Zombie thread, RAAAGH

[2Hack]

Its so quiet. I haven't gotten a single email back from Gateway. I emailed them once a few days ago, just asking if they've started working again since Chinese New Year.

Maybe support is also based in China? Otherwise, I'm not even gonna try guessing why they're so held up

I think the red nail lady theory is the closest we've got to the truth

I'm caving in next week, gonna buy FF TheatRhythm. All my cart are either completed, close to, or not worth my time. I need Gateway+emuNAND for FE Awakening DLC, Resident Evil Revelations, MGS3D, Mario and Luigi, Pokemon X, and a bunch of other games that I gave up on before even playing due to shoddy frame rates from UniSoft. (-_-)

Gonna prob clean out my physical game collection, and power through my wiiU collection. Need to get that stuff under control lol.

 

[BETA215]

Sane people, remember that (almost) everything here said is based in nothing. That means that maybe tomorrow Gateway release the new firmware, or that they release it in the Pi day.

There's no proof of nothing. Just poor speculation.

 

[CIAwesome526]

To Paranoiaville

jeez, all this gaitwaiting, its messin with my sanity, i dont know left from sandwich.. or is it denace... i dont know! Help!

 

[2Hack]

To Paranoiaville

Like last time they all sold out, then bought it back the next week

 

[stanleyopar2000]

Sane people, remember that (almost) everything here said is based in nothing. That means that maybe tomorrow Gateway release the new firmware, or that they release it in the Pi day.

There's no proof of nothing. Just poor speculation.

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU:


There IS NO GATEWAY

"

 

[MrJason005]

I'm bored

 

[BETA215]

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU:


There IS NO GATEWAY

Don't your house has a gateway? Or how do you enter to your house? Are you crazy?

 

[michyprima]

I'm bored

Have sex

 

[2Hack]

Don't your house has a gateway? Or how do you enter to your house? Are you crazy?

No, his gateway has a house, and a few humans

 

[Kohmei]

They were communicating with people who already bought carts, though, so it's hard to believe they were answering e-mails to spur sales alone. After all, few people would actually read them.

I think it's more an issue of when the update is coming. For 9.2 support, they could say it was coming soon because it actually was. If N3DS support is not coming soon, do you really expect they will say "Update is not coming soon"? That would cost them sales. It is better to say nothing, and let people think what they may. Maybe even float some bogus rumors that can't be connected to them, via Gary and Sony shaped sock-puppets, which makes it an easy excuse when they turn out being wrong because "they are not official GW spokespeople"

This is such a terrible way of conducting business

 

[stanleyopar2000]

You take the blue pill, the wait ends in the Sky. You get off your computer and buy a Sky3DS and believe the N3DS update will never come. You take the red pill, you stay in Gatewait and I show you how deep the wait shall be"

 

[GaaraPrime]

MINE!!!

Thanx 2Hack for your suggestion. I bought it off Ebay There were ridiculous prices on ebay.com and ebay.co.uk, but found a seller on ebay.it who agreed to ship it internationally Paid €10 for the game and €13 for Registered Airmail delivery to my place

 

[CIAwesome526]

They were communicating with people who already bought carts, though, so it's hard to believe they were answering e-mails to spur sales alone. After all, few people would actually read them.

I think it's more an issue of when the update is coming. For 9.2 support, they could say it was coming soon because it actually was. If N3DS support is not coming soon, do you really expect they will say "Update is not coming soon"? That would cost them sales. It is better to say nothing, and let people think what they may. Maybe even float some bogus rumors that can't be connected to them, via Gary and Sony shaped sock-puppets, which makes it an easy excuse when they turn out being wrong because "they are not official GW spokespeople"

This is such a terrible way of conducting business

you complaining wont fix that, and i bet their buisness is making more money than yours

 

[Kohmei]

i bet their buisness is making more money than yours

Hahaha, what does this have to do with literally anything? Did you know human trafficking is a $32 billion industry annually? Wow, all that money they're making! That's surely a sign that selling human beings as slave is a good thing to do!

 

[guitarheroknight]

Like last time they all sold out, then bought it back the next week

Yeah... I guess the trolls never learn

 

[CIAwesome526]

Hahaha, what does this have to do with literally anything? Did you know human trafficking is a $32 billion industry annually? Wow, all that money they're making! That's surely a sign that selling human beings as slave is a good thing to do!

no, no you dent get it, you were bashing their way of running a buisness, yet they sell overpriced cartridges all the time, and tons of people buy them. yet, chances are you dont own a buisness, so its not doin as good as their buisness which gives them tons of money for doing very little work, because we have all seen how quickly they push out those updates.

 

[cutterjohn]

MINE!!!

<snipped one GINORMOUSLY EXTRA HUGE image>

Thanx 2Hack for your suggestion. I bought it off Ebay There were ridiculous prices on ebay.com and ebay.co.uk, but would a seller on ebay.it who agreed to ship it internationally Paid €10 for the game and €13 for Registered Airmail delivery to my place

I was going to say that I picked it up off ebay brand new for ~$15 IIRC. Apparently works off a sky3ds as well, but I buy most of my games although I'm losing interest in that as how many of them come with no PRINTED manual(or a crappy one*, and other goodies) any longer. I feel like I'm getting ripped off when all I get is the cheapest of cheap plastic case and a game card... you know where the cover is kind of falling off when brand new, comes pre-cracked or is flexibly flimsy as all hell...

* I thought that SMT Overclocked manual was ginormous and would have tons of info... nope... just in english/french/spanish... still was decent sized but not like they used to be especially for RPGs.

This thread isn't even worth OR opcorn: any longer and seems to have settled down to 12 new pages when I check roughly every day... I'm not even bothering to read anything but the very latest messages any longer either.

At this point I'm hoping for sky3ds hw v3 where the pushbutton is replaced by a programmable index pointer and they boot to a default menu that will set said index instead of having to push button through every ROM... it seems like it could work. Start up with default "ROM" being the menu select app, pick a ROM from a list, quit ROM selected now shows up, play, quit reset back to menu "ROM" or something similar. Seems to me like they're probably just partitioning the card in set sized chunks(probably largest cart size plus maybe some scratch and the button just now increments a pointer, i.e. so the menu thingy should be workable but probably would need new hw as I bet the current pointer isn't accessible to modification from anywhere but the push button although OTOH it has to have some way of knowing how many ROMs are on the card such that it doesn't cycle through a bunch of empty slots... That's be super slick almost back to the DS card functionality days... or at least more useful than the way it works now which is painful...

 

[stanleyopar2000]

no, no you dent get it, you were bashing their way of running a buisness, yet they sell overpriced cartridges all the time, and tons of people buy them. yet, chances are you dont own a buisness, so its not doin as good as their buisness which gives them tons of money for doing very little work, because we have all seen how quickly they push out those updates.

reverse engineering is anything but "little work" i'm sure SonyUSA could vouch for that

 

[Kohmei]

I actually run my own business, and I'm not about to speculate how much money GW makes, how many people are involved and how much work they collectively do. What I am interested in is speculating the relatively quick release of N3DS support based on what we know (which is very little)

And based on what we know, and based on what we know of their terrible business practices, if I were a betting man I would say "support is still months off" is comparatively the safest bet you could make in this scenario, among competing bets.

 

[CIAwesome526]

reverse engineering is anything but "little work" i'm sure SonyUSA could vouch for that

i see your point, still not as much work as updating at a normal rate, replying to emails and questions, and posting updates on progress, like a normal company would, but they dont, they right 1 paragraph every 1 to 2 months saying they released software and it added a feature (plus the reverse engineering), then ignoring everything else. But i still love gateway, no one can do what they do, because the other flashcarts are different, and dont need updates as they are straightforward with 1 feature... play a rom.