3Ds Discussion

[GarbCat]

How serendipitous to see this thread pop up not even a full day after I modded one of my 3DS's! I ended up having a pretty botched repair job from Nintendo when I sent a few of my consoles in, the tl;dr being that I had my cool n3DS consoles replaced with n2DS's, and all of the software I bought over the years wiped off of my console. Retrieving that lost software wasn't impossible per se but contingent on relying on Nintendo's now very gutted and unreliable 3DS customer support... Needless to say that was a kick in the pants for me to finally get around to modding one of my consoles and get all of my digital downloads back along with plenty of extras. Yay piracy!! 

I dunno if the 3DS is my favorite console but it's definitely my favorite. It's one of the few consoles I had as a child which followed me into adulthood. Although I eventually recovered all of my childhood game consoles once I became an adult and video game collecting became a huge hobby of mine, 3DS was something I always had at least one working console of for over a decade by now, so I've always thought of the console as an ol' reliable and something I can always come back to whenever I need it, even if it's not exactly something I play the most often LOL. you get what I mean? That is my emotional support video game console :P

1. Anyhow, my first ever 3DS game was Pokemon X! That's right, I was one of *those* kids who got into the 3DS on the Christmas of 2013 with the new Pokemon game. I remember Pokemon X being the first video game I followed news of pre-release, watching the game like a hawk thru videos TheJwittz and Tama Hero (then TamashiiHiroka) made throughout the year. Honestly no idea how I was doing that, the 3DS was also my first ever device with a web browser and YouTube, but I remained on the pulse nevertheless. I remember having a lot of fun with this game, though I distinctly remember feeling incredibly deflated when I beat the story mode campaign not even three full days later. I ended up growing out of Pokemon by 2017, around the Ultra Sun/Moon era, and besides that I wouldn't consider X/Y to be the best of the Pokemon games I played, but I still have a ton of nostalgia for gen 6 anyway. One day I'll move to Lumiose City, I'm sure 

2.Kinda hard to answer this actually hahaha. As long as I owned the 3DS and as much as I played it, I actually didn't play a ton of 3DS games. I was feasting a lot on those five dollar virtual console games and a lot of my favorite series, like Mega Man, missed out on proper 3DS titles but had plenty of stuff on the VC to dine on. Let's see... Smash for 3DS and Hyrule Warriors Legends were games I got hundreds of hours worth of crazy good fun but for the most part better versions of those games exist on Switch so calling them my current favorite 3DS game doesn't feel exactly right  Kirby Planet Robobot and Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest are proper 3DS games which I fell in love with and even played to completion, which felt like huge accomplishments for me at the time! And of course there's also Animal Crossing New Leaf to consider as well...

3. Project X Zone!!! Not a ton of people ever talk about this one, it's a strategy-rpg (so in the same genre as Fire Emblem, but it plays very differently!) and the whole thing with this one is that it's a crossover between a bunch of Capcom, Namco, and Sega characters. Each unit on your team is a pair of characters, usually from the same game (but not always; Frank West and Hsien-Ko are an iconic duo here), and when they engage combat you use button commands to perform very flashy, cinematic attacks with the intent on stringing them together in such a way that you keep the enemy airborne to maximize damage. It's so hard to explain, try to look up a gameplay video of it to see it in action!

4. I change themes a lot, but the Hyrule Warriors Legends theme is pretty cooool...

5. Weirdest game I've had the misfortune of experiencing on 3DS is Mario Maker. I'm sure at a glance Mario Maker doesn't sound so freakish and strange but on 3DS you can't share levels you make online, and there's no way to search for player-made levels to play, you instead have to wholly rely on whatever the "recommended" bar decided to feed you. I sold my copy of Pokemon Black to buy this damned game in 2017, if only I could go back in time and stop that from happening LOL

[Corrupted Unicorn]

I plan to come back to this topic but for now, I'd like to leave an important advice for those who have a 2DS with a wonky Sleep switch that makes their screen turn on and off at random times (and sometimes, not even turn on at all) - which is something I encountered with my original 2DS AND the one I bought planning to replace the hardware of the former with the other  and the solution is SO simple   

I followed the advice on this reddit post, but I'll quote it here for preservation:

OK i haven't seen anyone post about this so I guess I'll say it here. The 2DS has a problem where sometimes it goes to sleep mode by itself. I looked this up when I had the problem and i couldn't find anyone who had the solution, so I came up with this and it worked. (by the way if you apply this tactic to the joy con analog sticks, it actually can cure the joy con drift, but I'm not guaranteeing it)

Get a cotton ear bud (the double ended ones). Get rubbing alcohol as well. dip a bit of rubbing alcohol on the cotton ear buds. There should be the sleep mode switch. rub the cotton ear buds on the sleep switches gaps. switch it on and off for like 30 times each, and leave it out for like 10 minutes. it should be fixed after that.

This has saved MY ASS. Now I have two functioning 2DS and I don't know what to do with them. Returning one to the store is still possible (I think), but maybe there's something a lil' more interesting to do... Transfers in case Pokemon Bank finally kneels? Use one as a test subject for 3DS jailbreaking? Who knows... 

[asillycalicokitty]

I got my 3DS XL in late 2014, and it remains one of my favorite consoles 12 years later!

1. What was your first 3Ds game?
Animal Crossing: New Leaf! I'd been a huge fan of City Folk on the Wii, so New Leaf was an easy first purchase.

2. What is/are your favorite 3Ds game(s)?
Also probably Animal Crossing: New Leaf. It's also my favorite Animal Crossing game overall, though I've been warming up to New Horizons as I've revisited it over the past couple months or so. Other games I really liked from the 3DS era include Super Smash Brothers 4, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, and... Streetpass Plaza. Maybe that's a bit unusual, but I do deeply miss the Streetpass system, and hope to see it return in some future portable console some day!

3. What's some of your favorite hidden gems?
Tough question! I mostly played popular releases, so I'm not sure how qualified I am to answer. I think Monster Hunter Stories might count, though admittedly my first time playing it was actually on the mobile phone port.

4. What's your main theme to use on your 3Ds? (Feel free to share an image too!)
I use this theme, but with the regular 3DS music.

5. Weirdest game(s) you've played/seen on the 3Ds?
Another tough question! Would it be cheating to cite some of the games up on the Universal Updater as being somewhat weird?

[gregmoondancer]

My first game was technically a ds game but I played it on 3ds and it was My Little Pony: Pinkie Pie's Party. I got it for Christmas when I was like 3 or 4, and if I remember correctly it might have been my first video game I ever played, its a rly simple game where u pretty much just do a bunch of minigames then have a birthday party, but I loved it so much and I honestly still do. Definitely not biased at all but I think its one of the prettiest games ever, I'm a complete sucker for brightly colored, mostly pink pixel art, and thats what this game delivers. As for my fav 3ds game, that would definitely have to be Kirby Planet Robobot, I'm a huge fan of the kirby games and this was the first one I ever played back in 2017, and I'd say its easily my fav in the series. The game itself is so much fun and the story is  great, maybe a little too dark for 8 year old me but oh well. In my opinion Kirby Planet Robobot is for sure one of those games that I would give anything to experience for the first time again cuz its just so peak. Also not to brag or anything but check out my epic 3ds sticker set thing I got when I was like 6 plus my 3ds theme too ig

excuse the bad lighting in the second pic idk how to take photos