: Old 2DS
- KTR: New 3DS
- RED: New 3DS XL
- JAN: New 2DS XL
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I previously thought "Panda" specifically referred to O3DS but that looks more accurate. Updated my post.
Oh oka thank you very much for that Info too
Its the first time that I have anything to do with such a thing Im just repairing consoles in my free time for fun and this feel into my hands
If you don't release it, at least dump it and make backups. These pre-release games and applications can give really great insight on how the hardware was developed and what changes were made until final. I'd honestly suggest you dump the entire NAND and find someplace to get the files hosted for preservation. A lot of this stuff comes in the hands of collectors and sits in a closet forever - don't let this happen. With that said it's your find and what you do with it is all up to you. It's a very interesting historical piece nonetheless. Good luck man!
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To be honest a guy allready came to me over a pm that he would pay a good sum for it I mean like way over the worth of the console like over 3 times the normal what you would pay for it but only If I wouldnt dump it :/
Can you make a video of the game? I'm interested in seeing it.Okay so I bought a lot of 37 3DS systems for just 475 Bucks as they all needed fixing ( asd I love to have that as a hobby ) but I soon noticed after 5 systems that they were all Kiosk Units and got a bit of a fight with the guy who sold them to me as he meant that he bought them off a guy on a fleemarket in April and I tryed to expain to him that they were probably ones used in stores and just were destroyed after they were used ( Just toren the upper screen off ) and well there were 5 3ds ones and 32 3ds xl ones and well the xl ones nothing special but the original little ones all blue but of 1 of them well then it didnt looked the same way a the others and wanting to get ready to send them back to the seller as I noticed a little thing that there backpannel has been WAY different and expectet it just to be a Japanese version of the 3ds but then saw the date of 2010 ... I pulled the Motherboard out and put it into another system and well there was a broken screnn so I just expectet that somebody f up while installing a coustom firmware ( As I somestimes get there systems ) almost wanting to throw it into the defictive pile as I thought it strange that the background color wasnt blue but black so I put it into another system ( On of mine ) and there it was a DEV MENU and well going though this stuff trying not to screw something up I was very cautius and found a unnamed title called "3D Challange" and I cant find anything to this name on the web / I dont think this game has been dumped yet does anbody have any idea what it is / or if somebody has heard about it allready
Honestly speaking, I do agree that he should dump the entire NAND, but I don't think that's really necessary...
I will take a look on what I can do about that
Better be safe then sorry ?
he'll buy it for 3 times the normal price just to resell it for 6 times the normal value on ebay later
You'll have this happen a lot dealing with this stuff and it all comes down to if you'd rather have the money or have the historical piece. I wouldn't fault you for parting with it, but at the same time you definitely seem like someone who cares about the platform enough you'd spend $500 on a lot of broken systems. Put in the same position, I'd have a hard time, but for me personally some of what the preservation community has done would probably make me keep the system and dump the files.
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Actually - fuck that guy. I want to see if this community can put there money where there mouth is. What is his offer? If enough of us commit we could give you the money AND get the files. Assemblergames would be very interested in this, post there.
He offerd me like 500€ but with shipping The system and the Software and that not dumped not for me or anybody else x.x I mean besides the system I couldnt just take money for a system / Software that I dont even own but thats very nice of you anyhow and the thing is if this would happen that Id be like : Give me 1 BILLION DOLLAR andI will release this "game" then Nintendo wouldnt be going out to find me 100%
It's not about taking money for piracy in this case - this is software that was never officially released and is not available in any capacity other than internally and quite frankly, Nintendo would only go after you if you were dumping Super Mario Odyssey with a Switch hack along with it, they won't bother you about a 7 year old dev unit that enthusiasts want for archival purposes. And the idea here is to beat his offer, not give you thousands of dollars. We've done this before with things like Geist Force on the Dreamcast or Sonic Xtreme for the Saturn - the community will match whatever the person who, probably wants to keep in his private collection and let it sit, so you don't have to dilemma of potentially losing some history or making money, you can recoup what you paid for the lot and release something very special. That is, if enough people care to pitch in the money.
You got some points there on one hand does money sound pretty good ( I mean for whom wouldnt it ? ) on the other hand do I feel a bit like letting a comunity bleed for it ( with money ) and feel like a bad man for keeping this game "hostage" but still Im a bit scared as its ( From the looks of it ) 1rst Party software nd how nintendo would react to it
The people at assemblergames would probably know more about this.
Anyway hack it and dump the file anyway. You can decide what to do later.
Anyway hack it and dump the file anyway. You can decide what to do later.
Okay I will take a look at it tomorrow after the fleamarket as its allready 1 am in the morning
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