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3DS homebrew tool FBI title manager removed from GitHub

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After a rough week, the emulation and homebrew scene continues to suffer major losses. As of today, homebrew developer Steveice10's GitHub repository has been deleted. A known quantity in the 3DS homebrew scene, Steveice10 created important tools for the system such as a modified sysupdater, a port of GBC emulator GameYob to the 3DS, and most importantly, FBI title manager, which allows users to install .CIA format 3DS titles and homebrew.

FBI has not been updated since 2020, and was considered feature-complete, with its source code available and the project archived, but it was suddenly removed from GitHub today, along with all of his other projects. The exact reasoning behind the removal isn't known, though the timing implies it may be related to other events happening in the emulation and homebrew scene recently.

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DKB said:
Oh, God. I hope these fuckers don't try going after Atmosphere or something.
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This sounds more like something he did willingly to avoid the possibility of future trouble. Also atmosphere is quite literally designed to not allow for piracy by default. To the point where SciresM refuses to include any kind of sigpatching for it by default.
 
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Ryab said:
This sounds more like something he did willingly to avoid the possibility of future trouble. Also atmosphere is quite literally designed to not allow for piracy by default. To the point where SciresM refuses to include any kind of sigpatching for it by default.
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Yeah, looking at it again, looks like they just pulled it. I think this is just for the best. That 2.4M got people terrified.
 
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are you fucking BULLSHITING me right now.

i really want to say something about this. but i'm keep mouth shut if some removes something a that is required for hacking a 3DS i'm going bitch and it's going piss people off i can tell.
 
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Sad. I know people have copies and forks of this kind of software all over the place, but I think maybe it's time for someone to start organising it. The4n recently took his hacPack (for building Switch NSPs) and probably the rest of his account off GitHub too, I have the almost-latest source but it's still not a good feeling.

Is archive.org a good place for preserving stuff like this?
 
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hippy dave said:
Sad. I know people have copies and forks of this kind of software all over the place, but I think maybe it's time for someone to start organising it. The4n recently took his hacPack (for building Switch NSPs) and probably the rest of his account off GitHub too, I have the almost-latest source but it's still not a good feeling.

Is archive.org a good place for preserving stuff like this?
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Yeah for now it works fine, please if someone has the full repo with commits, do upload it.
 
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AkiraKurusu said:
Hopefully this didn't attract the FBI.
Still, since it's remained static since 2020, I'm sure there's plenty of people with the latest version who could archive it.

For fuck's sake Nintendo just STOP
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I wouldn't be shocked if it was already on archive.org
 
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Why you gotta @ me like that?!

That said, really feeling like that court case accomplished raffling some feathers. Kind of expected as much at this point. I hope people continue to backup the sources and binaries of all of these projects.
 
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I'd say to just download the tools you need/use and archive them. I just got a New 2DS (used!) and ran the hacking steps.

I'll just keep the apps I need on a personal cloud and just refer to them if needed. It's always safe.
 

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