The app will not play commercial or pirated 3DS ROMs. For the most part, Nintendo has done a good job of protecting its latest handheld from rampant piracy and other unsavory activities. However, ...

Over the past few months we've been reporting on the efforts of 3DS hacker smealum, who's been actively working towards releasing a homebrew exploit and channel for the 3DS. System updates and then ...

Homebrew is an interesting part of the gaming scene. On the one hand it can be used by fans with coding skill to do intriguing things with hardware, but it also ...

The ninjhax exploit requires a 3DS, SD card, and a copy of Cubic Ninja. Rather than make users wait until Saturday to launch the 3DS homebrew exploit, amateur coder ...

A new method to launch homebrew 3DS software will use the handheld's official YouTube app. Prolific 3DS coder Jordan "smealum" Rabet revealed the news via Twitter yesterday, alongside a video showing ...

Nintendo has withdrawn Cubic Ninja from sale on the Japanese 3DS eShop following the reveal of an exploit allowing users to run homebrew software - and by extension, pirated games. Cubic Ninja is a ...

Using tubehax 3DS players can get access to a slew of homebrew content including old-school SNES ROMs running on the handheld's latest 9.9 firmware. The exploit also lets users run region-specific ...

Earlier this week, hacker Jordan "Smealum" Rabet announced that obscure 2011 3DS platformer Cubic Ninja held the key to unlocking the 3DS hardware to run homebrew code, causing an immediate run on the ...

The Nintendo 3DS has proved a tough nut to crack, but hackers have finally managed to get the system to run homebrew code. Back on December 16, hacker Yellows8 posted images of the 3DS with the screen ...

As promised, the hacker and homebrew developer Jordan "Smealum" Rabet has revealed how the YouTube app for Nintendo 3DS can be used to launch hombrewed 3DS games. The exploit is of particular value to ...

Nintendo has removed the ability to run homebrew software on 3DS via a new firmware update. 3DS system software version 9.3 patches part of the NINJHAX exploit discovered by developer Smealum - enough ...