Nintendo 3DS Tutorials, Guides, HowTos, FAQs (491 articles)

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Nintendo 3DS tutorials (491)

11.0 Downgrade Tutorial [HARDMOD ONLY]

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3DS Audio Recording made smartly

· Posted by Trylk248
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3DS Hacking FAQ ELI5 Edition

· Posted by pixelmasher
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3DS hacking IRC channel - #3dshacks at irc.rizon.net

· Posted by xy2_
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3DS Region Change Tutorial (EASY WAY)

· Posted by SpencerlyEverly
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3DS Screen Recording without a Capture Card (NTR CFW Method)

· Posted by NekoMichi
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3DS Themes with NO SD Card :)

· Posted by Pink Gold Peach
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3DS/ALL DS - HOW TO FIX LOOSE POWER CONNECTOR

· Posted by Peanut_BR
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3DSxplained: Userland homebrew? ARM11? ARM9?

· Posted by Ryccardo
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: Working Saves in GBA VC Games on 3DS!

· Posted by 2DSGamerdude
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A basic guide for Gateshark to NTR translation

· Posted by Deleted member 369977
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A Beginners Guide to Cloning Pokemon [X/Y/OR/AS Only]

· Posted by Salamencizer
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a guide to checking your 3ds FW version

· Posted by TyDye
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A Little Guide to Have all the Shinies & Competitive Pokemon you Want on Y&X

· Posted by ElYubiYubi
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A noobNAND's Guide to sysNAND and emuNAND

· Posted by NekoMichi
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A quick and simple Guide about how to Transfer Pokemon from an Emulator to your 3DS

· Posted by WaluigiMan
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a tutorial on how to place custom music in mh3u

· Posted by DarkRioru
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A video tutorial I found on putting multiple moflex files in a .CIA

· Posted by cutebross260
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a9lh Boot Animations

· Posted by cots
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A9LH Users: Recover From Formatted/Deleted SD Card

· Posted by bahamut920
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Access Nintendo Zone anywhere using Smartphone Hotspot

· Posted by Deleted User
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Accessing eShop on older firmwares (New version)

· Posted by gnmmarechal
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Accessing Nintendo Video on UK/US 3DS (Simple)

· Posted by ameerh
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Adding 5 Extra Edited Characters in Dynasty Warriors Vs.

· Posted by alonzondavis
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Alternative CMD (TP 253) Pinout?

· Posted by MAXLEMPIRA
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An "easy" way to extract music and other stuff from 3DS games

· Posted by EpicLPer
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Android devices compatibility list for Homepass

· Posted by Petoboy
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Android offline exploit for WiFi-only tablets

· Posted by Liberty
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AndroidPass, an alternative for the StreetPass Riilay

· Posted by Ismaw34
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Animal Crossing: How to make an insane amount of bells every night without cheating, hacking, etc...

· Posted by MelodieOctavia
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Assembling 3DS Homebrew for Gateway

· Posted by Sylantemp
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Backing up and Editing Saves using Ironhax/Tubehax.

· Posted by yodamerlin
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Backup your SysNAND or dump roms from retail carts on O3DS / N3DS

· Posted by d0k3
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Beginner's Guide – How to setup your 3DS for gbatemp

· Posted by AileenLumina
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Black Screen 3ds Fix!

· Posted by woolywoods
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Blocking online updates and the install update nag

· Posted by Adr990
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Blocking the 3DS from receiving the wifi update using OpenDNS

· Posted by TidusWulf
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Booting GW with B9S (and some help)

· Posted by nedron92
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Bring your WiiU GBA Saves to 3DS GBA VC

· Posted by Sonlen1414
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BrowserNag No More - Fiddler 4 tutorial for bypassing BrowserNag

· Posted by REDALiCE
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Building NTR custom firmware cheat plugins w/ cheat menu

· Posted by supermariorick
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Bypassing waiting X days in Pokemon Sun and Moon demo (and probably other games too)

· Posted by Priw8
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CakesFW use (decrypted) firmware.bin from another CFW -> e.g. firmlaunch 9.0

· Posted by GothicIII
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Can I Downgrade My non-a9LH 11.0.0-33 3DS?

· Posted by TechAndrew
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CFW coldboot + Homebrew Launcher with app returning

· Posted by storm75x
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CFW EMUNAND 9.2

· Posted by IpsoFact0
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Chaldron's MAC Cycler for Windows

· Posted by Chaldron
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Change battle background in usum (wifi battles)

· Posted by XLuma
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Change Locale Setting to China, Japan, or South Korea on any 3DS with Luma CFW/Homebrew

· Posted by PigeonPigeon
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Chopsticks Stylus Pen Mod

· Posted by TurdPooCharger
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