Hack youtube: 3DS tubehax patched, had more than 200K users
Remember when developer Smealum had put in place a way to hack Youtube on the 3DS in order to let you run homebrews? Well, it seems the fun is over, as Nintendo is now rolling out forced updates on the device, according to Smealum.
Hack youtube: What is TubeHax?
Tubehax used a mechanism to hack youtube in order to run homebrews (and, more generally, any unsigned code) on the Nintendo 3DS. It was initially released in August this year.
TubeHax and IronHax are two ways to get homebrews to run on your 3DS, and they run up to firmware 9.9. They allow, among other things, to run emulators and enable region-free compatibility on your 3DS. TubeHax required you to install and hack Youtube app, while Ironhax required the game Ironfall. Both applications were free on the eShop, but Nintendo removed the Ironfall game after Smealum’s hack, leaving the youtube hack as the best entry point for homebrews. The Ironfall hack itself was fully patched a few days ago.
Tubehax youtube hack: more than 200’000 users in 2 months
Smealum announced that more than 200’000 unique IP addresses used the tubehax hack youtube in order to access the exploit. Of course, a given user could have used several IPs over the course of a few months, but it’s probably fair approximation to say that tubehax literally had hundreds of thousands of users over its short existence. According to Wikipedia, more than 50 million 3dS units have been sold, so we’re talking of 0.4% of 3DS users… still a pretty good absolute number. And on a side note, kind of in line with my estimates that about 1% of 3DS users use flashcarts.
Tubehax patched, what next now that you can’t hack youtube to run your homebrews?
Since Tubehax, several ways to run the 3DS homebrew launcher have been released. Smealum recommends to use browserhax, another hack that was released recently by developer yellows8. You can find browserhax here.
Additionally, for those interested in how the hack for youtube was put in place, Smealum has made the code open source. You can retrieve the youtube hack source code here.
Source: Smealum on Twitter.
Do you know when the Zelda hack will be released or an updated smash bros hack?
There is a OoThax out already
https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-how-to-install-oot3dhax.396339/
Can’t we just not update YouTube?
but to use that hack it needs to connect to the internet…right? So nintendo can preempt that and demand an update before you can navigate to the required URL
vita has update blocker, 3ds? nope?
And…………..
How hard could it be? Just block a few requests…
Fck you first timers
Wow seems like the last comment was a person with incredible thinking capability
This is a bit ambiguous — even what smea said. Does it mean if you connect to the e-Shop it will try to force an update on you? Because the proxy you set up is supposed to block all Nintendo servers. Maybe they made Google forward data to/from their server to force it in the YouTube app?
To those asking:
it’s the YouTube app that checks if it is up-to-date. If not, it won’t let you use it, and will ask you to download the latest YouTube.
The requests are done via HTTPS, so it can’t be spoofed.