Hardware Japanese/English Hardware

[Seccom Masada]

Hey, I was thinking of buying a Kingdom Hearts special edition 3DS (Japanese) and swapping the motherboards with my ambassador teal American one, so I get the cool look without changing anything else. Would there be any compatibility issues, wiring, whatever, that would prevent this? I wouldn't think so, but I figured I'd ask. The only difference would be the screens, and I doubt those are region-locked

 

[how_do_i_do_that]

Why bother swapping the boards, the japanese 3DS already comes in puke blue. Your more likely to break something in the process of swapping the boards.

http://www.play-asia...en-70-3zeq.html

It would be better to get your grubby mitts on a Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance Edition version

http://www.play-asia...en-70-4iqu.html




hardware wise, they are identical.

 

[Seccom Masada]

That's what I'm gonna buy, yeah, the KH3DS special edition. I'm just pretty sure I can't transfer my NA, ambassador-status DS to the J mobo via the system menu and suddenly play NA version games on it, so I'm just swapping the guts instead, making it an NA version 3DS with a KH case. This should, I think, work.

Unless they're gonna release an NA KH special edition in the states, I don't know how likely that'll be...

 

[ferofax]

good luck with that. i hope you don't ruin two 3DSes in the process, one an ambassador and one a special edition.

 

[McHaggis]

I remember doing this with GameCube memory cards so that I could have silver memory cards to match my GC colour, but with larger storage capacity. This sounds like a slightly larger job, though ;-) Good luck, but I wouldn't write off the chances of a localized KH: Special Edition 3DS.