I sort of wonder if there's going to be a barrage of exploits held until end-of-...

goda90 · on Sept 17, 2020

There's actually quite a large community of 3DS hackers: https://old.reddit.com/r/3dshacks/

I was able to hack mine(though I don't use it much anyway) fairly easily. My brother did it to his so he could dump DS carts onto the SD card for better portability.

Narann · on Sept 17, 2020

There are some cool homebrews still made: https://gbatemp.net/threads/wip-wumiibo-amiibo-emulation-for...

I suspect 3DS hacking community will stay active for long time as it's the only cheap (second hand 2DS), wide spreaded, hacked portable console available.

joan_kode · on Sept 17, 2020

Indeed, I know some hacks were being held back until end-of-life. For example the author of SoundHax (one of the most important tools in 3DS hacking) said he was holding something off: https://twitter.com/nedwilliamson/status/874594459744423936

However this all assumes that updates will stop, and I'm not so sure that Nintendo would even announce such a thing.

simlevesque · on Sept 17, 2020

you know they'll sneak updates forever worded like: General system stability improvements to enhance the user’s experience.

to patch exploits.