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Nintendo 3DS: new Firmware update (Ver. 11.1.0-34)

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This is it. You've been waiting for it for months: the latest Firmware update for the Nintendo 3DS! Naturally, this new version is filled to the brim with features and... yeah, right, you got it it's just stability.

Here's the changelog for the update (11.1.0-34):

Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience
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Trivia: if you've got Badge Arcade open, and a firmware update arrives, it refuses to let you access the eShop to buy more tokens until you close it and update the firmware. But if you close Badge Arcade, it doesn't save the layouts of the machines if you did anything in them. So you're forced to lose progress if you started a machine but didn't finish it, progress you may have paid for, before the expected cut-off.

This didn't happen to me tonight, but it happened before.
 
9/13/16

Truly, firmware's finest moment.
 
Nostremitus said:
3DS only or n3DS as well?

Do they share the same firmware?
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Yes and yes

And as per usual, do not update if you wish to keep homebrew, native GBA game playback and region free. Unless you're already on custom firmware like me then update away!
 
Zee-Row said:
Now that I think about it I haven't been getting street passes even when I'm near my cousins 3DS. I though something was wrong with my 3DS.
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There was a thread last week about problems and I haven't been able to streetpass with much success at relay spots or a University. I get some but much less than I should.
 
Azure Dream said:
Trivia: if you've got Badge Arcade open, and a firmware update arrives, it refuses to let you access the eShop to buy more tokens until you close it and update the firmware. But if you close Badge Arcade, it doesn't save the layouts of the machines if you did anything in them. So you're forced to lose progress if you started a machine but didn't finish it, progress you may have paid for, before the expected cut-off.

This didn't happen to me tonight, but it happened before.
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This seems like it'd be quite an unlikely series of events, it only takes a minute to use paid plays so you'd have to be pretty unlucky for a firmware update to hit right at that moment before you can buy more.

Obviously it can happen, but I'd say it's gonna be pretty rare.
 
Summary of 3DS updates over the last several years
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I really wanted to have a region free 3ds but without cubic ninja and the browser requiring you to update before using it kills that
 
toythatkills said:
This seems like it'd be quite an unlikely series of events, it only takes a minute to use paid plays so you'd have to be pretty unlucky for a firmware update to hit right at that moment before you can buy more.

Obviously it can happen, but I'd say it's gonna be pretty rare.
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That's if you play it all at once. Actually, it did just happen to me: I realized I'd started the Monster Hunter puzzle with the cats on the swing, but left it after my plays were used up half-done, to maybe revisit that evening. No chance of that now.

So not that rare. But I do play Badge Arcade a lot. (This is the second time a firmware update caught me.) And rare or not, it's still true.
 
Vitacat said:
Wow, that's surprising. I thought for sure they'd kill the DSI downgrade method.
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DSi downgrade itself is probably not completely killable without significant hardware revisions, just like that hack that overwrites OS RAM with by abusing a graphical operation (though the impact can be limited by moving some variables out of that memory bank). DSiWare has to have some access to flash because it is stored on flash, and they didn't think in time to make hardware able to allow partial access to it. (Though if they would have been able to think of that? They would probably be able to redirect them to spare RAM and then run them from SD card.)
 
I haven't followed along with the 3DS exploits in a while but has any progress been made in getting browserhax working with a 10.7.0 firmware 3ds or is a game still required?
 
Azure Dream said:
That's if you play it all at once. Actually, it did just happen to me: I realized I'd started the Monster Hunter puzzle with the cats on the swing, but left it after my plays were used up half-done, to maybe revisit that evening. No chance of that now.

So not that rare. But I do play Badge Arcade a lot. (This is the second time a firmware update caught me.) And rare or not, it's still true.
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Fair enough, I find it's pretty easy to stay up to date with what I want in Badge Arcade in less than five minutes on a busy day so I've never had the need to leave it to later! I can see why you'd get hit by that if you're sleeping it for hours though.
 
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