Gateway 3DS in 2024 onwards

[SylverReZ]

https://gaming-heaven.net/blogs/post/gateway-3ds-in-2024-onwards.66/

 

[Cheela]

Cool blog :3 i missed almost all the 3DS flashcarts on the era they were relevant cause of... welp in my highschool there was like one 3ds user until pokemon omega ruby/alpha saphire and the 2ds came out. And when i started getting into the backup and homebrew side of the 3ds, magnethax was already a thing soo i went the softmodding route. Still an interesting product nonetheless, but these days you are right a modded 3ds with Luma is just the way to go.

 

[Anim8rDude]

The first pic of the Rashka user posting their system was bricked... thats despair-inducing. You're just trying to play (pirated?) games & next thing you know your system is shot. Good thing I never had to experience that feeling. Never thought a flashcart could do that, glad it's infinitely safer to play & mod your systems nowadays.

 

[SylverReZ]

The first pic of the Rashka user posting their system was bricked... thats despair-inducing. You're just trying to play (pirated?) games & next thing you know your system is shot.

It's pure irony, honestly. Like, trying to brick people's consoles for choosing clones over your original flashcart, they really didn't think of this through, and are taking it way too far, considering how expensive 3DS systems still were (around $150 for a new in box system). It's good that I didn't buy this flashcart when it launched and realize why my 3DS didn't turn on, these days it's much safer to softmod your console as there's little brick risk involved.

On one hand, at least MT-Card put a lot of effort into their clones to support the latest system firmware as opposed to 3DSLink (aka R4iDSN) which pushed later updates that had older versions of the "Launcher.dat" which did not contain the bricker, and only supported up to 4.5.0 before they faded into obscurity (see here).

And yes, to actually play 3DS games, they must be encrypted ROMs (so physically ROM dumps, no tampering) since signature checks weren't broken yet until Ultra.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Werent people just adding games into the 3DS instead of using a Flashcart back then? Or was the 3DS Flash carts scene came out before the cubeninja exploit?

 

[SylverReZ]

Werent people just adding games into the 3DS instead of using a Flashcart back then? Or was the 3DS Flash carts scene came out before the cubeninja exploit?

The 3DS flashcart scene was the first for playing 3DS game backups and before such as Ninjhax.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

The 3DS flashcart scene was the first for playing 3DS game backups and before such as Ninjhax.

Damn!
People were really on it even back in 2011

 

[SylverReZ]

Damn!
People were really on it even back in 2011

Gateway 3DS came out in August, 2013 right after reviewers gotten their hands on it. The earliest 3DS ROM dump pre-dates back to May, 2011 with "Tom Clancy Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars," but nobody was able to use it yet because no flashcarts or exploits existed around this time (link).

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

"Tom Clancy Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars,"

Golly that game was fun, I remember when Ubisoft made Tom Clancy games

 

[SylverReZ]

Now to someday review the MT-Card but maybe not as long as the Gateway 3DS since they're basically identical, but this one is a clone.

Post in thread 'Things You've Recently Bought'

Tuesday at 8:51 PM

After waiting for 2-years for an MT-Card to appear on my eBay wish list, one finally appeared since they're super hard to come by. And if you've read my Gateway 3DS blog entry, it's a clone of that flashcart with some unique features-such as a microUSB port for upgrading the FPGA and a button to switch between the games.

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