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Gamecube had many problems, but piracy wasn't one those.Systems that are way less mass selling don't survive on piracy. GameCube didn't remain profitable because of piracy. 3DS needs to be appealing for third parties as well.
Gamecube had many problems, but piracy wasn't one those.Systems that are way less mass selling don't survive on piracy. GameCube didn't remain profitable because of piracy. 3DS needs to be appealing for third parties as well.
I've had Wifi on to play Animal Crossing: New Leaf, yet it's never automatically updated me to any version.
Maybe that's applicable to later firmware?
EDIT: I just checked, and it's firmware 5.0 added background downloading for updates.
What? No, background updated has been available for over a year. It was added one or two updates after the eShop update.
It won't update in background while you are playing a game. You need to close the lid for it to download the update and the blue led will light up when it's done.
Version 5.0 simply added the ability to download in background without exiting the eShop first (having the eShop open would pause background downloads, even with the lid closed).
I didn't word it correctly, but that's what I meanGamecube had many problems, but piracy wasn't one those.
Just to put things in perspective for all the people screaming "USELESS!": Back in 2005, you had to physically solder the card to the PassMe device so that anything on the NDS could work.
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Link with a plethora of infos: http://natrium42.com/blog/?m=200503
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The Gateway 3DS is WAY more advanced from the start. So please stop posting nonsense.
You can already do both things if you buy the digital version, except that save backup is disabled for ACNL because why not.i'll buy one when im able to dump my games into a single micro SD and back up my Animal Crossing save
AKA flashcart does what nintendont
(with the added fun risk of having your purchases tied to your system and not an online account, yay).
this installer makes a permanent firmware change to the 3DS.
Sounds like a good way to fuck up your ability to play future games.
The only DS flashcard to be working still is the Supercard DSTwo, so good luck on the 3DS card, guys at Gateway.
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I own an Acekard 2i that works just fine, and so do many others
For me, I can live with the risk of losing my eShop stuff because the convenience of downloading the games the moment they come out and having all of them on my SD card is pretty great. I've lost so many physical games to my thieving/careless younger siblings/cousins over the years anyway, so it's not like I had much luck with my physical library.ding ding ding
I've owned a DS flashcart for a while for the convenience of not having to carry around carts. I'll do the same here if I can (as you say without the risk of losing my games if the unit breaks etc)
I meant working on the 3DS, sorry. Or at least, last I checked, only the DSTwo works on 3DS still.
For me, I can live with the risk of losing my eShop stuff because the convenience of downloading the games the moment they come out and having all of them on my SD card is pretty great. I've lost so many physical games to my thieving/careless younger siblings/cousins over the years anyway, so it's not like I had much luck with my physical library.
I also think Nintendo will switch to an account system someday.
Not knowledgeable on the subject, how does it give a backdoor? What kind of exploit do they use?While this is useless due to the current firmware, it does however give people a back door into the system, which could potentially open the system up to a PSP Pandora type exploit.
All I ask for is region free.
There doesn't have to be a point in updating: Games can simply request a certain firmware version. If a game requests 6.0, you have to update. Doesn't matter if there's any feature you care about - the game will simply refuse to work unless you update. It's that simple, really. And there's fuck all the Gateway developers can do about it, because the actual system security hasn't been compromised and such checks can't be circumvented.It's really not that rare. A lot of people are really lazy when it comes to updating firmware.
For example, here is a picture I just took of my 3DS:
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Take note of the "Ver. 4.5.0-10U."
I haven't updated my 3DS in many months because I don't like the slow updating process, I don't have my 3DS connected to the internet 95% of the time, and I just don't have any need to update it because there haven't been any major reasons to do so.
With no awesome new features since 4.0 (folders), what's the point in updating?
There are millions of other people just like me.
Sensationalist thread title? Sensationalist thread title.
I only ever met one other person who bought legitimate DS games, and that's because he lost his R4 and couldn't wait until he got his replacement, so he bought Mario Kart again.
The DS might be the most pirated console of all time.
GC was pirated waaay later in its life, so late it wasn't longer relevant.Systems that are way less mass selling don't survive on piracy. GameCube didn't remain profitable because of piracy. 3DS needs to be appealing for third parties as well.
Not knowledgeable on the subject, how does it give a backdoor? What kind of exploit do they use?
Oh the horror! Not the eshop!
flashcarts didnt cause any nightmares for GBA and DS sales, so no need to be worried
Oh the horror! Not the eshop!
eShop is pretty awesome, dude.
Well they certainly didn't do them any favors. 3DS isn't GBA or DS either.
Can we please not start this? Let him like whatever he wants to like.Yeah, if you like overpriced games and crap VC.
how would you know? Two of the best selling consoles ever (DS and PS2) were also the easiest ones to run "backups" on.
Can we please not start this? Let him like whatever he wants to like.
I....can...play Japanese games now?
But that's not what I'm getting at. I know some people don't like eShop (and that's fine) so it wouldn't matter to them, so there's merits in that.Not an advice people followed when someone disliked eShop. Let him dislike whatever he wants to dislike.
Still, eShop is a more than acceptable loss if it means Region Free, maybe not for me (or maybe yes...eShop largely sucks IMO) or others, but definetly more than one person out there.
Not an advice people followed when someone disliked eShop. Let him dislike whatever he wants to dislike.
Still, eShop is a more than acceptable loss if it means Region Free, maybe not for me (or maybe yes...eShop largely sucks IMO) or others, but definetly more than one person out there.
I don't know about the exploit, but they are capable of modifying the 3DS firmware (which is what the gray card does).
All current flashcarts (SuperDSTwo, AceKard, CycloDS, etc) all are locked in DS mode and don't have access to the 3DS hardware (the same applies to vHBL on the Vita, it runs in PSP mode and doesn't have access to the full Vita hardware, or the hacking of the vWii on the Wii U).
However, since this card runs in full 3DS mode, it gives people a way to attack the console.
If they have full access to the 3DS, it could possibly lead to an exploit that can't be patched by a firmeware update.
That's essentially what happened with Pandora, the only way Sony was able to block it was to release updated PSP's with the exploit patched (which is why Pandora doesn't work on later PSP 2000 or 3000 models). Any PSP that is capable of using a Pandora battery will always be capable of using it. Pandora blew the PSP open because people had full access the hardware (kernel mode) and found an exploit in the CPU code and were able to use it to trigger the PSP's service mode (via a specific battery and memory card).
It's not so simple. First, this flashcard has ZERO homebrew capabilities. It can only run unmodified encrypted ROMs because it does not "modify the firmware" at all: the firmware is also a fully encrypted blob of code that can't be patched by 3rd parties without the private keys that only exist inside Nintendo HQ.
What the DS card does is probably a different exploit that writes garbage to the writable DS firmware memory that somehow disables a hardware check they couldn't replicate with their own hardware.
Before 5.0 was out, Neimrod did found an explot that allowed unsigned code. He didn't release it because he knew the exploit was fragile and could be fixed with a firmware update (which did happen). I'm not sure if this card uses that exploit or even if that exploit could be used to execute encrypted ROMs at all.
The fact that Nintendo can somehow hinder 1:1 copies of 3DS games in any capacity is an amazing feat that shows how far along they got in terms of security. In theory, a piece of hardware that plugs into the 3DS cartridge slot and sends exactly the same data as a real 3DS card is inevitable and should be unblockable, since it doesn't rely on unsigned code.
It seems that the exploit should work on any regular DS flash cart