Somehow I had overlooked the possibility of using a header from another game on separate games. I guess I had thought that the keys would only work for a single title, but it seems to rather be a key to Nintendo's online services. Glad you all straightened that out for me. Although if I look at...
If someone else searches and finds this useful then it's not just for me.
So basically it's going to require a work around, which seems easy enough.
My last bit in the scene was with the original R4 on the DS and it was a lot easier and less worrisome then. Who knows how long ago that...
I had recently mentioned purchasing a N3DSXL which has fw 9.0. I've been waiting to see what would happen between Gateway and Sky3DS but it has been quite for awhile now. I hadn't any intention of having the ability to use private headers for my games.
And seeing the latest action from...
Thanks for the replies fellas. It does sound like the firmware will have weight on the issue. From what I'm seeing, it's unlikely or at least uncertain if future GW updates will work with 9.4< firmware.
I've spent several hours doing research, but I still have some questions. Some may be simple or obvious; please excuse my ignorance. I want to download .3ds and play them. I don't care about the online shop. I will want to play some games online. Region free would be nice but it isn't necessary...
@SylverReZ, I also heard one of the Prince of Persia games was so unfinished that it required the "24/7 online" drm so a puzzle could be done and the game could be finished. And that when the Ubisoft servers were closed the (cracked) game was impossible to finish or something like that
I like that games can be fixed after the fact, hate that it's being abused via beta tests... And DLC... I was a 7800 owner back in the day and loved Impossible Mission, turns out I couldn't beat it because it was actually impossible lol