Within 24 hours of its much-awaited release in Japan, the Nintendo 3DS was reportedly ‘jailbroken’ by the hackers to support Revolution For DS (R4) flash cards which give the device the capability to make old Nintendo games playable on it.

According to an Afterdawn.com report, despite the fact that R4 cards were built for Nintendo DS, the hackers have disclosed how these cards can use the storage cards for running homebrew and older Nintendo games from DS as well as GameBoy Color on the new Nintendo 3DS.

In a video pertaining to the Nintendo 3DS jailbreak, two hackers have shown the console playing a DS version of "New Super Mario Brothers" that had been stored on an R4 card.

However, noting that the R4 card is “not a 3DS flashcart,” the hackers clarified in an overlaid caption that not all flash cards work, and that it was highly likely that Nintendo will remove R4 cards from the “whitelist” it has built into the 3DS. The list essentially contains the names of all games that can be played on the 3DS.

The caption by the hackers further specified that the R4 card is “the R4 used on Dsi. It is not possible to play 3DS games from it. You can't use your current DS flashcart (no matter what brand) on it. The R4 team has managed to hack the 3DS in order to make it run.”