Greets all,
So we've finally decided to tie up this thread and finally get it closed. Before everyone freaks out, yes the project will continue, and yes we will be continuing to give updates to the project, just via a place which is more convenient for everyone on the project. You can find all of our places we'll be posting updates to at the bottom of this post.
This thread initially started off as yet another concept thread describing what was, at the time, something which was rather adventurous and frankly was unlikely to happen at all. A project which aimed to achieve a region-free, emuNAND-able custom firmware for 3DS using Gateway's newly released kernel exploits, kindly written up about by
@yifan_lu despite the constant warnings of piracy which #3dsdev had told him over and over again (and, for better or for worst, they were right). However even despite being a seemingly silly thread which was just
waiting to be closed up and shipped away by a moderator, it continued anyways. ARM11 kernel was achieved first by yifanlu and the ported to ninjhax by myself, which was definitely exciting. However it was ARM9 when things started getting serious (and frankly a bit bleak at times). Because as great as yifanlu's writeup was, it definitely hid things unfortunately, and I did not blame him at all once I got ARM9. We were at a turning point of sorts: Keep everything open, for better or for worse, or keep it closed into ARM9. We decided on the latter.
Unfortunately after that bit of rushing and excitement, things finally started to slow down, and the thread and project were almost closed several times out of frustration, but we continued. Lots of things happened during this period: We got emuNAND, improved our stuff internally, and learned a lot more about the 3DS in general. Lots of projects came out of nowhere as well on what seemed to be the eve of a new CFW: RxTools, NTR, and OSKA. OSKA threatened to be the end of KARL's closed nature, however our ARM9 stuff ended up being released anyways. RxTools provided a new way for emuNAND on the old 3DS, and NTR seemingly provided a solution for region free on the new 3DS. It was an interesting time.
Then things settled down again, and people began wondering about what we were doing, and at the time, it was mostly research. Wulfy found some nice stuff regarding AGB_FIRM, including a wealth of information about the GBA ROM footers, IO registers, and the like. I for the most part was busy with school unfortunately, and I struggled for weeks attempting to get anything with ARM11 done. Dazzozo was working on internal improvements to our ARM9 stuff. Admittedly, we really were not focused on a release, which wasn't necessarily bad, but I would hardly call it a good thing either. However with summer finally here for the all of us, we finally got ourselves reoriented towards a release within the coming months (if things go well):
We've finally got ARM11 up and running! Yes, I know it's kind of an odd time to leave the thread, but we wanted to leave you with something to discuss besides the fact that we were leaving at least. Our plans include a debugging interface similar to NTR's, with all the extra goodies of emuNAND as well. Region free and eShop version spoofing (for N3DS) will also be loaded at runtime, so no need for any plugins or memory writes to do that. We will also have a way to load these features in sysNAND as well, in case you want to update something in there or whatever.
That being said, we are moving our main communications to other places now. Our main place where our big releases/any other haxing posts will be announced will be at
http://salthax.tumblr.com. Our main twitter will be at
@salthax, and will also be dedicated to releases or Q&A, and we'll also be posting minor updates at our personal twitters,
@ShinyQuagsire and
@WulfyStylez.
That being said, the moderators allowed 3 days of discussion before the thread will actually be closed, any thoughts/questions on our new ARM11 stuff or our new communication areas are welcome.