AcademicSaucer
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you still need a 3ds with 4.1-4.5 firmware
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3DS Flash Cart Now Shipping: Nintendo's nightmare coming true
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you still need a 3ds with 4.1-4.5 firmware
There are threads all over for items who might primarily be used for piracy. Every thread about people needing to play mkv files or something is generally a thinly veiled piracy discussion. Does that mean those with legit uses shouldn't be able?
Indeed, but I'd wager not for long.
I'd much rather discuss this on GAF with responsible people than some shady website with kids begging for rom links.
DonMigs85
Member
The problem is that for every honest (I hope) flashcart optimist like you there are probably at least a hundred thousand people who will use it solely for piracy. That's why I don't want flashcart development or firmware/SD card hacking to progress at all. It really hurt the DS and PSP later in their lifecycles.
Sure it makes things more convenient for you, but if future game releases dry up what's the point?
It's being selfish, pure and simple. It's meant to be a closed system so you have to play by the platform holder's rules. There are open source devices for the other stuff you want.
Kind of. From what Im' reading, the retail carts actually give an error that the save data is corrupt, so those don't work. It's very buggy and only loads half the time, but it looks like games with made newer SDKs do indeed work. There's eshop access too, but no online play.
Ouch, poor Nintendo. Is this the start of a wave of carts for the 3DS?
I really don't think this will hurt nintendo much.Seems like a too much hassle for this to become a thing.
By time this really starts rolling we'll probably already be hearing things about the 3DS successor.
That certainly wasn't the case with the original DS. And obviously not the PSP... or the Wii......
It is the case for PS3 and Gamecube though.
Yeah those two definitely weren't nearly as big as far as this scene goes.
I'm expecting the 3DS successor to be announced in 2015 and released in 2016(though it could be announced in 2016 I guess) and I don't see these flash carts reaching the right price or having the features people want like online until around the end of 2014 and even then it will take time for it to get into enough people's hands to where it will be a legit issue as the devices you mentioned.
DonMigs85
Member
Hopefully yeah. And the lessons learned from this will hopefully make the successor much tougher to crack.
Hesemonni
Banned
Make product more desirable as is and thus give less incentives for cracking. Ie. Proper account system, region free, maybe some sort of subscriber program like PS+ for starters.
Everything gets cracked eventually but the best thing to just hold out long enough I guess.
People will always want to crack a device no matter how desirable it is.
DonMigs85
Member
Hopefully the first two, but Nintendo is pretty stingy and I doubt they ever offer anything like Plus.
Hesemonni
Banned
Wii U?
Wii U?
There are hacking communities for the Wii U just like there is for every other device.
Just Googled it to get the full specs.
Gotta get on this. So many DS Ramble games I missed!
I doubt the people who use these devices care for any of this in the slightest. Who are the main audiences of those carts? Parents who don't want to buy ganes for their kids, teenagers who don't have any money or would rather waste it partying, etc. Something like an account system or region free games has never been a problem with the DS and it didn't stop people from buying R4s in the millions.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
After Napster iTunes started selling songs for a buck. People still pirate.
Movies are dirt cheap to rent/buy/stream/watch. People still pirate.
Waylon Drums
Member
iTunes had shite quality and awful DRM at that time and I can usually find a movie on blu-ray cheaper than an HD digital file on iTunes or Amazon and both of those services still have awful DRM for their videos.
Cool, thanks for the update.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
I'd buy this if they'd find a way to make the CPP compatible with every game (I mean the corresponding 3DS > CPP buttons L and R, not hacking camera control with the right circle pad or something similarly impossible).
I still hate that Nintendo forces you too take it off every goddamn time a game is not CPP compatible... which means 99% of the times you play a game.
I still hate that Nintendo forces you too take it off every goddamn time a game is not CPP compatible... which means 99% of the times you play a game.
Sorry for bumping, but this might interest many of you people: http://gbatemp.net/threads/region-free-cart-loading-with-emunand-no-flashcards.360261/
Normmatt has figured out a modification to the Launcher.dat file that allows Gateway mode (normally the mode you use to play backups) to instead play commercial game cartridges of any region. This still relies on a 4.1 - 4.5 3DS firmware version, but now anyone with a compatible 3DS can stay on their old firmware version, get access to the latest firmware version via emuNAND, and play your legally imported games on your 3DS
(note that "Carts which use the 6.x saving crypto will corrupt if run on this firm. There is no easy way to fix that I'm afraid." - Normmatt). This basically includes newer games like Pokemon X/Y and Link Between Worlds.
Normmatt has figured out a modification to the Launcher.dat file that allows Gateway mode (normally the mode you use to play backups) to instead play commercial game cartridges of any region. This still relies on a 4.1 - 4.5 3DS firmware version, but now anyone with a compatible 3DS can stay on their old firmware version, get access to the latest firmware version via emuNAND, and play your legally imported games on your 3DS
(note that "Carts which use the 6.x saving crypto will corrupt if run on this firm. There is no easy way to fix that I'm afraid." - Normmatt). This basically includes newer games like Pokemon X/Y and Link Between Worlds.