Hacking New 3DS FlashCart - Sky3DS firmware 9.0

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pretty unrelated but:
first there were console wars, now flashcards wars
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maybe this time gateway team have received the threats
 

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I think we can conclude that price of 120 USD is not correct ( or at least rip off of some "major stores"). For example, Yeahgeek sells the sky3ds for 96USD:
http://www.yeahgeek.com/sky3ds-flas...est-firmware-9-0-0-20-p-984.html?currency=USD

As you can see they ll get the stock next Friday, so I can imagine that some of the people who cant wait, can get their unit in two week time.
The price at cheaper retailers should be 100 USD, bigger ones with PayPal and bigger reputation will stick with 120 USD tag.
 

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This is so amazing. Now I have a reason to buy the New3ds!!. Especially for the better 3d screen enhancement and mini analog stick for Monster Hunter!!! 3,4,4G!!.yay. Does anyone know if it will be possible to backup the sky3ds card before inserting the permanent 10games sd card? So that we could keep resetting the chipset I guess. Smealum apps maybe? Or a use of a custom USB to PC cartridge cloner.
 

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This is so amazing. Now I have a reason to buy the New3ds!!. Especially for the better 3d screen enhancement and mini analog stick for Monster Hunter!!! 3,4,4G!!.yay. Does anyone know if it will be possible to backup the sky3ds card before inserting the permanent 10games sd card? So that we could keep resetting the chipset I guess. Smealum apps maybe? Or a use of a custom USB to PC cartridge cloner.

You do know 4G is Japanese and Sky3DS has region lock?
 

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This is so amazing. Now I have a reason to buy the New3ds!!. Especially for the better 3d screen enhancement and mini analog stick for Monster Hunter!!! 3,4,4G!!.yay. Does anyone know if it will be possible to backup the sky3ds card before inserting the permanent 10games sd card? So that we could keep resetting the chipset I guess. Smealum apps maybe? Or a use of a custom USB to PC cartridge cloner.
nobody has one so nobody even knows how it works yet....wait a few weeks after release for a better idea of if this block is bypass-able.....i doubt it though....unless they put a little hole in the card to press the reset button with a paper clip :rofl2:
 

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You do know 4G is Japanese and Sky3DS has region lock?
Yeah I was thinking of buying a Japanese New3ds.

nobody has one so nobody even knows how it works yet....wait a few weeks after release for a better idea of if this block is bypass-able.....i doubt it though....unless they put a little hole in the card to press the reset button with a paper clip :rofl2:
If the card records the titles on a chipset, then there is a possibility to reset or restore that memory setting. Maybe through a soft mod or hardware cloning. Does anyone know how these chipsets work?

It would be funny if we could just use gateways cartridge backup to clone the skycard and restore it every time we want to switch to another set of 10 games.
 
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If the card records the titles on a chipset, then there is a possibility to reset or restore that memory setting. Maybe through a soft mod or hardware cloning. Does anyone know how these chipsets work?
it would most likely be stored to memory embedded into the FPGA, from what i have read this makes that area pretty much completely secure, meaning no way of switching the chip for a new one or force erasing it
 

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surely someone said this already, but what if we edit the roms to all have the same id or something, and rebuild them?
let's see how good their drm is :)
 

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I'm not gonna read all 50 pages again so this was mentioned before just disregard this post but I was wondering, the fact that every fw up to 9.2 (according to them) can read this flashcart is because its 1:1 however it will still use roms so wont that mean that users will have to inject a header into them to be able to play online?
 

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I'm not gonna read all 50 pages again so this was mentioned before just disregard this post but I was wondering, the fact that every fw up to 9.2 (according to them) can read this flashcart is because its 1:1 however it will still use roms so wont that mean that users will have to inject a header into them to be able to play online?

most probably yes, although of course, we are not sure since it is not confirmed.
 

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If this is a 1:1 clone then any change to the ROM won't possible because it won't patch checks.

ooh i didn't think about that, thanks :)
and we have keys to decrypt, but not keys to sign as if 'nintendo signed it themselves'?
good for them, bad for us
 

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the thing that i noticed (if i got it right) is that you can write any games up to 10 in this card but then you can't overwrite those games anymore and you are forced to buy another sky3ds for another 10 games only slots?
 

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