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

[Snailface]

Indeed...

Gasp, just realized it's only got one typo! THIS CAN'T POSSIBLY BE FROM ASIA! Must be Europe because Europeans are GENIUSES!

Say this inside your head, "Reps from flashcard companies usually speak fluent English".
Now pause to consider how absurd that sounds.

Further, speaking a foreign language well is not representative of IQ, but you're smart enough to realize that.

 

[idane]

If this is really true... REVENGE ON NINTENDO.

I kinda by impulse bought the 3DS ,and regret it for so much time.

Only have a single game "Resident Evil Revelations" and it cost me 60€ with 2nd analog stick (50€ is the normal game price here in Portugal).


I'm bloody tired of their gaming prices.

Even a crappy little 2D game here cost from 35 to 50€. And like a gameboy 1 black and white game from the 80's cost like 6€ each for download.

Even in the 90's I could buy a cassette with like 50 games in it for like 20€ (and included some that nintendo is selling at 6€ each).


Even on E-bay used games look expensive to me, like around 25€+shipping each, and some are just simple 2D games (usually most are from US and full price gets around 40€ with the shipping).



I guess Portable console games are being sold at the price of X360 and PS3 games (some people seem to have no sense in selling a little 2D game for the price of a game that cost 100 million $ to make like GTA, and has crazy textures+technology in them that aren't meant for portability).


ps: My 3DS is OFF inside my drawer for more than a year, and I can't buy those EXPENSIVE games, since I can buy brand new games for the PC like BF3 for 16€, Ravaged for 3.99€
Keep Cool

Really? Revenge? Dude, you're making it a bit too personal for no reason...

If you would've said this about a Sony console - I might agree, since they actually attacked us as consumers, both literally (planting rootkits on PCs and compromising your security without letting you know, for example) and verbally (stating that the PS3 is expensive because they want it to be something that people want to work hard to get).

But Nintendo? All they did was make a nice console, put some good protection in there and charged a reasonable amount of money for games. While I do think that 50€ is an exorbitant price for a game - I'd suggest that you either get it used, get it on eshop (I found most games retail games there to be ~35€ - ~45€) or pirate if you so desire.

I can tell you that while I think that games should be cheaper, I can also understand Nintendo's reasoning - there are, and always will be, less 3ds devices out there compared to iphones/android phones. In order to make it lucrative for devs, they charge more per item, as fewer will be sold due to the install base. In addition, I really don't think that there are many phone games that compare in scope to something like a AAA 3DS game such as Mario 3d, animal crossing, pokemon or fire emblem.

Oh, and btw, I haven't seen a new GTA sell for less than 60€ since GTA3 - a 15€ difference is a pretty big one.

All that being said - I'm probably going to get a flash card - I do believe that some games are worth the investment, but I can't know if I don't actually play them - I believe in "play, then pay", and not vice versa, unless prices are low enough for an impulse purchase (thanks steam and humble bundle ).

Oh and speaking of impulse buys - come on! You can buy a console for over 150€ (if it's the old 3ds, as XL costs more) on a whim, but spending a third of that amount on a game that will give you many hours of enjoyment is something that you want to take revenge on? that's just weird.

 

[SinR]

To the people that are naysaying it already, saying things like "OH IT ONLY DOES ONE GAME AT A TIME"... it's called PROGRESS. You know that the top NDS flashcard producers are going to get their hands on Gateway, and they'll figure ways to get it to do more than 1 ROM, or have some stupid loader, or look pretty, or whatever.

I plan on getting one soon, maybe a few MicroSDs cause they're cheap, and enjoying more... uhh... homebrew...

 

[Foxi4]

*Typical totalnoob*

If the government was indeed this opressive force you claim it to be, it wouldn't be particularily bothered by whether or not the populace protests since it already has supreme power. You're being over-dramatic, at the end of the day, "the government" is not a unanimous blob - it's a number of individuals selected from the society by none other than the society itself - everything else beyond that is a conspiracy theory. Moreover, not exactly a thread to discuss this.

 

[Another World]

and we know what happened with Crown3DS.

it looks like it became the Gateway 3DS. =)

-another world

 

[Foxi4]

it looks like it became the Gateway 3DS. =)

-another world

Oh? So you're telling me it's one and the same team? This is... interesting.

 

[str8mjed]

Oh? So you're telling me it's one and the same team? This is... interesting.

Interesting indeed!

 

[Another World]

i'm not 100% sure, yet. i hope my probing can get me a definitive answer. it could be that either they got new people to finish the 1:1 splinter cell clone and make it load roms or they are a new team using the original crown 3ds research.

my suspicions right now is that its the same team, who finally got a working prototype, and have now used a new name to distance themselves from the crown 3ds fiasco.

i don't expect them to leave documentation on their web space, like real hot stuff did, which gave us a definitive answer that real hot stuff was the company behind ismartds. so i may never know for sure.

-another world

 

[porkiewpyne]

I guess we can't really blame em though. Using the Crown3DS name would be suicide.

 

[str8mjed]

i'm not 100% sure, yet. i hope my probing can get me a definitive answer. it could be that either they got new people to finish the 1:1 splinter cell clone and make it load roms or they are a new team using the original crown 3ds research.

my suspicions right now is that its the same team, who finally got a working prototype, and have now used a new name to distance themselves from the crown 3ds fiasco.

i don't expect them to leave documentation on their web space, like real hot stuff did, which gave us a definitive answer that real hot stuff was the company behind ismartds. so i may never know for sure.

-another world

An interesting theory there Another World.

 

[Foxi4]

i'm not 100% sure, yet. i hope my probing can get me a definitive answer. it could be that either they got new people to finish the 1:1 splinter cell clone and make it load roms or they are a new team using the original crown 3ds research.

my suspicions right now is that its the same team, who finally got a working prototype, and have now used a new name to distance themselves from the crown 3ds fiasco.

i don't expect them to leave documentation on their web space, like real hot stuff did, which gave us a definitive answer that real hot stuff was the company behind ismartds.

-another world

Oh, so you just hazarded a guess then? You made it sound like you're certain of it, nevermind.

I wouldn't be so quick to assume things - "cartridge emulation" if I may so call it is probably the only thing a team could try if the OS seems untouchable and they don't have an exploit they could use, moreover, it's something that's much harder to block or patch. The concept was floating out there, it's just that someone had to pick it up and start working on it.

 

[stephysanrio]

Was anyone told when would review samples be shipping out?

 

[str8mjed]

Was anyone told when would review samples be shipping out?

Another World may know the answer since he is one of the reviewers.

 

[TheDreamLord]

i'm not 100% sure, yet. i hope my probing can get me a definitive answer. it could be that either they got new people to finish the 1:1 splinter cell clone and make it load roms or they are a new team using the original crown 3ds research.

my suspicions right now is that its the same team, who finally got a working prototype, and have now used a new name to distance themselves from the crown 3ds fiasco.

i don't expect them to leave documentation on their web space, like real hot stuff did, which gave us a definitive answer that real hot stuff was the company behind ismartds. so i may never know for sure.

-another world

Using domaintools, I don't think it is. A guy called Michael Huang owned Crown3DS.com and an unnamed person with a completely different setup owns gateway-3ds.com.

 

[TheDreamLord]

i'm not 100% sure, yet. i hope my probing can get me a definitive answer. it could be that either they got new people to finish the 1:1 splinter cell clone and make it load roms or they are a new team using the original crown 3ds research.

my suspicions right now is that its the same team, who finally got a working prototype, and have now used a new name to distance themselves from the crown 3ds fiasco.

i don't expect them to leave documentation on their web space, like real hot stuff did, which gave us a definitive answer that real hot stuff was the company behind ismartds. so i may never know for sure.

-another world

Using domaintools, I don't think it is. A guy called Michael Huang owned Crown3DS.com and an unnamed person with a completely different setup owns gateway-3ds.com.

 

[Unagi]

If I recall correctly the owner of Gateway 3DS is Victor Toria.

 

[porkiewpyne]

Was anyone told when would review samples be shipping out?

IIRC Another World will only get his slightly before launch at best.

 

[pwsincd]

victor toria sounds decidedly made up to me .

 

[McHaggis]

If I recall correctly the owner of Gateway 3DS is Victor Toria.

victor toria sounds decidedly made up to me .

Vic Toria, is it? Seems legit.

 

[KingBlank]

I hope we wont need pylons to power this...