3DS: New freehax exploited app announced by smealum. It’s free, and kind of a big deal, get it while you can!
Smealum recently announced that game Ironfall on the Nintendo eShop could be used to run his homebrew launcher on the 3DS. Nintendo reacted quickly by pulling the game from the eShop.
Today, Smealum announced that yet another app is vulnerable and can be used for Hombrews on the 3DS (presumably allowing people to run the Homebrew launcher as well), and the app is not less than the youtube app for 3DS.
This is a big deal. A “minor” game such as Ironfall can be removed from the eShop, and this will in general not impact many people (except the publishers of the game). But a big player such as Youtube is a different story.
EVERYONE interested in 3DS homebrew should download YouTube from eshop for FREE. tell all your friends, please RT ! pic.twitter.com/DucGj5va3q
— smea (@smealum) August 14, 2015
One would also think that an app such as Youtube goes through a much more advanced security process than your typical game. I believe Google is not directly involved with building the app, so the security flaw probably lies on the binary that was built on Nintendo’s side, but I might be wrong. Either way, we are talking of two companies that have strong interests in ensuring the Youtube app on the 3DS is as secure as can be.
For now, just rush and get the Youtube app installed on your 3DS, then stay tuned for a release from Smealum.
Smealum mentioned that you should get youtube whether you have Ironfall or not. I assume the two hacks are unrelated, but he might stop supporting the Ironfall hack moving forward, in favor of the youtube one? That, or the youtube hack offers more flexibility.
It will be interesting to see how Nintendo reacts to this announce, given how big of a deal Youtube is.
Edit: some people have mentioned that this could be a gigantic troll from Smealum… let’s see how this plays out
I don’t know if this is real or just a test to see what Nintendo will do about this or a massive troll. Either way, I have the app downloaded anyway, so no skin off my bones.
Don’t you remember last time? Kid makes a video, asks for help designing a web page, takes 3 – 5 months actually figuring out how to package the hack, keeps making BS excuses why it’s delayed, then finally releases it when nobody gives a #$%& anymore.
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Nice ! I have Cubic Ninja with a Sky3DS and IronFall and now YouTube 😀
Hmm…I hope he isn’t trolling. This would be a major breakthrough, since Nintendo isn’t likely to remove the YouTube app immediately.
> Today, Smealum announced that yet another app is vulnerable and can be used for Hombrews on the 3DS
Where did you hear that? The only tweet smea made was “EVERYONE interested in 3DS homebrew should download YouTube from eshop for FREE.”
Yeah, so how is youtube a way to make homebrew if it’s not exploitable?
Are you saying he is telling us to download it to watch video tutorial about homebrew? ;…
Here’s my prediction:
To trigger the exploit you must watch a specially modified video (Enter URL here)…
If Smealum is trolling he ends up with the most watched video on Youtube and gets a nice payout from Google.
If Smealum isn’t trolling he ends up with the most watched video on Youtube, gets a nice payout from Google and everyone else profits from free homebrew.
This is gonna be interesting, I think messing with Google might be bad juju but this will fun to watch and use.
Looks like almost everyone will have this hack then haha The YT app is really popular, so yeh. I’m gonna guess it’s going to be called YouHax, or TubeHax now bahaha. Anyway, thanks for the heads up once again, wololo. Still your following ally since the day you converted me. wololooo! :] Aiyoh! X^)
It’s a bold strategy Cotton, Let’s see if it plays out for ’em.
Finally! A use for that diarrhea stain of an application. I used the 3ds YT app twice; and both times i thought to myself: why don’t i just use the vita or my phone. It takes forever to load and can only do sub 360p scaled videos.
Hopefully it’s legit :).
lol.. owning 3ds itself is very questionable.
For me the hack is server proxy
(Sottolineo per me)
And this happens right after I sold my N3DS…
This application is old (2013!) and vulnerable (it’s a web browser, and 2013 webkit had a lot of vulns). That’s what I can say.
Also, you should mention that smea said that it’s better to have both youtube and ironfall, and that ironfall users should download the youtube app.
I love the new mobile layout, but the Ad coverers a big portion of the screen. I’m not complaining that the Ad is there, I’m complaining that it’s too big and obstructive.
I would be super sad if this was a gigantic troll…
Interesting. I wonder how the xploit could work with Youtube, but I assume it’s a web based exploit? since YT is actually like an internet browser, just only limited to youtube webpage only.
SECOND!!
Oh how I hope that this is for real…
Just bought my 3ds today and a free homebrew hack for it would be sweeeeet!
lel
lets say goodbye to the eshop xD
I will be going to the ER with two collapsed lungs from laughing so hard if this does turn out to be an epic trollfest courtesy of Smealum. All the whiners and dumb question askers smothering Smealum on twitter deserve it a hundredfold, that’s for sure. >_>
Well, the YouTube app on that console now has an actual purpose.
most likely the youtube hack requires an active internet connection to load an exploit off a website.
ironhax works offline, but you need a way to inject the save.
so people with both can use the youtube hack to inject the ironhax data into the ironfall save file.
Given his reputation, It’s not going to be a big troll. Also considering that you don’t need to update anymore if you have gotten ironfall.
And another week for release the exploit?
maybe homebrew working thru new smea method will inherit abilities of hosted hacked game. maybe homebrew launched thru ironhax won’t be able to connect to internet (but that will be still ok for most homebrew programs like emulators), and maybe those launched thru youtubehax will be able to. i think i heard vhbl worked that way on psp : if psp game doesn’t connect to internet then the vhbl homebrew can’t either (limited static linked library or something like that)
Guys, it’s a fake. Can’t you see the summer is over?
But I still got iron fall n youtube thanks smea for iron fall tip
can i use pasta cfw woth freehax? on 9.9?
No.becouse pasta cfw is a 9.2 cfw
When I saw Smea’s twit I couldn’t believe it, it seems like an obvious troll at first but then I realized that any app can be exploited just like PSM on vita and demos on PSP…
I already had the app installed so if it happens to be a megatrollololol I didn’t fell into downloading it for this purpose haha
Dis is great even if is bs to throw off nintendo i like this strategy should be done to sony to start controversy worldwide!
I don’t know… I think Sony is more on the safe side, announcing a game as being exploitable would make lots of people buy it and then *** all these people off for no reason when there is no exploit, there aren’t free PSP/vita games out there neither and no one would be mad at the demos being removed if someone tried to pull a fake announcement on them.
Regarding to Vita software, there isn’t even a known way to hack it (other than rejuvenate and eCWF) so it is highly unlikely to pull this one on Sony without actually affecting all the users.
smea said on twitter that –
“i’d like to emphasize that tubehax is no joke. get downloadin yall”
here is proof from him
https://vine.co/v/epb2BxaxiW3
Does doing this let you play 3ds roms, or does that still require a flashcart?
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