It amuses me greatly that not only is the format for dumping 3DS software CIA, but the program for installing these dumps is called FBI.

@onfy I mean the software being called FBI is the obvious joke but I'm not sure if CIA is actually just what Nintendo calls them (it stands for CTR importable archive)

@noiob Yeah, it's an obvious joke and may not be what Nintendo calls the format. Maybe they don't even use it?

Still very funny though. They could've called it anything but they called it FBI because the archives were called CIA. What if they hadn't even made that (fairly obvious) connection?

@noiob They could've even just called it CIA installer. They did not.

@onfy it's a well-honored tradition for homebrew tools to have pun names

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@onfy like the Wii having a ton of tools with "ii" in their names, or Wii U tools all being coffee words

@noiob The Wii U coffee clearly must've gone over my head... I guess I'll have to take another pekoe.

@onfy off the top of my head, there's a cfw called Mocha and the newest hack is called Tiramisu

@onfy also Twilight Menu is named for the DS codename being TWL

@noiob I always wondered if Twilight is named for the horse.

@noiob Is there a horse named Twilight who isn't a princess?

@noiob I said horse Twilight who's not a princess, not princess Twilight who's not a horse. Like uhh, a venn diagram of "Princess, horse, Twilight?"

@onfy I just think Nintendo nerds might think of the non-horse one first

@noiob Really a pity there were no My Little Pony games on a Nintendo system between Pinkie Pie's Party and the G5 one.

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