I don't think the OP is payed by a chinese gangster to make a false brick report. It's just ridiculous. Also they still haven't denied that they have included brick code in their launcher firmware, in fact, it seems they are sticking to it and tell people to deal with it. The fact that they claim they can see if a 3DS brick occured by gateway software (assuming they really can, perhaps some hackers can confirm it), further proves the existence of brick code in their software. Also the fact that they supposedly offer a replacement unit is interesting, although they wouldn't be able to make up for any lost eShop software. I wonder what shipping address they would provide.
So well. I can confirm that the Gateway brick is legit. It just happened to a french friend using a 4.5 3DS with the lastest firmware.
Not using it anymore until it is fixed.
Yes. But I just wanted to tell you before.can you ask you friend if he can post some info and pics at least to help show more proof of these bricking ?
So well. I can confirm that the Gateway brick is legit. It just happened to a french friend using a 4.5 3DS with the lastest firmware.
European 3DS XL with 4.5 firmware.To clarify, your friend has used only the unmodified 2.0b2 Gateway launcher.dat?
My theory: There is a clone kill switch, and Gateway is 100% confident it can't happen with an unmodified launcher - as in to a legit GW customer. But it seemingly can due to some mystery factor X.
at least they offered to collect his console and replace it if it was their fault.
Yeah, I highly doubt it's based on a Gregorian calendar date. Sometimes when technically-minded people refer to a "date" in the context of a random number or programming in general they actually mean a timestamp. My guess is that somebody technically-minded originally said it was date-based and others are just repeating it. Nintendo probably aren't even the ones who wrote the random number generator, but it's most likely using a linear congruential algorithm anyway.If the date was used, instead of the timestamp, for an entire day, the RNG would have a bias? Nintendo has better programmers than that, surely.
1.2 or 2.0b1, either should be fine. As long as it's not 2.0b2.Which version should be used now? 1.2 or 2.1b?
I would personally stop using it if I was you, until it is fixed.Which version should be used now? 1.2 or 2.1b?
European 3DS XL with 4.5 firmware.
unmodified Gateway launcher. firmware 2.0b2.
He don't know how to do it.. He was just playing 3DS games.and he has tried dd'ing an old nand image back onto it? using soldered SDCARD interface?
and this didn't work?
you people talk like if every person could take the launcher and make whatever modification they wanted. If people tells you im bricked and i used GW 2.0b2 just thrust them.To clarify, your friend has used only the unmodified 2.0b2 Gateway launcher.dat?
Yeah, I highly doubt it's based on a Gregorian calendar date. Sometimes when technically-minded people refer to a "date" in the context of a random number or programming in general they actually mean a timestamp. My guess is that somebody technically-minded originally said it was date-based and others are just repeating it. Nintendo probably aren't even the ones who wrote the random number generator, but it's most likely using a linear congruential algorithm anyway.
Not necessarily. From what I know the ROP chain (DS exploit) is used to load the payload (launcher.dat), which can then contain pretty much anything. Then again I could be mistaken.Gateway can only use code already written by Nintendo (that's what ROP programming is), so if they are using a random number generator it has to be one was already there.
you people talk like if every person could take the launcher and make whatever modification they wanted. If people tells you im bricked and i used GW 2.0b2 just thrust them.
The anti-gateway troll army only exists in gw-team's head. This is a real problem and im not turning on my 3DS with gateway (YES, THE FCKING OFFICIAL AND UNMODIFIED) inside