I get what your saying, I too would be much much more excited if we had a real ak2i/cyclods/supercard equivalent for 3ds.
Ericthegreat - I know, but it's going to be a REAL long time for us to have something like that. Nintendo DS has long been hacked- it's been about 9 years since the original DS came out, which is why we have such damn good stuff out for it - i.e. supercard, but the DS emulation scene as a whole is still pretty sucky compared to other scenes. With AK2i and Cyclo being dead, R4i Gold 3DS, R4i SDHC, and SuperCard DSTwo are the only real good carts left and functioning. The original DS carts relied on slot-2 as well. The fact that we have independently running slot 1 ds emulation carts with perfection for most NDS games is a testament to how far we've come.
It's going to be a looooooooong time, as I mentioned for 3DS to come as far as the DS has. It's only been what, 2 years since the release of the 3DS? Sorry Gateway in itself, as you know is groundbreaking. Let's hope other teams like Supercard continue to be awesome, and maybe sometime in the future, Supercard could develop a 3DS cart? Who knows!