Gateway 3DS, News and Information

[amaro999]

Their Homepage says they hopefully will rollout the first units within a fortnight (that's 14 days for those of you who weren't born in the middle ages).

Thank you sire. Thou hast enlightened me.

 

[Foxi4]

Well the OS makes such a big difference it's more like trying to break a smartphone along with the cat and mouse game of new updates. The cart spoofing is probably used on the Gateway too, except it spoofs a more specific game so it can leverage the fact that it has a vulnerable-to-hacking savegame on it. Then not only that, it might need to then have a second payload to get from user to kernel; not really clear about that yet myself. It's simple in comparison at least... I mean I don't expect Chinese teams to be doing anything on 3DS really unless public hackers reverse proprietary methods.

I meant I expected it to be bigger in physical dimensions, I expected a more complex or convoluted circuit.

 

[mysticwaterfall]

I could be wrong, but I seem to remember gateway saying in the past that it would work on 5.x. To suddenly backtrack and say 4.5 and that it needs an exploit seems a little fishy and gives me a large lack of faith on the ability to cope with future fw.

What is this "blue card to prepare the system" nonsense? That doesn't seem very safe at all. Granted, I guess its still safer then shorting a battery, but if it modifies 3ds system files, thats a) a potential brick waiting to happen and b) insanely easy to detect by Nintendo

 

[Devin]

The review sample will be here "a day or two ahead" of the stores getting it. So let's wait before calling it quits if you're undecided.

 

[Amber Lamps]

I could be wrong, but I seem to remember gateway saying in the past that it would work on 5.x. To suddenly backtrack and say 4.5 and that it needs an exploit seems a little fishy and gives me a large lack of faith on the ability to cope with future fw.

What is this "blue card to prepare the system" nonsense? That doesn't seem very safe at all. Granted, I guess its still safer then shorting a battery, but if it modifies 3ds system files, thats a) a potential brick waiting to happen and b) insanely easy to detect by Nintendo

I thought it was suppose to work on the update before the current one whichever version that may have been. The only reason I haven't been updating is because I'm tired of waiting for an update for dstwo and that it was iffy which version would work with the gateway (if I even wanted to buy one which so far I don't) I just hope to see some competition shortly after its release. But we all could be looking at another one of those things like we had before with neoflash (although people wrongly accused them of a bunch of stuff and probably still do... I have been in close contact of the owner of that company and he actually doesn't do things to be stingy, contrary to know-it-alls and their beliefs).

Imho the $80 price point isn't too bad because it could have easily been over 100 bucks but it still is a monopoly solution although heh...if you think about it... it's already illegal to begin with and thus being a monopoly really doesn't matter at all in this situation. I expected it to be $120 or $160 anyway because nobody is competing. It probably only costs about $5 to manufacture in large volume..when you break it down per piece. The intiial production run is going to have its own cost and I know how much a few of those figures would look like except that the company that makes this probably already has the gear ready to make it from the get go so it was just a little simple re-tooling to put these together.

 

[Pedeadstrian]

The review sample will be here "a day or two ahead" of the stores getting it. So let's wait before calling it quits if you're undecided.

What's the internet good for if not doomsaying, pessimism, and/or giving up?

On topic (kinda): we should make a GBAtemp pool for when the first clone/improvement of Gateway will be released.

 

[mysticwaterfall]

Looking at the original thread, they said it would work on 5.x. So they are backtracking now with 4.5.

Devin is right though, we should wait for the review. Let's just say I'm losing confidence fast....

 

[Ericthegreat]

If the blue cart would tell the 3ds which game to chose on the sd card, then that would be kinda nice.

 

[ComeTurismO]

6.1.0-11U
NOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Coto]

I bought project x zone, wanted to start up the game then it prompted me for an update. Which I didn't so the game's been sitting there.
Now, regarding updates inside cartridges...

I would like to know if gateway 3ds card bypasses updates, or if newer games even boot with older firmwares (like proyect x zone).

 

[McHaggis]

I wonder if the blue card is a bootleg of a legit game with a save exploit in it, serving to basically allow a card swap. The second card could be booted by bypassing some of the security check. This would explain why the exploit doesn't work on 5.x since one of Yellows8's exploits was fixed then.

If the blue cart would tell the 3ds which game to chose on the sd card, then that would be kinda nice.

I think that's unlikely, it would mean swapping the micro SD between the two cards all the time, which would be quite annoying.

 

[nukeboy95]

The review sample will be here "a day or two ahead" of the stores getting it. So lets wait before calling it quits if you're undecided.

Isn't your 3ds on 5.XXXX?

 

[Devin]

Isn't your 3ds on 5.XXXX?

I do have a friend that hasn't updated since he heard about neimod's exploit on 4.5. Guess I'll have to borrow his until they update the GW3DS to work on 5.X.

 

[Xenirina]

I do have a friend that hasn't updated since he heard about neimod's exploit on 4.5. Guess I'll have to borrow his until they update the GW3DS to work on 5.X.

Shouldn't be too long hopefully.

 

[Ericthegreat]

If they are "exploit" based why can't we run custom code again?

 

[NortenoDelSur]

Shouldn't be too long hopefully.

What if that never happend?

 

[Xenirina]

What if that never happend?

Then someone would figure out how to downgrade the console.

 

[Rockhoundhigh]

Well at least the two carts necessary justify the relatively fair price point a bit more. The blue cart makes me think of a modern PassME though that's probably not such a great comparison.

 

[Rydian]

If they are "exploit" based why can't we run custom code again?

Because the exploit is about getting the 3DS to accept a different medium, not unsigned code.

 

[Rytoast]

Looking at the original thread, they said it would work on 5.x. So they are backtracking now with 4.5.

Devin is right though, we should wait for the review. Let's just say I'm losing confidence fast....

My thoughts exactly. I'm miffed that 4.5 wasn't mentioned once (I stayed on 5.0). But maybe it will work on 5.0. And if not, maybe they'll release an update soon after the cards come out. I'm anxious to read Devin's review once he gets his hands on it.