As I said in another thread, neimod/yellow8 sold their exploit to the highest bidder. That is why they were "concerned" with free piracy if they released the hack. Notice the "free" part. They don't mind the piracy part, as long as they get paid for it...
There is no income from CFW, but there is from flashkarts... That is all folks...
PS: Making money from their hard work is fine, spreading moral BS about preventing piracy is not...
I have kind of a hard time believing that though. They seemed so adamant about preventing piracy. It's far more morally wrong to try to profit off piracy than to simply allow it to happen.
I would not be surprised if they make a post to dispel any rumor that they had anything to do with this in the future. Maybe even a post that explains a bit how it works, I would be interested in reading that
nothing as in NOTHING? or nothing as in nothing to help run roms on a lower firmware they are designed for?
i mean, surely it would make the rom smaller right by removing the update file?
maybe i don't know about how the hack works, but hmm... just because there IS a hack, it doesn't mean you don't need hardware, right?
sure there may be a kernel hack, but that doesn't mean you have to be able to trigger it by some image/mp3/file on your sd card. but maybe not?
maybe i am thinking about this the wrong way? it seems a bit like how people were getting upset with the ps3 and cobra's ode, why do you have to pay for hardware etc, release it as a software hack etc... but, it seemed like it HAD to be hardware... how else can you have an ODE without hardware? (at least, without heavily hacking the fw... etc, surely anything can be done if the source code for the os of consoles were released)
Well, we don't know for sure yet, but by the sound of it, that second cartridge used to prepare the 3DS likely installs something onto the 3DS that allows the flashcart to function. It could just as well allow loading from the 3DS SD card though it might be more work.
Their "entry point" as they call it is probably a portion of a retail game being exploited, similar to the 3DS/DSi carts currently available, but maybe requiring some work on the user end to trigger the exploit, like how hacked Wii saves work. This would technically allow them to run anything once the kernel exploit is used to gain system access, including a loader that would launch games from the SD card.
That doesn't mean a hardware device isn't required, as the second cart may be required on every boot to enable games to load from the flashcart. We don't know much about this yet, but there is probably a reason they have never shown the 3DS being turned on in their demonstration videos. It's always on before they start recording. Still the main flashcart that only serves as an interface for a MicroSD slot to load games from is basically unneccessary as there is no reason they couldn't load games from the main SD slot when they have full kernel access.
Regardless, with a kernel hack there is nothing stopping them from modding the firmware to create a CFW of sorts though it would for sure be more work if they aren't already doing something similar to this. This might still happen by a homebrew developer creating something that makes use of the Gateway 3DS in some way to mod the system though. I wouldn't expect any flashcart team to do this as it would be a lot of work for something they wouldn't benefit from in any way.
However, I think what they are currently doing to load games from the flashcart could be modified to load from the SD slot with relative ease by someone skilled at console hacking, as the SD slot is just another peripheral and with the kernel hack they have access to everything.
That being said, since no one quite knows exactly what the hack does to allow loading games on the flashcart apart from the Gateway team and possibly yellows8/neimod, I can't be entirely sure that it would be that easy, but it's definitely possible. What the hack does may be as simple as modifying a few bytes of memory that bypass some check preventing it from working normally. In that case loading from the SD card could mean writing an entire loader that emulates cart access.
But if the hack actually does something a bit more complicated than that, such as reading directly from the MicroSD slot, it could very easily be modified to read the normal SD slot instead. Especially as they have proven they are already able to read and write from the main SD slot.
