Gateway working on in-game menu with cheat code support

[dlevere]

By dsrules

The Gateway team has just released gateway ultra 3.5.1 public beta. In the change log are a few fixes and updates as well as a teaser video for an in-game menu with cheat code support that features live RAM editing:

Change Log:

Today we are back with a quick firmware update!

We would like to thank our users for the prompt feedback of our previous firmware update!
You are always helping us improve and think of new features that we never could have imagined.

Summary:
* Fixed loading issues for CIA based games, classic mode
* Allow bigger ExFAT cluster sizes again
* Teaser for the surprise feature!

Our previous firmware accidentally always enabled our cheat engine, even if you did not enable it.
This caused all kinds of weird issues, but we hope those are all resolved now.

NOTE: We are working on supporting cheats for CIA based games, and it is coming soon.

We also rewrote our filesystem driver from scratch in order to support our surprise feature, and in doing so we
have introduced some minor inconveniences such as added checks for ExFAT cluster sizes.
These are now removed as some users had cluster sizes as big as 32 MB.

CURRENT CHEAT DATABASE
======================
Some users did not know what cheats are currently available, so here we list them:

LEGO Star Wars III - The Clone Wars (USA)
Sonic Generations (USA)
Star Fox 64 3D (USA)
The Legend of Zelda - A Link Between Worlds (USA)
Yoshis New Island (USA)

These are mainly as a proof of concept, and we expect many more to come with the help of our users!

SPECIAL KEYPAD CODE
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As for the Special KEYPAD cheat code, the keypad value can be any combination of the following:

0x1 A
0x2 B
0x4 Select
0x8 Start
0x10 Right
0x20 Left
0x40 Up
0x80 Down
0x100 R
0x200 L
0x400 X
0x800 Y

TEASER TIME!
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We would like to formally introduce our next upcoming feature that we have in the works: the ingame menu!
With the ingame menu, you pause the game and you will be able to:
* Live edit game memory RAM with an on screen hex editor!
* Live configuration of cheats
* Live search for cheats!
* And many more features that we have planned

See below for our current proof of concept in action!

That's it for now, and as always, ENJOY!

[xirtamehtsitahw]

Nintendo better be shaking in their boots...they've been cheat-o-phobes since the NES Game Genie. XD

[Dybbles]

This is simply amazing!
I'm really proud at how far Gateway has come, and I am happy that they are listening to the code hackers and code users.
I am really excited for their next update!
Thank you so much for sharing this, dlevere!
It made my day!

[tyons]

will there be a 3DS Cheat Database like for the NDS? >_>
I can't wait to make some cheats.

[xirtamehtsitahw]

There is already a small cheat database on this site, but it's bound to grow rapidly (in fact, EXPLODE) once that in-game menu is released...possibly within 3 months, given Gateway's record of saying that something is "coming soon" and taking months to finally release it.

[tyons]

I better hurry up with getting my gateway repaired >_> it can't read the microsd anymore.
if it would work, I would already have started (trying) making some cheats for Bravely Default...

[MegaSuperab]

How do you open the in-game cheat menu? I know it isn't out yet but idk if the l or r buttons do anything in Sonic generations.

[dlevere]

It's just a preview. They are still developing it. It isn't implemented in the firmware yet.