Homebrew What causes a ban?

[Deleted User]

I was thinking about using Homebrew to get both Tetris (which was removed) and Virtual Console Injections (for games that aren't on VC). But I do not want to get banned (as I still use eshop and Pokemon Bank). So what causes a 3DS to get banned? Just cheating online? Having custom CIAs (injected VC games)? Having Homebrew period?

Also, my NNID is used on my Wii U, as well as linked to my Switch. Will using Homebrew on 3DS potentially ban me from those too?

 

[AmandaRose]

You can only get banned online for

1. Cheating online
2. Playing a game online before it's official realese date.

Everything else is safe.

 

[Darkshadow1997]

True, nowadays getting a ban is rare.

 

[Sigma--]

Is it still recommended to send as little data to Nintendo as you can e.g. showing what game you are playing in your Friends List?

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Is it still recommended to send as little data to Nintendo as you can e.g. showing what game you are playing in your Friends List?

Your currently playing game is still sent to Nintendo even if it's not shown to friends, there's no way to avoid that except going offline (and launching another app before going online again as it will send the last ran app)

I was thinking about using Homebrew to get both Tetris (which was removed) and Virtual Console Injections (for games that aren't on VC). But I do not want to get banned (as I still use eshop and Pokemon Bank). So what causes a 3DS to get banned? Just cheating online? Having custom CIAs (injected VC games)? Having Homebrew period?

Also, my NNID is used on my Wii U, as well as linked to my Switch. Will using Homebrew on 3DS potentially ban me from those too?

Cheating in Pokemon (such as having hacked mons) can result in a game specific ban, those cheats can be easy to detect. But there have pretty much not been any 3DS bans in a long time.

 

[ThoD]

Cheating in Pokemon (such as having hacked mons) can result in a game specific ban, those cheats can be easy to detect. But there have pretty much not been any 3DS bans in a long time.

To add to this... As far as I know, the ONLY actual bans in games for cheating have been on Pokemon games and Mario Kart 7. However, for Pokemon, only if it's the latest game (eg: once S/M came out nobody could get banned on ORAS anymore). For MK7, it takes a LOT of online cheating to get banned and I do mean a LOT, so unless you do that, you have nothing to worry about. MOST games will just kick you offline if you are cheating more than just a tiny bit (eg: hacked armors on MH4U simply cause disconnects) without any bans or will just show up an error message and send you back to the previous screen (eg: on Pokemon having Pokemon with illegal moves causes an error to pop-up right before trying to battle other players and send you back to the general online screen).

To sum up, 99.9% of the time, bans come from playing leaked games, avoid that and you are good to go and don't cheat in multiplayer games (feel free to cheat all you want in single-player), not only in case you get flagged/banned, but also to not ruin other people's experience with the game.

 

[Sigma--]

To sum up, 99.9% of the time, bans come from playing leaked games, avoid that and you are good to go and don't cheat in multiplayer games (feel free to cheat all you want in single-player), not only in case you get flagged/banned, but also to not ruin other people's experience with the game.

Good to hear, cheating online wasn't something I was interested anyway, and I have the patience to not play any games before street date. Not like there's much to be released anyway...

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Good to hear, cheating online wasn't something I was interested anyway, and I have the patience to not play any games before street date. Not like there's much to be released anyway...

Indeed, I don't think we have to worry about getting banned from playing leaked games anymore

 

[mario-lucis-caelum]

Don't worry about it. I was like banned since last year but now I'm not and I didn't even inject a new friendcode seed. My 3ds just got magically unbanned lmao

 

[ThoD]

Don't worry about it. I was like banned since last year but now I'm not and I didn't even inject a new friendcode seed. My 3ds just got magically unbanned lmao

That's probably because there are many types of bans and SOME are for X amount of days or month or so, then they go away. Those usually are bans from VERY excessive cheating or breaking Nintendo guidelines on their services (eg: posting NSFW things on MiiVerse when it was active and so on).

 

[mario-lucis-caelum]

That's probably because there are many types of bans and SOME are for X amount of days or month or so, then they go away. Those usually are bans from VERY excessive cheating or breaking Nintendo guidelines on their services (eg: posting NSFW things on MiiVerse when it was active and so on).

Nope; my 3ds got banned because of last year's second ban wave. It magically just unbanned itself.

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Never (to this date) banned on a single 3DS or 2DS system I've modded. Never use cheats and never play games early. Although after the first reports of banning started, I immediately uninstalled all homebrew cia's & started using .3dxs versions and the Rosalina menu to get into the HBL. Not saying that's what prevented me (or anyone else) from getting a ban. Just stating what I did.

 

[Deleted User]

ive gone online with smash bros mods ages ago and im still not banned