Gateway 3DS, News and Information

[Pedeadstrian]

Yesterday I rented the game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate. He asked me the update 4.4.0-10E not 4.5.0. I am from Europe, Spain particularly. Can it be for that reason? Will operate the Gateway 3DS or do I need to be updated to 4.5.0?

I would try renting/borrowing a newer game to see if that helps. So long as you don't upgrade PAST 4.5, you should be good.

 

[Schaapje82]

Yesterday I rented the game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate. He asked me the update 4.4.0-10E not 4.5.0. I am from Europe, Spain particularly. Can it be for that reason? Will operate the Gateway 3DS or do I need to be updated to 4.5.0?

Just stay on 4.4 until you have the card there. If it works, you don't have to do a thing. If it doesn't, you can always get another game that will update you to 4.5. I don't see why you should take any 'risk' now.

 

[Pedeadstrian]

Just stay on 4.4 until you have the card there. If it works, you don't have to do a thing. If it doesn't, you can always get another game that will update you to 4.5. I don't see why you should take any 'risk' now.

I can't really think of any risk associated with getting a game to update his/her 3DS to 4.5 (if it ends up asking to update to a higher firmware, just cancel it), but I see your point. If you wait, it will only delay you temporarily.

 

[taritas]

OK, thank you. Now I will get a more recent game and will update to 4.5.0.

 

[tHciNc]

I don't even think any games have shipped yet with higher than 4.5, so you won't get any games asking for higher.. I could stand corrected though

 

[Ericthegreat]

Hi guys, have you noticed the news that Nintendo has won the lawsuit against flashcard company. Hope this wouldn't affect the gateway 3ds flashcard coming out...

They actually didn't sue the company, they sued a store that was selling flashcarts, will prob have no effect at all due to china (or w/e country they chose) being out of nintendo's jurisdiction. Piracy isn't really enforced in China.

 

[Schaapje82]

I can't really think of any risk associated with getting a game to update his/her 3DS to 4.5 (if it ends up asking to update to a higher firmware, just cancel it), but I see your point. If you wait, it will only delay you temporarily.

I agree, I don't think the risk is in updating, just the person doing it.
If you are to eager or don't know what you are doing, you might do something wrong (like update from the eshop or anything) and end up on 6.x. If you're ds is working fine then why update at this moment? Same thing goes (maybe even more) for people on 5.x who now want to update to 6.x because the card won't work on 5.x. Why update? If you want one of these Gateway-cards, just wait and see. You can always update, but you can't go back (for now at least).

 

[Another World]

1st post updated with new information from Gateway 3DS.

-another world

 

[Pedeadstrian]

They say it's safe to swap games using the same sd card. That's great. I wonder if they have an actual GUI, or are using what some people mentioned in the first thread, some kind of power cycling that determines which ROM is loaded.

 

[taritas]

Gateway 3DS's sent me a message saying that the version 4.3.0 works and I guess that the 4.4.0 also

 

[tHciNc]

Does this mean they are using ds mode for something? They mention bluecard is a ds card, also if they say their initial entry point is still available in 6.0 but will be patched after release would mean different exploit to yellow8's, possibly used his to make further progress

"Gateway will be shipped with 2 cards, the red Gateway shown in our video, which will handle 3ds backups, and a blue DS cart which will be used to prepare the console."

 

[BORODA]

Does this mean they are using ds mode for something? They mention bluecard is a ds card, also if they say their initial entry point is still available in 6.0 but will be patched after release would mean different exploit to yellow8's, possibly used his to make further progress

"Gateway will be shipped with 2 cards, the red Gateway shown in our video, which will handle 3ds backups, and a blue DS cart which will be used to prepare the console."

It is very likely, because they need to run custom code, and only something that can run it is a DS card. So probably they will use a DS card to trigger the exploit somehow and then you will need to insert the actual game card.

 

[Mementos]

Does this mean they are using ds mode for something? They mention bluecard is a ds card, also if they say their initial entry point is still available in 6.0 but will be patched after release would mean different exploit to yellow8's, possibly used his to make further progress

"Gateway will be shipped with 2 cards, the red Gateway shown in our video, which will handle 3ds backups, and a blue DS cart which will be used to prepare the console."

This is just speculation from me, but il think they found a exploit in the nintendo ds virtual machine and break through the ds emulator/virtual machine into 3ds, so they are able to modify the system files The fact that they are able to load and save savegames to the Nintendo3DS SD ´Card proofs, (if its real, but I'll trust them) that they have access to the (maybe whole?, or at least partially) 3ds system. So regionfree, gui etc would be theoretical be possible. IMHO

 

[sonic2756]

Asked the GW team if you need a 3DS on 4.5 to update the card. They said no.

EDIT: Image wouldn't resize, so here's a link to the email. http://d.pr/i/bYUZ

 

[Riku]

Second 'blue' card may be used to trigger exploit and patch RAM or NAND so 3DS can skip some security checks on main Gateway card.
Also seeing some people referring and speculating about GUI... It most likely just PC tool for managing and transferring ROMs to SD.

 

[PokemonFan]

I think the firmware 4.5 of the 3ds becomes like 3.55 for the ps3.

 

[Rytoast]

I think the firmware 4.5 of the 3ds becomes like 3.55 for the ps3.

I really hope not. I preordered with the assumption that it would work on 5.0. Maybe that's why they were telling everyone to not preorder until they said so?

 

[Coto]

I'm on 4.2.x.xU, on a stock Aqua Blue 3DS XL. (around November/December 2012?)

 

[gamefan5]

I can see it now...
This october...
Oh no... we thought it would be quiet...
But no... A new flashcart has emerged from the depths of hell.
Which means...
Pokétards... as far as the eye can see. The flood gates have opened.

All and all, that's pretty cool with the flashcart but I cannot wait to see the reviews for it.

 

[ßleck]

1st post updated with new information from Gateway 3DS.

-another world

I find the fact that you're writing your name under every single post, even though you can clearly see who you are on the left side of your posts, highly disturbing.