Hacking American in Japan NOOB, Massive help!

[TonyEDM]

Hello I am American now living in Japan with my Japanese wife and I speak NO Japanese, Good thing my wife does.

Anyways looking to buy a New 3DS XL or 3DS, i dont know yet. i want to hack / mod it whatever its called.

Now I heard that if I region change it to USA, I cannot use the eshop to download updates or eshop stuff.

1. But if I dont change it and just mod it I can still PLAY both American games & Japanese games.

is it true?

2. so both console will be in japanese region, but if we both get Pokemon X and she gets X {USA}

can we both play locally ?

3. I will not be playing Japanese games cus duh, so if I download american game onto the system

can I still get updates on the american game via Japanese eshop?

4. when im doing the process to hack / mod it can i set the process to english?


pls help