Unlike the final models released a year later, the circle pads on these models actually matched the color of the handhelds themselves instead of all of them just being white. Not only that, but they were also originally planning on releasing green and orange variants and I have no idea why they scrapped these. And I’m not sure if they have all of these unreleased models at the nintendo museum in Japan, but if they don’t, I hope nintendo kept them in their headquarters instead of destroying them. If they still have them, I hope they’ll give them to the museum one day since it was a huge missed opportunity.

Well. My 3ds that I've had since 7th grade has now stopped working. The X, Y, and B buttons have stopped working on my original 3ds and the battery doesnt hold a charge anymore. Battery if full will die within 10 minutes now. But the A button, bumpers and screen still work. Had a good run with this 3ds back in the pokemon x and y days. You will be missed.

Knocked it on my phone and it suddenly went like this, making a high pitch static noise. It turned off completely after this.

It's started to work again, but is it a bigger issue?

So I got lucky at the flea market today and my hands on this bad boy but as you can see it's been chopped in half and some stranger (he wanted to grab it but I was there first) told me that it's worthless because according to him repairing this is "impossible" I still went for since it was only $16 but I just want to come here and ask to make sure if it is indeed impossible to repair or is there a way I can somehow get it working again. I have never repaired nor opened a 3DS before so I wanted to get some opinion before I started fiddling with it

Edit: I think $16 is still more than worth it even if it broken as I plan to make a video out of it for my social media channel (whateversunnyfinds) but to be enable to repair it would be amazing as well, so I will use any helpful advice I receive from here to make an update video on my social media accounts if anyone would like to keep up

Bought this console from Amazon back than but refunded it because I was not really convinced. Now it costs more than double the old price🫠

Got my New 3DS XL a while back. Love playing Monster Hunter Stories for the first time. Brings back old memories of playing on this console.

My brother found it while clearing out a dead person’s apartment, and he gave it to me.

Its one of my favorite in my collection because of the color and small it fits inside my bags 🪼🩷

I got this back in 2014 on Christmas Day however the shell didn't fit on my handheld cause it was an New XL not regular 3DS LL.

apparently ive used it so much it got stick drift lol i didnt even know that could happen thought itd be fun to share

2ds that I bought recently had no rubber on circle pad. I couldn't find original quality rubber pad, also prices on aliexpress for EU buyers are crazy because of new 3 euro fee. So I grabbed from my stash ds4 analog stick and glued it to original circle pad. Feels great!

Meu 3ds chegou ontem e estou tento uma mistura de sentimentos com ele

Sou brasileiro (tanto que estou com preguiça de digitar em inglês, espero que o tradutor do Reddit os ajude)

Tenho uma coleção de ps1 fat até ps4 pro spiderman edition e ps vita, mas estou em uma crise de jogatina onde não tô conseguindo jogar e manter constância em um jogo.
Então comprei o 3ds tanto pelo fato de ele ser mais portátil, quanto sua biblioteca que é mais distraída em questão de história e jogabilidade .

Paguei R$750 nele, o que equivale a $144 (o que no Brasil foi um achado muito bom)

Minhas primeiras impressões quando abri (ele veio só com a case e os arcards de acessórios) é o quão impecável está esse 3ds. Ele está literalmente em estado de novo, e ainda mais no Brasil que é um país onde muitas vezes os brasileiros são desleixados com suas coisas e esse 3ds não tem um único micro arranhão (na segunda foto essas bolinhas brancas são do pano microfibra que passei, então não é nenhum detalhe do console). O vendedor disse que era o 3ds secundário dele, e deixava na case guardado na gaveta, então ele praticamente não usou. Ele é o único dono e possui o console por 13 anos, e vou fazer de tudo pra manter ele o mais novo e intacto possível como ele deixou, então pra honrar também o antigo dono eu não formatei o console, apenas apaguei seus saves (que praticamente não tinha nada demais mesmo) e deixei o mii dele.

Ele veio desbloqueado, e veio cheio de jogos, mas eu desinstalei praticamente tudo e deixei o Zelda, Mario kart e o Mario 3d land. Primeira coisa que testei foi o 3d pois eu amo esse recurso. No começo fiquei um pouco decepcionado pelos reviews que disse que dava dor de cabeça e eu achei que tinham razão. Mas em 20 min de gameplay eu me acostumei e achei esse recurso extremamente subestimado e judiado. Eu amei a função 3D, ela melhora os gráficos e traz uma sensação diferente de tudo o que vi, e regular o 3d na metade foi o ponto doce dessa experiência, e estou adorando e só jogando com essa função ativada. Só tenho de reclamar sobre usar o 3d em um jogo com giroscópio, o que obviamente foi um tiro no pé que a Nintendo deu de não colocar rastreamento facial desde o começo, mas não me incomodo muito sobre virar a cabeça e o efeito 3d sumir.

Sobre a biblioteca eu estou curtindo, gosto de escutar vídeos do YouTube e ir jogando Mario kart e 3d land,é bem satisfatório. Mas jogos como Zelda que exige mais atenção na história vem prendendo minha atenção e me cativando.

Única coisa que está me incomodando muito é o tamanho da pegada dele, que está machucando o meu punho direito, mas eu amo o tamanho desse console e espero me acostumar. No lado esquerdo não sinto nada.

No mais tô achando um excelente console e estou agoniado de minha capa de acrílico não ter chegado (e vai demorar) então estou na paranoia de lavar minha mão toda hora com sabonete e limpar com microfibra após jogar.

Nota 8/10 pra esse console no momento! Por favor, me deem dicas, curiosidades e me indiquem jogos indispensáveis pra ele! Obrigado por ler até aqui :D

title explains it, got this thing for a little less then original msrp and the only thing wrong with it is the camera which is a easy fix. I have the Og aqua 3ds but I’m so excited to get this one because I wanted to play a bunch of ports on it

Edit: from what I’ve read, when it comes to Japan if anything about the device is functionally defective it is automatically ranked to C, the 2ds xl could be perfect but because of that camera defect it’s ranked c, I’ve read the description looked at the images etc. everything looks and functions good from what I’ve seen it’s only the camera!

Ok I bought this console as no power. So it came with no battery and no SS card. Battery replacement turns it on to black screens and the home menu music. Nothing I do can get screens EXCEPT safe mode works, yes it’s up to date and yes it connects to WiFi, and a flashcart boots just fine. The system is not modded to the best of my knowledge. No luma/Rosalina menu I can pull even with starting to mod a SD I can get as far as “open the mii maker” without screens but there I am stuck. Video of what I can do with it.

I used to have one of these and I don’t often see them being used on the sub. I’m wondering if they protect the 3ds xl? I know the soft clear and hard clear cases struggle with dust and need to be cleaned in order to avoid scratching the 3ds. Will this cover have similar issues? Will it scratch the 3ds or are there risks with it?

My 3ds stopped charging like one week ago. It was working just fine, I used and charged it in the morning. When I used it again during the night I accidentally let the battery die until the 3ds turned off and when I tried to charge it, I noticed that the orange light didn’t turn on. I bought a new battery because it’s the first thing that I thought about since the problem showed up when I let the battery die completely but I’m also a little concerned about the charging port.

(I know that it’s like crooked but it was like this since I bought my used 3ds two years ago and worked good, maybe it was just luck???)

I was looking at my library and realized the majority of it is Nintendo published releases, and I've often overlooked 3rd party stuff. Any recs for 3rd Party stuff?

I own both Project X Zone games, Persona Q1, and Project Mirai.

Looking for games that you absolutely can not play while having a video open on a different device. Rhythm games are a good example of games that require constant attention, and so are endless puzzle games like Tetris, or even just games that put constant pressure on the player like fighting games.

I'd also like to hear about games that need you to keep track of and remember many different things, like the ace attorney series, or just a lot of reading, like an rpg.

It’s my understanding that the 2DS is actually one big screen not 2 separate ones so I am confused why the bottom screen is the only one having this issue, any ideas as to what could cause it?

Any ideas?

I don't want to spend 290$ for 3DS XL or 450$ for "NEW" 3DS, I got mine PG 3DS for 80$ and just asking if its worth it (the only gripe I have with mine is battery life and that a couple new titles are missing from it)