Hacking Gateway 3DS - First 3DS flash card?!

[Augusta]

What we know at the moment, this hardware is strictly for piracy.

There are many people who used the excuse 'region lock and homebrew' to justify piracy in the past.
I think it's clear now who the real thieves are just by reading a few of the comments in this thread.
There is no other reason to justify buying such a product.

If you honestly believe video games cost is too much, wait a few weeks and buy them used.
There is no excuse to justify pirating games from a library still in its infancy.

 

[ComeTurismO]

I saw this post on another message board..the guy seems to have direct info about this device

Yep, it is real.

And for those asking, it is 'early video' before the 'game manager' was finished in coding by the homebrew developers, reason for 3 microsd one for each rom.

And it should be shipping in less then 2 weeks.


Not sure if this means that we can have more than 1 game on the sd card or what..and also, my 3DS is on the latest firmware will it work with that?

Oh, I didn't know about it's shipping. I guess since this hasn't happened in two years, they were in a rush and didn't care about coding for multiple games.

 

[how_do_i_do_that]

What we know at the moment, this hardware is strictly for piracy.

There are many people who used the excuse 'region lock and homebrew' to justify piracy in the past.
I think it's clear now who the real thieves are just by reading a few of the comments in this thread.
There is no other reason to justify buying such a product.

If you honestly believe video games cost is too much, wait a few weeks and buy them used.
There is no excuse to justify pirating games from a library still in its infancy.

People will still have to pay for anything from the eshop. Even the DLC for the games like Fire Emblem, even if it is through a flashcart assuming there is no system check for determining if the cart is legit or not.

 

[Ziggy Zigzagoon]

People who comment in this thread, would you kindly read the whole thread and keep quiet for a few weeks?

 

[Lakerfanalways]

Oh, I didn't know about it's shipping. I guess since this hasn't happened in two years, they were in a rush and didn't care about coding for multiple games.

Im still in the I'll believe it when I see it mode..Id rather have the Wii U hacked..supposedly that Wii U Key is coming out in a few weeks too..dont know if that is legit or what, at least with this thing there is a video showing it but we will see
I dont go online on my 3DS so I dont mind being offline but eventually Nintendo will try to kill it and its region locked and all the games I have seen are EUR

 

[rusty_train]

Im still in the I'll believe it when I see it mode..Id rather have the Wii U hacked..supposedly that Wii U Key is coming out in a few weeks too..dont know if that is legit or what, at least with this thing there is a video showing it but we will see
I dont go online on my 3DS so I dont mind being offline but eventually Nintendo will try to kill it and its region locked and all the games I have seen are EUR

there are a few things like that, theres the "wii u Key", ps3 "cobra-ode" and now this, lets see which one is actually legit

 

[hhs]

This doesn't look like it will enable cheats of any kind so we might still have a generation of legit pokemon.

You could be right. It's possible though that if we can get the game and save on the sd that save editors will pop up for the pc. It's early to tell how much unadulterated pokemon metagame time we'll have.

 

[natkoden]

Ok so my questions are as follows.
How does this just "work"? straight up "work"? no custom menu to boot into, no special "disguised" game like the DSTWO and stuff... However that might explain why it can only be one game.

Works with "all" roms to date? How can there be not a single rom that has problems? No AP, Whitescreens, whatever?

Maybe with a custom configuration? Seems kinda pointless to focus on that aspect right now...

And the games, well, not that hard to do, I guess.... countless NDS flashcarts have perfect support for 99.9% of the games, and we're talking about 6100+ roms. 3DS has a few of them, and I bet they only tested the most popular games (imagine having to buy all of these games and dump them).

Plus, if this is real, they'd been working on it for quite some time now.

 

[Antipika]

Having a custom menu or not is irrelevant. It can simply work like any modchip made to circumvent authenticity checks and that's most likely what it is.

Inside the piece of plastic you have the actual chip that helps bypassing the check for the original cartridge and a memory chip to hold the savegame, that's it. You didn't need any custom menus to run pirated games on PS1 or PS2 for example.

This device is miles away from anything you ever known on the DS. It just makes running bootleg games possible. And it will be most likely super easy to reproduce as well, so the pricetag will be low. (And if it's not at release, it will be copied/counterfeit by some Chinese companies sooner or later.)

 

[Antipika]

You really think they need your report and aren't aware of this already? And do you think it will do anything?

Nintendo has no power over this. They'll just patch it and... that's it. A software patch which won't prevent whoever isn't downloading an update from today and onward to play all the released games to date on the 3DS. That's all this device is good for, playing games that are released up to now. The same way an iOS jailbreak is only valid up to the most current version of iOS and usually gets patched soon after by Apple.

 

[mkdms14]

Wonder what Nintendo will say about this.

 

[jacksprat1990]

Having the ability to take this out instead of my games is a decent option. I would hate to lose my saves on any of my cartridges. If it's legit of course.

 

[nukeboy95]

Wonder what Nintendo will say about this.

i bet you they are gonna say its fake and if your try to use it im bricking you 3ds

 

[oslash]

did anyone buy the actual card?

i hope this helps the 3ds scene, running custom code with something like this doesnt sounds so hard

 

[nukeboy95]

did anyone buy the actual card?

i hope this helps the 3ds scene, running custom code with something like this doesnt sounds so hard

its not out yet

 

[Devin]

Talking to some peeps about supplying me with a review sample.



I'm quite interested in the device, and I've been thinking about the whole "space" debate. I'm thinking you'll need a card larger than the size of the ROM. (A 2GB Micro SD won't suffice for a 2GB game. Due to reserved spacing. Making it smaller than 2GBs.) So I think they'll have a tool for you to use that partitions the Micro SD card to the right size, and then proceeds to flash it with the ROM.

Pure speculation on my part, but that'd make sense.

 

[nukeboy95]

Talking to some peeps about supplying me with a review sample.



I'm quite interested in the device, and I've been thinking about the whole "space" debate. I'm thinking you'll need a card larger than the size of the ROM. (A 2GB Micro SD won't suffice for a 2GB game. Due to reserved spacing. Making it smaller than 2GBs.) So I think they'll have a tool for you to use that partitions the Micro SD card to the right size, and then proceeds to flash it with the ROM.

Pure speculation on my part, but that'd make sense.

i emailed them about that and getting it on shoptemp but no response

 

[Kioku]

What we know at the moment, this hardware is strictly for piracy.

There are many people who used the excuse 'region lock and homebrew' to justify piracy in the past.
I think it's clear now who the real thieves are just by reading a few of the comments in this thread.
There is no other reason to justify buying such a product.

If you honestly believe video games cost is too much, wait a few weeks and buy them used.
There is no excuse to justify pirating games from a library still in its infancy.

Well, actually not EVERYONE wants a device as such for piracy.. There actually are people who buy these things because they don't want to carry their stash of games around, so they make backups...

 

[rusty_train]

i gotta wonder, could this be used to inject a rom loader into the 3ds that reads roms off the SD card?

 

[The Milkman]

Eh, one game at a time? Looks like this is going to be a pirate only Flashcart. I would rather a software hack anyway.