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[5/14] 3DS Firmware Update (4.1.0-8U)
- Thread starter Thoraxes
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Folders was an update ago.
DXB-KNIGHT
Member
The Mario Kart patch should be around mid may so this might be a prepatch update.
yes, now you can play games from the region you bought your system in.
Sintoid
Member
So still region locked? Useless firmware updates
AbsoluteZero
Banned
Why must you kill their hopeful spirits so ruthlessly?
Sintoid
Member
ZOMG! I just put in a disc. It works!
Cosmonaut X
Member
frankie_baby
Member
Good
feint_ruled
Member
According to gbatemp, only change is in the parental levels to allow kids to update system software. Which is kind of meta.
Seems kind of stupid to allow kids to update the system. Maybe I don't want my kids to do that without me knowing? It's not like they can buy stuff from the eshop with their non-existant credit cards anyway, which is probably the only thing that needs the latest firmware right? Or what if they turn off the system in the middle of the update? They're kids, they don't know better.
(I don't have kids, just hypothetical)
(I don't have kids, just hypothetical)
frankie_baby
Member
Hey kids are more tech Davy than most adults, probably less chance of them fucking it up
feint_ruled
Member
Nintendo, I suspect, are suffering from the same delusion as many other hardware manufacturers in as much as they feel they still partly own your 3DS. I guess they just don't WANT people to be running older firmwares - maybe to better be able to squash flashcards, I dunno. It is risky though - I could see a frustrated kid doing a hard shutdown on an updating 3DS, I hope their fallback mechanisms are sound!
A more benign interpretation might be they don't want to lock kids out of playing if their tech-savvy parent isn't around!
frankie_baby
Member
Kids have been used to messages telling them not to switch off while saves are written, I'm sure they can (for the most part) take notice of a message saying the system is updating
feint_ruled
Member
And if they can't read? ;-)
Not being obtuse, my 5 year-olds have 3DSes and the inability to read has not hampered their enjoyment of many games. It did lead to tears before bedtime once though when they deleted my Ridge Racer save. (My tears!)
Thing is though that the update seems to happen after the 3DS reboots. It takes quite a long time to boot it up after it reboots from a system update. Like 20 seconds or so. And then there's no such message, only black screens. I don't know if it would break or simply try again the next time if you turned it off at that point because I haven't tried. But I wouldn't want to try it either.
frankie_baby
Member
That's where you and I differ, I wouldnt give someone that couldn't read unsupervised access to something so high tech
feint_ruled
Member
You might think that, but they LOVE them. Like seriously LOVE them. They play Streetpass quest everyday, send Swapnotes to each other, beat SM3DL (including special levels), starred all races in MK7... Reading ability or no, this device is perfect for young children. Really made me appreciate Nintendo's genius at designing something with such universal appeal.
frankie_baby
Member
My 5 year old son wants a 3ds I have told him he can have one when he's 6 though even then I wouldn't let him use it unsupervised until he could read reasonably OK and understood how to treat it properly
Oh and I hardly ever let him touch mine
feint_ruled
Member
I probably wouldn't have considered getting them ones when they are so young, but they kept borrowing mine! You don't really need to actively supervise them as it's pretty much a walled garden, just set the parental controls and they can't even start adult games (I had to do this when they figured out how to download Resi demo off the e-shop, LOL).
Now they are eyeing up my Vita, but there I draw the line ;-)
It's funny, when I was a kid parents gave kids video games so they wouldn't have to supervise them all the time (granted, maybe not the best parents 
). But nowadays you wouldn't want to give something like that to a kid unsupervised because they might just break it. I got a Game Boy as a kid so I would shut the fuck up in the car. I miss when handhelds were built to withstand anything.
). But nowadays you wouldn't want to give something like that to a kid unsupervised because they might just break it. I got a Game Boy as a kid so I would shut the fuck up in the car. I miss when handhelds were built to withstand anything.