Hacking Are my old Gateway 3DS cards (red/blue) still useful for playing .3DS and .NDS ROMs?

[Deleted-236924]

Oh right. They ought to mention that. Did anything come out since then?

Of note is Luigi's Mansion, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Etrian Odyssey Nexus, Yo-Kai Watch 3, Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn, and Persona Q2.

 

[retrospect]

I had a bit of a scare just now. I took out the Gateway cart while a game was running off it (I'd got used to CIAs) and the 3DS landed in SysNAND. Everything's fine though.

Also interesting is that the corrupted SD card which I've erased and formatted a dozen times in Windows actually still works fine in Gateway. Is there some way I can get the ROMs off that SD card while it's in the Gateway cart?

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I was thinking that if 11.2 SysNAND is easily exploitable and no games demand anything above 11.6, then SysNAND franken firmware based on 11.2 with bits of 11.6 has the advantages of being exploitable (just in case BS9 is ever wiped) and of being able to run all games. I understand that Nintendo might require something like 11.12 to get online, but I'm not that interested in online play on the 3DS. Is there any reason not to run 11.2 with bits of 11.6 on SysNAND? It's not a high priority, it just seems smarter than running 11.12.

Latest firmware is exploitable with homebrew anyway. Gateway actually can't run on 11.2 sysNAND unless you use A9LH/B9S (or Gateway Fast Boot but no one should use that)

 

[Deleted member 668561]

I know the emunand runs homemenu from system 9.2 so it uses the 9.2 update files, I assume for the 5 cia's, bootntr also reports homemenu version 9.2, when booting the sysnand it does something else and stars dumping addresses iirc

 

[mikefor20]

Im not talking to you AH.

Go cry Gatehate Nazi. You coming to a thread that's about how to get something to work and your solution is Ditch it. You are not helping. You are not wanted. Your opinion is not valid. And we don't care. Now go away Adolf

OP. Move everything to the system and put your old crappy games that you rarely play or something you might want to look for cheats for on Gateway. You really don't need Gateway it's just for extra storage. Your insistence to use it as a daily driver is ridiculous. It's inferior in every way and it's dangerous to.

 

[noctis90210]

Your opinion is not valid. And we don't care.

why reply if you dont care? Last time i check, theres no rules on the OP that gateway haters is not allowed to comment. If you dont REALLY care, just ignore my reply... How poor you are, you dont care, but you keep on replying.

 

[Deleted member 668561]

why reply if you dont care? Last time i check, theres no rules on the OP that gateway haters is not allowed to comment. If you dont REALLY care, just ignore my reply... How poor you are, you dont care, but you keep on replying.

Only reason people became anti gateway was due to their brick in 2.0b2, before arm9loaderhax and sighax aswell as ntrboot, so it was difficult to restore this at the time and how gateway handled it, hopefully you backed up the nand and hardmodded the console, it is understandable but before cfw everybody was using gateway in a circle jerk and gateway WAS the luma of it's day and pretty much was the start of the 3ds scene...until 2.0b2, but they did last until 11.2 officially

You sound like the ones using mt-card or the r4i 3ds clones and bluescreened

 

[lone_wolf323]

Only reason people became anti gateway was due to their brick in 2.0b2, before arm9loaderhax and sighax aswell as ntrboot, so it was difficult to restore this at the time and how gateway handled it, hopefully you backed up the nand and hardmodded the console, it is understandable but before cfw everybody was using gateway in a circle jerk and gateway WAS the luma of it's day and pretty much was the start of the 3ds scene...until 2.0b2, but they did last until 11.2 officially

Its not that they lasted till 11.2. They just gave up at that point. And abandoned their product. It looks bad that they done that aswell as released a stargate product with no updates or anything whatsoever. Its been nothing but a scam of a money grab.

 

[Deleted member 668561]

Its not that they lasted till 11.2. They just gave up at that point. And abandoned their product. It looks bad that they done that aswell as released a stargate product with no updates or anything whatsoever. Its been nothing but a scam of a money grab.

True they abandoned gateway, IMHO Stargate failed simply by being too late to the market, and gateways previous reputation, if stargate came out alongside or shortly before sky3ds I think it would have sold better to have more support

Slot-1 is dead for 3ds atm, which sucks since there could have been more done, maybe natrium42 should make a 3DSerial card, hell throw an fpga and some ram and have a dsp or coprocessor that can be utilized via cfw and Homebrew (can result with better emulators and could help with ps1 emulation) , not every slot-1 card has to be a flashcard or explicitly used for rom loading atleast in the original ds days, there are so many different original nds "Homebrew"cards it'll make your head spin

 

[lone_wolf323]

True they abandoned gateway, IMHO Stargate failed simply by being too late to the market, and gateways previous reputation, if stargate came out alongside or shortly before sky3ds I think it would have sold better to have more support

Slot-1 is dead for 3ds atm, which sucks since there could have been more done, maybe natrium42 should make a 3DSerial card, hell throw an fpga and some ram and have a dsp or coprocessor that can be utilized via cfw and Homebrew, not every slot-1 card has to be a flashcard or explicitly used for rom loading atleast on the original ds days, there are so many different original nds "Homebrew"cards it'll make your head spin

Had stargate actually done pushed some updates for their product it would not be one that looks so bad. It just was released more like a last ditch over priced cash grab. Which looks bad for any company.

 

[mikefor20]

More off topic crap. Gate haters have no lives. Nobody cares about politics. Let's talk about games and help the OP achieve his goal.

OP any progress? Don't let anybody tell you what you can put in your slot

 

[noctis90210]

More off topic crap. Nobody cares about politics.

Last time i check, you do care. If im crap, youre a crap too. You replied to me twice right?

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You sound like the ones using mt-card or the r4i 3ds clones and bluescreened

I dont use any of it.

 

[Deleted member 668561]

Last time i check, you do care. If im crap, youre a crap too. You replied to me twice right?

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I dont use any of it.

It seems he is referring in general, just use luma at your hearts content, if someone wants to use gateway let them use gateway

This stubborn mindset has killed modern homebrew since people tend to be more bandwagon types IMHO, most repeat somebody's elses opinion instead of making their own

 

[Deleted-236924]

It'd be sick if GW could be reverse-engineered one day, and support for the red card added to Luma or something.

 

[Deleted member 668561]

It'd be sick if GW could be reverse-engineered one day, and support for the red card added to Luma or something.

https://github.com/shinyquagsire23/gwcard

Red card protocol has been reversed engineered, so now one can use it to access the raw sectors from the SD card, supports both dstwo gw mode and original gateway cards, though this would have to be incorporated into whatever cfw or homebrew

 

[mikefor20]

https://github.com/shinyquagsire23/gwcard

Red card protocol has been reversed engineered, so now one can use it to access the raw sectors from the SD card, supports both dstwo gw mode and original gateway cards, though this would have to be incorporated into whatever cfw or homebrew

This happened a long time ago but nothing really came of it. Semi useless.

O p any news? You have a few different options on how to proceed. Red card works great. Don't worry about the 20 or so games that don't work with it. Just put those ones on Luma. Then you don't really need to do much.

 

[Deleted member 668561]

Simply just install b9s and luma on sysnand,

boot godmode9 and create emunand and format as gateway,

boot emunand via luma (hold select when booting and tick autoboot emunand), go-to system settings as long as says EMU xx.xx you're on the emunand, s

just update said emunand to 11.12,

The method I posted still works:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/gateway-gw3d-11-10-b9s-and-cfw.550040/

Just install sysupdater with the 5 cia's ( here is the Google search bit.ly/2rheNO2 Go figure the rest )


idk why they manually install updates (with the files i used it's the "updates!" Folder you don't need it) on the other forum (that has the files) this caused a brick which I had to restore via ntrboot when I tried, I simply just booted emunand in luma then used the official update via system settings, then ran sysupdater and just ran the downgrade part which works no need to Manually install the entire update

I found that to be the best method, as you can switch between luma and gateway mode as well as switching between sys and emu nands on the fly, uses the least amount of files, just use sighax+luma to chainload bootct9 using the one .firm payload and the launcher.dat, after downgrading the emunand

My new3ds runs fine with gateway on 11.12-44u, and with my use pretty much has a perfect boot rate, only thing is that eShop will not work correctly on the emunand, your sysnand will have to be updated and I simply use that with luma (untick the autoboot emunand in luma settings) though my sysnand is still at 11.10 (this is why emunands can be useful)

 

[k7ra]

If you really want to use your GW cart, you'll have to downgrade your emuNAND to 11.2 at the latest. GW wasn't updated to support firmwares beyond that. Which means no online.
It's not really worth the hassle, as converting .3DS roms to CIA only takes a few seconds each with https://github.com/ihaveamac/3dsconv
EmuNAND is not really useful for Luma3DS. So I would suggest moving your emuNAND to sysNAND by following https://3ds.hacks.guide/move-emunand
Otherwise, DSiWare games won't work. DS cartridges (including the GW blue cart) should work just fine though.

online works with spoof

 

[The Real Jdbye]

online works with spoof

Keeping emuNAND up to date with frankenfirm and dealing with bricks when updating doesn't go as well as you hoped is more hassle than just switching to Luma to begin with. It's so not worth it to go through all of that to use an inferior CFW.

 

[k7ra]

Keeping emuNAND up to date with frankenfirm and dealing with bricks when updating doesn't go as well as you hoped is more hassle than just switching to Luma to begin with. It's so not worth it to go through all of that to use an inferior CFW.

I not update to frankenfirm, I use lastest support gw fw.
Before going to online I spoof it throught homebrew.
That's all

Forget to say that I spoof throught luma3ds and go online.
When I need redcard boot gw.
Same emunand for GW\Luma3ds