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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Homebrew Is the Nintendo 3DS OS based on Linux?

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Start date Feb 28, 2021
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Lun4ria

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Feb 28, 2021

I'm arguing with someone who is saying the 3DS runs on a linux based OS, but is he right?

KleinesSinchen

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Feb 28, 2021

Jayumi said:
I'm arguing with someone who is saying the 3DS runs on a linux based OS, but is he right?

No signs of Linux as far as I know. The browser contains open source software.
Some links: (Happy reading)
https://gbatemp.net/threads/somethi...oes-the-3dss-os-have-an-internal-name.526092/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_3DS_system_software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_3DS#Software

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AmandaRose

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Feb 28, 2021

I think your friend has mixed up the 3DS with the Switch.

The Switch OS was originally going to be a version of CyanogenOS which is as we know android based and android is a modified version of Linux.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sl...ve-run-android-cyanogen-refused-21479389/amp/

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