And that sort of provision should never have been in a copyright bill in the first place.

Yep. It’s not available now, but if you’ve already got it you can use it.

That’s quite old right now. The current process is:

That’s not at all a proper description of how modern 3DS hacking works at all. A9LH(Arm9LoaderHax) is not what permits you to install titles, it merely loads an ARM9 payload. It is not the only method of loading ARM9 payloads, nor is it an “exploit in the hardware”.

In order to use FreeShop or similar tools, you need to have CFW (custom firmware) set up on your 3DS. Without CFW, you can’t install FreeShop’s CIA, nor can it install games.

Poe’s law. It’s a deliberate parody of people who actually post comments like this, including dropping the shift during a string of exclamation points.

FreeShop is both the most popular one and an easy target: It’s hosted on Github and uses a copyrighted file.

Partially. The new SoundHax grants HBL access through the Sound app, but if you’re looking for CFW access, you’ll need either one of four special DSiWare titles (Fieldrunners, Legends of Exidia, Guitar World Tour, or Four Swords) or another 3DS with CFW to enable downgrading. See 3ds.guide for details.

...Followed a link, forgot I did so, accidentally necro-posted. Sorry.

And yet the homebrew community continues as strong as ever, having just recently released a method of turning almost any DSiWare game into one of the exploitable games needed to bypass the latest downgrade protection.

Those are significantly more expensive. The best deal is probably OoT3D and a Powersaves, but you might be able to find FreakyForms Deluxe or CN for less.

Nintendo can’t C&D this (at least, they can’t enforce it), as it doesn’t use any of their copyrighted code. Reverse engineering isn’t breaking copyright.

It wouldn’t be save importing so much as save injecting. The course data would be overwritten but the rest would be untouched.

There’s also FreakyForms Deluxe, Ocarina of Time and a Powersaves device, or a device that already has homebrew and one of the many other cart exploits. For those under 11.1, there’s a web browser exploit.

Why does someone not “deserve” to win simply because they skipped over a boring part that literally has no effect on the results of the match? I don’t know anything about levels in CoD, but in both Smash and Pokemon, the gap between a (competitive-level) beginner and a pro has basically nothing to do with the set of…

Competitive play. Getting a competitively viable team can take upwards of a hundred hours, depending on the ‘mons you want.

This has nothing to do with pirating the game; it can be done on a pirated or legitimate copy. Save files on the 3DS aren’t that well protected, and someone with a modded system can access them easily.

It won’t. The bad data is the trainer’s location, which isn’t saved into the mon’s data at all.

It’s not actually a .sav editor. It’s a save file editor, but .sav files aren’t used for 3DS saves. Rather, it’s a bunch of no-extension files that normally live inside the save data. (In Gen VI, the save was called “main”, I don’t know if Gen VII changed that.)

That’s a Gen VI exploit, and it’s been long since patched. Rather, it’s done by extracting the save file using a tool such as JKSM, modifying it, and writing the modified save back.