Hacking Nintendo Console Hacking at 33c3! (Discussion)

[nicholas dunlop]

Just very recently, at 33c3 a LOAD of exploits for 3ds were revealed! This included:

SOUNDHAX: basic homebrew without having to buy a game!

FASTHAX: ARM11 kernel exploit. (but faster then slowhax/waithax)

SIGHAX: allowing the signing of firmware's.

VECTORHAX: method of dumping bootrom9!

None of these are out yet but in theory they should all work (excluding sighax) on the latest version (currently)! I'd like to hear what you guys think in the comments!

LINK TO Nintendo Console Hacking at 33c3 video: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8344-nintendo_hacking_2016

 

[RedBlueGreen]

Sighax seems like it will be cool if it DOES work on the latest version. I doubt it though because I'm pretty sure 11.0 blocked legit cias and doesn't allow the installation of firmware under a specific version. So just signing isn't enough unless we can get passed that restriction.

 

[Quantumcat]

There's already a discussion here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/33c3-co...c-27-30-smea-derrek-nedwill-naehrwert.450043/

Don't need more threads.

 

[Ronhero]

Sighax seems like it will be cool if it DOES work on the latest version. I doubt it though because I'm pretty sure 11.0 blocked legit cias and doesn't allow the installation of firmware under a specific version. So just signing isn't enough unless we can get passed that restriction.

I thought slowhax booting into fbi on 11.1 installed legit cia

 

[Eastonator12]

I thought slowhax booting into fbi on 11.1 installed legit cia

It does

 

[Flying Scotsman]

SIGHAX: allowing the signing of firmware's.

I'm assuming this is like the PS3's CFW scene where we could effectively make our own (major) changes to the FW (like having a running FTP server on the homemenu instead of having to run homebrew for it)? Or would it just be more like CFW as it stands, just we can sign it and the 3DS accepts it?