{"id":10375,"date":"2011-03-01T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"nintendo-3ds-hacked-one-day-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10375-nintendo-3ds-hacked-one-day-after-launch","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo 3DS hacked one day after launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo&rsquo;s latest handheld is barely out of its wrappers in Japan, and it&rsquo;s already been hacked to run pirated DS and GameBoy Color games off the notorious R4 cart &ndash; currently banned from (legal) sale all over the charted universe. I guess pirated 3DS games will probably be available in, oh, say a couple of hours.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/articles\/games\/3ds-hacked-to-run-r4-cart-full-of-ds-games-20110228\/\" target=\"_blank\">geek.com<\/a>, however, the modification required to load the R4 relies on an official whitelist of Nintendo-approved titles. The current list has been acquired by some doubtless nefarious means, but the exploit can apparently be fixed up by a firmware update. And then the whole cycle starts over again.<\/p>\n<p>That original DS was subject to rampant piracy is putting it somewhat lightly, and Nintendo has allegedly put a lot of R&amp;D into developing a system to combat this.<\/p>\n<p>THQ&rsquo;s Ian Curran has previously told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/255298\/news\/3ds-fixes-nintendos-piracy-problem-thq\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a> that, &ldquo;I actually asked Nintendo to explain the technology and they said it&#8217;s very difficult to do so because it&#8217;s so sophisticated. They combated the piracy on Dsi, which they don&#8217;t believe is cracked yet &#8211; but they know they&#8217;ve been hurt across the world and they believe the 3DS has got technology that can stop that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brand new handheld hacked to run notorious R4 cart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}