Imagine having a bestselling game because of its homebrew potential.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Piracy isn't stealing if buying isn't owning

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

"... 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*

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

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".

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

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...

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

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

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 :]

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

Just binge watched your whole channel

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.

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!!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It's not piracy anymore. The goal changed to preservation

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

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

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

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

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

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

imagine being the team behind cubic ninja and seeing this

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

i like how both the 3ds and wii u had a game skyrocket in popularity due to being required for an exploit (cubic ninja & brain age)

watching this a day after nintendo has released 11.17.0, which has made most exploits unusable. genuinely pissed about it.

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

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

9:00 I got an ad for Sackboy (a LittleBigPlanet spinoff). Nintendoes what SONY does.

That’s funny, I had a Sky3DS and sold it after the 3DS got cracked wide open. I had *no* idea that it only had a 10 game limit. I put 6 on it, and played those. Then sold it on eBay for $200 because at the time you couldn’t get them anywhere. That poor soul who bought my Sky3DS could only put 4 more games on it 😭 I feel kinda bad now lol

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

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*

"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

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.

This is a good video. thanks KZfaq algorithm

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

is there anyone else who keeps coming back to rewatch this video even though they've seen it numerous times before and has no interest in hacking their 3DS?

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!

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

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.

kind of crazy i remember my classmate in high school showing me the cubic ninja game going for insane prices on ebay when the guy dropped that it was the game needed for the exploit. only a handful of years later, i handed off my 3dsXL to my younger sibling and less than half an hour later they returned it completely modded with a bunch of pokemon games for me, homebrew channel, and custom theme. wild how fast stuff changes.

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.

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

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

i find it pretty funny how software designed to defeat DRM intended to prevent piracy and control how users could use their own devices had IT'S VERY OWN DRM to prevent copying and control how consumers used their flashcards

card: makes a lot of letters 3DS: *AHBBHBDBDBDBAPBFYRYBF*

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

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!

my favourite part of modern 3ds hacking is that basically every fucking site targeted at first time 3ds hackers SCREAM AT YOU that you dont need to buy anything bc of how many people were basically getting scammed 😭

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

I remember when my grandma and brother got a 3ds each back in the summer of 2011. They also got one game each. My brother got OoT 3d while my Grandma got Cubic Ninja. Well, now I got something to bring up during christmas this year.

I think its pretty ironic that a Company that allows you to Pirate software is against pirating their software

11:00 the 3DS on the left is legit the exact model that I still have lmao

Nintendo seems to underestimate how skilled some of these hackers can be. Mate it doesn't matter what kind of of security measures you put in place, reverse engineers will ALWAYS find a way. These people pour their life into understanding computers, if you think for a second that your security measures will stop them, you are sorely mistaken

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?