(09-02-2012, 08:09 AM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: Yes dumped, but not decrypted so these dumps are basically useless until the encryption is broken. That could take years or even never, it depends on if someone can find a weakness in the encryption algorithm and create an exploit to bypass the encryption. Even if someone breaks the encryption running homebrew will still be technically impossible.
I doubt anyone will actually break the encryption, like through brute force or cryptoanalysis. You could always hope to get lucky, like how the PS3 used to use the same "random number" for the key (or something like that), but I think everyone in the industry has learned that lesson.
More likely, people will just find the key on the system itself, though it probably won't just be sitting around for the taking. The 3DS has to decrypt games to play them, control enough of the 3DS itself, and it should be possible to find out how it does that. The trick, imo, is gaining that access in the first place and subsequently knowing what the you're supposed to be looking at.
Runo Wrote:Anyone here get the impression the emulation scene is slowly dying? Every new generation of consoles takes more and more time to emulate. At this rate, there will be a point where it just wont be worth the effort of writing an emulator :/
There may very well be a period where emulators for this console generation don't get very far. But eventually, what's new and complex today might seem slow and trivial to the future. I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of college kids 20 years from now inspire a "renaissance" 7th gen emulation using techniques we never thought were possible (or maybe just never had the time to work on). But it could just as well keep being stagnant.
We'll know know the future when it happens.