Last Week’s Nintendo 3DS System Update 11.17.0-50 Patched Most Modern Exploits

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Several months after the closure of the 3DS eShop, Nintendo has rolled out Nintendo 3DS system update 11.17.0-50, and from the looks of it, this new firmware version patches various exploits.

Nintendo closed the eShop for the Wii U and 3DS back in March of this year, but this hasn't prevented the company from releasing a new firmware version for its, still popular, discontinued handheld. The system software version 11.17.0-50e was rolled out last week, and while the official patch notes only mention system stability improvements and other adjustments, the homebrew community has found out that this new system update patches several exploits.

Apparently, after installing this new firmware version for the 3DS (as well as the 2DS, New Nintendo 3DS, and New Nintendo 2DS), most modern exploits don't seem to work. After having worked for more than a decade, almost all of the softmod exploits appear to have been patched with this new firmware version. As expected, the homebrew community isn't too happy with Nintendo's decision to release a new system update, especially since Nintendo didn't patch most of the exploits during the 3DS's lifecycle.

"I appreciate that Nintendo still cares about the 3DS and it hasn't been left in a dumpster fire like the Wii U, but seriously why are they still trying to patch mods?", a GBATemp user writes in a thread about this new 3DS system update.

"This is one of those moves so baffling only Nintendo could have made it", a Reddit user writes. "Why on earth would they release this after they made the decision to close the eShop and therefore stop making money off the console? The only thing I can think of is that they wanted to show third-party publishers they're still willing to crack down on piracy."

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