Hacking Post your ideas regarding how to hack the 3DS, here

[NickMagliaro]

Not to be an ass, but no. You're basically coding inside a "game" made for tinkering with a limited version of basic.
If you succeeded in making some kind of exploit with petit computer, you would have successfully made a hack inside a game.
Good for you, but it would in no way lead to the 3ds being hacked.

You're not being an ass, you're being honest

 

[357A]

I named a folder "the Homebrew Channel" will that hack my 3DS?

i actually told my friend to do some crap like type in the contra code and create the folder and he believed me

 

[Vampire Lied]

You mean it didn't work for you at all?
Mine worked fine. I can even play Wii-u games on the 3ds homebrew channel now.
Srsly, let's not let the thread get too off track.
For real info about how things are going, check out the "neimod making progress" thread.

 

[Rydian]

found this on youtube

Read the fucking stickies, please.

http://gbatemp.net/threads/found-something-on-youtube-read-this-before-posting.332473/

 

[UnoAphex]

Read the fucking stickies, please.

http://gbatemp.net/threads/found-something-on-youtube-read-this-before-posting.332473/

Jeez louise dude, settle down. no need to swear at people. It's just a forum post.

 

[porkiewpyne]

Jeez louise dude, settle down. no need to swear at people. It's just a forum post.

Problem is that people never learn.

 

[UnoAphex]

All I'm saying is a little grace and civility is a far better response than simply yelling at them. There is thousands of people so you'll get people who post unwittingly. Happens to the best of us. sometimes you really do have to repeat yourselves regardless of how many/signs flags that say "go this way before you do this" Sure rules are rules but thats no reason to swear at people plus Id leave warnings up to real staff .

 

[Rydian]

All I'm saying is a little grace and civility is a far better response than simply yelling at them. There is thousands of people so you'll get people who post unwittingly. Happens to the best of us. sometimes you really do have to repeat yourselves regardless of how many/signs flags that say "go this way before you do this" Sure rules are rules but thats no reason to swear at people plus Id leave warnings up to real staff .

Most people would prefer a verbal warning from a member to an actual-account warning from a mod. Never have I said "Would you prefer I report your post to a mod instead of telling you myself?" and had somebody answer "yes".

The swearing is to make a point, that posting without doing any research on the matter (a quick youtube search for the obvious key words is not research, otherwise everybody would know about it) is just annoying to forum users and they should at least do a cursory glance around before posting about something.

 

[TheZander]

I think anyone who reports simple post about a youtube video to the mods is screwed in the head.

 

[Rydian]

Or maybe they're people who are tired of false info being posted in a discussion thread, while there's a sticky telling people specifically not to post fake youtube videos?

 

[Zero]

Has anything been done with 3DS save file hacking yet?

 

[Originality]

The last time someone asked me if I'd rather my post get reported rather than receive a verbal warning from them, I answered yes.
They accused me of dripping with sarcasm.

Anyway, it's easy to fake YouTube vids of 3DS emulation. Record a bit of gameplay, edit it into a Windows screen, and suddenly you get worshipped as a prophet. Or accused of frauds and scams.

 

[Daemauroa]

wouldn't be actually easier nowadays to build a 3ds by reverse engineering it and make it compatible with 3ds flashcarts? or even just using the sd card slot? just a noob-theory, I know. I heard there was actually a person who was planning to reverse engineer the thing.

 

[SifJar]

Has anything been done with 3DS save file hacking yet?

No. AFAIK, there is no (public) way of re-encrypting saves so 3DS games will accept them. Or if there is, it's only for quite old games or something.

 

[DarkWork0]

Just a question involving the encryption. If part of the aes encryption was somehow found, say the first 4 bytes or whatever, would that partially uncover any data or plaintext?

 

[superspudz2000]

why not just make a Mod Chip?

Hardwiring is usually better than softmods in the console world.
its not for the average joe but thats a good thing.
the people following the DS scene have gotten lazy,
just pop in a R4 gold and away you go.

they should be looking at more complicated means to get homebrew on 3DS,
including de-soldering the CPU and wiring in a custom programmed CPU.

 

[Rydian]

wouldn't be actually easier nowadays to build a 3ds by reverse engineering it and make it compatible with 3ds flashcarts? or even just using the sd card slot? just a noob-theory, I know. I heard there was actually a person who was planning to reverse engineer the thing.

Same thing.

You might as well be saying "Why aren't the sword people thinking of ways to swing the sword through the air and have it collide with flesh in order to cleave through it with the result of crippling or killing the person on the other end?"

Reverse-engineering parts of the system involves studying how it works, and modifying it to work with flash carts and crap would require hacking/modding the system to change it's behavior. Aiming the stuff at the use of flash carts won't make it easier.

Just a question involving the encryption. If part of the aes encryption was somehow found, say the first 4 bytes or whatever, would that partially uncover any data or plaintext?

Nope.

why not just make a Mod Chip?

'Cause they'd still need to know how all the signals pass around the system (from what we know some of it's encrypted even when passing between the parts) and then how to modify them in order to introduce wanted behavior.

In addition, softmods are heavily preferred to hardmods nowadays, especially in mobile devices. When's the last time you saw somebody do a hardmod on an android phone to root it? How many modchips do you see for the Dingoo and Experia Play? Jack shit.

Hardwiring is usually better than softmods in the console world.

Not in the modern handheld world. There was one modchip for the PSP for examples, and almost nobody gave a shit. Why would anybody spend lots of time and money taking the device apart just to have a more limited version of what other people could do with just the purchase of a game?

they should be looking at more complicated means to get homebrew on 3DS,

Who says they aren't? There's pictures circulating of dismantled machines hooked up to debugging boards... and the people doing that shit aren't the people here asking extremely broad questions.

including de-soldering the CPU and wiring in a custom programmed CPU.

Hahahahaha, yeah, good luck with that nowadays.

 

[Originality]

You can't put any random CPU in place of the existing CPU. That's like taking out your brain and replacing it with a donkey's brain. There won't be much loss overall, but since they're wired differently the body won't work very well at all.

Working out how the CPU works is one of the methods for reverse engineering, however the CPU (and other microprocessors in the digital backbone) tends to be the most protected part when building systems. Good luck breaking past that.

 

[HorreC]

I keep looking at the hardware of the 3ds, and I see many spots around the processor that dont have the marked resistors on them. Now I know they planed for them, and the must have been changed in a hardware revision, but if we connect those with similar resistors that surround it would we be able to get a less stable processor or I/O and create a undesired environment to maybe get exited code that might have signatures or anything really? I am just a noob by all rights but I cant help but think there was a reason they were marked then not used.

 

[Rydian]

Not really, no. If the system crashes, how the hell are we supposed to gather any info? And we'd need to be able to influence the crash and make it repeatable.

Also, there really needs to be a "I WILL READ THE FUCKING STICKIES" notice you need to agree to before posting in this thread, because there's a theories sticky for this kind of stuff...