I look forward to a SNES emulator with some nice frameskip and timing errors, and everyone going "See, the 3DS can emulate SNES, Nintendo are just lazy! This is fine!"
And then I'll laugh at you for ignoring the fact that perfect SNES emulation on the 3DS already exists.
And then I'll laugh at you for ignoring the fact that perfect SNES emulation on the 3DS already exists.
Namco does what Nintendon't
Hopefully Nintendo can get this blocked with a nice stability update before it gets out, there's no way I can see this not leading to piracy
On one hand,region-free, fuck yes.
On the other hand, piracy...
Sounds like its relatively harmless from a piracy perspective. Heck I am not even sure the region lock bypass is even possible with this
Its just a usermode exploit to run homebrew at the moment right?
Not sure how you think they'd be able to block it without having the faintest idea how it works yet. And besides, as I said in a previous post, this exploit /cannot/ by itself lead to piracy. You'd need to develop a further kernel exploit on top of this for that, and kernel exploits are MUCH more difficult to find and implement.
It is, yeah, but the only one who knows the intricacies of just how much access this exploit has is Smealum himself, and he's all but confirmed that region bypass should be possible.
I don't pretend to have any technical knowledge, however Nintendo could have some more ideas about how he's done it than we know and even if piracy does require more effort it's still opening a door that it could be dangerous to open
Hasn't it been suggested the snes games in that are actually ported not emulated
The only kind of hint he's given as to how it might work is the exploit name, SSSpwn, which even then, the 'SSS' is probably just an acronym for something arbitrary. And there's no danger to making a usermode exploit public. No cheating, no piracy, none of that is possible. Unless someone manages to find a new ARM9 kernel exploit the 3DS is going to remain as secure as it currently is.
How are you so sure that its only a usermode exploit if he hasnt release any details ?
Or has he say that ?
can someone explain how this enables region free but not piracy? Usermode only shouldn't provide region free.
I have STILL not had time to work on that. that feature might have to wait until after the initial release :/
Why not? You're already running unsigned software or whatever aren't you?
And if it can get past region locks as well I don't see why it wouldn't be able to run ROMs.
How so?
Oh my god, does this mean moddable Smash Bros for 3DS?
Would buy a 3DS XL if this is true.
Yeah but Nintendo could kill it with firmware updatesThis part here. Not quite sure what it means - it won't be an easy download and use type program, correct?
I hope nintendo will let us do homebrewing with genuine copies of original games. Iam ONLY interested region free, nearly nothing else, but i will welcome the rest which will follow.
He should've waited until after Smash was released to come public, so that Nintendo wouldn't have noticed the (presumed) hole and patched it before Smash's release in a mandatory update.
I thought Mexico was the only Latin America eShop and as a result they can just change to Canada unless they were foolish enough to link an NNID to Mexico. Besides if they have an NNID they won't be changing eShop any time soon. The 3DS eShop (without NNID) seems to make a wallet for each country but the NNID only has one wallet and kicks you out (or possibly doesn't let you enter) if wallets don't or can't match (this is why I have yet to link an NNID).What about region free eShop?
I'm not particularly affected by being restricted to the EU eShop, though paying in US dollars would be great. But a friend of mine has to deal with the Latin American eShop, which lacks 90% of everything available elsewhere. If he could access the US, or even the EU, eShop, it'd be an absolute blessing for him
I hope Nintendo patches that hole ASAP, I don't want online-play compromised!
This is what Nintendo gets for releasing a handheld that's region locked. The more you lock things away; the more it will drive people to circumvent it, which then opens up even more vulnerabilities.
While the idea of having a region free 3DS is nice but this also opens the door to piracy and I am pretty sure that Nintendo is going to shut this down in a future update.
This too, facing against a hacker on-line isn't fun.
The DS was region free and that got pirated like hell as did the PSP.