The key difference is linear/nonlinear, not 2D/3D. The 3D games 3D Land and 3D World had a timer, and it fit; they’re still almost fully linear, only in three dimensions.

Huh, didn’t know my 3ds had supply issues. Always interesting to find these things out.

Huh, didn’t know my 3ds had supply issues. Always interesting to find these things out.

The Powersaves won’t work for any game released within the last two-three years or so; extra encryption has been added.

The 3DS firmware is completely exploited; full control can be obtained through 5 minutes with a specially-prepared DS flashcart (or through the sound app on <=11.3). With full access, it’s trivial to access the SM save and edit it. Also, in theory, someone could mod the ROM and use that to battle.

Somewhat off-topic, but zsnes is a really outdated emulator. It hasn’t been updated in many years, and it isn’t fully compatible with anything but the absolute most popular games. It’s highly recommended to switch to Snes9x or higan (formerly bsnes).

Pokemon permits infinite breeding and has mechanics that cause much greater chances of passing on perfect stats. The real annoyance is that (without external tools), it takes significant effort to check those stats. Breeding also takes an annoyingly long time, and can’t be used for certain Pokemon, requiring methods…

64-bit and 32-bit programs are actually incompatible; Windows runs a compatibility layer (known as ‘Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit’, or WOW64 for short) in order to adapt 32-bit programs to a 64-bit OS and processor. This is because the actual machine-code instructions are different between a 32-bit and a 64-bit…

In this specific context, the negatives of looting (it’s theft, which involves someone losing for your gain, and it usually comes with property damage) are mitigated (the merchandise (food) was already written off, and the storm had already done the damage), and the positives (the looter obtains the goods) are…

At least some of that money was going to be donated anyway, and so the donator got a double benefit from it: the original good feelings and/or tax breaks from donating the money as well as getting to vote on something they’re watching.

At the time of posting the ROM, it was the “Final” version, in that there were no further revisions.

Today. Julia Arthur, a Canadian actress.

Again, I’m saying it’s theoretically possible, but not yet performed. Theoretically, an exploit could exist that causes the VC emulator to start executing code that affects the 3DS directly rather than the emulated game.

PokeBank only transfers if it has an OT of “” and an OT ID# of “590C” in hexadecimal (22796 in decimal, 3161 if little-endian).

Not yet. Theoretically, though, there might be one. Wait for the 3DS hacking scene to come up with something.

Literally decompiling the game and analyzing how it handles memory with an emulator, typically. The exploits involve the exact structure of the data on the cart, and thus involve deep research into exactly how the game is structured.

Because it forces you to completely retry the turn/battle(The GBA games save at the start of the enemy turn, and even if it saves at the start of your turn, it’s possible to get into a situation where you can’t escape a death) at every death. Phoenix mode gives the character back next turn, which means that you still…

Unless something’s changed, there’s a downside to the 3DS version: the clock won’t work. Prism extended Gen II’s clock system to include day, month, and year, and (although I’m not far enough to say for certain) will probably use all of those. The 3DS VC inject CIA won’t advance the clock while you’re not playing,…

Technically, in this specific case, it’s piracy. The hack isn’t being distributed as an .ips patch like most hacks are to avoid piracy, but rather as a .gbc rom that contains Nintendo’s copyrighted content in addition to the patched-in data.

If they actually wanted to let it finish, they would have DMCA’d it a few days after release, not before. The leaked version is slightly older than the to-be-released version, and is missing some content.

That’s not the problem with that part of the bill. The big problem is that it applies even if the resulting usage falls under fair use. Simply by adding meaningless “encryption”, fair use vanishes.