hi :P I'm new here, and tired, so I'm sorry if I've messed something up! I recently bought a copy of My Secret World for the DS from a second hand store. It's a diary game aimed at tween girls, I enjoyed the idea of using this random game as my actual journal so I bought it. When I opened it on my 3DS, there was an existing save file (last opened 26 December 2013), but I couldn't access it because I didn't know the 4 digit PIN or the security question. I tried a bunch of super common PINs (like 0000, 1234, 9876 etc) but no luck. I erased the file (my new diary is going strong, it's actually a fun little game), but before I did I saved a backup with Checkpoint of the original save. I'm curious if there's a way of getting around that lock, without just straight up brute forcing? Is there anything I could use to look into this more? Honestly I'm most interested in the process (if it can be done) than the actual diary.

Help on 3DS prices...

ghosty656 · 2026-06-13T17:42:57+00:00

Hello, I like handhelds and Pokemon so I am of course looking for a Nintendo console I can buy. Naturally I had gotten the latest console back in 2018 but my experience was less than stellar because of a plethora of reasons(stick drift, patched console, bad pokemon games!!). Lately though I've kind of fallen in love with the 3DS, It just looks so cool and innovative and had a great game library too not even mentioning the modding community. It being an extremely old console I'd expected for it to be cheap but Its like 300 bucks. I can kinda see why, its a great console and I guess something happened for it to be relevant again. But I want to get this console nevertheless so I wanted a bit of advice on what to do. Should I buy it now since the prices will continue to rise or is this just a trend and shoul I wait for the prices to lower again? Many thanks.

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May 28, 2020

Dodain47 said:
This looks like the TwlBg bug.

I quote Zense:
"That's the TwlBg bug that exists because Nintendo didn't make their nds side of the 3DS console properly. This occasionally happens when playing normal ds roms/carts.

Hopefully this mistake of Nintendo can be remedied/circumvented/alleviated in later updates to gbarunner2, but this is not a problem due to gbarunner2. As a matter of fact if you use gbarunner2 on a DSi or DS you won't experience this."

Do note that one of the later updates to gbarunner2 made this happen more frequently by making the average number of gba cycles per frame set equal to a real gba, but using the ds base clock. This made sound perfect in many games and fixed other issues but sadly for whatever reason it made twlbg bug on 3ds line of systems more frequent. The last build before this fix is this one:
https://github.com/Gericom/GBARunner2/releases/tag/v20200411-210916_76c4bf2_dsp-audio

You can see if you get less of the "black lines" with that.

The explanation of why it is more frequent was taken from the changelog.

Last edited by Zense, May 28, 2020

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