Have you tried doing this part of the wiki?Gonna point it out here since I wound up having to help myself after no one responded to my thread.
Something's wrong with Luma3DS' region/language emulation.
I downloaded a Japanese copy of ACNL but the game crashes as soon as you open it whether or not region free/language emulation is selected.
Using HANS the game boots just fine. I found in order to make the game crash loading with HANS I had to switch it's region to something other to JPN.
NTR's language emulation also makes the game boot just fine so Luma seems to be the issue here.
Enable region/language emulation: Enables the region/language emulation feature. This 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 onwww.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