3DS hacked within a day of launch
Pirated DS games playable via R4; 3DS games secure for now
Nintendo's new handheld the 3DS has already been hacked to play pirated games.
While a method to play bootlegged 3DS titles has yet to emerge, crackers had copied DS titles running on the device within 24 hours of its Japanese launch on Saturday.
This was achieved with the notorious R4 flashcart, and the modification of a 'whitelist' found in the 3DS firmware which dictated the software and cartridges it could run.
At present, this whitelist purportedly must be manually hacked by any user attempting to run copied software on their RDS. Observed the R4i group responsible for the hack, "Expect Nintendo to release a firmware update to block the R4 cards once again."
Edited 1 times. Last edit by Martin Mathers on 28th February 2011 12:43pm
The real mark of the 3DS' strength against piracy will be whether pirates can get 3DS software running on it. I expect it will happen eventually - but then Nintendo also holds a trump card in firmware updates, where they didn't before. It won't stop piracy, just as it didn't on the Wii or PSP - but it will at least give them SOME opportunity to fight back - and they'll definitely catch some people out, which is better than not catching any at all.
they got a hack for the dsi but they yet to get it to work with the dsi cam, it only runs it with out the cam.