Hacking You CAN play online after region change!

Kelly_Overtone · Dec 3, 2020

Hey guys,
This isn't a question but rather an awesome piece of info I stumbled upon, and had to share it here~!

Okay, so I picked up a Japanese O3dsXL, loaded cfw, then region changed it to USA. Then realized ya can't
play online (the 2 games I tested were Mario Kart 7 (cia) and Code of Princess (physical usa cartridge) before throwing the towel in.
You get a region error) So I searched all over online.. lots of people with the same question, but just told sorry you can only
launch/play the games 1 player, after region change on a J system.

WELL GOOD NEWS ON THAT! I just happened to see that in System settings>Other Settings>Profile
that the region THERE still said Japan. I changed it to United States and viola! I can now play online the 2 aforementioned, and others
both cia and cartridge games! I hope this helps some ppl :0)

*Also I heard that if you set up a USA NNID, that the eshop will work again too, gonna try that now just for shits

Stealphie · Dec 3, 2020

Yeah it works. eShop? forget it. eShop will NOT work.

Kelly_Overtone · Dec 3, 2020

Yep! See before I had changed the region in the silly lil profile section in settings too, you couldn't even
setup a nnid, among other error msgs. Now once linked to the eshop, don't get those anymore, and I can update games too;
I couldn't before... I swear, little details like this absent from tuts ruin shit for everyone right? LoL

Kelly_Overtone · Dec 3, 2020

Well dang, I thought for sure I'd be able to get into eshop after making usa nnid, everything was going so smooth,
I even got a user agreement screen, another startup/landing screen, and then to come back after confirming your email for your new account.. Then the confound xxx-2001 error again... sigh oh well
Can play online now at least tho!! So that's a big plus

lone_wolf323 · Dec 3, 2020

Kelly_Overtone said:
Well dang, I thought for sure I'd be able to get into eshop after making usa nnid, everything was going so smooth,
I even got a user agreement screen, another startup/landing screen, and then to come back after confirming your email for your new account.. Then the confound xxx-2001 error again... sigh oh well
Can play online now at least tho!! So that's a big plus

lmao. Do you really think that your smarter than everyone here? People will not say it wont work, if it will not actually work. You already went into that with being told so. Dont act so surprised when it dont work.

Kelly_Overtone · Dec 3, 2020

hell no, just hopeful

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i wasn't even trying, i stumbled onto that setting and suddenly other stuff started working, remember?
i got excited/hopeful and decided to share what was happening.. no need to be a jerk

crossmr · Dec 6, 2020

lone_wolf323 said:
lmao. Do you really think that your smarter than everyone here? People will not say it wont work, if it will not actually work. You already went into that with being told so. Dont act so surprised when it dont work.

This is my first time looking into this and I'm a little confused since I see threads like this: https://gbatemp.net/threads/using-pokemon-bank-with-usum-cia.557259/

where people are using pokebank on CFW. doesn't that require going on to the eshop to get the pokebank and paying for the service? or are they sideloading pokebank and then paying somehow else? Just updated my luma to the latest version and updated the oFW but can't get into the eshop, and I wasn't sure if it was supposed to work or if it was an issue with my NNID since it isn't showing the right region at all. I bought this 3DS pre-hacked and it seems to have weird country selection on the menu. No North American countries, no Asian countries. (korea/japan at least aren't there). Seems to be africa/Europe only selections, but this was originally a Japanese 3DS as far as I know.

Edit: I did grab a pokebank CIA but it wants to update first, but it throws an error whenever it tries to update.

fmkid · Dec 6, 2020

crossmr said:
This is my first time looking into this and I'm a little confused since I see threads like this: https://gbatemp.net/threads/using-pokemon-bank-with-usum-cia.557259/

where people are using pokebank on CFW. doesn't that require going on to the eshop to get the pokebank and paying for the service? or are they sideloading pokebank and then paying somehow else? Just updated my luma to the latest version and updated the oFW but can't get into the eshop, and I wasn't sure if it was supposed to work or if it was an issue with my NNID since it isn't showing the right region at all. I bought this 3DS pre-hacked and it seems to have weird country selection on the menu. No North American countries, no Asian countries. (korea/japan at least aren't there). Seems to be africa/Europe only selections, but this was originally a Japanese 3DS as far as I know.

Edit: I did grab a pokebank CIA but it wants to update first, but it throws an error whenever it tries to update.

Performing a "region changing" normally comes with that kind of "secondary effects" about NNID and eShop usage. It is warned on the respective guide, indeed:
https://3ds.hacks.guide/region-changing.html#required-reading

Kelly_Overtone · Dec 6, 2020

crossmr: yes, it's limited depending on orig. region, sounds like yours is/was likely european, not japanese
fmkid: i did the region change on this (japanese) one, cuz i got it cheap & cuz if you don't the games will display
in japanese.. and for rpg's that's no fun

tfocosta · Dec 6, 2020

Kelly_Overtone said:
crossmr: yes, it's limited depending on orig. region, sounds like yours is/was likely european, not japanese
fmkid: i did the region change on this (japanese) one, cuz i got it cheap & cuz if you don't the games will display
in japanese.. and for rpg's that's no fun

I have a hacked Japanese o3DS and I can play all my games in English or other languages if *.cia file is EUR (Multi). I just use LumaLocaleRegionAutoSetter and LumaLocaleSwitcher. No need to change region. The console main language is still in Japanese and I can't change it, but that doesn't bother me at all, as I have another one with European Region (non-hacked) and I'm used to the menu.

Stealphie · Dec 6, 2020

tfocosta said:
I have a hacked Japanese o3DS and I can play all my games in English or other languages if *.cia file is EUR (Multi). I just use LumaLocaleRegionAutoSetter and LumaLocaleSwitcher. No need to change region. The console main language is still in Japanese and I can't change it, but that doesn't bother me at all, as I have another one with European Region (non-hacked) and I'm used to the menu.

off topic but Locales don't work at all for me.

tfocosta · Dec 6, 2020

Stealphie said:
off topic but Locales don't work at all for me.

I know, I remember your case. I don't know why. It works really well for me.

At least for a console which region was never changed. Probably if you change the region Locales may not work afterwards. I don't know.

Stealphie · Dec 6, 2020

tfocosta said:
I know, I remember your case. I don't know why. It works really well for me.

At least for a console which region was never changed. Probably if you change the region Locales may not work afterwards. I don't know.

I had region changed my 3DS, but I undid that with a NAND backup made before I region changed. Apparently I have to turn Locales on, but I don't know how and where I turn them on.

tfocosta · Dec 6, 2020

Stealphie said:
I had region changed my 3DS, but I undid that with a NAND backup made before I region changed. Apparently I have to turn Locales on, but I don't know how and where I turn them on.

You'll probably need to do the following:

1) install LumaLocaleSwitcher
2) boot-up your console while holding SELECT
3) make sure the " enable game patching " option is selected, then just press START to save
4) start LumaLocaleSwitcher, select " Choose Locales Directory " and change the path to the second one down, labeled " /luma/titles/%s/locale.txt " .
5) You can now configure your games' regions and languages matching the region and possible languages of the *.cia file.

crossmr · Dec 12, 2020

fmkid said:
Performing a "region changing" normally comes with that kind of "secondary effects" about NNID and eShop usage. It is warned on the respective guide, indeed:
https://3ds.hacks.guide/region-changing.html#required-reading

I actually didn't hack this myself. I bought it from a brit here, and I recall him telling me it was originally japanese. I think I've still got the box somewhere and it's got all japanese markings on it. He might have mumbled something to me about the eshop when he sold it to me.

tfocosta said:
I have a hacked Japanese o3DS and I can play all my games in English or other languages if *.cia file is EUR (Multi). I just use LumaLocaleRegionAutoSetter and LumaLocaleSwitcher. No need to change region. The console main language is still in Japanese and I can't change it, but that doesn't bother me at all, as I have another one with European Region (non-hacked) and I'm used to the menu.

So does that mean if I restore the original region to the 3DS, and have it go back to the original japanese menu, I could connect to the japanese eshop and get pokemon bank that way? but I would have to leave the system menu in Japanese?

"After this process, only New 3DSs which have never accessed the eShop before and all Old 3DSs will be able to access the eShop after creating a new NNID on their new region. Region changed New 3DSs that have already accessed the eShop on their original region cannot create a new NNID and access the eShop on their new region!"

This would seem to apply that any old 3DS will be fine to access the shop, which mine is, it's not a 3DS xl.

HighStake17 · Aug 27, 2023

Kelly_Overtone said:
Hey guys,
This isn't a question but rather an awesome piece of info I stumbled upon, and had to share it here~!

Okay, so I picked up a Japanese O3dsXL, loaded cfw, then region changed it to USA. Then realized ya can't
play online (the 2 games I tested were Mario Kart 7 (cia) and Code of Princess (physical usa cartridge) before throwing the towel in.
You get a region error) So I searched all over online.. lots of people with the same question, but just told sorry you can only
launch/play the games 1 player, after region change on a J system.

WELL GOOD NEWS ON THAT! I just happened to see that in System settings>Other Settings>Profile
that the region THERE still said Japan. I changed it to United States and viola! I can now play online the 2 aforementioned, and others
both cia and cartridge games! I hope this helps some ppl :0)

*Also I heard that if you set up a USA NNID, that the eshop will work again too, gonna try that now just for shits

You. Are literally a lifesaver. I was so sad I couldn’t play online or use Streetpass, two of my favorite features, because I have a Japanese region changed 3DS. That was all I had to do to fix it! THANK

cubes · Nov 22, 2023

thank you this worked ^-^

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