Homebrew How to play out of Region Games with HANS

[AtelierMari]

I've seen some people saying you can do this and now I finally have an out of region game I'd love to know how. I've looked around but can't find any answers.. I'd love to be able to take screenshots of my Japanese games though! So thanks for any help.

 

[TamDanny]

Well, first of all, if you don't have homebrew on your 3DS (or CFW), then you should probably check on that first.
If you do have homebrew on your 3DS, all you gotta do is load up the Homebrew Launcher, choose HANS, spoof the region, and hope it works! Thing is that HANS isn't compatible with all games, especially the new ones. The only way to use those out-of-Region games is by waiting for HANS to update for compatibility (although smea hasn't done that in a while), or using CFW.

 

[Buttsnake]

Well, first of all, if you don't have homebrew on your 3DS (or CFW), then you should probably check on that first.
If you do have homebrew on your 3DS, all you gotta do is load up the Homebrew Launcher, choose HANS, spoof the region, and hope it works! Thing is that HANS isn't compatible with all games, especially the new ones. The only way to use those out-of-Region games is by waiting for HANS to update for compatibility (although smea hasn't done that in a while), or using CFW.

May I ask how one plays out of region games on CFW?

 

[TamDanny]

May I ask how one plays out of region games on CFW?

Well, if you have an o3DS or a 9,5 N3DS, you can use rxTools CFW, since that already comes with out-of-region support.
On the other hand, you can use FreeMultiPatcher as an alternative. It's a .cia app that allows playing out-of-region, as well as a few other things. The only downside is that you have to start it up everytime you want to play an out-of-region game, but it's not much of a problem.

 

[AtelierMari]

Gotcha, thanks I hope if HANS doesn't work the Region Free Launcher will just do the trick, I just thought taking screenshots mightbe nice

 

[78kristeen]

I’ve used HANS, but the sound is terrible. Is there a way I could fix it for my game?

 

[Quantumcat]

I’ve used HANS, but the sound is terrible. Is there a way I could fix it for my game?

What are you trying to achieve? Hans is very old and there's much better ways of doing the same things now.

 

[78kristeen]

What are you trying to achieve? Hans is very old and there's much better ways of doing the same things now.

Well, I put Homebrew on my 3DS, but there wasn’t anything that let me play OoT3D (USA region) on my Australian New 2DS other than HANS.

 

[Quantumcat]

Well, I put Homebrew on my 3DS, but there wasn’t anything that let me play OoT3D (USA region) on my Australian New 2DS other than HANS.

Follow https://3ds.guide to get CFW, then you'll be able to play any region of game.