Guys definitely doN’T homebrew your 3DS! It isN’T super easy, and doesN’T allow you to side load the entire 3DS library and other cool homebrew projects. You definitely canNOT use Anemone to use custom themes such as that one really cool sonic theme I put on my 3ds! doN’T even try to get the 3DS gold source port and copy the files from Half Life to your 3DS and play the original Half Life natively on the 3DS!
Sonic Mania works great on there too! There’s also a port of Sonic Robo Blast 2 that plays in stereoscopic 3D!
Half-Life plays okay, but struggles to maintain 60FPS and the loading screens (including the four during the opening tram ride) take 30 seconds each. Not what I’d call playable, but still, cool!
Performing the jailbreak takes about 15 minutes and comprehensive instructions for all 3DS models and firmware versions can be found at 3ds.hacks.guide. All you need is the 3DS itself and any device with a browser and SD card reader. You can even use an Android phone! Jailbreaking is virtually risk-free, and once done, never needs to be done again – the customized firmware can be updated from the 3DS itself. Jailbreaking your 3DS will not affect anything it can currently do – all your themes, games, saves, and home menu layout will remain exactly as you left them. All it does is add a few new apps to your existing home menu for interacting with the jailbreak.
Other benefits the person above me did not mention include playing online after the server shutdown through Pretendo Network, being able to take screenshots during gameplay, streaming gameplay footage to a PC via Wi-Fi without needing to track down, buy, and solder in a 3DS capture card, removing the region lock to play Japanese/European exclusive games on an American handheld (or any other combination), create backups of your save games from cartridges or installed titles and restore the backup potentially to a different cartridge of the same game, copy games from cartridges onto your SD card as items on your home screen so you don’t have to worry about losing the cartridges anymore, being able to load DS and GBA games from ROM files on the SD card and run them natively without emulation using the 3DS’s built in backwards compatibility mode, installing the 3DS version of RetroArch for emulating game systems up to the N64/PS1, and installing mods for 3DS games. I’ve heard good things about the ORAS romhacks, plus there’s a mod for MarioKart 7 called CTGP-7 that adds a bunch of new car parts and characters (I like playing as Sonic) and triples the number of tracks in the game. Some of the ones it adds are even good! Plus you can play them online with other people who have the mod!
Here are a few helpful links to 3DS apps you should install after you’ve finished following the guide (and browsed themeplaza.art for a community created home menu theme that suits you, or created your own using Usagi’s Theme Editor):
openagbfirm – run GBA ROMs using built in GBA compatibility mode
Can confirm the loading times for Half Life are awful, I thought it was just my SD card.
Otherwise, the default controls are super intuitive especially if you have the New 3DS with the c-stick. I think I had to fix something in the settings related to confirming menu items, but that was it
Talked with my gaming buddies about how awesome the original CoD was and how good he was back then. Then we looked at the wiki page and found out that’s it’s over 20 years old.
Seriously the fuck happened with XBox, everyone had a 360 but ive only met one person who had a XBone and yet to meet someone who has an X/S. Did everyone migrate to PC?
I knew a lot of people with xbox one. but around that time I also knew a lot of people who started converting to playstation or pc. I don’t recall seeing X/S in the wild ever
It feels relatively new to me still! Although I’m sure it feels like an eternity to kids. All the consoles that came out through the 90s and early 2000s felt like distinct eras to me.
I think Douglass Adams had this this categorization: what’s new in the first third of your life is normal and has always been there, in the second third is new and exciting and the last third the fall of civilization
All the consoles that came out through the 90s and early 2000s felt like distinct eras to me.
Because they were. Back then games changed drastically with more powerful systems. Today, you sometimes have the same game available for multiple console generations.
Hell the Last of Us is on every plastation system from the PS3 onwards, also Skyrim. There were also notable differences between PC and console games with random bits of overlap, now its a fucken circle.
Yup. NES to SNES - huge! SNES to N64 - huge! N64 to Gamecube - huge! Gamecube to Wii - ehh, widescreen is nice, graphics aren’t that much better otherwise. Wii to Wii U - more of a jump than Gamecube to Wii thanks to HD. Wii U to Switch - not really that different, it’s the system actually being popular and portable that makes it better more than the tech.
Used to be that 5 years was enough time for graphics to be astronomically better. Now we have games approaching 20 years old that don’t look too bad by today’s standards.
My dad got really sick one time when I was a kid. He was at home for a couple weeks. He started playing Donky Kong 64 on our Nintendo 64. He beat the game, got better and went back to work, and never played another video game ever again. He wouldn’t even tell me how to beat it. It took me forever.
It was the original, but starting from a higher (possibly the highest?) difficulty level and, as you say, with only one life. But yes, it’s not quite the same experience as if you just rocked up to your average cabinet in 1981.
Either way, the two games are so wildly different that I don’t see much value in comparing them directly
5 years before you were born? You must be super young!
does the math
…fuck.
The closest thing I have to a video game seeming old is black and white ones like Pong or Space Invaders. I’m old enough to remember when Pac-Man was current tech.
I’m surprised that Nintendo has kept using it for so long. Looks like it’ll be 8 years old before they have a successor. It took so long that I got tired of waiting for it to be obsolete and went ahead and modded it after they pulled that Yuzu crap.
My wife’s watching Six Feet Under, the series from 2001. Yesterday I overheard an episode where some kid got a present and went “Oh my god, yes! It’s a playstation 2” and we both just broke out in laughter.
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