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

@noiob Tradition, or do nerds just like making silly jokes? I think the 3DS also has a Rainbow Dash FTP server...

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@onfy I mean that's not a joke, it's just a pony-themed FTP Server

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