{"id":1142520,"date":"2023-05-23T13:37:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1142520"},"modified":"2023-05-23T13:37:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:37:46","slug":"unexpected-3ds-update-breaks-many-common-homebrew-hacking-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1142520","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected 3DS update breaks many common homebrew hacking methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3ds6-800x534-1.jpg\" alt=\"A few of the 3DS variations that were once supported by Nintendo.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/3ds6.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"962\" data-width=\"1440\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> A few of the 3DS variations that were once supported by Nintendo. (credit: Mark Walton)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It has been years since <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2020\/09\/the-end-of-the-3ds-marks-an-inflection-point-for-portable-gaming\/\">Nintendo stopped producing its Nintendo 3DS line<\/a> of portable hardware and months since the company <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2023\/03\/todays-the-last-day-to-buy-eshop-games-for-the-wii-u-and-3ds\/\">officially shut down the 3DS eShop<\/a> for new downloadable game purchases. But those facts haven&#8217;t stopped the company from issuing a new firmware update that seems at least partly focused on impeding some of the most common methods for installing homebrew software on the defunct console.<\/p>\n<p>Monday night&#8217;s surprise release of 3DS firmware Ver. 11.17.0-50 is the first official system update for the console since last September and the fifth update since the hardware was officially discontinued in 2020. The <a href=\"a%20href=\">official patch notes<\/a> for the sudden update cover the now-standard (if vague) promise of &#8220;further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments [that] have been made to enhance the user experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But console hacking groups quickly noticed that downloading the update ruined <a href=\"https:\/\/3ds.hacks.guide\/\">many of the documented hacking methods<\/a> that could previously be used to install custom 3DS firmware.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1941347#p3\">Read 6 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1941347&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1941347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unexpected 3DS update breaks many common homebrew hacking methods<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ A few of the 3DS variations that were once supported by Nintendo. (credit: Mark Walton) It has been years since Nintendo stopped producing its Nintendo 3DS line of portable hardware and months since the company officially shut down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1142520\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1142520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1142520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1142520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1142520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1142520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}