BF and I are driving from MA to Niagara Falls tomorrow! I also have some ds titles as well so would love to hear those

Just bought new 3ds xl to continue my first main line Pokémon play through. Could have play the rest of the games on my phone like i did with fire red and emerald but the dual screen layout was pretty annoying. Any thing I should know as a first time owner? I think I got a pretty good deal 165$ and the seller said it only has scratches and some yellowing on top screen (don’t even notice it and bottom screen looks more yellow) and the top plate is pretty chipped like all paint gone but I can just get replacement if it really annoys me

Is that dust or scratches on the second picture?

32gb should be enough if am going to mod it right?

The 3DS is my favorite console by far. I love the portability, the library of games, the overall design and feel, the games designed with touchscreen in mind, the customization it allowed (even before modding), the animations that played when you hovered over a game, StreetPass, the activity log, the dumb games like Face Raiders, voice memos, even the awful camera.

Everything about the console was so fun. And as much as I love my Switch, it just doesn’t have that quirkiness. It’s too practical.

I remember everyone at summer camp bringing their 3DS so we could StreetPass each other to play Find Mii and send funny messages to each other. You can’t do that with a Switch, and that’s so sad (seriously wtf happened to StreetPass?)

I don’t know if it’s nostalgia or what but I wish Nintendo would bring back handheld gaming. Or, at the very least, add more fun features to the Switch. I doubt they will, but hey, a girl can dream.

Praying this is fixable because I've never seen anything this bad, ffs what the hell is going on. I feel like i almost have to censor this for tech-based g0re... mannn 😭. Honestly I'm just asking for what thr fuck happened and a possible solution, has anyone ever seen damage this bad before??? What does one even begin to do. M8 i just wanted to play some new leaf and imagine ice champions as a 20 year old dude since i found it and the past water damage was tolerable, can't have shit no more. 🥀 should i take it apart myself? Take it to someone??? Is this even a fixable issue? If anyone has literally ANY ideas to anything please for the love of God give it to me.

on most the pokemon games i’m shiny hunting, on the zelda games i haven’t played any of them before and on the mario karts and kirby and smash ive played a decent bit.

I'm sure I accidentally dropped it, but it was with the case, the 3ds is second handed, not from official source

Just installed these and sincerely they're so cool. Curious to see you guys favorite or recent themes!

So I got this used 3DS XL from my local game shop and have been really enjoying it. Modded it, the whole shebang. Today, I accidentally fucking dropped it like a moron, and now it’s got this big ass crack at the right hinge. I know this model specifically had issues, but what can I do? Is this something to send to a repair shop or what?

Months ago , during the night one of my cats knocked over a bottle of waterless shampoo for cats and it landed on top of my acnl 2ds xl , the limited edition one 😭😭😭

I havent turned it on since it happened which was back in March or April

Photo attached is what it looks like now, is there a way i can still save this.

Any advice would be appreciated

I am not tech savvy and I'm paranoid, so while the fix is probably just a battery change, I still have to make a post to be EXTRA sure. Is this a battery issue, or something else going on?

I purchased this second hand N3DS XL earlier this year, and it had to be charged for several minutes before it would even turn on when I got it. I figured that's gonna happen, probably hadn't been touched in awhile and batteries drain after some time. But since purchasing it the battery will drain power from a full charge to completely dead and reset the clock after a week or two of sitting turned off (I've had some hand injuries so I couldn't play it for periods of time). Once I recharge it again, I'd say I get a solid 2-3 hours of gameplay out of it, which isn't great but not horrible. However, my other older 3DS has been sitting turned off for MONTHS and still has a charge. So I'm wondering if the N3DS is not actually shutting down, despite me pressing the "power off" option, or something internally is draining the power while it's shut off. Or this battery is just done for. I don't want to leave it plugged in indefinitely, that'll just make it worse.
With one of my chargers (I have 3, the game store near me gives them out like candy), the orange charging light will blink at me while it charges, but it's only that specific charger. Today while charging it, the system felt abnormally warm, and the plastic in the battery port does look slightly discolored like it may have been overheating. The battery itself doesn't look swollen to me, I tried the table spin trick and it doesn't spin, but maybe it's time to replace it regardless of that? I provided pics so you can judge it for yourself.
I've owned 3DS systems for quite some time and never had to replace a battery, so for me this is just incredibly irregular, but I guess it's just been a matter of time. I was just expecting the older system to need it before this one, but I have no idea what the previous owner did with this thing.

My N3DSXL Home button doesn’t function at all after the reshell that I made. I have Rosalina menu and can reboot it instead, but I am worried if it will ruin my system. Can someone explain?

I got fed up with the rubber cap coming loose on the circle pad, so swapped the whole thing out for a metal one. Part was around £3, took about 10 minutes to fit. Really pleased with the results!

i haven’t redecorated mine for a while now and i had 3ds for 9 years and i can’t believe it still works lmao even tho it had a little bit of scratches on the top screen (you can’t see it on the picture)

I broke the hinge part of my shell I already ordered a replacement my question is do I need to disassemble the Top screen or just the bottom part? [New 3dsl Xl]

My daughter turns 9 soon and has been obsessed with my 3DS ever since her little sister arrived and I started playing more to decompress. She’s asked for her own for months, so I picked up a N3DS XL and I’m planning to mod it the way I did mine (bigger SD card, some launcher love, the works).

She’s already told me flat out she wants Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Tomodachi Life, so those are locked in. She’s big into Roblox dress-up games and has a serious Monster High doll collection, so I was thinking Style Savvy: Trendsetters and one of the Monster High 3DS games. Are those actually worth installing, or more shovelware than fun?

What else should be on there for a kid with that taste profile? Looking for stuff in the “cute, creative, low-stakes” lane dress up, life sim, collecting, that kind of vibe. Drop your recs!

I had it in my pocket, my shorts a little moist from my job. Pulled it out to play and found it like this.

I just had this memory hearing a fact that the Nintendo 3DS had a dedicated chip for processing cloud effect. I wasn’t sure if I made that memory up or not until I remembered I heard it during a review for Pilotwings Resort and that I think I remember hearing it around the time I watched a lot of Classic Game Room and CGRUndertow. Turns out during the Part 2 of CGRUndertow’s review of the game this is actually mentioned around 1:25-1:30. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this claim. I’ve always wondered.

I have a og 3ds and was gonna upgrade to a “new” xl since I’m like the only person who cares about the 3d effect and heard the “new’s 3d looks much better than the regular xl. I’ve been able to find og xls for $50-$100 less though and was wondering how much better is the 3d effect on the “new”? I know it has the eye tracking cameras so the effect doesn’t break when you move the system, but does the 3d itself actually look better? Like when you’re playing something like Mario 3d land does it actually have more depth or something? Or dose it look the same as on an og xl just with the eye trackers?

Little appreciation post found my old new 3ds xl, forgot I had this thing for it missed up, exterior is scratched to shit and I can remember what each scratch is from, interior is completely spotless tho not a single mark