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Public Beta release of GW 2.0b1

We thought posting yet another teaser video would anger rather than amaze our patientand loyal customers. So in the spirit of Thanksgiving, we would like to show you all oursincere gratitude for your patience and support, by releasing a public beta early!

GW 2.0b1 enables up to date compatibility, barring only the 2 known NAND based titles(for which support is coming very soon), as well as the long awaited emuNAND feature.Complementing these great advancements is our new GUI menu system accessible bysimply holding down the L button when tapping on the DS Profile button on thetouchscreen. For this release we have tried to make the plethora of options as automatedand intuitive as possible, and we welcome more feedback from our users regarding themenu, settings and other options for in the coming revisions.

So we left a few things out you say ? Well if it was so easy then others would have italready, or might falsely make videos of such claims .. anyway we digress ..Both nand saving, which will o!cially make us 100% compatible with all known roms, and

FAT32 (drag and drop) based multirom support are now close to completion and enteringinto our internal beta testing. As you can imagine, both these features required a majorrevamp of our hardware's internal firmware, something we had known and planned forfrom day one so rest assured, unlike others, GW3DS is a fully featured and FULLYupdatable hardware design. Our policy has and will always be to stick by our customersand ensure they get value for their money. We will be calling on our beta testers shortlyto help us stress test our next big step !

Release notes:

Booting into Gateway mode will now automatically check for the emuNAND partition and

emulate the system NAND using this partition. We have also included an option to bootinto Classic mode that enables genuine retail gamecards and the emuNAND functionality,allowing it to run like a regular 3DS on latest firmware.

If the emuNAND partition is not found, we fall back to the system NAND and boot intoGateway mode as in 1.x

WARNING NEVER ATTEMPT TO UPDATE YOUR SYSTEM NAND,MAKE SURE YOU ONLY UPDATE EMUNAND (GW3D prefixed versionnumbers) - PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW

CAREFULLY !

We have gone to great lengths to ensure the stability and reliability of emuNAND, eventhough emuNAND is not currently required to allow full game compatibility. For thosewishing to have the latest system firmware running concurrently with our device, pleasefollow these instructions carefully:

Safety preparation: Please ensure you are either fully charged or plugged in to thecharger before beginning. It is also advisable to turn o"WiFi, and remove any stored WiFiaccess settings before proceeding.

1) Launch the Gateway menu and select the "BACKUP SYSTEM NAND" option. Follow onscreen instructions to start the backup operation. This requires a minimum of 1GB free

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space on the Nintendo 3DS SD card, and will take approximately 10 minutes. Everyconsole has a unique NAND image and if you accidentally update the onboard systemNAND then there is currently no known way to restore back to 4.5 through softwaremeans. The only recovery option is to restore via hardware using the backed up NANDimage as a last resort. So please make sure you physically copy the file created by ourtool from the SD card to your computers hard drive.

2) Make sure you have backed up any other files you may need from your Nintendo 3DSSD card or use a fresh new SD card to run the Format emuNAND step in the Gatewaymenu. Once this is done (approximately 5 minutes) and for as long as you use thespecific SD card, GW will boot from the specially partitioned SD card and show the"GW3D" label in the system version number in the System Settings application.

Once you have entered into the System Settings application and clearly seeing the "GW3D"version number, enter into WiFi settings and set up a connection.

3) Update your emuNAND partition. Boot into Gateway mode, and enter into the SystemSettings application. CHECK to make sure you see the letters GW3D before the system

version located in the bottom right hand corner of the top screen. If you only see aversion number "Ver." please exit and perform step 2 again. With the "GW3D" X.XX.Xversion number verified proceed to update the console by going to Other Settings andscroll right to the last page and press the System Update button.

IMPORTANT !! .. ONLY ever update through System Settings and ONLYwhen you have double checked the "GW3D" lettering in front of thesystem version number !!

Rule # 1. Only perform system updates through systemmenu.Rule # 2. Only GW3D prefixed version numbers should beupdated