Hacking English titles on Japanese 3ds

[HisDudeness]

I hope this is the right forum for this. Basically, I have a Japanese 3ds with a9lh and all that good stuff. Using CIAngel I'm grabbing some games and installing them. The problem I'm having is that some of the games are in English and some in Japanese. I'm using the American or European files, still have this problem of the game being in Japanese.

Is there anything I can do to get these games in English or am I just gonna have to slog through it?

 

[mchew]

From: https://github.com/AuroraWright/Luma3DS/wiki/Options-and-usage

Enable region/language emulation and external .code: Enables the following two features:

• The region/language emulation feature allows some games which need a specific language to be set to work, and DLCs for foreign games to load. To use it:
  • Create a folder named locales inside luma.
  • Create a .txt file with game's title id as the name (look them up on www.3dsdb.com).
  • Inside the file,
    • Put 3 characters for the region ("JPN", "USA", "EUR", "AUS", "CHN", "KOR", "TWN").
    • Put an empty space.
    • Put 2 characters for the language ("JP", "EN", "FR", "DE", "IT", "ES", "ZH", "KO", "NL", "PT", "RU", "TW").
  • For example, to play Pokémon™ Y in Japanese language and region:
    • Create 0004000000055E00.txt.
    • Put in JPN JP.
    • Save.

 

[HisDudeness]

This guy right here, fucking awesome guy. He's helped me through this entire process!

 

[SirHaxALot]

This guy right here, fucking awesome guy. He's helped me through this entire process!

If you don't want to use you PC all the time, get the Luma Locale Switcher

You might want to get the nightly on this issue on Github (anyway haven't tested it yet): https://github.com/Possum/LumaLocaleSwitcher/issues/9

 

[Cuphat]

You could also region change entirely. I tend to create an EmuNAND on my out-of-region consoles and region change either my SysNAND or that EmuNAND to US depending on the console.

 

[HisDudeness]

I just region changed entirely and now it's just an American console. Thanks to all you folks for your help and advice!