Hacking Trying to get blue card(gateway) to work
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I still use my r4 gold, but my brother said that his r4 stopped working, so he found his old gateway box with the blue card. So this is why we used it instead
honestly the best thing to use is luma + twillight menu, i no longer have my 3ds, but when i did i used twimenu because my r4 card was broken, and i can say it played all the games i threw at it if i recall correctly.
I simply don't know how to use it. I can't even download twilight menu, it needs compiling and to use gateway I barely did 2 minutes to unzip and paste in my microsd.
If there is a fast way to use luma I will be more than happy to use it
I highly recommend that you upgrade to luma 3ds since it has a lot more features than gateway and is still updated when gateway isn't. Here is a guide to do so https://3ds.hacks.guide/. If you want to run ds games you can get the app here https://github.com/DS-Homebrew/TWiLightMenu/releases.
Well I have Luma 3ds already, I just don't really use it. Also I didn't know that Luma can run DS games.Iremember asking about DS on luma and people said that this is not possible yet.
I will see the guides and I may use them, my only problem is that I forgot how to update to latest versions and so on. and I don't want to mess anything up
Beat me to it! I thought file trip had a copy. I was about to upload it somewhere for you I just got home LOL
Gateway bad is all any of these idiots ever say whenever someone asks any question about Gateway. Both Gateway card still work. Even the red one. And it still has advantages that you can't do with Luma. How many SD cards can you put in your 3DS simultaneously with just Luma? Plus drag-and-drop is fun for ROMs that you don't plan on playing. I have SD card setup for my little nephews. They're the main users of Gateway now
Yeah a lot of people thought it was impossible a few years ago. But thanks to the development of ndsbootstrap most games can now be played off a sd card without needing a nds flash card like gateway. The guide that I linked shows you how to install a app called luma updater onto your 3ds which will update luma for you when you run it.
well it works. its nice but I have to share the same memory with my 3ds games. Either way it is good to know another way of playing ds games in case I need it.
Thanks
Gateway blue is a great NDS option. It is SDHC compatible and has 100% ROM compatibility. The Multi-Kernel is an easy drag n drop way to have some good emulators and Moonshell. Waaay better than any non flashcard option. Waaaaaay better. I don't know why everybody doesn't use a flash card. They go for a few dollars these days. What else could you possibly use your cartridge slot for? All your games are on the internal SD. This way you can store emulators and NDS games on the separate SD. Pretty nice. I also would like to recommend setting up the red card again. For any older games just to have an extra SD.
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Well I was unfortunate to have a defective red card. Sadly from the first day my red card couldn't hold my microSD for some reason, I was using tape to make it stay in place but after a while the card was jumping out of the cartridge.
Not only that but after I installed CFW my red card stopped working for some reason, I asked here on how to set it up of course, but they were screaming GATEWAY BAD GATEWAY BAAAAD!!!! and gave me no information. After many many many replies with no information on how to use my CFW or gateway with vague instructions about freeshop, some good people(like yourself) thankfuly came and helped me understand the situation.
So yeah. I think my brother has a red gateway that he doesn't want, but still I don't know how to set it up, and I don't dare to ask here for a red gateway
If you don't consider any firmware beyond 11.2 then sure, Gateway works. But the fact is, on latest firmware it does not. That might not be a big deal to some, but not being able to use online is kind of a big deal to many. And with the frankenfirm thing, you better pray that it doesn't brick your emuNAND, as happened to me the last time I tried to update my frankenfirm. And that was the point when I finally went "it's not worth the effort to keep using Gateway" and instead of spending effort on unbricking my emuNAND without losing data, I just spent that effort on migrating all my games to CIAs instead.
It's too bad FreeShop no longer works because that was a really big reason to not use Gateway - the only thing Gateway has over CFW is .3DS loading and FreeShop was way more convenient.
But I can't say I miss Gateway. I had just been putting off switching because I'd have to redownload or convert all my games. Which I went the redownload route, wish I had converted them instead as that only takes a couple of seconds per game if you have a boot9.bin dump (can dump one with B9S or download one, they're all the same), I didn't know it was that fast. Finding all the games in the correct region and in cia format is actually rather hard, and one or two games I did end up converting after scouring the internet for a working cia. USA region is usually easy to find, EUR not so much.
Gateway has a couple neat features, like the ROM menu that allows you to change region/language on the fly, whereas in Luma it's a bit more of a pain, but that's something you'll only rarely have to use, maybe never if you don't play JPN region games, so it's not an important feature. And their cheat engine is useful, but CTRPF does the same thing.
So there's no good reason to use Gateway anymore. CFW does everything Gateway does minus the .3DS rom loading and usually does it better. For existing Gateway users, if you don't care about online or you don't mind the frankenfirm and haven't had issues with it, eh, I guess there's nothing wrong with continuing using it just to save the effort of converting and installing games, like I did for a long time, but if your games are already in CIA or you're just getting into 3DS hacking, then Gateway makes no sense. It's mostly for old timers like me (haha, I'm too young to be calling myself an old timer) that already have it set up the way they like it and can't be arsed to make the switch unless they have to.
Gateway works fine on the current firmware. You just need an EmuNAND on 11.2. Or 11.6 hybrid. 99% of games run fine. Works . I use it multi-boot. My 3ds is current firmware and b9s. I use it on 3 different consoles. It's easy to drag n drop shit titles for my young nephews. I don't want to install that shit. And I can backup and copy sav files to all consoles easily. They both get their own SD and the 3 year old switches SD cards and roms easily. The 1gb i lose for the EmuNAND. is easily worth the extra SD card capacity that i gain. Plus i still use Luma. Sometimes with EmuNAND. Gateway works. Stop hating. Don't like it, don't use it. Don't derail the thread.
It's not Gateway or Luma. It's Gateway and Luma
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Yes, freeshop was the best thing that happened to a modded console. You can't find games that easily anymore. Sadly now that there is no freeshop, it pretty rare to look for new games, there are little to no sources.
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Op. If you want to set up the red card ill help. If you look at my old posts there is a lot of info on it.
I want to setup my red and blue cards but i will need a step to step guide to install lume and setup the gw cards as well. Im on ofw 9.11
I will have the red gateway in 2 months, yes I want info on how to set it up. More options are always better.
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