Hacking 3DS 6.3 Exploit Found

[tbgtbg]

hope he releases it and it gets abused for piracy and nintendo sues him and we all get free videogames

Most of that YES YES YES

hoping him getting sued NO NO NO

 

[Thirty3Three]

So 7.x does work. Neat. He just has to put in that extra effort with the ssspawn

 

[daicon]

With this being a new exploit, would a release of the OLD exploit jeopardize Smea's plans of not getting patched before 8.x?

 

[mattrunks]

should have kept my limited edition pokemon xy 3dsxl on 6.3, the regrets

 

[Thirty3Three]

Wait, so will the SSSram (7.x one) allow GateWay to work? Or something which can allow one to run backups? Because I really dislike carrying all my games around...

 

[Huntereb]

I swear, we needs 'dem new firmwares from smealum. Not only for Piracy, but for Homebrew (ACTION REPLAY 3DS PLEASE)!

 

[Thirty3Three]

I swear, we needs 'dem new firmwares from smealum. Not only for Piracy, but for Homebrew (ACTION REPLAY 3DS PLEASE)!

I'd prefer to have it a bit more "open", ie: I just want to be able to at least get my games all in one cart.

There are two kinds of people in this world:
Those who pirate
and Those who lie about it.

 

[mattrunks]

I'd prefer to have it a bit more "open", ie: I just want to be able to at least get my games all in one cart.

There are two kinds of people in this world:
Those who pirate
and Those who lie about it.

 

[gamefan5]

Works on 7.1 for homebrew? Perfect! My zelda gold 3DS will hopefully have some use!

 

[Gadorach]

I swear, we needs 'dem new firmwares from smealum. Not only for Piracy, but for Homebrew (ACTION REPLAY 3DS PLEASE)!

The biggest problem with that, is that the privilege escalation only goes to user-mode from what smea's said. As such, not only can you not access the Kernel, but you can't access anything associated with it either. That means no RAM access to Kernel area RAM, no access to the Kernel commands for dumping NAND images, or game carts for that matter, and no application hooks either, as that requires Kernel patching, so no Action Replay style memory editing for retail games. This ONLY allows you to run user-mode applications, so distinctly Homebrew applications, and nothing else. If he released a custom firmware based on the 4.X Kernel-mode exploit though, we could actually have all of that, of course.

 

[Vappy]

i dont really see that happening , more of just like a geohot cfw, no built in means to run retail roms but no active means of blocking it either ,that would make the most sense,

From what Smea's said, it's more the case that the exploit doesn't allow escalation to ARM11 kernel, which is needed for running backups. if it were like you say, he would've had no qualms about releasing the 4.X exploit either.

 

[Nismax]

GBA emulator on 3DS utilizing 3D capabilities to differentiate between layers would be cool. Even without 3D layers it would be cool. Especially Nintendo is hell bent on never releasing GBA games to the general public over 3DS.

 

[Huntereb]

The biggest problem with that, is that the privilege escalation only goes to user-mode from what smea's said. As such, not only can you not access the Kernel, but you can't access anything associated with it either. That means no RAM access to Kernel area RAM, no access to the Kernel commands for dumping NAND images, or game carts for that matter, and no application hooks either, as that requires Kernel patching, so no Action Replay style memory editing for retail games. This ONLY allows you to run user-mode applications, so distinctly Homebrew applications, and nothing else. If he released a custom firmware based on the 4.X Kernel-mode exploit though, we could actually have all of that, of course.

Hopefully when it's released, someone else who's smart enough to fiddle with his code could work on implementing a higher privileged access level. Kinda bums me out when you put it the way you described it above.

 

[the_randomizer]

Wouldn't Action Replay allow people to cheat and ruin Mario Kart 7 online matches?

 

[Huntereb]

Wouldn't Action Replay allow people to cheat and ruin Mario Kart 7 online matches?

Only for a second until Nintendo starts banning people. Then we'd have to wait for an anti-ban code, like on the Wii (I'd assume, at least). I guarantee 100% that there's a ban system set up on the 3DS.

 

[the_randomizer]

Only for a second until Nintendo starts banning people. Then we'd have to wait for an anti-ban code, like on the Wii (I'd assume, at least). I guarantee 100% that there's a ban system set up on the 3DS.

I'm sorry, but if someone gets banned for being a cheating douche, they deserve it; I hope Action Replay doesn't ruin others' experience. Anyway, other homebrew would be fine by me

 

[kyogre123]

I'm expecting this to be patched in the next update. I remember when Nintendo patched the 4.5 exploit in 5.0 after its existence was merely mentioned.

 

[RikuCrafter]

Bit confused about the kernel stuff on this end.

If Gateway gets their hands on this, is it theoretically possible for Gateway to run on 6.3?

 

[lambstone]

Bit confused about the kernel stuff on this end.

If Gateway gets their hands on this, is it theoretically possible for Gateway to run on 6.3?

It is a THEORETICAL possibility. We would still need a easy method of updating to 6.3 for those of us on 4.x

 

[the_randomizer]

I hope that we won't have to buy flash cards for this exploit.