How a Terrible Game Cracked the 3DS's Security - Early Days of 3DS Hacking

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[@TheMrKeksLp]

> be a company that encourages piracy > get butthurt when someone pirates your product

[@user-uo8ny1kj4c]

Fun fact: you can pirate gta 3 on android and rockstar games doesn't give a shit

[@scrappgangkodie2342]

ANTI -CORL SQUAD lol games for Androids can easily be pirated

[@ronank2432]

they dont give a shit because its not exclusive anymore and android app store is enough cash grab anyways and its pointless with the android joke security against piracy

[@r033cx]

Guide how to bypass Android piracy security: 1. Check "unknown sources" in settings 2. ??? 3. PROFIT!

[@clickbait9948]

@@r033cx Well isn't that the point, iPhones don't even let you download Google images, or use any other online store only the App Store... I like iPhones but they are too strict you can't even upload pictures from your computer to your phone.

[@hallowizer440]

Imagine having a bestselling game because of its homebrew potential.

[@RyanTosh]

"Good job guys! We did such a horrible job making this game secure, it's a bestseller!"

[@michaelj9153]

@@RyanTosh they 100% never patched it for profit

[@orlandomoreno6168]

@@RyanTosh security is the problem of the console makers, not the game

[@RyanTosh]

@@orlandomoreno6168 It's also in the game dev's best interests to prevent piracy...

[@elioxis2422]

@@orlandomoreno6168 not really, anti piracy has always been a big deal on devs side too

[@bthonk]

They did NOT want people finding out how it works. *now lets talk about how it works*

[@leolaus]

bruh

[@bthonk]

wow i thought this was gonna be a comment nobody looked at, but it has 400 likes lol

[@mayravixx25]

@@bthonk Low key made me laugh 😂

[@bthonk]

im not gonna add a cringey "oH thANkS fOr 900 lIKEs" but wtf

[@callmeaprilroseorisha404]

Bruh

[@shingshongshamalama]

Ironically, piracy is becoming more and more the only way we can ensure the preservation of older software.

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

In stuff like old arcade games it's literally the only way to keep them alive ironically, and pirates have to crack the anti-piracy stuff just so those 40 year old games don't be forgotten forever.

[@volcanhacks]

​@@JimMilton-ej6zianti piracy is actually easy to bypass it's not to stop piracy forever it's to stop it long enough to get a few more sales

[@jimmyhopkins1]

Denuvo is far from easy to crack mate lol ​@@volcanhacks

[@hellohaveagoodday]

Eshop exclusives were big on the 3DS so it's just fortunate that it's now easy to crack.

[@Of_Mail]

Yeah it’s the only choice now because of the e-shop shutdown

[@jimbobbyrnes]

i love how that the Gateway programmer literally called the function "Brick()"

[@neonblade8591]

Yeah

[@Scie]

Hmmm, I wonder what I patch out to make it work?

[@theanonymouswayz3566]

Ik

[@boalbads]

Gateway: Well we kept it very secret, "Brick()" doesnt exist... Defo... 🙄

[@marioandluigi2000XD]

256 likes, make it 512

[@Psykii1]

I wonder how the Cubic Ninja devs felt when their game skyrocket in sales

[@MsZsc]

They were defunct i think

[@weberman173]

@@MsZsc well.. the Devs where still alive, the development Studio was defunct.. that dosnt mean that all the devs suddenly died... so the devs still where around to see how their game suddenyl skyrocekted

[@214ms5]

サイキッKu s t o n k s

[@deltan6212]

You probably dont want to be known as the guys that programmed a game so poorly it opened the floodgates for homebrew/piracy on the 3DS. That will murder your career.

[@stephenbanyar6763]

"Welp, we're out of business, but at least our s***ty game is worth hundreds of dollars."

[@boopergoober]

Imagine being the dev team of Cubic Ninja, wondering why your game that flopped hard is now suddenly a best seller and also wishing that this had happened before the company went under.

[@mr.ed.8533]

Nintendo might've told them to stop selling it or perhaps deal with a law suit otherwise

[@zhell]

@@mr.ed.8533 they went under before the exploit even was released so i dont think so

[@MrZer093]

@@zhell No, Nintendo would have definitely threatened a suit if they didn’t at least patch it out. They’re quite litigious like that. You usually don’t hear about them suing people because most know to take things down once they get that cease and desist from them. And trust me, Nintendo would have DEFINITELY gone after any game company selling a game that can mess with the system like that

[@Brownyan]

@@MrZer093 Even if they patched it out people could just not download the patch

[@NotttC]

@@Brownyan Nintendo would force people to get the patch. This happened with ironfall with a mandatory update to patch ironhax

[@Rokinbokinstudios]

I feel like once a game company stops selling games and the game system, its morally okay to pirate the games. They wont make money anyways, so its a win for the customer, but not a loss for the company.

[@cornblaster7003]

yeah but being public in supporting pirates with your new hack seems like a great way to easily get sued, that's usually why they avoid making it easy

[@ScyHigh]

@@cornblaster7003 i think that's what keeps people away from enabling piracy with their homebrew for as long as they can. The Wii is still a really good example of this, with mod packs like CTGP requiring a physical disc to load, and refusing to run if on an emulator or without a valid disc. There was also a fun effect with an early version of the homebrew channel that would flip your screen upside down if it detected that you were using it to pirate games. The Wii community really has it out for pirates!

[@egon3705]

@@cornblaster7003 the thing is that a few years after discontinuation nintendo generally stops caring (nds bootstrap runs retail ds games for free and they haven't done anything about it)

[@sorryiwaseatingamilkyway]

It's alright to pirate as soon as you can get the game files shush about morality

[@michaelepica3564]

@@sorryiwaseatingamilkyway that’s not how it works buddy

[@hugomaldonado1051]

When I was young, my dad bought me a copy of cubic Ninja from the clearance section before it took off... I still have it

[@rebooteed_3434]

that’s... really cool.

[@jacobbeck6769]

Sell, sell, sell!

[@finndelacy5447]

Keep it and use it for bragging rights!

[@timetraveler9272]

Is it personalized ?

[@epicricardorat2336]

@@timetraveler9272 every one is personalised

[@aldar8240]

The irony of a company called "Gateway" performing gatekeeping on their code should not be understated

[@xatoor]

i think it was intentional

[@XchampionXFTW]

@@xatoor how do you have the foresight to name a company based on a future ironic series of actions It's a company name, not a username

[@Madcat56]

it's a piracy company with anti-piracy software. IRONY 100+

[@uiopuiop3472]

@@Madcat56 waddagun

[@babyyeed5674]

Hackers are very efeminate and dumb, imagine having a problem with piracy, piracy is awesome! Pirates are saviours for us who are poor and know little about tech.

[@alicon852]

I actually have a hacked 2ds, and i remember specifically having to go through some wierd hoops IN the 3ds, and therefore ds. I remember going through the japanese version of flipnote studio, but I had no idea what to do because I don't speak Japanese. I was insanely scared, but luckily I ended up using Google translate to find all the Japanese characters I needed. So I needed GOOGLE TRANSLATE to hack my 2ds. Weirdest thing I've probably ever done.

[@SilentProti]

I remember using that when I was hacking my 3ds, but the guide explained it all

[@ricedbroccoli]

That's what I had to do for mine. I believe that is the frogminer method. The current method is bannerbomb3 which is way less sketch and hard to mess up

[@terumiafuro3723]

I hacked mine 2 days ago, for mine I only needed a couple files and a SD card, incredible how much it improved in just a few years

[@abc-oo8ce]

Web 2020 + game console 2007

[@MichoOussama]

The 3DS being hacked years before the DSi is an understatement.

[@goomygaming980]

wait what? The DSi was hacked AFTER the 3DS?!?!?!?!

[@Light_Dies_07]

@@goomygaming980 thats what i was thinking 😭ong thats so interesting and funny at the same time lmao

[@yikes6969]

Guess you don't know the definition of understatement

[@Light_Dies_07]

@@yikes6969 🤓

[@yikes6969]

@@Light_Dies_07 you tried at least

[@autumnburra]

r4 card: used by hackers and also 6 year old me playing cooking mama

[@GenGamesUniverse]

I frickin loved my R4 card, I didn't care if I had roms on it, I just played it for Super Mario 64 DS and Mario Kart DS as well as Pokemon lol

[@jahnesaisquoi]

@@GenGamesUniverse i asked an uncle of mine for a normal old sd card for my dsi and he got me an r4 instead and i had no idea how to use it but it had tonsss of preloaded kinda trash games which i played for endless hours

[@tomwhiteley6051]

yeah I had one of them too they were so cool

[@ToaderTheToad]

Is it weird that I got one in 2019? I got one from one of my dad's friends and I had it for a while collecting dust until I got a micro SD Card.

[@blackwolfy4606]

bught an r4 on dsi miself but never used it for piracy, homebrew was where it's at! (well i suppose technically i pirated pokemon diamond cuz i wanted to try a gamebreaking glitch without damaging my cartridge too)

[@starboundsingularity]

Relying on pirates, known for not wanting to pay for things, as your main source of income is an...interesting business model, to say the least.

[@user-bo6vy5eg8g]

it works though. for some reason.

[@fnafcoolguy5362]

I just use my 3ds as a 3ds

[@starboundsingularity]

@@pair0273 *leans in very close and whispers* emulator

[@starboundsingularity]

@@pair0273 I'm not saying it is. You can download an emulator for free, though. In other words, not pay for the 3DS Regardless, I don't believe it's worth it to argue over a stupid joke that's months old, or another, different stupid joke but thank you for your time and input

[@theinsanityplex9372]

Sounds like you haven't ever talked to a "pirate" in your entire life, Mothman12. They're willing to pay for a LOT of things, but GAMES aren't usually one of them because the entire video game industry has turned into an absurd scam over the last decade or so.

[@hootenannyskeleton]

for some reason whenever i hear about a code destroying a system it makes my heart skip a beat as if it were a horror movie i dont even know/care that much about electronics but it just happens

[@nullpoint3346]

You have the heart of a financially unstable techie inside you.

[@OrigamiAhsoka]

The way gateway has like the most classically evil looking logo I’ve ever seen is absolutely hilarious

[@alicewerefox4783]

So what you're telling me is... The 3DS was susceptible to a simple buffer overflow attack... TWICE.

[@renakunisaki]

It also suffered from a nice memory protection flaw, gspwn. Nintendo knew well enough to keep the important OS code in its own protected memory region where games couldn't touch it. But, the GPU could. By convincing it to "draw" over certain memory, you could access those protected areas.

[@trollbreeder2534]

but first you need to get access to the GPU

[@PubstarHero]

So was the Wii. The Twilight Princess hack was a buffer overflow with the horse's name, and it was the same with the Lego Indiana Jones Adventure. I cant remember what the specific buffer overflow as on that one though.

[@satibel]

​@poopity scoop the security was good enough, it held for a couple of years, and the flaws were patched somewhat quickly, their job isn't to make it unhackable, it's to make it hold long enough that they can sell games on it and the publishers make games on the console. most hacks look quite simple once you know them, but it's like finding a password is *Po123ny456*, once you know it, it's easy to login, but if you have to guess it's really hard.

[@limepotato]

Yes, multiple times

[@Dat1Eddie]

I remember buying cubic ninja, and I was like this game sucks, and never playing it again, and now I see this...

[@rebooteed_3434]

oof

[@systemhidden1355]

oof

[@samsungrefrigeratorcondens4354]

Do u still have it? Mad cash right there.

[@WantBadtime]

@@cmmartti How is it useless?

[@exedo9882]

@@WantBadtime Ninjhax was patched years ago.

[@Saustyy]

Fun facts : - MSET stands for MemorySet, it’s a function in c/c++ where you can set specific values to a location in memory. For example filling an array with a unique number. In that case, we memory set the ds profile to garbage characters to make the 3ds vulnerable.

[@javiinkling695]

>"Don't follow KZbin guides" >mfw managed to jailbreak my 3ds by following a KZbin guide

[@lazyful3961]

Same

[@igmoreno3579]

Me too ngl

[@FieryMeltman]

It can work, but it's generally a really bad idea.

[@SakuraSkyes]

same...

[@CrushedParagon]

The reason you shouldn't follow KZbin guides is the method changes quite often, if the video is up to date it would be fine. I remember hacking my 3DS required specific DSiware titles, while when I installed CFW on my sister's 2DS there was shenanigans with Japanese Flipnote studio, the methods were ENTIRELY different

[@gnuling296]

"If their amazing code didn't trigger on actual Gateway cards too" Called it. Their idea was idiotic.

[@thecreationist6539]

Same, I was thinking, how does it tell if it is a clone or the real thing

[@kabobawsome]

It's also straight up illegal. Creating an unauthorized cart is legal. Creating a tool capable of piracy is a legal gray area (although it does get a lot less gray when you are marketing it as a piracy tool and encouraging it's use in piracy, but we'll ignore that for this point). Malicious code? That's a crime. Like a straight up crime that people could have (and should have) sued for.

[@hatredlord]

@@kabobawsome Well he says they started offering to fix affected 3dses. I somehow doubt they made that offer BEFORE the lawsuits.

[@rustable4165]

@@kabobawsome the user had to provide there own games so it an "ehh" on legality

[@kabobawsome]

@@rustable4165 No, and there's court precedent to back that up. If you make a tool capable of piracy, that's a legal gray area, probably even on the lighter side. If you market a tool to be used for piracy, that's outside of existing legal limits. It would just be another crime on top if they were also providing pirated copies.

[@gibbeldon]

Where did this dude come from? He obviously has experience in creating videos, yet this is the first video on this channel.

[@cherrypuddles]

Could have had an earlier channel that he (or KZbin admins) deleted.

[@GodlyDiamonds]

Yeah this is not his first video He had other videos before He probably deleted it

[@morallyconflictedtortoise6494]

@@GodlyDiamonds The channel was made same time as this video, so it sure as hell wasn't on this channel

[@deltan6212]

First impressions matter

[@PosthumanHeresy]

A year later and he has a total of five videos. I wonder if he's another youtuber. Well either that or he's the one person on this site that still makes videos because they want to rather than for money, which would instantly elevate him to being my favorite just because his channel actually deserves to continue to exist.

[@bridgetgemini8942]

I was working at a video game store when this happened, and that day we had a bunch of people come in to buy Cubic Ninja. I remember being so confused because no one had cared about the game up until that point. The next day we were told to immediately take it off the shelf and it got recalled back to the head office haha.

[@modestmismagius105]

I'm eternally gratetful to everyone that helped crack the 3ds, you can do a lot of cool stuff with it nowadays and I use it almost as much as I use my switch plus having ddlc, fnaf, lsd dream emulator, and pepsiman all on a 3ds with an undertale theme is amazing lol

[@camillecirrus3977]

"Man, that is the best video i've seen in absolute AGES, i wonder what else this guy made..." "Oh."

[@donbionicle]

Apparently there are other videos, but they've gone private?

[@nendobot]

@@donbionicle nah he created the channel when he uploaded the video

[@nendobot]

@@donbionicle he literally has a twitter account, explaining that this is the only video hes made so far

[@donbionicle]

Hmm, you are correct. I concede this round!

[@timber8698]

I'm excited to see what her makes in the future though

[@DevilNeverKnows]

Gateway is the most savage company I've heard of. Their accidental self-sabotage sounds like a plot twist in a dramatic play

[@Brass319]

"[redacted] it, I'm gonna say it" "dklsoifnhofs;d;afj;isjdfiohdas;fsdsfi[ucmksldksfjccnx,.mbncxzvpoodsoifdmjscds'coaipii"

[@acumenium8157]

This was a great summary of the whole saga, although I feel Roxas was painted in an overly positive light (closed source in the homebrew/hacking community is a major dick move) and Smealum was given far too much credit for works he likely never accomplished. He only ever repeated what other hackers would say, and always had convenient excuses why he couldn't follow up on his Q Drops---I mean, his vaguetweets on how "something" is "coming soon" and it "may require something" that you "may or may not" be able to "buy or otherwise find".

[@Timeward76]

Yeah, closed source struck me as odd. No wonder people reverse engineered it. The man wouldnt give the people that are good at breaking stuff what they wanted, so they broke his stuff.

[@snowbie.]

I love how thorough and simplified your explanations are. I've been trying to dabble in cracking/patching/REing for some time now, and you do a great job at taking otherwise advanced concepts and making them understandable for young teens.

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

"They did not want anyone finding out how it worked!" -- "So let's talk a little bit about how it worked." OK, cool!

[@Arcxzal]

This comment got glitched for me so im seeing ur comment on koneko kitten's video and a video abt shen mue

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

@@Arcxzal: Huh, what do you mean?

[@personal_mind1812]

@@HelloKittyFanMan. Sometimes comment glitches like: your reading a comment that you have read you scroll down this is where the glitch happends there is a read more button and shows the comment that you read.

[@weshouldhavenukedjapanathi8369]

Ummmm I think your comment is cursed mine is glitched too

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

Wow, thanks, 374 people so far, for your likes!

[@eevee727]

"they did NOT want anyone finding out how it worked." "........so lets talk a little about how it worked"

[@nachocurds6593]

bruh moment

[@thegamingdoggo9519]

Oh hi funny seeing you here

[@slightlynormal1485]

Haha yes that is what he said

[@eevee727]

@@thegamingdoggo9519 you're from suzie's streams right?

[@cloroxhammer3289]

Bruh Moment #2

[@whenuseea3969]

Moral dilemma? These are corporations. Do we actually care?

[@elliottapp5611]

coming back to watch this video after nintendo released their latest patch.... right after making it impossible to buy any first party 3ds games by closing the eshop. im sure that soon enough hackers will have found a solution for this one too. very interesting video!!

[@ToraOkami303]

"... bricks your 3ds..." "...give a bad name to competitors product..." Bruh... All I heard about flash carts during this time was that trying to use them on the 3ds bricked your device, Gateway unintentionally taught dopes like me to just *not buy any flashcards for 3ds entirely because they would brick the device*

[@hallowizer440]

...and that's why you should stop using Edge and get Firefox. Ok, so if you're unaware, Edge now uses Chromium internally. Google could easily put a virus in there but not push that change to GitHub. Plus, why would you even trust normal Chrome?

[@alexisgeovann]

@@hallowizer440 Are you talking about internet browsers? Could you explain this? I shouldn’t use google chrome?

[@FernandoGranco]

@@hallowizer440 If they don't push the change, Edge won't be able to use it....

[@hallowizer440]

@@FernandoGranco oh wait :facepalm:

[@opossumontheinternet9864]

@@hallowizer440 The comment isn't even about web browsers, the hell??

[@amfram]

I had one friend on 3DS who was always playing Cubic Ninja, now I get it

[@pcu9284]

"why is he playing that crap game all the time" "now I get it"

[@nil8659]

he hack 😳

[@awii.neocities]

he was smart

[@Commander-peepers]

🤓🤓

[@donwald3436]

7:20 Hey you pirates, stop pirating our pirating tool! lol

[@cupofdirtfordinner]

this is genuinely one of my favorite videos on youtube. ive watched it like 6 times since ~2020

[@Valery0p5]

Awww, the good old days, my first smartphone,no data plan, connecting to that unsecured network behind school, just to open the gateway page, waiting for a new exploit on 6.0...

[@noodle6852]

I genuinely love that they were basically like “Fine, you like them more? Let’s see how you feel when you can’t have either.” And just killed your DS

[@crunchy2978]

I grew up with a dsi with one of those cards full of games on it. My family grew up poor so it was the best way my dad could give me the most out of my ds. Years and years later, it still works and i still replay pokemon games on it :]

[@Sam-vf5uc]

Who would've thought a group devoted to stealing for profit would have done unsavory things to people's devices?

[@reoffending]

Piracy isn't theft.

[@narufan987]

@@reoffending it is. The morality of it is gray, but piracy is still stealing

[@reoffending]

@@narufan987 No it isn't. If you steal someone's car, they won't have it anymore. If you "steal" someone's game, they still have it.

[@MuchWhittering]

@@reoffending No, you're just stealing money from them. No different to sneaking into a concert to enjoy the show for free. Pay people for their work.

[@reoffending]

@@MuchWhittering No you're not. They never had that money in the first place, so you're not stealing from them. And no matter what, there's always some group of nerds that actually spend money on video games, compensating more than enough for the work of the developers.

[@natelexi8449]

"Hey, uh, John? There are a bunch of clones stealing our money." "..." "...John??" "CLONES GO BOOM BOOM"

[@Infevlol]

xd

[@neonblade8591]

WE ALSO GO BOOM BOOM WAIT

[@kitsunekid16]

Just binge watched your whole channel

[@blakecook9266]

Hehe

[@blakecook9266]

So did I

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

@@blakecook9266 I eat universe's

[@irving7137]

Funny thay he has 2 videos eh?

[@mettatonsagent7541]

This will be perfect in a few years 🤣

[@BlinksAwakening]

I remember browsing GBAtemp the day Ninjhax released, as soon as I saw it, I immediately ran to the local used game store, and bought a copy for maybe $5. Hilariously, they had 2 copies in stock, and literally the person in front of me was buying the other copy, I heard him talking with the person behind the counter, and it was immediately clear that he too had happened across the information online that day. Just really funny that we were both there at the same time, picking up the last 2 copies the store had, probably right before they would start to receive regular inquiries if they had a copy in stock.

[@half-qilin]

The "DS mode" is actually almost exactly how it works. The 3DS actually has a TWL_FIRM in the system, which is a DSi mode.

[@Craftworld08882]

true, i took a look at all the partitons (even firm partitions€

[@half-qilin]

@@Craftworld08882 You actually can patch it, which is used to modify the screen blurring and potentially add widescreen support

[@AppleHacks96Stars]

hello @half-qilin alt account of GameWorld here, how do i patch it

[@megatenshi]

I have so many memories of 3ds homebrew. My favorite persists to this day: my custome home menu theme app bugged out and stopped properly updating music when I changed themes. It'd change the visuals and sfx, but not music. So, for the past 4 ish years, my 3ds has had a No Game No Life theme, with the opening from Watamote blaring instead. This persisted through system transfer, and my 3ds currently has no other homebrew on it, but god does it make me laugh every time

[@doomsoul9096]

It failed successfully

[@teighan7829]

Please record and upload this 🙏

[@lightyagami3492]

Still waiting for that No Game No Life sequel 😭😭

[@Luxcalibur]

@@teighan7829 I second this, or even make it an actual theme

[@violetsparkles5453]

Hi! This is probably a stupid question but when you system transfer consoles, does it preserve homebrew apps, themes and games?

[@GNUGradyn]

"This exploit took advantage of webkit" Why do i hear this sentence about a different exploit every other week

[@joehanson1187]

Gradyn Wursten Gradyn Wursten

[@woodchucksquirrel]

@@joehanson1187 E

[@want-diversecontent3887]

@@woodchucksquirrel lriuqs_KUHCDUW@

[@woodchucksquirrel]

@@want-diversecontent3887 No

[@want-diversecontent3887]

@@woodchucksquirrel .

[@Butterscotch_96]

This is like the best video on here. I’ve watched it so many times and it’s just entertaining to watch.

[@virii.win32]

I've literally watched this video like 10 times since I found it 2 years ago. Great vid

[@JomasterTheSecond]

I love how ironic it was when Gateway tried to stop the pirates of their pirate product.

[@chamber_hiro256]

lol

[@zeechy]

“They did not want anyone finding out how it worked” *Lets talk about how it worked*

[@TheChefBoo]

Gateway: *exists* Tech Rules: I'm about to end this whole man'a career

[@maximyllion]

it's crazy how much your content has improved in very subtle ways, the formula hasn't changed much but the audio has improved drastically since this video has a lot of plosives and audible crackles.

[@galesdove]

just finished watching all of your videos after being introduced to them via the fnaf and baldi stuff. amazing work man! a lot of this goes over my head but it’s super intriguing as a pc gamer who has been modding my games for years (albeit in a much more surface level way). can’t wait to see more from you!

[@zeldaplayer6799]

How the heck do you have videos of this quality with less than 30 subs?! Man you earned mine!

[@ijudgetakes]

EXACTLY WTF

[@introvert4931]

I was going to say how the heck he had videos of that quality with 800 subs

[@theshadowthie1]

Holy crap i just NOW check his sub count. You right, i wouldve at LEAST expected 5 digits

[@tanasirobert9157]

Da Channel of Wisdom aka IPSoft Creations why do you try to roast someone who didn’t directly target you while also discrediting this still pretty small youtuber?

[@ericaaiko8663]

@@tanasirobert9157 what

[@proxy1035]

man, I'm kinda disapointed because i thought your channel was filled with videos about hacking history... oh well hope you'll get there soon

[@musaddiqueh6248]

Well now that it's gained traction hopefully he may make more

[@Dak3]

Wonder how much it cost to recommend this video to everyone

[@LordChesalot]

New video by the way

[@zoolg6939]

@@Dak3 You can pay for that? lmao

[@averagewhiteguy2]

Sailing the high seas is something I will never be ashamed of.

[@theautisticartist9370]

Here’s a reminder we haven’t forgotten about you: this is my favorite KZbin documentary! I like your editing style, in particular.

[@mysticaxolotl8215]

Nice PFP!

[@Sprythekid17]

>makes one video >gets 1.5 million views and 100k subs this is beyond science

[@Sprythekid17]

@ScoutSniper r/wooosh

[@cancerousnut7767]

Sprythekid 17 He deleted the comment, what did it say?

[@reddysetgo1341]

Aw man i remember when this video only had 300 views. Amazing to see how much the channel has increased

[@mugwa5423]

@@Sprythekid17 *i dont even know you*

[@stevenyoung9738]

@Bulb 66 it's funny because even if this guy is incredibly unoriginal he is more humorous than u could be

[@tenaciouscreator5787]

I remember the first 3DS hack I saw was Minecraft 3 years before it was offically annouced for the 3DS and Wii U

[@VantaLightYT]

I come back to this video all the time. we miss you Tech Rules

[@lunondisposable5382]

I think it's funny how many hackers are against piracy when that's what 90% of people use it for. I doubt anyone ever hacked their console just to play homebrew and Doom ports

[@whycantihaveaproperusernam9384]

That's the problem, really. INB4 this turns into 10¹⁰⁰ pixels high of drama.

[@ricedbroccoli]

They are covering their asses. Most either really don't care or support it

[@fallingwater]

There's an annoyingly vocal minority who genuinely do. Retrogame emulation is particularly desired.

[@lunondisposable5382]

@@fallingwater To me that falls under the umbrella of "piracy," which I say lovingly because I do a lot of both

[@fallingwater]

@@lunondisposable5382 eeehh, fair enough :D

[@LateTheIdiot]

Nintendo: *Releases a console* Hackers: *I'm four parallel universes ahead of you*

[@muchotexto4248]

More like "Your attempts to survive me only make me stronger"

[@DrKoneko]

“Needless to say, they did NOT want people finding out how it worked.” “So, let’s talk a little about how it works.”

[@weene875]

L o l

[@arock9529]

w a i t w h a t i s y o u r p f p

[@DrKoneko]

@@arock9529 if mine its a bird if you mean his its sexy

[@tl1882]

@@arock9529 @weene 's pfp is lhil swift i think

[@kujokarizma5401]

Ok I'm sure people have told you this before but this video is SOOOOOO GOOD! I've watched this so many times since a couple months after you posted it and I'm entertained everytime! Good luck:)

[@ShowToddSomeLove]

Remember it's always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games.

[@shootingstarships]

Release your games Nintendo. No one can be expected to have a CRT TV that can play SNES or N64 properly anymore.

[@Gethazzor3]

You have a great style of commentary, casual and friendly without coming across as trying too hard x

[@iwilitu6591]

Wish I could speak like that during presentations

[@General12th]

@@iwilitu6591 Just make all your presentations _exclusively_ about the history of 3DS hacking!

[@EeveeEuphoria]

Got here from the 3DS hacks subreddit. Not done watching yet, just wanted to say, some of this sounds eerily similar to a certain situation. Piracy being the main motive for a certain device, the intentional bricking of consoles using said device... *cough* SX OS *cough*

[@Valery0p5]

And for a good reason: TX team and gateway are literally the same thing! And there is a lot of evidence online about that...

[@matteofo]

I almost stole your comment lol, then I read this aaand... Deleted.

[@leaffen9616]

@@matteofo I wonder why your name isn't 5914773R.

[@matteofo]

Leaffen 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@valshaped]

There's a reason ReSwitched team refers to TX as "Gateway"... That said, SX and Gateway share a lot of common features, design practices, etc.

[@boomvang1]

I keep coming back to this video cause its so good, this kickstarted your channel

[@canadianlucifer8446]

Idk how many times I've watched this video, it's so interesting!! This, the anti piracy, and bleem videos are my favorite. Tech history is so cool, especially how you tell and present it. Tech rules!!

[@lospagnolofalso]

Am I drunk? I was recommended this video but it's the only video on the channel? That being said, I understand why I was recommended it and I think this is a very high quality video and it's interesting too. I just wonder how someone could be pushed by "The Algorithm" on their only video?

[@arnondantas8634]

yeah, this happened to me too. all his videos are private, very weird

[@AllGlitchdOut]

Must have had a bunch of nazi/racist shit . You tube loves pushing those accounts. Even t children

[@nelgluhak6709]

@K D Sounds like you're a nazi lmao

[@Spockston]

Yeah i wanted more tech rules but got "Video is unavailable."

[@patchouliknowledge3481]

@K D triggered much?

[@user-fv7md5sq9s]

Great video. Would be cool to listen about hacking history of others consoles. Like PSP for example.

[@bartman261]

That and the ps vita :D

[@cloroxhammer3289]

PSP hacking age was golden, probably because it was PSP. Never heard about PS Vita hacking scene though, so that would the thing I'd like to see a video about.

[@naskivik]

@@cloroxhammer3289 the vita scene is just bland

[@necromax13]

darkalex was THE MAN

[@cloroxhammer3289]

@@naskivik I'd love to know it anyway, knowledge like that may help me sometime.

[@verminology9999]

Would love to see a video on the Switch, too. Homebrew on old Nintendo Switches is pretty much guaranteed to work no matter what firmware update gets released due to it being a hardware exploit rather than software.

[@ChicagoMel23]

Yes please.

[@TropicSoup]

This is a good video. thanks KZbin algorithm

[@razzamatty]

What I'm confused about is how KZbin's algorithm's suggested this video to everybody when this channel has a total of 2 video's? how is there enough data from 2 video's to start suggesting this video to over 1000000 people?

[@TropicSoup]

@@razzamatty KZbin wildin

[@VashdaCrash]

@@razzamatty I'm thinking this guy has other videos in another account from wich he gained experience, and somehow Google knew he was making quality content with them, so it gave him a bump. That sounded less crazy in my head.

[@Kyle_P]

Even KZbin doesn't know what the algorithm is doing anymore. But it's definitely learning, which is the real thing to be concerned about.

[@voidling2632]

Dunno...I'm not so surprised, I'm studying game design and watch lots of videos related to this topic.

[@akalink77]

Glad your being put into peoples' recommended, the quality and visuals are pretty great. :P

[@kaydwessie296]

This was in my recs too, and now I can be one of the people going "I WAS HERE BEFORE HE WAS BIG" when he gets big

[@TheRealProcyon]

I got it in recommendations too. I watched to see how incorrect it was.

[@irenesilvadeaquino5621]

yes it was in mine too!!

[@cloroxhammer3289]

Guess a new legendary KZbinr is appearing. Since I like these types of videos, I will support them.

[@Kimairan]

It has been in mine for the past two or three days, so I finally gave in and clicked on it. It was better than I expected, actually.

[@jazzius]

I love this video! So neat to know how one of my most nostalgic handhelds was cracked back in it’s rise!

[@Breexee]

this led me down the rabbit hole to modding my 3ds

[@vinnisvidya]

imagine being the team behind cubic ninja and seeing this

[@burgerinabox6063]

🤔

[@skimpskomp]

🤔

[@nicko2222]

🤔

[@shadowclaw9874]

🤔

[@easyaspi31415]

🤔

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

8:08 >when the pirate company has to use anti-piracy That's a damn irony!

[@TexelGuy]

*Ahem* sx os

[@essasetic6064]

@@TexelGuy Apparently the SX OS and the Gateway team are the same.

[@TexelGuy]

@@essasetic6064 well, I mean they haven't bricked any consoles yet, and removed the brick code, so maybe they've changed or maybe they just don't want the team xecuter name to be associated with gateway.

[@essasetic6064]

@@TexelGuy Well they managed to brick Hexkyz's console while he was tampering around with it. Good job the code wasn't as spaghetti as Gateways otherwise it would be *BAD*. It wipes literal NAND partitions and you need a backup just to restore it. But apparently it can happen to normal users but the brick code was removed so that isn't possible anymore.

[@essasetic6064]

As you can probably tell I don't like TX or SX OS very much (although I used it up to 2.0).

[@AmonGus-hw6sp]

Seeing this video makes me really appreciate all the work the homebrew community has done on making the 3ds so smooth to hack. We now can hack a 3ds easily without a game at all! Also I like how you immediately explained how the gateway carts worked after saying that gateway didn't want people to know how their carts worked!

[@KingKalashnikov]

I think I've genuinely rewatched this video like 20 times. It's so good.

[@Blackjax137]

One of the biggest ironies of the whole cracking 3DS firmware and Nintendo desperately trying to patch it with every iteration of their own firmware... Homebrew Launcher did not, in of itself, allow piracy. It enabled it, sure, but it also came with a bunch of cool features like customization options. Actually being able to change your 'wallpaper' background of your 3DS system, and alter the background music of the homescreen to anything. Nintendo, for whatever reason and even to this day, does not support minimal customization of your device. You can't put an image file on your SD card and use that as your background. You either choose their default colors or nothing at all. You can't even buy 'themes' as you can with your PS4 for example. They are VERY stubborn, and even that might be an understatement. That is but one example. Instead of adopting the more 'freeing,' user friendly and relatively harmless features/benefits of custom firmware... They chose to crack down on custom firmwares/exploits to install custom firmware without providing an alternative or an incentive NOT to jailbreak your 3DS. So can they really be surprised that hackers were relentless? And if you look at the PC as a platform... Nobody cares that you 'save edit' or use cheats in a single player game. And that has birthed amazing modding communities for all sorts of games, developers even embrace it and offer out opensource 'mod kits' to modders so that they can DESIGN content for their games that other players can use as they see fit. Just look at Skyrim or any Bethesda game for that matter. We've all probably played Skyrim with mods. You could make the argument that such games and the experience are improved by mods. Even Valve has Steam workshop and practically encourages players TO download mods for applicable games. Imagine Breath of the Wild with community created mods. A mod that removes the durability system so that players who dislike that can experience the game the way they want, if they so chose. Whole new areas, towns, weapons, armor, quests. Replacing Link's character model with Zelda. Right now that's impossible because not only does Nintendo not support it, but with every Switch game, your save file is saved to the device and linked to your account on it. You know what allows you to save on your SD card, inject different save files and harmlessly 'cheat' or 'soft mod' games? Custom firmware. Yet another incentive for hackers to use custom firmware and continue to find exploits, while Nintendo continues to be stubborn for no reason. It's an incentive that wouldn't EXIST if Nintendo offered support for things like that. I can understand wanting to crackdown on piracy. What I can't understand is why, as a platform creator, you would not want to make piracy the ONLY reason for hackers to exploit and install a custom firmware. You don't have to like people modding, save editing, using their own backgrounds/homescreen music etc. You DO, however, have to wise up and understand that the more concessions you make (the less incentives you give hackers to hack your own platform), then the less incentives those hacking communities will have to do it in the first place. More features, less hackers. Less hackers, more secure platform. More secure platform, less piracy. It's quite that simple.

[@grkb]

the 3DS does have themes, but all of 'em are just first party, with rarely any 3rd parties.

[@GeneralNuisance00]

Shhhhh, you know how stubborn Nintendo is. You're totally right but we have to make them think that all of this was their idea. Seriously, the reason people waited so long to hack the PS3 was because of Linux. It only really ramped up when OtherOS was removed. Coincidence? I think not.

[@haraldhimmel5687]

I dont find it ironic at all, their entire security was console based at the time. Piracy was literally just one homebrew app away and for years their entire eshop became "freeshop", including multiplayer until they finally managed to ban people for it. To design it like that was on them but I dont remember any console which made piracy so convenient once cracked.

[@ewjfpoefjwoiefj]

3DS does have purchasable themes though

[@dyztroyax4628]

Piracy, shitty.

[@TechRules]

Hey, everyone! Thank you so much for the overwhelming support on this video! It was a long time in the making, and I'm really happy it seems to be so well-received. Everyone's been asking for MONTHS about the music at the start of the video. It's called "Root" by Silent Partner. Sorry for not mentioning before. For some reason, I didn't realize so many people would want to know! Also, a slight correction: I've been told that I got the colors of the Sky3DS buttons wrong, and it was the blue one that had the arbitrary limit. My bad! Anyway, thanks again! I hope I can continue to make interesting content that all of you enjoy!

[@ViceCityGinseng]

i remember when cubic ninja was starting to be used for homebrew. Scalpers were everywere lol great video btw. keep it up fam

[@salva383]

m8 this video is awesome I just discovered it

[@nevillethedevilisyes2499]

Please make more videos this is epic I've subed please I knnow it takes time to research but I just like the tone of your voice any topic is fine but I recommend with this being your first video and all, sticking to the genre of video games

[@DaGameNerd]

This video really takes me back, I actually still own a Gateway (both carts) and the original box! I'm sure you mentioned it in the video (still watching) but the Gateway team stopped all support 2 years ago it seemed, 2017 was their last post on the site. I've (in the past, videos now removed) reviewed some of those "clones" such as the Sky3DS, QQ3DS, etc. Anyways keep up the good videos my friend :) If you need any help with the videos just ask, I'd love to help with topics like this if you're interested & I'm able to help in any way. Edit: Only 1 mistake in the video I personally noticed, the (blue) Sky3DS is the old model and the (orange) button is the new one however they got mixed up in the video.

[@DepCajado]

I don't mind if the videos are 10, 5, or even 3 minutes, if it is well done and you put effort in it, I will still watch it. :)

[@imlilacc]

"Needless to say, they did NOT want anyone figuring out how it worked... So lets talk a little about how it worked." this quote was the highlight of my day lmao

[@NightBlade117]

I always see these hacking history things and they're so cool and interesting but I can't help but always feel like it's just SO MUCH WORK 🤣 but it's always cool to see how passionate groups of people are to succeed with a particular such as hacking a 3ds

[@rasmusdegn9690]

"It's possible due to Sudoku" So you're saying one of the steps to hack a 3DS is genuinely to go commit sudoku?

[@markusTegelane]

I don't get why this meme exists

[@Whiteythereaper]

@@markusTegelane Garry's Mod Guess Who, mostly because of Vanoss videos. A suicidal hider power called Sudoku was picked up by kids as what Seppuku is.

[@killr292]

69 likes

[@rasmusdegn9690]

@@killr292 Nice.

[@NikolayBorodin2005]

@@rasmusdegn9690 it's pronounced suppoku

[@MagnumForce51]

You're semi correct on the not being able to mess with 3DS part with DS stuff part. There's also TWL mode (aka DSi mode). This mode is the enhanced version of DS mode. In that mode you can mess with 3DS stuff! Because of how TWL mode works and that it requires NAND access for DSiWare, that means that you can access ALL of NAND from it. TWL_FIRM (the software responsible for setting up legacy mode, aka DS/DSi mode) isn't able to actually restrict physical NAND read/writes to just the TWLN/TWLP partitions. (the partitions used by DSiWare/DSi Photos). As a result you can write to any part of the NAND. Normally this wouldn't be useful (aside from doing NAND backups I guess) since NAND is encrypted...BUT... There are known flaws in the FIRM partition encryption scheme that can be exploited by having a plain text version of a FIRM partition. As a result you could alter FIRM partitions from TWL mode (FIRM partitions are used during early boot process on 3DS and are responsible for booting up the full 3DS mode firmware). The only requirement is finding an exploitable DSiWare app to run homebrew code from. Which isn't that hard really. Apparently there's quite a few that's been found to be exploitable recently. :P But pure DS mode doesn't have nand access so in that respect you are still correct. Oh and TWL enhanced game carts wouldn't have nand access either despite being in DSi mode. Due to how DSi security was setup, Nintendo didn't allow most/any game carts to have NAND access. Though it was possible with the correct settings in the game header, no game had the settings required to enable it and since DSI Enhanced game header's were RSA protected, you can't just modify them to enable it. As far as I'm aware, only certain DEV flashcarts intended for dev consoles could have it enabled. (stuff like system updaters for updating firmware on dev consoles since they didn't use the normal system update feature that retail consoles used). Dev flashcarts can't be used on retail due to having different blowfish keys and such. Besides the dev software you'd write to such a flashcart had "dev signed" RSA headers. Retail consoles don't use the dev keys for RSA signing so they'd reject any dev signed software you tried to throw at it. So instead you'd want to try and exploit DSiWare. But anyways yeah pure DS mode can't touch any 3DS stuff though so I guess your technically correct...the best kind of correct.... :P Also you should cover the DSI at some point. It's recently been hacked and the story on that is interesting since in terms of CFW/full system access, that console had the longest run on being secure in that respect. The first full system access exploit "RocketLauncher" was found only a couple years ago. (and by yours truly...me... :D ). It was never publicly released due to lack of devs to work on install tools for end users to safely install it. But doesn't change the fact that it exists and could have been used to gain control over the system and access all features and allow CFW. I did post videos on it succesfully taking over a DSi. The irony in that exploit is it exploited a flaw in the very system they setup to try and block DS flashcarts. So you could use a modified flashcart with a custom rom to cause an overflow via a modified DS Cart White list file which Nintendo messed up and didn't setup RSA checks for in a specific firmware version. That's the short version. Look up my videos on it for the full explanation on how it works. Info about it on gbatemp too I guess if you want to research that further. Fortunately though a new exploit was found by NoCash called Unlaunch that involved a flaw in Stage2 where Stage2 didn't properly check the filesize of Launcher's TMD file before attempting to load the TMD file into ram (another classic overflow exploit) and he did release that one. RocketLauncher by virtue of being made obsolete by that new exploit hasn't been worked on since then. There's also a recent find by Shutterbug2000 who found some bugs in the SSL certificate security stuff in DSi's network protocol code used by most DSi software and as a result found a big flaw in Nintendo Zone that will allow installing Unlaunch/CFW onto ALL DSi's! It does require a second device to run a rom that hosts a beacon that will enable the Nintendo Zone icon on the target DSi, but once you get the DSi's Nintendo Zone connected to the redirected server (thanks to the above mentioned SSL flaws found), you can fool it into thinking it's connected to a trusted Nintendo server. It turns out Nintendo Zone has literally no checks on the SRLs (the software/roms sent over via wifi) so you can send it a homebrew SRL and as long as the header is in the correct format, it will happily load the thing anyways. :P Shutterbug hasn't release it yet, but he already shown that he used it successfully to install Unlaunch so it's only a matter of time. :D

[@MagnumForce51]

Oh also I sorta had a hand in the cracking of RXTools. RXTools went partially open-source late in it's life. But the part that contained the code for running emunand remained closed. The guy looking at it was having some difficulty figuring out how the hash check function for RXTools worked as it was needed to modify code sections stored in the compiled RXTools binary. (turned out to be something kinda silly. He laughed at it when he found out how it worked) I noticed that there was code for that was exposed in the part of the source code Roxas made public and pointed it out to him and the rest is history. He probably would have found it eventually. But my part was in accelerating that process. So my part in this was pretty small. I had no hand in distributing it though. As I recall he didn't even have a 3DS to test this on at the time. So I did help test all his experiments/modified payloads on my 3DS for him. my 3DS was quite litearlly the first console that ever booted a successfully cracked version of RXTools. So maybe I did have a slightly larger part in this.... :P No idea if he was the one that "leaked" it on pastebin though. (It wasn't me though. I kept my copy of it private). So for that reason I won't reveal his identity in case he still wants that to remain a secret. Also I kinda forgot exactly who it was anyways. Bad at remembering names and it's been quite some years I can maybe remember if I dig through the old thread history on GBATemp if I really wanted too I guess. This was back when I was still using Skype. LOL Also, I was an early beta tester for pastaCFW/CakesCFW. Can't recall if the two were connected. I think pastaCFW became the name a bit later? I don't recall the details. Shortly after RXTools got cracked I was given the opportunity to test that one was probably only one of a select few that had hands on a copy of that at the time. In the end RXTools got quickly replaced and it looked like that even if RXTools wasn't cracked, something was coming out anyways. Needless to say Roxas was not happy about this and left the scene shortly. Honestly though it was probably inevitable that it was going to get cracked. Just got cracked sooner, because Roxas made the mistake of not using a different hash check function for the "closed" part of his payload. :P EDIT: To correct your video, Roxas made "part" of the RXTools CFW open source. BEFORE the time it got cracked. I don't recall the timing, but it was partially open sourced for some time before it got cracked. Just making that clear. It was the the protected half that booted emunand that he later open sourced after the whole drama over the cracking of it. Oh and boot9strap isn't witch craft. :P At least from my point of view since I have an understanding on how it works. This is already a long winded reply so I won't go into full details. Long story short, it's a bootrom exploit. But yeah the explanation on how it works would probably be considered witch craft by most folks so that's understandable. Needless to say, bootrom can't be patched on 3DS and apparently it would be expensive for Nintendo to change it (would require redesign of SOC/parts used to make SOC at factory and would be hella expensive to do) so that's probably why it was never fixed on n3DS and n2DS console revisions. Sadly this exploit doesn't work on DSi. Their RSA checking code doesn't contain the flaw that the 3DS bootrom has. Not a big deail though. Unlaunch is almost as good. Unlaunch on DSi is sorta similar to arm9loaderhax. arm9loaderhax exploited a flaw in software stored on FIRM partitions of 3DS Nand. On DSi, the equilivent to that is the Stage2 software. It's stored on NAND just like FIRM is. DSi bootrom verifieds and boots stage2 and like on 3DS bootrom is locked by the time stage2 is running. So like with arm9loaderhax, you can have effectively full system control after exploiting it. Just don't have bootrom access like boot9hax on 3DS would have had since the exploit for that one originates in bootrom.

[@chugiron4698]

Big words

[@TheCipita]

Wow.. i spend my weekend reading this..

[@Meme-pg5tw]

Its almost been 2 years since this gem of a channel started and he hasnt changed much and still just as fun to watch

[@Garden-sz8jb]

I love how Grossberg's song is at the start, it fills me with joy

[@CommunistFBI]

"They didnt want anyone to find out how they did it" "So here's how they did it" Nice

[@Poop-nu1so]

OPEN UP

[@TheMegaPingasMobile]

fuck off fbi

[@user-hr5jt1qe9l]

I broke the 69 likes lol

[@FBI-ku4sf]

excuse me wtf?

[@Hello-ht1wy]

Communist FBI i want to install and delete all CIAs please

[@9u5g4]

the second i saw cubic ninja i was glad my parents bought it for me. they only got it because they saw it was really popular and bought it. even if it was badly received, i had so much fun with it. nostalgia kicking in harder than a brick.

[@clutteredclownery170]

a brick()?

[@radicaltrains1402]

Aww that's cute

[@SpartanViper7Edits]

Please make more Homebrew exploit explinations, these are so fun to listen to!

[@Mythcr]

I literally watch this over and over this is a pure master piece of a video

[@kevinwong_2016]

Fr💀

[@trevorsmith470]

EA: Literally the only thing they're good for is making sudoku games that let you hack your 3ds.

[@moeta486]

Along with the DSi!

[@aydenbales]

And Mysims Agents.

[@Jayfeather298]

also for publishing 007 agent under fire to mess with 6th gen home consoles especially the ps2

[@trevorsmith470]

@@squiddljonn619 It's not actually illegal. Unless you're in japan. Then it's illegal. We have Shiggy (Shigyro Myamoto) to thank for that.

[@trevorsmith470]

@@squiddljonn619 I fail to see why. Homebrewing systems gives a greater degree of control. It allows people to bypass region lock, import custom themes, get unlimited save files, and do a whole host of things that you could not do before. I'm not sure if you're getting homebrewing confused with piracy, but if that's the case, know that they are two separate things.

[@mushymcmushington7176]

Gateway's logo makes me want to yell out the word "Snake" for some reason.

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

It makes me think of, Gateway... The store

[@abbycollins]

Or THE SHAPE OF EVIL

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

@@abbycollins Evil has no shape, it's Deaf

[@SteveIsHavingMC]

snake? SNAAAAKE

[@sobersnake4524]

@@SteveIsHavingMC SSSNNNNNAAAAAKKKKKEEEEEE

[@tmkai607]

3DS hacking scene was crazy back then. So many groups, so many people came together to form breakthroughs... I still remember spending all night modding my New 3DS XL using the old Plailect's guide for A9LH. God, the memories.

[@doomsoul9096]

4:48 “they did not want anyone finding out how their cards worked. So lasts talk about how their cards worked.” Clearly there was a flaw in the plan.

[@laurenmiller2968]

Much love to all the smart people out there doing tech science so I can put flowers wherever I want in Animal Crossing :)

[@She_Gave_Me_Quite_a_Show-_-]

LOL

[@vitriolicAmaranth]

this except moving rocks

[@TehBluPanda]

This is so wholesome.

[@buuttbuutt6998]

I relate with my entire being to this comment.

[@vixxcelacea2778]

@Jaden Velez From what I understand, hackers just enjoy the challenge, not always worried about the outcome or how others will us it. Some don't care about piracy even, they just care about finding out how to get in or get something to work. Honestly no different than any other creation hobby, like making a table, you don't know how someone will use it, you're just proud to of made it.

[@FrostGlader]

I owned this game before the discovery. And genuinely enjoyed it.

[@IammeoramI]

bought it for a dollar, sold it for $65 bucks, can confirm really good game

[@cloroxhammer3289]

Damn, I should have bought the console and then that game and sold it for higher price to get a nice profit. I would maybe launch a little buisness then lmao

[@birdthief4723]

I still have it. I havent finished. I need to.

[@akluv2403]

It was my 2nd 3DS game. Ahh nostalgia.

[@capticaltoast9124]

Same... Played it pretty much all the way through

[@xavijgg]

What a trip this video was. I was there Gandalf, all those years ago. Lived through all of it from the start. 3DS scene really came a long way... Fun times.

[@alyxgraff9121]

This was a very interesting documentary. I actually managed to get a copy of Cubic Ninja in the mail recently. Not sure if Ninjax still works but I definitely want to look into it (once i get an old refurbished 3ds that i don't mind the risk of accidentally breaking).

[@SkyeKurisu]

Regarding that last part about KZbin guides, yeah, that's very true. Here in Latin America there was a problem with a KZbin dude changing files to include his own name in the credits, his mistakes bricked tons of consoles across multiple countries. It was beneficial for modders like me who had a sudden load of work for unbricking said consoles, but it was an awful experience for a lot of users that followed him. You might want to check it out later, just search for Yakara Bricks.

[@SkyeKurisu]

@Zacchi4000 some dude called Yakara Colombia

[@scrappgangkodie2342]

Jake the Astronaut sthetix helped me

[@scrappgangkodie2342]

Jake the Astronaut sthetix is better than jack his frogminer video helped me hack my 3ds