3DS Browser Exploit Allows Users to Play Game Boy Color ROMs

A Nintendo 3DS loophole is allowing customers to play illicitly-obtained Game Boy Color ROMs on Nintendo's new hardware.

To activate the loophole, users need to purchase a legitimate Game Boy Color game via the eShop, as well as download a GameBoy Color ROM on PCs, and then upload them to an SD Card, which should then be inserted into the 3DS.

Then, if users play the legitimate game and suspend the software, then open up the handheld's internet browser, they can run a homebrew code that replaces the suspended game with the one added to the SD card. However, this action could be in violation of some copyright laws.

According to Nintendo Life, the workaround works right up to the current firmware version (9.0-9.4), but those who own a New Nintendo 3DS will not be able to recreate the same exploit.

In all likelihood the loophole will be closed with a future system software update.

A 3DS software update, released in December, managed to block a backdoor hack that allowed users to play unlicensed games on the handheld.

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