So it seems the answer is no. Thank goodness.
....still going to take out my cart while updating, though, me being too worried.
A ROM is just that, a ROM. It can't be updated or patched.Wait, what ? How can you update a rom if your cart is not inserted, if all the roms are saved on the microSD inside the cart ?
A ROM is just that, a ROM. It can't be updated or patched.
Patches are always saved separately to a different device. In the case of the 3DS, this is the system SD Card.
Yeah, but if the cart is not inserted, does e-Shop even recognize that the "owns" that game ?