Hacking Gateway Brick on b2 caught on camera finally :D

[gamesquest1]

Following up on my earlier statement I must say I am amazed by the number of people that suddenly now seem to have complete trust in Gateway not to damage their consoles. Have they genuinely forgotten how recently Gateway decided it was OK to brick people's consoles that used 'mafia' products?

Do remember this was meant to be a private beta, anyone taking part with leaked files before it had a chance to be thoroughly tested did so at their own discretion, I didn't forget their past and was hoping to have at least a few days to test, but as is the internet private isn't a word that exists

 

[LegendaryFighter]

Yeah I would wait to hear what some devs say about the code, [...]

There isn't anyone checking this code right now, I guess. Probably we'll have to wait till someone bricks his/her console or am I wrong?

 

[gamesquest1]

There isn't anyone checking this code right now, I guess. Probably we'll have to wait till someone bricks his/her console or am I wrong?

Initial reports from dev's is that the brick code has been removed

 

[LegendaryFighter]

gamesquest1

So I had been wrong
Didn't read those reports, could you please post the links?

 

[gamesquest1]

gamesquest1

So I had been wrong
Didn't read those reports, could you please post the links?

we're taking a look at their new launcher's payloads to see if there's bricking code. from what it sounds like, they replaced it with checks for their white card. we'll see though.

From here

http://gbatemp.net/threads/brick-code-gone-in-lieu-of-detection.363947/

 

[LegendaryFighter]

Ok, thanks for this. Unfortunately, it's just speculation without any proof. Hopefully we'll se some further research in the future.

 

[Another World]

Don't think that's the case... Even with the price it's not 'big business'. GW coders aren't gonna get rich off these carts, clones or no clones.

i do believe you have no idea how much money is generated from this business. i'm privy to information that i can not go into details about. i will only say that when paypal began freezing retailer accounts that the amount of money frozen was told to me by a few select [and popular] retailers. it was enough to make my head spin. the teams behind these cards are making much more. this is an extremely profitable business. you have to keep in mind how unbelievably easy it is to hack/exploit ds handhelds for piracy and homebrew. you have to remember that the r4 was so popular that a lawsuit was filed that included 50 companies (http://www.vg247.com/2013/07/09/nintendo-and-49-other-companies-prevail-in-r4-card-lawsuit/). ds flash kits are no longer a garage hobby (as passme devices were).

-another world

 

[retrofan_k]

Following up on my earlier statement I must say I am amazed by the number of people that suddenly now seem to have complete trust in Gateway not to damage their consoles. Have they genuinely forgotten how recently Gateway decided it was OK to brick people's consoles that used 'mafia' products?

Probably the most sensible post I have seen since the Omega release. Non bricked or not or a new user to the scene, I would sit it out and let others test it thoroughly before making any quick decisions, as they are not to be trusted. People are frigging blind and forget how much of shit storm of a mess that was created after the beta 2 bricking fiasco. Its all like flies on shit at the moment after the private beta leak, and no final is out yet even though they say 24-48 hours from now. Even then, who could say its another 4 months for a release. Triad corrupt business and corrupt people remember PEOPLE!!

 

[Mira]

it is called beta version for a reason.....and that reason is "you use it at your own risk"

 

[Technicmaster0]

it is called beta version for a reason.....and that reason is "you use it at your own risk"

It's even private beta.

 

[Rinnux]

Guys.. the public version was released 2 days after the private beta. That is nowhere near enough time to debug. The 2.0 public and private are exactly the same.

 

[gamesquest1]

Guys.. the public version was released 2 days after the private beta. That is nowhere near enough time to debug. The 2.0 public and private are exactly the same.

nope they aren't public is 2.1 and adds eshop rom support....don't see how you would say they are the same but oh well

 

[goober]

Guys.. the public version was released 2 days after the private beta. That is nowhere near enough time to debug. The 2.0 public and private are exactly the same.

They spent a lot of time on Omega before release. They already knew that they had almost all the bugs ironed out, did a private beta just in case because you never know in the wild for sure, and since there were very, very few problems that weren't user error or clone errors, they didn't have much to do because, derp, they already spent so much time. And the issues that did come up were likely 100% anticipated and they probably had an idea on how to address it. These guys are obviously not amateurs and are rather competent.

As to the eshop stuff, I'm sure they wanted to worry about it later, maybe it was ready to go already and wanted to tease - or maybe it was surprising to how easy it was for them, who knows, who cares. We have it now. Will bugs pop up? certainly. Will it be a huge issue? Very unlikely. It's obvious that they indeed spent all that time doing stuff instead of just puffing up their chests and waiting till the last moment.