Over the past few months we've been reporting on the efforts of 3DS hacker smealum, who's been actively working towards releasing a homebrew exploit and channel for the 3DS. System updates and then the New Nintendo 3DS model delayed progress, but it seems that the exploit is now just days away from arrival.
It's been announced on gbatemp.net (thanks for the heads up, The_Ninja) that details for accessing the channel will go into the public domain on 22nd November. This covers the files and instructions depending on the system version installed on the hardware, in addition to confirmation of the 3DS game cart that'll be needed to complete the installation process; it's been a closely guarded secret. Smealum has also posted an updated picture of the channel in action, below.
It's been stressed throughout the development of this homebrew exploit that it won't allow 3DS ROMS to be played, which partially heads off criticism that it'll contribute to piracy. It's previously been stated that it may allow for region-free play with legitimate copies of games, in the future, while at launch its core purpose seems to be opening the doors for apps, game projects and emulators. A sample project is 3DScraft, which appears to be a primitive recreation of Minecraft running through the loader application.
The topic of homebrew can be controversial, of course — while some feel it's a chance for innovation and fun for programmers, other perspectives may bemoan that it can open the door to piracy, while others may refuse to accept the unapproved hacking of the 3DS system on any level. As this will be the first major homebrew application on the system it'll likely attract viewpoints on both sides, while Nintendo's active system update regime in this generation will likely attempt to block it in future.
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This could be cool to have... Once Nintendo releases their next gen portabable and the 3DS isn't making money anymore. I'm glad this guy doesn't support playing 3DS ROMs, but once he releases this and the info on how it's done, it probably won't take long for some other people to figure out how to do it. of course, I'm sure Nintendo will be on this pretty quickly as well.
I don't trust anything not made or approved by nintendo on my 3DS
Only to be immediately blocked in a future update.
"...set to be launched on 22nd November"
Not if a Nintendo update has anything to say about it.
@Dipper723 With enough dedication, anything can be worked around. All technology is hackable.
I'll check this out, But I won't even be playing my 3DS much when Smash for Wii U comes out on the 21st.
Also, hackers, with enough dedication, can make this homebrew run 3DS roms. No questions asked.
Oh great. Here comes the pokehackers. One day after release. I wonder how many shiny legendary pokemons are going to be around.
I haven't touched my 3DS in months but if there are some cool emulators that come out of this I will look into modding it.
@Shirma_Akayaku I don't see anyone here asking questions about hackers making a homebrew run 3ds roms.And i sense with my amazing abilities that see the future a new update is coming to stop this again. Great another one,just what people needed more stability.
The only reason I would try this is to FINALLY play SNES games on my 3ds.
It would be nice to have a CTWW for MK7.
Great... this won't end well, it just won't. Modders and their idea of doing whatever they want while denying any responsibility for the consequences of their actions, they once again threaten the integrity of a gaming system.
I don't use homebrew nor play ROMs, so I don't really care
But.. if it doesn't support ROMs, why is Pokémon Y shown as a selectable option there (and Zelda: ALBW too it seems)? Or am I missing something obvious here?
Interesting. I'll just watch and see how things unfold.
Ah, modding. The gateway drug to piracy. To each their own, but I won't touch a homebrew.
@Yosher Supposedly, it shows the inserted cart and eShop titles installed if someone wants to run it.
@Yosher
It's likely those games are already downloaded to the systems SD card, and that the bottom screen is showing a custom home screen.
I'll be putting this on my 2DS.
I'll leave my main 3DS untouched, but my 2DS will be a great import game machine once someone gets rid of the region-lock.
Woo, Smealum! There was some great DS homebrew, here's hoping the 3DS scene will produce some great apps too.
(And this exploit has nothing to do with piracy.)
@Yosher Those are placeholder icons for various applications, see Smealum's Twitter. They aren't actually Pokemon/Zelda.
So many people are saying "this will eventually lead to piracy/ROMs, even if it's not Smea's intention."
For those unaware, there already is piracy on 3DS. You can download and play ROMs with an easy-to-obtain flashcart. This really doesn't look like it will make it any easier.
I'm super psyched for this, but a bit disappointed that there won't be a Riivolution equivalent, which means no custom textures/music in SSB43DS just yet. Also on the fence about installing right away because of system updates - On Wii, updates generally just removed homebrew if they even touched it at all, but I was always a bit paranoid that the next update would brick my Wii
@midnafanboy I didn't mean "No questions asked" in a literal sense. It was just a closing sentence. Also, hackers might still try to work around the update. It can still happen.
The unfortunate truth is that this will lead to piracy. Even if it is not intended to not support piracy.
I don't really approve of this since it will obviously lead to piracy. However, if it helps remove the region locking, then I might use it on my XL when the N3DS comes out in NA
The comments here are always full of self-righteous people.
"Hacking is wrong and evil, so this news doesn't interest me because I don't support hacking!" Well, good for you? You're missing out on playing DVDs on your Wii, playing Project M, dumping your own DS carts onto one card, Moonshell media player for DS, DSCraft, Aperture Science DS, and countless other great homebrew.
@GhotiH This guy gets it. There is already 3DS piracy. See: Sky3DS and Gateway.
Bring it on.
With Nintendo's own 3DS Virtual Console support so... spotty... emulators are welcome.
Not that it matters, but I tend to already own physical copies of any oldies I emulate.
Apparently this exploit doesn't allow using cheats in games. Gotta catch them all the legit way I guess.
wow, all those uneducated paranoid people on here... this wont brick your 3ds and this wont lead to (more) piracy, it is just impossible with this kind of exploit
My 3DS is gonna be A LOT MORE STABLE on the 23rd!
@KingMike LOL
Except the Sky3DS has been out for about a week and there still hasn't been a system update.
I'll just wait for Nintendo to release their next handheld(No, the New 3DS doesn't count) before I decide to put Hombrew on my 3DS. I'd rather not risk putting it on at the moment since there's a possibility of the 3DS being bricked by a future update. That's what I did with the Wii, just waited for the Wii U to release before I put Hombrew on my Wii.
3DScraft: "It's like Minecraft in 3D!" gasp I never would've known!
Hoping that someone will be making a sort of a Riivolution app for the 3DS... maybe 3Diivolution?
It would also be cool if MrBean and Chadderz started to make MK7 hacks as they did with MK8!
Excited to see what the homebrew community can do!
Eh, more junk that doesn't need to be on the 3DS.
If it helps make the 3DS region-free then I will welcome it.
Rom support is probably inevitable. but I still think homebrew is a good thing,people should be able to make games without paying milions for a dev kit.
Very nice! Once again, hackers are working out the processes needed to modernize another console; processes of which Nintendo won't do themselves. (i.e. region-free and legally owned backups)
I say this from the perspective of a DRM-free PC gamer in support of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's ideals... Don't let big companies erode your first sale doctrine right on ownership of any physical or DRM-free digital copy of a game you legally purchased!
If it allows me to play JPN games I'm up for it until Nintendo decides to make the 3DS region free
Until 3DS is no longer supported, thus not being updated every 2 minutes, I will probably not be dipping my toe into this program. At least not until something like DSTwo is released that has survived every Nintendo update yet due to having it's own processor and upgradable CFW. It also will not brick if something doesn't work right.
Perhaps in the coming months I can finally play Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem, with the translation project soon to be complete, imported cart in tow, and translation patcher program hopefully incoming for 3DS Homebrew!
There is nothing wrong with any of this and more consoles should allow for this kind of creativity. If they'd give us options to do this on our own, open sourcing their code a bit better while still keeping security tight enough that we can't blatantly rob from them, I'm sure people would appreciate it.
To be completely honest though, thieves are going to be thieves regardless, blaming a tool for the missdeeds of others is like blaming a pizza for why you're fat.
@Shirma_Akayaku Yes they can keep hacking it but Nintendo can also keep releasing updates. They will go back and forth and the channel will probably never be up for a significant amount of time so they are pretty much working for nothing.
I would love this to play ROMS of my classic games collection. The PSP/PSV has been able to do this for almost a decade. One question; will downloading this thing brick my system? If so I will have to wait until I get my New 3DS as well. This launch system in my hands can be my ROM machine!
sighs...
@WhiteTrashGuy If it's anything like the Wii installation, the SD card should allow for some brick protection, as long as you don't install official updates or try any funny business!
If they give me region free gaming before Nintendo does, I'll be using this to import games.
@Iggly Thats actually your fault.Never uptade a mod console
@AugustusOxy "Blaming a tool for the misdeeds of others is like blaming a pizza for why you're fat."
I don't know, it depends on the pizza, some of them are adept at using their... charming qualities on innocent passersby
This would be fun to play around with if I had a spare 3DS, but I would never install unauthorised content on the same unit with my eShop purchases. Maybe when I upgrade to the "new" 3DS and transfer my software over, I'll screw around with homebrew on the old one.
I just hope people don't use it to cheat online in MK7. Offline cheats and pokemon power saves, I couldn't give two craps about. You saw the loader screenshots. If it's like every other cheat system on modern consoles, you could preload the cheats into system RAM before booting the software.
@StarDust4Ever I believe Nintendo reserves the right to temporarily check for cheats, both on your connection to their server, and on your local console once you have connected to them in one way or another. If they find any cheaters, then they can disconnect them and mark their system. Hopefully, Nintendo has prepared their heuristics to be up to the challenge this time around! They seem to be more on the ball with curtailing cheats so far this console generation.
Oh look, the kids on both sides are fighting on the comments section again.
@unseatingkdawg @s-miyahon take it up on facebook or somewhere. Crap like this does not belong on NintendoLife.
@PlywoodStick Yeah Nintendo really dropped the ball with MK-Wii and MK-DS. I hope they can ban Miiverse accounts of known cheaters...
@StarDust4Ever Somehow, I find it hilarious that Facebook is the place for such things.
@PlywoodStick I don't use Facebook myself but it's a good place for the bottom feeders to dwell!
@StarDust4Ever Our own accountability should be easier to enforce with Miiverse integration. That was an important step in preparation for this event. I wouldn't doubt if they've beefed up their security personnel to set up proper gateways, too. If not yet, they'll need to get it done soon. There have been two console generations of cheats ruining legitimate online gameplay already, so let this be the last!
@S-Miyahon: Oh, before you do, just let it be known that I did in fact copy our entire conversation, with your dad busting you as well.
@S-Miyahon: Nah. Just thought it was funny. And you can't say we didn't have said conversation either. G'night!
I'm so proud of you two for not letting this become like a GameFAQ's thread!
Sweet.
I'd be happy to try it out on one of my 3DS's, I'll just keep myself from doing a system update on that one. Loved the Homebrew channel on the Wii, you could do a lot of cool things with that.
.... they have good intentions........but it's just not right. Someone will turn this into a ROM player if not them and it's up to Nintendo to keep out the hackers. And for those who are glad about this shame on you. Region lock has a purpose, it makes that some games are localized like xenoblade chronicles for the new 3ds. But if people would buy it overseas in japanese then nintendo will just say "screw localization, let's just realease are games in foreign countries in the wrong language"
http://www.espn.co.uk/blogs/sport/story/369269.html
How long till Nintendo Life report this story
Anything that supports region free gaming should be appluaded.
Nintendo could do this themselves with a simple patch but they won't.
I want an emulator that plays PSP games on my 3DS!
While we're at it, why not PS4 games too?
@Thearnaud44
Your comment about region locking is laughable. How many people do you think would import the Japanese copy if available? Japanese RPG with no English text would not be popular.
The percent of people that import gamesin general is very small. It would hardly touch Nintendo's bottom line.
Oh and what about the games that never leave Japan. Shouldn't we all have the opportunity to play these games.
I had to import a Japanese 3DS, this shouldn't be the only option if you want to play Japanese games.
Can't believe someone is actually defending Nintendo on region lock gaming.
There is always one though!!
Wait quick clarification of the rules, when the New 3DS hits, will older models of the 3DS be considered "previous generation hardware"? Assuming that the firmware between the new and old models are different, like with DS and DSi.
Only interested in this to play imports, otherwise couldnt care less
@Thearnaud44
This guy gets it.
@kobashi100
Someone will import it for them. If a game (let's say it's not text heavy, just pure gameplay games) has been out in Japan for a long time now, chances are it's already half the price. Then came the localization selling for a full price. Some retailer would just import it legally/illegally from Japan and sell it in the west for 2/3 the price. The localization effort will suffer as it will sell less. Region-locking has also something to do to combat piracy or illegally-obtained (legit) games from other regions. These are just a few reasons I can think of. I'm sure Nintendo has more reasons to justify the implementation of region-locking. I think this also has something to do to the fact that Nintendo is still dependent on physical discs and are behind digital distribution.
None of that luscious Nintendo Seal of Approval?
Then no thanks.
"It's been stressed throughout the development of this homebrew exploit that it won't allow 3DS ROMS to be played, which partially heads off criticism that it'll contribute to piracy."
LMAO, yeah, and if you believe this, I have a rare gold Nintendo World Championship cart, sealed, to sell you for five bucks--wtg helping promote this to a wider audience, NL.
For those of you living in a dream world where this does not turn into a ROM launcher within 3-months, bear in mind that, unlike w/ the DS family, Nintendo does not a. have the userbase to absorb nearly as much wanton piracy as plagued those devices and b. a much higher percentage of the 3DS family userbase will take advantage of it than the percentage that did on DS, which means it will do serious damage to a company already reeling from the disastrous U situation.
All in all, while I'm sure NL can hide behind 'journalistic integrity' on posting this (just like the NYTs hid behind it when publishing US nat'l. security secrets like any good group of proto-anarchists--the UK has its analog in the Guardian*), just keep in mind that you are introducing a much larger group of people that don't frequent hives of scum and villainy like GBATemp, and as with any 'marketing', it's a numbers game, and you are going to damage Nintendo's bottom line when this does 'magically' start launching ROMs in the near-future.
(I am not referring to the abuses of the NSA, but those during the second Gulf War, where there was *nothing[/strong] to be gained--except damaging the government--by the parties involved. Promoting proto ROM launchers most definitely fits in the latter category, not the former.)
@BensonUii
Yes retailers may sell import copies. This has been happening for decades so it's nothing new. Again though, the numbers are small so this idea that publishers will be massively hit is not true at all.
Why does the competition have no problem with region free gaming. I don't see a any publisher saying that Sony and MS are wrong to allow that.
Name me one publisher who complained about the DS being region free.
better get to 10,000 vr on mk7 before it gets ruined
@taffy Exactly what I was thinking except there's no chance I'll be able to get 5,000 VR in 5 days.
Hopefully Nintendo releases a stability update this week for 3DS to save the console before it's too late!
The way I see it is that this morally correct hacker will show us the way to utilize homebrew, but this will also show less morally correct hackers ways to enable roms. I love nintendo and I hate for that to happen.
My nephews mother goes to a guy who fills a flash cart with 100 games for 60 euro's I find that to be despicable, do you know how many R&D costs on these productions and then these so called computer experts who know how to download make a quick buck. I hate getting roms for games that are publicly. available. Plus if you have 500 games, you'll probably not even finish one,(first world problems). my conclusion GET N OR GET OUT.
A lot of people into this are just trying to unlock the true potential of the hardware. Homebrew channels accessed through the Wii mode can let you play Gamecube games on the Wii U, and region free 3DS would rival that functionality for me.
@Thearnaud44 @ECMIM @BensonUii you lot are hilarious. how exactly is a user-mode exploit going to magically get kernel level access and run roms?
@kobashi100
Do you realize that Nintendo will take the hit the most? Royalties of all the games that releases on their system. Plus if a publisher's game doesn't sell/profit well on their system, they'll just abandon Nintendo or the idea of localizing their games. I'm already at work so I can't elaborate further.
Sony and Microsoft relies much on western developers and publishers. They release on the US and Europe first which is their biggest market. It doesn't hurt them much if Asia and the rest gets their games later.
Speaking of region-locking, why do Microsoft region-locks their Windows OS activation?
Really, I just hope a program similar to Gecko comes out of all this. I'd use it for Kid Icarus Uprising to help me finish Hades's Treasure Hunt and unlock the hidden Idols. Then again, I'm sure others will use it to make OP weapons for Together Mode.
@eza
My posts have nothing about the homebrew. Although I wonder if Nintendo Life is promoting it.
Anyone who thinks it won't allow piracy is plain out silly. Once the floodgates are open, they can't be closed. This self-entitled donkeyhole is simply going to try to prevent piracy, while allowing unsigned code execution... that's just plain out stupid. Expect developers to slowly start retiring support for the 3DS once piracy becomes widespread without the need of additional hardware in the next couple days...
Also, doesn't allow piracy but allows emulators, which enable piracy of old games, which means piracy of the Virtual Console... I guess any chance the Virtual Console had will die November 22nd
ITT: most people don't know that we already have 3DS piracy
Honestly I wish NintendoLife would stop posting stories about this. I'm not complaining about journalism quality, that's fine. It's just that every damn time this story comes up people starting whining and pissing and screaming "dirty pirate!" even though
A. This has absolutely nothing to do with piracy
B. Piracy is already very much possible on 3DS and has been for like a year.
And then we have region lock defenders, who need no mention for how asinine their argument is.
I have my DS with Supercard. I only play games that I have bought, I know I can get a ton of illegal roms somewhere. I think getting free roms takes the value out of the game, I am sure I am not the only gamer with strange respect like that. I put a bunch of homebrew on there, but I hardly use them to be honest. I dunno, I enjoy my 3DS enough to not want Homebrew. Though in Europe, would be nice to have Netflix app like US users do, and an ereader thing might be handy.
Not allowing 3DS game piracy with this launcher is irrelevant now that Gateway claim to have cracked latest firmware. Running SNES/Megadrive emulators is piracy anyway, considering these retro games are available on Wii U V.C and 3DS eshop! On the plus side it could be a great way for Ninty to generate sales of the New 3DS. Think lotsa people would upgrade to new model if they had a compatible flashcart!
@StarDust4Ever I saw the original tweet that loader screenshot came from it said; "(the pokemon and zelda icons are just for testing; they're actually yeti3DS and ftpony)". From that I would guess there is no sort of game loader in the works (this makes me baffled by the region free comments, you need a way to either hack the system menu to remove the check or a loader to bypass that menu).
@fluggy I think it is not allowing but rather the hack is incapable of providing the steps necessary. As for the emulation is piracy argument. What if the game I want to play is not out on the eShop. Is it piracy then? What about owning or buying the cart in that circumstance (which btw makes no difference because the publisher doesn't see that money).
Potential Snes and GBA games on 3DS means I'm okay with this.
Sorry, but emulators = piracy, especially when the 3DS not only has backwards compatibility but also virtual console.
I have a phone on me at all times that has all the apps I need, who cares about having stuff on a 3DS or home console that does things worse than what you already have? It's like trying to turn it into am Xbone.
@DGGames emulators will probably include DS, which is still being sold new at shops.
If you can't afford even the classic carts then choose what you want more - new consoles and games or classic games for your classic consoles.
Nice, the best thing for me about this is the ability to play games from other regions. However, I will wait and see what happens when future updates arrive. Don't want my 3DS bricked because of this.
If Nintendo allowed us to play snes games etc, people would be less likely to emulate in the first place.
I can't wait to get my hands on a new 3DS so I can experiment with my old 3DS on homebrew. FYI I think that the roms will come later I am not worried
You high and mighties can go right ahead and be that way. I'm all about experimenting with the 3ds
Huh. Well given my original 3DS is now collecting dust after I got my beautiful NES themed XL, maybe I'll look into this...
I bet when this comes out, there's going to be a system update.
If I can start playing SNES and GBA games I will do this in a heartbeat. I only hope that regardless of what happens that cheaters don't come in and ruin online games like Mario Kart and SSB.
It's so dang tempting! If I get it as soon as it releases, my current 3DS might become bricked; but if I wait until I get the New 3DS, the app might be blocked by an update or something! .-.
@PlywoodStick Isn't it already complete? What is this game I've been playing, then?
@rayword45 They are not that bothered. (Or at least they care more about the clicks). This article has the effect of people realising if you want homebrew (Or piracy with one of the new flashcards) don't update from 9.2 - Few seconds on gbatemp which they link to and you find that out.
What's the point of an emulator without ROMs?
Edit: I guess it will only exclude ROMs for 3DS games? Which means it will still largely be used for piracy, just not for pirating 3DS games...
Hurry & hack the wii u. Then ill be happy
@BensonUii the thing is, this exploit only gives a limited level of access to the 3DS's internal workings.
to be able to be used for piracy, a new exploit would need to be found, an exploit like the one which is used by the gateway card and which was fixed by nintendo from firmware version 5.
and this is the reason that NL are reporting this exploit, but they've never mentioned gateway: smea's exploit sits in a remarkably clear legal situation where he's enabling you to exercise your consumer rights and tinker with an object which you paid for and own, while stopping you from downloading and running roms.
@Yosher Those are modified versions of FTPony (FTP file server for 3ds) and Yeti3DS for testing purposes.
@Malus Luckily, this doesn't allow cheats! (atleast not AR cheats)
@MadAdam81 DS games don't work on this, confirmed by the creator
Well well well… as it is, it can't play ROMs, at all, and can't help you cheat in retail games either. Of course it opens up a bigger attack surface, but you'd still need to find additional exploits to ever hope doing piracy with it.
So, some may eventually find a way to load ROMs based on this exploit, but if piracy is your goal, it's already possible using different exploits (or, you know, actually emulating legit 3DS cartridges).
@icedude545 Now only a GBA emu and we can play the trilogy!
@Yosher My guess is the system being shown had digital copies of those games, so they would show up in whatever loader screen we are seeing?
@platoonleaderg I don't really see how it's my fault, all I really just said was that I'd rather wait until Nintendo is finished with the 3DS before I even think of having Hombrew.
@BensonUii
Do you honestly believe that the amount of people who would import games would really make a dent. In Nintendo's bottom line.
Sorry but your gonna have to come up with some true numbers showing this is the case. Like I said before, import gamers are a very small %. Even during the DS, dreamcast, GC days where region free gaming was easy there wasn't this huge amount of gamers importing. Same with PS3!
Also it's irrelevant that MS region lock windows OS. Gaming division is separate from windows division.
Sony still region lock blu rays but again it is irrelevant. Nintendo are behind the times and you are simply defending them at all costs.
As for virtual console. Sorry but if Nintendo actually did something with this service instead of this pathetic drip drip service we get at the moment then maybe people would not care about emulators.
Nintendo's use of virtual console is a joke.
@kobashi100
I don't know man. It's not like Nintendo woke up one morning and decided to region lock their consoles. There must be a big reason or numerous reasons behind the decision. Things have change since the early days of gaming. And it continuously to evolve. Gamers are well informed now because of the internet. Importing games are now just a click away. We are just here speculating. Unless you have an internal source or you are in some way involve in the decision to region lock? Again, what I said could be only one of the numerous reasons. Don't take it as the main reason alone as to why Nintendo region locks their console.
@eza
Well thanks, that was very informative. Although I'll need more info to comment on the matter. Again I was just commenting on the region locking issue.
But does it run Super Smash Bros. Open for TI-83/84?
So I will put homebrew on my xl and buy a new 3ds xl when they are released in this region
Kill it swiftly with the master sword Nintendo!
i could use the channel for apps not on the 3ds and if it lets you run games of different regions, legit copies that is.
Theres already piracy, and it seems new ways to do it will come even in newer firmwares so why complain this will lead to piracy(when it probably wont)?
Sure. homebrew could lead to piracy, but the way this exploit works it wont ever be able to run games.
Well, theres still no good homebrew stuff, so jumping into the bandwagon is meh.
@tsukipon
Well that is OK. You don't need to, and there is that kind of crowd out there. Just don't let anybody change your mind but yourself. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go emulating and pokehacking
@Techydavid and that why the modern gamer is destroyed. Too much hacking and cheating. I doubt those people can even play games legitimately anymore.
@tsukipon
Oh, I rarely hack. Sure I have an action replay, but outside of that I'm legit. And there is NO WAY I am spending ~100 hours breeding for ivs. I'm not hardcore. All my ds games get beaten legitimately, then get haxed for other event only fun stuff. I believe this keeps the gaming morals in check. As for emulating, screw it. I PAID FOR THE GAME, SO I SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY IT ON WHAT I WANT TO PLAY IT ON @-$-%;%-$+';4:"-"-3+$;@(#(%;X
@Noelemahc I mean a patch They finished the guide a while ago.
@ECMIM "All in all, while I'm sure NL can hide behind 'journalistic integrity' on posting this (just like the NYTs hid behind it when publishing US nat'l. security secrets like any good group of proto-anarchists--the UK has its analog in the Guardian*)..."
Oh, the irony of that statement... Those two publications are basically lapdogs for their respective countries' governments. They would be quicker to support the proto-fascist puppeteers operating behind the scenes than any sort of libertarianism.
On the other hand, Nintendo Life is not Nintendo's lapdog. Obviously, NL supports Nintendo, but they're not tied at the hip with business elites like those publications you mentioned.
I think you're overexaggerating. Nintendo Life is just reporting on a concerning issue. I doubt they are secretly supporting any underground usurpers, as you suggest.
@DarkLink95 That's probably the only thing in the way of the hackers, Nintendo's updates. It's up to the hackers to decide if they are going to keep hacking the system, and it also depends on how often Nintendo releases updates to prevent hacks.
@Nintendo_Ninja That presumes they can. It uses a retail game. They never fully blocked the Smash Bros Brawl one.
@TrueWiiMaster "What's the point of an emulator without ROMs?"
That's why legitimate methods of backing up one's own game files exists. (Although it's a lot harder for older systems...) It's not necessary to download the files. For example, there was an article on NL a couple years ago highlighting the Retrode. (Which unfortunately is out of production and stock, so there's not many options now for SNES...) If anything, I think it's a lot more suspicious for a console like the Ouya to natively support emulators... Since you don't have the console physically running it's own backup program.
The game has been revealed.
@PlywoodStick That's exactly what I meant. The playable patch has been available for well over a year now.
@Lizuka and donkeyholes like smealum and his supporters won't help the issue. Without defending NOA's stupidly bad handling of the VC, piracy never helps. If you think releases are slow now, wait until piracy is commonplace for it.
Nintendo could ruin the release of this excellent homebrew by for example releasing a system update that makes the 3DS region free. That will of course most likely require for them to rebuild the quite horrible hardware based account system that is still in 3DS (and Wii U).
Come on Iwata & co. show your cards and release the update!
exploit game is cubic ninja, who knew right
@BensonUii region locking has affected me personally: between buying my 3ds and wii u, i moved to another country within the same region (europe).
this was fine to begin with: both consoles were linked to the same club nintendo email address and were in the same region, but my 3ds' eshop was in english and my wii u's in spanish. all was good.
then nintendo implemented NNID on 3ds, and with it also came country locking.
now i'm in the situation where i've been told by nintendo support that if i link my 3ds to my wii u's NNID then i'll lose all of my eshop games on my 3ds.
and if i link my 3ds to a UK NNID then it can't be linked to my club nintendo account.
it's a mess of a situation which only exists because nintendo want to prioritise their profits over customer satisfaction.
i still don't understand why a portable console should be region locked, especially when it wasn't necessary for the immensely successful DS (for which i imported many great games)
Soft modding my wii was the best thing i ever did too it only 2 games i really loved on it anyway MySims and Another Code 2. i will give this some time to settle and stabilise before i go soft modding my 3ds though. nintendo could try patching it out but look at the Wii and how successful they weren't there.
@McGuire @The_Ninja @Sforzando @MikeLove @PewnyPL
Right, noted, thanks all. I thought as much, but didn't think they'd actually implement something like that for some reason.
@Noelemahc Woah! I'm really out of the loop, then... Well, hopefully the 3DS HBC will have some Riivolution-like software.
**gets back to playing Fantasy Life**
Hey send me some stuff from there! like pokemon y and that zelda game!
i will give you some!
send to [email protected]
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