Gateway 3DS, News and Information

[Rytoast]

I don't like the fact that they are using a flashcart to make a profit, a free solution should be available to make the console region free and used for homebrew, that is what everyone else wants, but it's always about greed and how much money they can make.

flashcarts in this day and age are completely useless because all current handhelds and consoles have firmware updates & always online, it's always going to be a obstacle.

I feel sorry for most people here because when the flashcart is abandoned and they can no longer support it (because nintendo locks it out permanently) everyone is going to be left with a useless paperweight, I've seen it happen before and it can happen again, it will be the case of the 3.55 ps3 fiasco where 3ds handhelds under 4.5 will be worth a lot of money and you have edge to blame for that, anyways I've said my part, good luck to edge users and for your sake they keep supporting your investment.

Yep! My TrueBlue PS3 Dongle has been in my drawer, untouched, for a little over a year, now. As soon as it was released, the company spent 100% of their time ironically fighting clones, and 0% of their time releasing game patches. I really hope the same won't happen with Gateway.

 

[jalaneme]

Yep! My TrueBlue PS3 Dongle has been in my drawer, untouched, for a little over a year, now. As soon as it was released, the company spent 100% of their time ironically fighting clones, and 0% of their time releasing game patches. I really hope the same won't happen with Gateway.

that is exactly what I mean.

 

[Chaossaturn]

I have 4.5 on both my 3ds XL but I will wait for the bigger better deal, as this is only a start to things to come.

 

[tech3475]

I find it funny that by chance I happen to be on 4.5, still not buying though.....the problem I have with this is it doesn't support homebrew, AFAIK it doesn't remove region restrictions and worst of all I wonder how long before it's useless or has some serious issues.

 

[Coto]

guys you won't see homebrew support near time soon unless a way to run unsigned apps (which means tricking the RSA checking, which is not 128bit, but 2048, which is 16 times a 128bit key length)...

 

[gabemstr]

Prices for me (SF Bay Area, CA--since shipping may vary?)

HackYourConsole.com
Sub-Total: $80.00
Handling Fee: $3.50
USPS First Class Mail (1-3 days): $3.00
Total: $86.50
(If you buy 2, the handling fee is $6.50, making the total $169.50, or $84.75 each)

Modchipcentral.com (ships from Canada)
1 Item: $79.95
Discount Coupon (gateway5): - $5.00
Discounted subtotal: $74.95
UPS Standard (No PO Boxes) (2-5 days): $8.95
Total: $83.90

Modchipsdirect.com (The Gateway 3DS site shows Modchipdirect but it leads you to ModchipSdirect)
6 month warranty (never considered there being a warranty for a flash card)
Sub-Total: $79.95
Registered Post - Sent from California (No signature)(1-4 days): $4.50
Total cost: $84.45
(If you buy 2, the price lowers to $77.95 each, making the total cost $160.40, or $80.20 each
(I emailed them asking if they're possibly going to offer a discount code as well.)

3DS-flashcart.com (ships from Asia) *10% off if you checkout with Western Union*
Sub-Total: $85.99
(I'm not even going to bother making an account to see the final price because I don't have Western Union anyways.
But I assume that if shipping is reasonably priced and you checkout with Western Union, this could potentially be the best deal.)

For now it looks like Modchipcentral is the way to go.

 

[Vengenceonu]

For now it looks like Modchipcentral is the way to go.

you forgot Realhotstuff.com my personal favorite.

 

[FAST6191]

I don't like the fact that they are using a flashcart to make a profit, a free solution should be available to make the console region free and used for homebrew, that is what everyone else wants, but it's always about greed and how much money they can make.

flashcarts in this day and age are completely useless because all current handhelds and consoles have firmware updates & always online, it's always going to be a obstacle.

I feel sorry for most people here because when the flashcart is abandoned and they can no longer support it (because nintendo locks it out permanently) everyone is going to be left with a useless paperweight, I've seen it happen before and it can happen again, it will be the case of the 3.55 ps3 fiasco where 3ds handhelds under 4.5 will be worth a lot of money and you have edge to blame for that, anyways I've said my part, good luck to edge users and for your sake they keep supporting your investment.

I am not usually one for drugs but can I have some of what you are smoking? The idea of a complete break from reality intrigues me.

 

[aalokishere]

I don't like the fact that they are using a flashcart to make a profit, a free solution should be available to make the console region free and used for homebrew, that is what everyone else wants, but it's always about greed and how much money they can make.

flashcarts in this day and age are completely useless because all current handhelds and consoles have firmware updates & always online, it's always going to be a obstacle.

I feel sorry for most people here because when the flashcart is abandoned and they can no longer support it (because nintendo locks it out permanently) everyone is going to be left with a useless paperweight, I've seen it happen before and it can happen again, it will be the case of the 3.55 ps3 fiasco where 3ds handhelds under 4.5 will be worth a lot of money and you have edge to blame for that, anyways I've said my part, good luck to edge users and for your sake they keep supporting your investment.

SO you're saying that they should stop making flashcarts? OR that their business should be registered as a non profit organization and distribute things for basically nothing?
Either you said that or I completely failed to make head or toe.

 

[stanleyopar2000]

$85? wholly shit!

 

[Vengenceonu]

I am not usually one for drugs but can I have some of what you are smoking? The idea of a complete break from reality intrigues me.

IIRC, I believe kids these days are calling it "Bath Salts".

 

[The Milkman]

$85? wholly shit!

Gettin' free stuff ain't cheap.

 

[Armadillo]

Pfft moaning about $85. My first flashcart cost me £100 or so and was only 32MB.

 

[xyzmanas]

Can anyone mention some games which will update my 3ds to 4.5, I am currently on 4.3 europe version. thanks

 

[Rydian]

Do you know this to be a fact or are you just speculating? Because it sounds like speculation.

I'm talking about what can be launched ("accepted" as in what the 3DS will let the user feed it via the device).

We've only been told that this device runs 3DS ROMs, not homebrew. The tools to unpackage and repackage the ROM containers and executables and stuff have been around for a while now, if you could simply feed it some homemade 3DS ROM with custom code (even as simple as a hello world which wouldn't be hard to make via the documentation on 3dbrew) they'd likely have mentioned or advertised it somewhere at all.

 

[Rainbowsixvegas6]

Can anyone mention some games which will update my 3ds to 4.5, I am currently on 4.3 europe version. thanks

Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon and Monster Hunter are two games that I believe have the 4.5 update. I just updated my console to 4.5 with Luigi's mansion.

 

[Vengenceonu]

Can anyone mention some games which will update my 3ds to 4.5, I am currently on 4.3 europe version. thanks

This list has every Nintendo 3DS Game and their release dates. Every game released on or after March 1st, 2013 will update your console to 4.5 (IF YOU'RE ALREADY BELOW FIRMWARE 4.5):

http://www.nintendolife.com/3ds/games


Everything from Naruto: Powerful Shippuden (Mar 5, 2013) - Project X Zone (June 25, 2013) will work.

 

[zanfire]

This list has every Nintendo 3DS Game and their release dates. Every game released on or before March 1st, 2013 will update your console to 4.5 (IF YOU'RE ALREADY BELOW FIRMWARE 4.5):

http://www.nintendolife.com/3ds/games


Everything from Naruto: Powerful Shippuden (Mar 5, 2013) - Project X Zone (June 25, 2013) will work.

Is there anything that will update it past it so it can't be used? One of the big games I'm looking forward to is SMT IV. If some of the recent games force a patch past 4.5, then this thing won't be much use for very long (for me anyways, only haven't played a couple games so far that I care about)

 

[Pedeadstrian]

Is there anything that will update it past it so it can't be used? One of the big games I'm looking forward to is SMT IV. If some of the recent games force a patch past 4.5, then this thing wont be much use for very long (for me anyways, only haven't played a couple games so far that I care about)

Well, SMTIV has yet to release, so I don't think anyone will know what firmware it requires. Since I'm pretty sure there's no online parts of the game, then it shouldn't need 5.x or 6.x, but who knows.

 

[Vengenceonu]

Is there anything that will update it past it so it can't be used? One of the big games I'm looking forward to is SMT IV. If some of the recent games force a patch past 4.5, then this thing won't be much use for very long (for me anyways, only haven't played a couple games so far that I care about)

You'll have to wait until its released to find out. Every game has a minimum firmware requirement to play and since Shin Megami Tensei IV isn't released yet, we don't know what firmware it requires.