Hacking Get a Gateway or wait it out?

[thorasgar]

Not quite. One involves spending money.

The waiting it out option assumes a purchase will be made when the FW is released. Possibly paying a higher price or waiting longer if on back order.

Both options involve risk.

 

[Kioku]

Not quite. One involves spending money.

Technically the money that would have been spent on the Gateway would go toward something else. Either way, you're spending money. ;P

 

[flamepanther]

Technically the money that would have been spent on the Gateway would go toward something else. Either way, you're spending money. ;P

Perhaps (I could put it in savings, even though I probably won't). But then I'll have whatever that something is while I wait to see if the GW update ever comes, whereas otherwise I wouldn't.

 

[Sparkette]

I decided to update my V8.1.0-19U 3DS XL yesterday to the latest firmware of V.9.4.0-21. I only did it because I knew that cards have only supported 4.1-4.5 for the longest time, and I just figured I might as well go ahead and update so I could actually use the eShop for once. I was certain that support for V8.1.0-19U would never happen. Of course, right after I update it, I come across a news post saying that Gateway has created support for newer firmwares, and were set to start on V8.1.0-19U after. Just my fuckin' luck. So now I've got this V.9.4.0-21 3DS XL, and I guess my only option is to get a Sky3DS even though I wanted the Gateway for the longest time. Unless, of course, Gateway is going to have support for V.9.4.0-21 anywhere in the near future. What the fuck do I do? Just wait...

Ask Jao Chu; he'll know what to do.

 

[henn64]

I would tell you to get a GW, but everyone said Circle Pad Pro support was a given for Sm4sh, look what happened. (check the comments)

 

[tony_2018]

The waiting it out option assumes a purchase will be made when the FW is released. Possibly paying a higher price or waiting longer if on back order.

Both options involve risk.

Or god knows how long the wait time will be.

 

[blinkzane]

I was contemplating getting a Gateway, I've been waiting it out for months and always tell myself there is no point getting one now as each month passes. I was wondering if it is actually worth getting now or should I just wait?

Thanks for any help.

As soon as the cubix ninja exploit released I picked it up at gamestop, but being that gateway should be supporting 9.0 to 9.2 firmware, i went ahead and bought gateway so now I'm just waiting for it to arrive in the mail and for gateway to release its update. I'm extremely excited because this will leave me with two different ways to launch homebrew or backups of my games as I bought a 32GB SD so now I can launch everything from one card. I think it's more than worth it as long as this 9.0 to 9.2 firmware support stays in play. I wasn't sure how hard it would be to order gateway once the release happens so I bought it now so that when it DOES release, I will be ready to go.

 

[Saturosias]

If you're interested in more than homebrew, remember that having a Gateway increases your possible game storage capacity more than twofold (32GB SDHC card + 128GB MicroSDXC).

You might say that you'd never need that many games at once, but it does mean you'll practically never need to erase any with that much storage.

 

[obs123194]

get it

 

[Missilewarriorz]

I made a thread asking the same thing the other day.. depends what firmware you are on. I think you mentioned but if you are on 9.2 and waiting for them to update than I say go for it! I am on 9.2 and i ordered mine yday, because I am expecting them to be very popular when the update comes out, plus some websites take a while to ship . thankfully mine didn't.. but by waiting you might be able to watch the price of the gateway drop as the months go by.. if history is any indication than one day the gw and other flashcards will just keep dropping in price until it hits a low price.

 

[Sheeeld234]

According to the past situations, the latest update can only be applied into new card can;t work with the " old " card, i mean if you buy now, your card maybe belong to the "old" one and can't use their next upcoming update anymore or in other complicated method. And i guess why they still didnot release the update? Maybe they are waiting the "old" cards sold out then start producing the new cards. Be cautions!

 

[Skull Kiddo]

According to the past situations, the latest update can only be applied into new card can;t work with the " old " card, i mean if you buy now, your card maybe belong to the "old" one and can't use their next upcoming update anymore or in other complicated method. And i guess why they still didnot release the update? Maybe they are waiting the "old" cards sold out then start producing the new cards. Be cautions!

Didnt gateway say it was still the old card in an email

 

[Hader]

the new version gateway is coming,but we don't know when it will be breakout,so maybe you can try sky3ds.It is really hot these days.