If youre wanting for an simple way all around 3DS region-locking, talk to oneself if its value your 3DS life. Modders have learned a way to get about the pesky location-lock and entails the Gateway 3DS flashcard application, but it has one particular significant disadvantage. It could kill your 3DS.
Hackers at the GBAtemp forum arrived across a miraculous discovery January 6, 2014. If someone applied hex patching and the Gateway 3DS 2.0B2 Launcher, they could forever patch their 3DS to make it accept online games from any locations. It would permit you to use the latest, formal, 3DS firmware and wouldnt endorse piracy. All it would do was alter the consoles NAND so it would perform any 3DS cartridge put into it. It wouldnt accept roms or burned game titles. Most importantly, it really should have been an simple method for anyone with a DS flashcard that would work on a 3DS with firmware four.one-four.5.
Besides it wasnt. The Gateway 3DS software package has, for absence of a far better term, a eliminate change in it that will activate if the program is modified and attempts to operate on a non-official Gateway 3DS flashcard. If an individual journeys the change, the 3DS is bricked. Its NAND flash memory is devastated, your handheld is ruined, and its all due to the fact of attempting to tweak the launchers code.
The creators of the Gateway 3DS have issued a statement on its web-site addressing the problem. It states that the formal, untouched Gateway launcher is completely safe to use, when employed in conjunction with the official Gateway cartridges. Even so, it also states that it has warned consumers about clone software program and patched launchers, and is having no responsibility for consumers whose techniques are now weakened thanks to the get rid of switch. Nonetheless, it has mentioned that it will carry out a region-no cost bypass into its official firmware in the upcoming.
The takeaway is, usually be mindful when doing work with flashcards and modified software program. You hardly ever know when a organization like the Gateway 3DS creators is heading to have a hidden line of code that will entirely destroy your 3DS for making an attempt to use it to clear away a feature like a area-lock. If your 3DS is now ruined following trying this resolve, try out calling Nintendo to see if they will present a restore or preserving up for a new 3DS.
Resource [GBAtemp] Source [Eurogamer]
