Mario Kart 7 Patch is up!

[King Zargo]

So the patch is saved on the SD card, if you don't have it inserted then you can't play online. :/

Better than to filling the Internal memory up with patches.

 

[nl255]

Hopefully they will make a Devil Survivor Overclocked patch soon.

 

[ferofax]

So the patch is saved on the SD card, if you don't have it inserted then you can't play online. :/

like every single patch in existence...

But you're missing the point. We're not patching games installed on a hard drive where you can overwrite stuff, we're patching games on a READ-ONLY MEDIA. and on a handheld too.

a more accurate way to compare it to would be with cheating devices like the Game Genie and Game Shark. the firmware now patches the game on-the-fly, while in memory, instead of messing with the game files itself. when the game is online and loads up a glitched track, the patch fixes the map in memory. it makes patching possible on non-editable media.

anyways, i totally called this last year. i'm so proud of myself, lol.

 

[prowler]

So the patch is saved on the SD card, if you don't have it inserted then you can't play online. :/

like every single patch in existence...

But you're missing the point. We're not patching games installed on a hard drive where you can overwrite stuff, we're patching games on a READ-ONLY MEDIA. and on a handheld too.

sd card isn't read only memory tho?????????

How do you think you patch console games, it's just the same

 

[dmace81]

I never knew about the cheat. Till I saw everyone online but me somehow getting ahead of me in that track. Glad they did this. Now it will be more fair online. Oh and another thing will someone please ban that idiot fgjher. This isnt an advertising site.

 

[FireGrey]

I find it funny how a lot of people still choose wuhu mountain loop.

 

[ShineStar]

So the patch is saved on the SD card, if you don't have it inserted then you can't play online. :/

like every single patch in existence...

But you're missing the point. We're not patching games installed on a hard drive where you can overwrite stuff, we're patching games on a READ-ONLY MEDIA. and on a handheld too.

sd card isn't read only memory tho?????????

How do you think you patch console games, it's just the same

He's referring to the game cards which are read-only.

 

[nl255]

So the patch is saved on the SD card, if you don't have it inserted then you can't play online. :/

like every single patch in existence...

But you're missing the point. We're not patching games installed on a hard drive where you can overwrite stuff, we're patching games on a READ-ONLY MEDIA. and on a handheld too.

a more accurate way to compare it to would be with cheating devices like the Game Genie and Game Shark. the firmware now patches the game on-the-fly, while in memory, instead of messing with the game files itself. when the game is online and loads up a glitched track, the patch fixes the map in memory. it makes patching possible on non-editable media.

anyways, i totally called this last year. i'm so proud of myself, lol.

I doubt they do that. They probably just have it load certain replacement files from the SD card if found, similar to Riivolution but the replacement files are signed/encrypted.

 

[Bowser-jr]

Hehe, nice, now player can't cheat while online. Would have be nice if that patch would work online but I guess they figured that if you play offline with friends, you play by your own rules.
Kudo's to Nintendo, and to more patching of 3DS games.

 

[Arras]

Hehe, nice, now player can't cheat while online. Would have be nice if that patch would work online but I guess they figured that if you play offline with friends, you play by your own rules.
Kudo's to Nintendo, and to more patching of 3DS games.

Actually, that's a good question. The patch doesn't work in Time Trial, so I assume it won't work in Grand Prix either, but what about local multiplayer?

 

[frogboy]

Finally, I don't have to cheat to win. It seems that the only track anyone ever wants to play is Maka Wuhu, and it ALWAYS gets picked.

 

[ferofax]

So the patch is saved on the SD card, if you don't have it inserted then you can't play online. :/

like every single patch in existence...

But you're missing the point. We're not patching games installed on a hard drive where you can overwrite stuff, we're patching games on a READ-ONLY MEDIA. and on a handheld too.

sd card isn't read only memory tho?????????

How do you think you patch console games, it's just the same

well don't consoles have HDD and require installation?

or maybe i'm just not familiar with consoles in general. but it is relatively new for handhelds.

I doubt they do that. They probably just have it load certain replacement files from the SD card if found, similar to Riivolution but the replacement files are signed/encrypted.

well of course they replace files around. they need to if they want an accurate remapping of the out-of-bound areas (to block the glitch shortcuts). when i mentioned cheat devices, i meant how they changed data while in memory, not just inserting hex codes somewhere. the firmware's OS is probably acting like a proper hypervisor now. when it loads the game, it checks for patches, and takes note of them. every time the game requests for something a patch is supposed to fix, the OS loads that part from the cartridge and then loads the fixes from the SD card before feeding the modified assets to the game engine.

or at least, that's my idea of it. if the game engine requests for asset A (which is glitched), the OS intercepts that request and swaps the glitched asset A with the one from the patch on the SD card. but the OS has to know which assets to look out for, and it knows by checking the patches it currently has on the SD card. then, when the related cartridge is loaded, the OS knows it has a patch and swaps data back and forth between them.

 

[prowler]

well don't consoles have HDD and require installation?

or maybe i'm just not familiar with consoles in general. but it is relatively new for handhelds.

Not all games require installing but if it does, patches do not touch this data at all, it's separate from the install data.

And PSP games had patches brah.

 

[ferofax]

well don't consoles have HDD and require installation?

or maybe i'm just not familiar with consoles in general. but it is relatively new for handhelds.

Not all games require installing but if it does, patches do not touch this data at all, it's separate from the install data.

And PSP games had patches brah.

now that i honestly did not know.

ah well, it's still a good thing. what i wanna see now would be new content on published games. something like online for Starfox64 3D.

 

[CrimzonEyed]

If the 3DS card was read only.... How are we saving?
Seperate chip in the card that save data is stored?....

 

[Bowser-jr]

Hehe, nice, now player can't cheat while online. Would have be nice if that patch would work online but I guess they figured that if you play offline with friends, you play by your own rules.
Kudo's to Nintendo, and to more patching of 3DS games.

Actually, that's a good question. The patch doesn't work in Time Trial, so I assume it won't work in Grand Prix either, but what about local multiplayer?

As I said, Online, we hate it when players win by cheating. So it makes sense that they only patch the online mode. They patch the offline mode in the future, but since offline mode is mostly played among your peers, we'll probably play by our own rules. We may decide to cheat or not cheat, since CPU's don't cheat in the first place.

 

[pokefloote]

If the 3DS card was read only.... How are we saving?
Seperate chip in the card that save data is stored?....

Same as any nds game. there's a part for save storage, the actual game is read-only.

 

[thaddius]

Why is GoNintendo reporting that the update or this patch is "killing off flash carts"?

 

[MakiManPR]

Why is GoNintendo reporting that the update or this patch is "killing off flash carts"?

Because you need to update the 3DS to get the patch. Without the patch you can't play MK7 online. If you don't care about online play then is nnot a problem for you

 

[thaddius]

Umm... so is the patch killing off flashcarts, or is it the update?