Gateway 3DS Flashcart-the world first 3ds games supporting card out in the market

Here came out a break news that a new card,named gateway 3dsflashcart from gateway-3ds.com has been annouced to support 3ds games. It was said that the official tema  have confirmed from resellers and original NDS flash card homebrew developers that the gateway 3ds card is now actual working Flash Card for the 3DS, not just for old DS games, but your actual 3DS games.
Following are more details,i mainly quotated from original post :
” The GATEWAY 3DS TEAM proudly presents the first ever video proof that many thought impossible. Below we show an unedited video of the device booting 3 different backed up 3DS ROMS consecutively which are loaded on the GATEWAY 3DS device via microSD cards. We hope you are as excited as we are! ”
At present, this item still under development and if later there are more updated news ,i will keep updating accordingly and so,let’s just stay tune for more information.
Note : Now our store provide preorder for 3ds gateway card, and you can buy it from here : buy gateway 3ds

How to use gateway 3ds to play 3ds game The Legend of Zelda on N3DS V4.2.0?

Just as we knew, at present, there have more than twenty 3ds games have been confirmed can work well on v4.5 3ds with GW3DS.and today i will take the 3ds game ” the legend of zelda ” for example to test how it works on my 3dsxl v4.5 and post here for sharing .
Note : If your N3DS  version lower than v4.5,but you want update it to v4.5,you can use a right-copy game card to update your console to 4.5, pls dont directly update your console by wifi,otherwise your 3ds will be automatically update to v6.2.0-12,then you can use GW3DS to play 3ds games. and if you want buy gateway 3ds, you can come to here :  buy gateway 3ds
Now,let’s begin to play legend of zelda on 3dsxl with gateway 3dsflashcart
Prepared things
two micro sd cards and a card reader. you’d better get two sd cards, one is for playing ds games, and the other is for playing 3ds games. ( the micro sd card for 3ds games suggested size at least was 16g,for 3d game size is big )
Step 1 :  download the GW3DS Kernel firmware v1.1, extract it, there is a file named “launcher.dat”  and “Blue Card (R4i)” ,put ”launcher.dat” on the root of your sd card ( the 3DS will come with a sd card, which on the right of console,with a mark “SD ” ) while copy all the “Blue Card (R4i)” contents inside to the root of your micro sd card.


step 2 : put the micro sd card into the  GW3DS blue Flash Kit, then put it  into your 3ds v4.5 or lower version.
Step3 :  power on the 3ds , you will see a game icon on the menu, and then click it, you will see the gateway 3dsflashcart  icon called “GW Install”, click it to access the gateway menu.

step 4 :  On the gateway 3ds menu, you will see a option “Press A to Install”, and “Press B to Exit”. just Press A, and the GW Install homebrew application will begin exploiting your 3DS system.

Step 5 : The the GW Installer starts corrupting strings in the 3DS’ DS User Settings in order to allow you to crash the 3DS in 3DS mode. This will then allow the exploit launcher to function. Once the installer is finished verifying that the 3DS was exploited successfully, you will press the A button once more to exit to the 3DS’ main menu.
Step 6 :  Go to Setting—-other settings—profile—nintendo ds profile—Your 3DS will crash, reboot, and you will be in GW3DS mode. You must go back into the Nintendo DS Profile setting, and crash your 3DS every time you turn it off. You must also run the GW Install homebrew each time you use the 3DS’ DS mode (ROMs, homebrew, etc), and do every step thereafter.
step7 : Download the Win32 Disk Imager program, run it, This program is recommended to write the 3DS ROM to the microSD card.
Step 8 : Insert another micro sd card that for 3ds games into your card reader,then connect PC. Run the Win32 Disk Imager program, select the 3DS ROM, press the “Write” button, Click yes, then the programme starts writing the 3DS ROM files to the microSD card,which will allows the 3DS to read the information off the microSD card using the GW3DS red labeled Flash Kit as if it was an actual 3DS cartridge.


Step9 :  after you write the 3ds game to your sd card, just put the sd card into your Red Labeled gateway 3ds Flashcart, insert the red flashcart into the 3ds console, and the icon shows up, click the icon and play the 3ds game with gateway 3ds card.

How To Use The Blue Gateway 3DS To Play DS Games On 3DS

Now the blue gateway 3ds can play ds games on 3ds v6.1.0-12E, you can download the firmware from offical website.but how to use this card, it is a little difficult, now you can follow the steps. and This blue card can work on 3ds v6.1.0-12E, you can also buy R4i Gold 3DS,this card can work on 3ds v6.1.0-12.
Step1: a, Download the firmware from gateway 3ds offical website, or you can download from here
b,  Prepare blue gateway installer card

c, Copy files from blue card (R4i) folder to the root of a fat 32 formatted micro sd card

Step2: a, Repeat on ds mood entry

b, Run gateway installer

c, Press A to install

d, Press A to power down or home to return to main menu
Remove blue gateway cart
NOTE: Step4 to 7 must repeated any time the console enters ds mode.

Step3: Copy launcher.dat from GW release to the root of sd card from 3ds

Step4: Laching gateway mode (repeat every power cycle)




Wait for 5-8 seconds for system to reboot into GW mode

How To Use The Red Gateway 3DS To Play 3DS Games?

As we all know, the Red Gateway 3ds can play 3ds games on v4.5, gateway offical website provide firmware that you can download, if your ds or 3ds is v4.5, you can use the red gateway 3ds to play 3ds games, if your 3ds has updated, recommend you buy r4i gold 3ds. Here is the methord about using the red gateway 3ds to play 3ds games.
Preparing micro sd cards for the gateway cart

a) Please download win32 disk imager from the following link http://sourceforge.net /projects/win32diskmager/files/latset/download
b) Start win32 disk imager and select file open button, choose all file types to list. 3DS and select your file


c) Insert micro card large than the file to be written into reader/writer
make sure to select the correct device in win32 disk imager drop down list.
note: the micro sd needs to be preformatted in order to show up in the device list.
select write, double check correct target device and yes to the pop-up confirm overwrite window.




Laching gateway mode (repeat every power cycle)