Right now is the best time to hack your 3DS -

[OwO What's This?]

Even on the latest firmware, you can hack your 3DS and get custom firmware, and then you can pretty much do anything with it.

https://3ds.guide/

 

[Conrix]

You can just use Soundhax if you don't want to risk bricking your 3DS because you're too cheap to buy a new one. I'm pretty much in that boat and that works just fine for playing Game Boy games on my "old" 3DS, I play Wario Land and Pokemon Prism on Gameyob that way.

Also I have quite a bit of Pokemon that I put some good time into catching and raising, so I would personally just get a cheap used 2DS to use as a full fledged homebrew device so if I fuck up then there's none of my data lost.

 

[D.Va]

You can just use Soundhax if you don't want to risk bricking your 3DS because you're too cheap to buy a new one. I'm pretty much in that boat and that works just fine for playing Game Boy games on my "old" 3DS, I play Wario Land and Pokemon Prism on Gameyob that way.

Also I have quite a bit of Pokemon that I put some good time into catching and raising, so I would personally just get a cheap used 2DS to use as a full fledged homebrew device so if I fuck up then there's none of my data lost.

You have to be pretty special to brick your 3DS with the guide though. I had to go through the process with an n3DS and the only time I could have potentially bricked it is if I closed the lid during the 2.x downgrade, but it explicitly warns about doing that and you're only in there for a short time to fetch a key from a bit of protected memory. Everything else is recoverable.

You won't lose anything either since you basically dump and restore the entire system NAND in the process, so after unlocking your 3DS is basically the same as it was. You won't lose your game saves or the contents of your SD card since there's no need to format that either.

 

[OwO What's This?]

You can just use Soundhax if you don't want to risk bricking your 3DS because you're too cheap to buy a new one. I'm pretty much in that boat and that works just fine for playing Game Boy games on my "old" 3DS, I play Wario Land and Pokemon Prism on Gameyob that way.

Also I have quite a bit of Pokemon that I put some good time into catching and raising, so I would personally just get a cheap used 2DS to use as a full fledged homebrew device so if I fuck up then there's none of my data lost.

It is safer than it's ever been to do this.

 

[Conrix]

It seems that I was mostly wrong with my concern that installing CFW would brick my system if I fucked up, since it would require me to do something colossally stupid, like forgetting to charge my 3DS. That said I'll definitely check it out when I feel like graduating from userland hax, which really is acceptable for playing NES and GameBoy games on Old 3DS.

 

[Elysian]

Can I get the homebrews and use the eshop and be able to do shit on Animal Crossing online without it throwing a hissy fit and refusing to let you use the Dream Suite until you update the damn thing like it did before? LeafTools sounds really cool and I wanna use it to RAM hack my town but I can't unless it's on some old as fuck 9.something firmware. Plus there are a couple of eshop games I want...

It's not the end of the world if the answer is no since I got a new 3ds for christmas so I can keep that one ~~pure~~ and use my old worn Pikachu Old 3DS to do the homebrew firmware-y stuff. I already used my copy of OOT3D and my powersave cable to get the homebrew launcher installed on it so that's like 25% of the work done right there, I'll add soundhax later today to make it more convenient. If I can still do online stuff with the homebrew then I might get Soundhax on my N3DS and try to repair my Pikachu one enough to trade it in since I still have the box.

 

[OwO What's This?]

Can I get the homebrews and use the eshop and be able to do shit on Animal Crossing online without it throwing a hissy fit and refusing to let you use the Dream Suite until you update the damn thing like it did before? LeafTools sounds really cool and I wanna use it to RAM hack my town but I can't unless it's on some old as fuck 9.something firmware. Plus there are a couple of eshop games I want...

It's not the end of the world if the answer is no since I got a new 3ds for christmas so I can keep that one ~~pure~~ and use my old worn Pikachu Old 3DS to do the homebrew firmware-y stuff. I already used my copy of OOT3D and my powersave cable to get the homebrew launcher installed on it so that's like 25% of the work done right there, I'll add soundhax later today to make it more convenient. If I can still do online stuff with the homebrew then I might get Soundhax on my N3DS and try to repair my Pikachu one enough to trade it in since I still have the box.

yes. LeafTools has been obsolete for a long time, there are new tools.

 

[Elysian]

yes. LeafTools has been obsolete for a long time, there are new tools.

Oh really? Cool. Looks like I know what I'm doing later on (besides sleeping off an all nighter that is).

 

[Bob Page]

I've gotten mine hacked, thanks to a friend of mine. If y'all want some custom themes, I've made a few:

Deus Ex
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

 

[Hodor]

I need to sit down and hack a few people's 3DSes. I modded both my O3DS and my N3DS around this time last year. Best thing I've ever done to this system, tbh.

 

[Conrix]

If any of you actually have Super Mario Maker for 3DS and were disappointed by the limited sharing options and lacking online sharing, there's a homebrew tool called SMMOCDM which exports course data to either a 3DS or Wii-U compatible format.

http://gbatemp.net/threads/ocdm-mario-maker-3ds-course-manager.451621/

tfw homebrew devs manage to pull off what Nintendo should have done

 

[Ravana]

I was about to start doing this but I barely use the thing anyway.

 

[OwO What's This?]

I was about to start doing this but I barely use the thing anyway.

You will once you do it. If you have a New 3DS it's the best option for emulation on the go

 

[Ineedahero]

God fucking damn it. I cracked mine about 6 months ago and it took like 4 hours and every second was tense as fuck.

It was well worth it though, particularly what with the bullshit prices nintendo charges here in Australia. Fortunately with a hacked 3ds you can very easily backup your games (I don't know the rules about this subject, you know what I mean.) Thanks to Nintendo's staggering ineptitude you can grab 3ds games straight from Nintendo's servers with freeshop.

In order to get a game you need its keys, and while you can download just the keys for the games you want, it's much easier to just get the encTitleKeys.bin-Updater which downloads every key on the store (that version is a fork of the original, I prefer it but if you don't like it/can't get it working search for MatMaf's original. Just make sure you move the bin to 3ds/freeShop/keys)

You will once you do it. If you have a New 3DS it's the best option for emulation on the go

It is? Why is that? I still use my old psp for emulation but it would be neat to ditch it.

 

[Conrix]

If you updated the official firmware for whatever reason, maybe to get Pokemon from PokeBank, you can now access homebrew and probably still install CFW if you haven't already.

 

[Watcher]

I've kept mine I think on 11.1 for a while now. I should install cfw on it I just haven't had any time

 

[Calooby]

And if you get the $80 Mario Kart 7 2DS, that's a pretty cheap fuckin' portable emulator box you've got there with some alright controls.

 

[Conrix]

And if you get the $80 Mario Kart 7 2DS, that's a pretty cheap fuckin' portable emulator box you've got there with some alright controls.

And Mario Kart 7 is a pretty good game, even better for the fact that it's bundled with some 2DSes.

 

[The Iconoclast]

It's really worth it. Get a 32gb SD Card and you'll be set.

 

[Xarpho]

I remember when I hacked my Wii, and was able to play EarthBound on it (truly the toast of the town) before I was forced to discard the Homebrew Channel so the Netflix updater could run (I never did put homebrew on it again). I never got a 3DS because I honestly wasn't impressed with the games all that much (sequels, remakes, and Pokémon), plus I was cheesed off about Virtual Console (no transfers, and GBA titles were permanently locked to Ambassadors).

Being able to play my existing DS library as well as virtualized versions of my old Game Boy/Game Boy Color games PLUS other consoles of the past is an exciting proposition though.