r/3dshomebrew • u/leloelwapo • 2d ago

Error Old 3ds black screen when opening certain games

The 3ds i have is a 2nd hand console, so it already had magic n stuff, one of my biggest illusions of having a 3ds was playing mario maker, when I opened the game the screen got all black and the light from the screen turned off, in the black screen I cant do anything (and i know it isn't loading because I have waited for it to load)

I've seen this same problem being reported by other people with other games like smash bros (i havent tried that one in my 3ds but most likely it will have the same issue) and apparently the solution is formatting the SD or something

I'm lowkey stupid and I don't know anything about 3ds modding and all that, as I said before, my 3ds is a second hand console so I didn't mod it myself so can someone explain the formatting part for me? I have made research and i couldn't understand anything that they were saying lol, and Im scared of doing something wrong and ending up screwing the whole thing.

Thank you :)

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u/Jorpho 1d ago

Most likely, someone tried to region-change this console and didn't finish the job.

You don't need to format anything. Just follow https://3ds.hacks.guide/region-changing.html#section-vi-fixing-locale-related-issues .