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a wiki dedicated to homebrew on the Nintendo 3DS.

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Welcome!

What is Homebrew?	How do I run homebrew?
Homebrew is a popular term used for applications that are created and executed on a video game console by hackers, programmers, developers, and consumers.	Keep an eye out on the Homebrew Exploits page for a list of available exploits and their respective requirements.

How do I develop homebrew?	What homebrew can I run?
See the Setting up Development Environment‎ page for a guide on how to get started with homebrew development for the 3DS. The toolchain supports Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.	See the Homebrew Applications page for a partial list of homebrew applications/games that can be downloaded and installed.

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Latest safe firmware

As of this writing, the latest firmware is 11.17.0-50.

See here regarding running homebrew.

Software-based full system control exploits are known and publicly available for system versions up to and including 11.17.0-50, while ntrboothax allows for ARM9 arbitrary code execution on any 3DS-family console regardless of system firmware version (or even its presence at all).

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Latest news

23 May 23 Nintendo released system update 11.17.0-50.
13 September 22 Nintendo released system update 11.16.0-49.
30 August 22 Nintendo released system update 11.16.0-48.
2 Feb 22 devkitPro have announced devkitARM release 57

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Latest homebrew releases

13 July 17 devkitPro released libctru 1.3.0 and citro3d 1.3.0
11 April 17 TiniVi released Safehax r21 with 11.3 support!
8 January 17 TiniVi released Safehax r18
4 January 17 TiniVi released Safehax (Stable)

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