Gateway3DS Hands On Impression

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Are people really complaining about the cost? I don't mean to play Devil's advocate here, but let's do some basic math..

The average 3DS game is $40, right? Times that by two and you have the cost of the Gateway, right?

Okay, $80... The average cost of a 2GB MicroSD is roughly $5, at least here it is. Times that by 8, and you have $40. That leaves us at $120. The cost of THREE brand new 3DS games, and you're able to have EIGHT at a time... Not to mention the cards are reusable. Some people won't like me, but in the long term it's cheaper, more of a mess though.

Am I interested? Yup. Will I buy it? Probably not. Too much of a hassle to even get it working.
 
Lol. My 3DS is on 4.2 for those who think of sour grapes. And I have plenty of money if I want to buy one. The thing is, this is overpriced. No way you cut it.
Good quality games on 3DS are not that many, and don't cost that much higher than this+memory cards. Plus, you get the genuine deal and don't have to worry about firmware and going online...

Overprice? Not really, no. Worth the cost to purchase? Depends how badly you want it. Just because a product is released, it doesn't mean that it has to be sold for a price that everyone can afford. If it isn't worth the money to someone, then they shouldn't complain about the cost, but if it is then good for them, I hope they enjoy their cart. Also, seeing as this flash cart is the only current 3DS solution, they have the right to mark it as much as they want. No point in moaning over it.

As for flashcarts having a place in the world, no they don't. I suppose most aren't bothered because they are used to them from older consoles, but in today's world they have no place, when you can have a softmod and run roms from the SD card.

Bolded, italicized and underlined the important parts. Where you CAN have a softmod, then a flashcart is essentially useless. But there are no softmod solutions for the 3DS, DS, DSi, GBA.. In fact, there are no softmod solutions for many of the legacy consoles with flash-carts on the market. So saying they have no place in the world is incorrect. They are a viable form of rom-loaders for consoles that don't have a softmod alternative, so their existence is very welcome. If you have a working 3DS softmod that you'd like to point out to make your point seem valid, then feel free to link it and show me.

As for FAST6191's question about Neimod's and Yellow8's job, no it is not their job to provide us with anything. But, they say things in public, and I can discuss what they say in public. This is called free speech and healthy criticism.

So, when they say we are filthy pirates, make fun of us publicly and mock us and say they won't release anything to help piracy, yet a short while later a flashcart appears to help piracy, I have a right to criticize them, don't I?

I do not get what you are complaining about here, Gateway 3DS has NOTHING to do with Neimod or Yellow8. If they choose not to release anything to help piracy, then their hands are clean of this entire situation. They chose not to contribute, and they have no obligation to do so. So no, you don't have a right to criticize them at all. If Gateway 3DS is released and helps with piracy, then why should Neimod or Yellow8 even be dragged into it?

You could complain and criticize them if they said that they would release it after a flash cart was released, and then didn't live up to their promises, but that is not what happened here. You could also complain if they said they wouldn't release it and then released their own flash cart, but again that isn't what happened here.
 
Devin did you receive the Gateway 3DS cartridge from the Gateway Team, or did you buy it?
If it is the former, did it look like this...
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I got it directly from the GW3DS team. Yes my red card looks like that, but I didn't get the blue card.
 
Can we ban TemplarGR yet?

If we banned everybody that had a questionable relationship with logic and the meanings of words (doubly so as some of that may be lost in translation as well) we would have a somewhat smaller user base. Other than that he has not done anything really outrageous so probably not.
We try to keep things on topic and that is not to say he is not on various radars but again nothing outrageous has occurred.
 
I have a feeling that in the next 2 weeks or so, someone will reveese this Installer.nds and make it so no flash card is required.
 
Can you remove the exploit? Or is your access to the DS mode profile forever gone in favor of switching to GW mode? What did it change your name/message to I wonder (I'm assuming this is where they caused an overflow)?
 

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