First Custom Firmware for New 3DS

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  1. Modchipguy says:

    It must be my Bday!

  2. zorak_torok says:

    Good news… gives hope for my us version. On vita, losing online functionality is a debate… 3ds, what is online, again? 🙂

  3. lmao says:

    anti piracy bullcrap, it will get reversed and turned into piracy enabled CFW. ***

  4. MrKing says:

    Anti-piracy measures? Really? F*** off. Who do you think you are? If I wanna pirate I’ll f***ing pirate. You can’t stop it.

    • n says:

      People like you are the reason why game devs are constantly dropping systems. WAnts the game? *** buy it you selfish idiot!

    • AliceTheGorgon says:

      While I agree with your point, I feel it would have been better stated in a somewhat less hostile manner.

      CFW is cool, but they shouldn’t attempt to be the ethics police. If they simply didn’t *add* stuff that would only be used to load roms, that would have been fine.
      Specifically crippling the devices’ functionality, on the other hand is not fine. After all, installing CFW requires breaking device restrictions to begin with. Why is preventing .cia installation any worse than preventing CFW installation?

      • Modchipguy says:

        Okay I was definitely hostile. But c’mon. People commit crimes all the time. The CFW maker is committing a crime by making the CFW, and they tell US we can’t do what we want with it? What if i am torrenting a game because Nintendo region locked my system? Suppose I want a game to play that I couldn’t play otherwise. I’m not paying money for something that’s region blocked, or something that wasn’t localized.

        • AliceTheGorgon says:

          I definitely understand the feeling. Far too may people (including many game modders, and not just hardware jailbreakers) think that their work is magically more special than the original product, and that *their* work should be exempt from scrutiny, hacking, etc, when the original product doesn’t get that protection. It completely boggles the mind.

          As for the piracy thing, I’m also generally annoyed by those who have a hard-line stance against it.
          Piracy has saved me from many purchases that I would have absolutely regretted, and let me try things I was unsure of, that I ended up liking and buying.
          Until we get a reliable (non-abusable) way for people to return movies, games, music, etc that they don’t like (for a full refund), I will fully support digital piracy.

          • triplekiller says:

            there was that 60min full trial game “demo” thingy in the PSN if i remember correctly, where you could play the FULL GAME for 60min and after that you could decide to pay for it (and unlock the full game) or just delete it, like you played some kind of demo

        • Edward_McInnish says:

          Committing a crime? Your laws where you live must be sc*** up. Where I live, it’s a different story. We have device freedom laws. Basically, if I own it, i can do whatever the heck I want to it, except piracy. CFW when released is generally a grey area. adding, enabling, or not disabling features that allow for piracy can change a project one has a legal right to into the very weapon companies can use to take you out. On another note, I am personally one who will pirate to try before I buy if there is no demo. I don’t care if my temporary piracy *** those companies off. Not providing a demo is like saying “we don’t have confidence that you will buy our product if you see it first”.
          Mostly gone are the days one can demo the new games at Wal-mart, except in major locations. now all we get is the pre-rendered and polished icing on the cake video. I was also once a poor highschool kid with no job and a PSP ad Wii with glorious CFW. I can understand why people are spoiled thanks to these consoles. Easy piracy. But the other thing these devs are considering is that the 3DS is still too new to blast the door wide open. If pirce was easily available, the 3ds would crash and burn in a few months. You would then be *** that despite being able to get your games for free, that the selection sucks and it’s the console manufacturers fault *cough*psp and sony scenario*cough*.
          the nt poit is the fact that the 3DS is unique. 3D with no glasses? It’s a 3d indie game developers dream! Unfortunately, not every dev has the cash or resources to join nintendo’s indie program, and CFW is their only solution. this is another reason why the target is homebrew, not piracy for the people pushing the scene forward.
          Ultimately, if you feel you have such a God given right to piracy, by all means, show us your elite skills as an elite entitled “hacker” and make the God of all custom firmware. All users ever want is convienence and their self pleasure. If it weren’t for a backstab, the original CFW wouldn’t have existed to users because of precisely this attitude.
          Try taking a step back and look at the bigger picture these hackers are seeing, and be patient. it is only a matter of time before we have full access and your glorious long waited piracy. Or do what everyone else does and buy a dang flashcard since you won’t be supporting the developers anyhow.
          For a better respect of how hard it actually is to make console quality games, try taking a look at Unity. There is a free version, and unless you are serious enough to keep at it, you will be overwhelmed just how difficult simple things can be in a tool whose purpose is to make quality game creation as simple as possible.

        • Aguy says:

          1. “But c’mon. People commit crimes all the time.” What’s your point here? Is this the best rationalization you’ve got?

          2. “The CFW maker is committing a crime by making the CFW” No, he is not. Good lord, if you’re going to shoot your mouth off maybe at least do a bit of research on what is legal and what isn’t. Writing CFW software in general is not illegal.

      • Tuesday says:

        Th’tas the best answer of all time! JMHO

    • anonanon says:

      The reason is very simple, it’s got nothing to do with the users or ethics. The dev simply doesn’t want piracy to be associated with his work. Simple as that. This is HIS product, he can decide what he wants to do with it, you have no right to complain.

    • nope says:

      Well evidently he can and has stopped it. If you’re butthurt about it reverse his checks.

      • Buns says:

        Won’t matter in the long run ya dumb ***. Piracy will be allowed eventually, someone else out there smarter will get rid of this.

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  5. Charles Fasano says:

    I have like 20 3DS games and carrying them all is too much especially if I loose any of them. At least they should allow us to dump our own games and play them. Maybe lock the dump to the 3DS itself or something like that. I thought the whole point of custom firmware was to be able to play home-brew and backups.

    • tjhooker73 says:

      That never works. Or it’s not very convenient. The Wii and wiiu vwii have that for GameCube games and it sucks because you still need to insert the disk in the drive for verification.

      • :v says:

        But they could make it hardware specific similar to eShop content that’s tied to hardware.

      • Axido says:

        Well, for the GameCube games it’s quite less inconvenient than you make it seem. You verify your retail disc once and that information gets saved somewhere on your console AND on your Wiimote. After that you are good to go. You can even play the game on another console as long as you use the Wiimote that contains the verification (that’s the reason it works on Wii U, since it can’t read GameCube games itself). Why shouldn’t something like this be possible on 3DS?

      • Edward_McInnish says:

        Actually, it could very well work just fine. Encryption generally happens on the fly with downloaded eshop titles. If it didn’t, we could be sharing games with a simple copy of the SD card. There are also other keys in retail games that designate that your copy of pokemon y is different than my copy of pokemon y. after all the bans from scene releases didn’t happen at random guesses, as that would be illegal. they have a way to track legit and pirated copies unless the user modifies scene releases properly. Same could be said about clone copies. That is the only flaw with this process. Preventing people from sharing the physical game. This could be solved by connecting to a server and registering your 3ds before copying. until you register your 3ds, you cannot copy it on another (clone copy prevention). Logging onto Nintendo WiFi checks on the fly if another copy with same key is in use and rejects the other copy from online, so your buddy cannot go online with the physical cart or vice versa.

    • anonanon says:

      That’s actually a neat idea, would require more work, but encrypting dumped games with a device specific key would be a cool middle ground. Someone will eventually find a way to work out how the encryption key is calculated, but the same goes for this block. Someone will eventually work out a workaround, or patch the cfw to allow pirated games

  6. Jiro says:

    For all practical purposes, Gateway’s EmuNAND is a custom firmware, making it the first actual CFW for the N3DS, not this thing.

    And it really doesn’t matter whether piracy is good or bad or lets you preview games (something I’m skeptical about)–what is important is that piracy already exists. Giving people crippled tools doesn’t prevent piracy, it just ensures that piracy is profitable.

    • Reprep says:

      I am not sure about Gateway being the first CFW. It has DRM and it needs a flashcart. I wouldn’t classify it a CFW, same is true for the first USB jailbreak solutions on PS3.

    • Edward_McInnish says:

      simply pointing out, skeptical or not, there are people out there who honestly will pirate a game where there is no demo before they buy. My purchases for NFS Rivals, BF3, and Pokemon SS were based on a 24 hour run on pirated copies. Without these, I wouldn’t have purchased the games. And btw, I ended up buying all the DLC for Rivals, and premium for BF3 because the games were good, AND as a thanks for the “free test run the wrong way”. At the time of the test for rivals, there was no demo. even ow, it requires PS+, so some users may still be unable to test it.

  7. Dann says:

    Agree for region free, the custom fw only have to search that, free games? are a lot maybe :/

  8. Stanislav says:

    I prefer the Gateway to start!As it triggers more 3DS games!

  9. Reprep says:

    Yeah, it doesn’t support piracy but it gives us region free and in-game screenshots without any expensive hardware. You already have a Cubic Ninja if you are interested in 3DS scene anyways.

    Also being anti-piracy might be because of avoiding legal issues with Nintendo. It is really problematic to enable piracy publicly on a current-gen hardware. Especially if you are not a flashcart company making money from it.

  10. Stanislav says:

    Reprep,I can’t be interested in the stage of development of this firmware!,Because I have thin white 3DS itself 1 revision!

  11. Anatil says:

    Screenshots.. my greatest weakness.

  12. speedyboy says:

    This only works on 9.2 anyways so this comes at the cost of not being bale to use the eshop ever again.

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