With the Gateway red card finally support 3ds games on NEW 3DS, does Gateway blue card still not run NDS Roms on the latest 3DS Firmware such as 9.5.0-23, in theory the answer is yes. But if you guys stick to play DS Games via Gateway blue card on 3DS v9.5, there is a method for your trying.
How to play DS Games with gateway blue card on 3DS with all systems?
For 3DS/3DS XL V4.1 to V6.1
Gateway 3DS blue card can be directly used to play free downloaded DS roms within this version range. Why? The Gateway blue card as an a r4 card to use for hacking your 3DS system (the DS profile), at the beginning, Gateway only works on 3DS 4.1~4.5. And till to the 3DS firmware 6.1, all r4 card are not be banned by Nintendo 3ds, including Gateway blue card. So users can use the blue card to play ds games directly on 3DS firmware 4.1 to 6.1. The usage is liking any r4 card in the market.
For 3DS/3DS XL V6.2 to V9.4
Gateway blue card can not support DS Games from 3DS System V6.2, because that This time’s updating is to ban many r4 cards,include the blue card of gateway. But the Gateway have’t upgrade the r4 card,because they found other way for cracking 3DS. The latest Gateway 3DS support 3DS 4.1~9.2 directly with browser exploit. But the blue card still can’t works on 3DS firmware 6.2+, so if within the firmware range, your only choice for play ds games with the blue card is to downgrade 3DS System.
Recently, Gateway added Downgrade 3DS System feature, which means that you can downgrade your 3DS 4.5+ systems to lower than 4.5. We have tested the fearure on 3DS V9.4.0-21U, work and well. So now in order to help you downgrade your 3DS/3DS XL firmware to enjoy free DS games from V6.2 to V9.4, i offer a guide here.
Preparations
1.currently doesn’t work with 2DS and N3DS because they require System version above 6.0 to even function.
2.The target system Version depends on the console’s Region.
CHN (MD5 = 69072ce7de2cafc85325831251661e59)
EUR (MD5 = ba20352933fdb9533311933ce2263448) –> 4.5.0-8E (with update nag ready to install. Format sysNAND to remove it)
JAP (MD5 = 7dff24e6673423818c7e185521bf9cf7) –> 4.4.0-10J
TWN (MD5 = 47c5ec9d230c61ac431c6e245305b7c0)
USA (MD5 = 425234a6d4faf5caf63d0ca620631d79) –> 4.2.0-9U
KOR (MD5 = f253b2ee03b4cfb2799e9745100fce41)
3.Attention, you need to use the correct region file. Do not downgrade to another region.
Steps
1.Download GATEWAY ULTRA v3.2 from http://www.minihere.com/gateway-3ds-v3-2-ultra-firmware-beta-download-with-better-new-3ds-support.html,unzip it,you will see these files
2. download YOUR 3DS REGION (we have no confirmation of region changing) from http://www.gateway-3ds.com/downloads/ and place .DG file on your 3DS SD (the big one)
3.power on your console ,load gateway exploit through BROWSER menu
4.click the internet browser icon
Enter http://go.gateway-3ds.com click confirm
5. hold L as soon as bottom screen turns white
6.backup your sysNAND(this is forced and it MUST be on your SD card)
7. at Gateway menu scroll right to downgrade selection
8. follow on screen prompts
9. console will take a few moments to restart, do not panic!
The next few steps are required if you don’t want to use the browser exploit
10.install the blue card exploit once downgrade is complete
11.no more wifi at startup!!!!
12. just go to settings/other settings/profile/DS profile to launch gateway now
After you downgrade yoour 3DS system to lower than v6.2, you can play the ds games with blue card.
Notice! Downgrade is not a must because gateway 3ds card currently can work on V4.1-V9.2 console directly. and there is also a possbility brick your 3ds if you are very new to the downgrade thing, so i recommend you do not need to downgrade your 3ds console.Just 3ds-linker gateway 3ds to play 3ds games on your N3DS V9.2 or lower version,that will be a great choice.
For 3DS V9.5.0(include 9.5.0-23)
If you search it on forum like http://gbatemp.net, you may find ways to hack 3ds v9.5.0 for playing ds games with the blue card. But all of them is dangerous to your sysnand and hard to do, because you must set up new softwares on the 3DS System itself. So i will not recommend these ways. But for guys want to play DS Games on 3DS/3DS XL with the latest firmware version, your best option is getting an real R4 card to enjoy the games. It is really cheap and much easier to use compare with Gateway 3ds card. If you are not sure which r4i 3ds card to buy, welcome to e-mail or contact us directly via here http://www.minihere.com/contact-us.