Japanese Region change thru homebrew/etc worth it?

[Seamus]

Hey all!

Impatiently buying a 3ds to attach a Loopy cap card with in the coming weeks.

There are multiple videos through youtube that make the process of changing the region of a 3ds look easy, via homebrew/additional software, so I think I'm gonna be cheap and buy a Japanese 3ds instead of an American one, and then change its region when i get it.

Can anyone advise me against this? Has this worked for you? Am I better off spending more on an American 3ds? Any and all support appreciated!

(yes i know the process that the 3ds takes to get to and from loopy takes a while, its faster than waiting for DS install kits to come back though, so i figured id just get a 3ds cap card instead. not loopy's fault but like I said i'm impatient.

Thanks,
-Seamus

[Cjmaverick_]

I did this sometime ago. I bought a Japanese Dragon Quest Metal Slime Edition New 2DS XL with the intent of changing its region through soft modding which I did. It was great at first - I was able to play all my North American games - until certain games needed updates. While the console’s region was changed through soft modding, the board was inherently Japanese and therefore looks for the Japanese Eshop which were unable to access from here in the US.

There is the option of manually searching for these updates online and installing them in your console for the specific game you may need it but it proved to be a bit of a hassle.

Since I didn’t want to run into this again with any game I played, I took the next step and bought a North American N2DSXL board off of eBay, cracked open the console and swapped out the Japanese board for the NA board. Now I have no issues since it’s fully a North American console.

Long story short, you can change its region through hacking but you won’t be able to access the eshop/update your games via eshop download.

[GhostSenpai]

Afaik, you can access to the eshop once you switch regions through cfw but only when if you have never accessed to the eshop

[Cjmaverick_]

Well in his case, that is unlikely since he wants to buy an affordably priced 3DS meaning it will more than likely be used.

And that’s interesting because when I got the JP 2DS XL, I never accessed the eshop because it was impossible for me to log in to the JP eshop from the US. The console was brand new too.

[Seamus]

sorry for the late response- thanks for the feedback!

i think if i do get one i could care less about the eshop. really just wanted to capture pokemon games, which dont need to be updated, and the ds games arent region locked, so its just the 3ds games that are the problem. i might get the urge to buy a virtual console, but im far from caring about gen 1 and 2 lol

thanks!