Woah...didn't know this.... But they will probably crack this, like they did with cryptofix

I tried english menu patched one, on emunand 9.5 and it works fine.

 

New games use new antipiracy checks which all sky3ds carts cannot (and will never) pass. These are enabled by the flags at 0x1FE in the NCSD header. FE:IF and the new Animal Crossing both use these new checks, but whoever dumped AC did a shit job by actually zeroing those bits (and consequently invalidating the entire NCSD header, smh.)

I haven't looked into it as far as I'd like to yet, but I'm under the impression these checks come from brand new hardware responses. Think AP2.5 on 360, except a bit tougher since carts are pretty much a black box compared to DVD drives. Sky3ds only ever existed because the protocol on 3DS carts is so simple and has relatively minimal security. Protocol-level (i.e. not just crypto) cart security like this should keep these cart emulator devices away from new games for a good while, thankfully.

 

Uggghhhh AP 2.5 and XGD3 were nightmares when the new wave DVD's were coming with them luckily C4EVA is a fucking genius.

 

That kind of sucks. I like keeping all my games in box and use my own dumps on my Sky =/

 

It's what we used to have to do on the DSi before the cards became updateable.

 

Correct. The current Sky3DS works with 99% of 3DS ROMs, they're going to have to update their hardware if they want to maintain their compatibility claims.

Yeah, it's nice to see Nintendo finally starting to tackle the Sky3DS.

 

At least they're starting to take a stand against the Sky3DS. Makes me wonder if a full block of the Sky3DS is actually possible now if they have to resort to a header value to check if it's legit or not.

 

that would be a nightmare for everyone if each game has a unique header that can't be spoofed or modified sure you could play offline but online play would be impossible.