If you're like me and bought a N3DS last year fearing the US/EU release might have 9.3 or above, you will notice that not all games are in English despite installing the US/PAL versions of games.
This is because the games use the system language, and because our emuNAND is in Japanese, Japanese text will be displayed regardless.
So I decided to make a list of games that display English, Japanese and games that can be set to English with instructions.
Games that work fine and have English by default
Hopefully Gateway releases a method to boot the system menu with a different language else all the games that are entirely in Japanese will all need patches. In the meantime we just have to work with what we got.
~Kaine
This is because the games use the system language, and because our emuNAND is in Japanese, Japanese text will be displayed regardless.
So I decided to make a list of games that display English, Japanese and games that can be set to English with instructions.
Games that work fine and have English by default
- Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
- Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan
- Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl
- Fantasy Life
- Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance
- Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
- Mario Kart 7
- Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
- Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
- Super Mario 3D Land
- Super Smash Bros
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time
- Theatrythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call
- Ace Attorney Trilogy - The title screen has a big button in the middle, tap it to switch between EN/JP.
- Bravely Default - Create a save file, hit start, bottom option, bottom option again, middle option, then select the second option and press B and save to update changes.
- Pokemon OR/AS - Boot the game, then select the second option (英語) to set the game to English. If you have previously created a save file before press Up + B + X at the title screen to delete it so the language selection pops up again. Warning: you will lose all your progress.
- Pokemon X/Y - Boot the game, then select the second option (英語) to set the game to English. If you have previously created a save file before press Up + B + X at the title screen to delete it so the language selection pops up again. Warning: you will lose all your progress.
- Resident Evil Revelations - Create a save file, then select the bottom tab (Options), 4th tab (Language), then toggle English/Japanese with the D-pad.
- Kirby: Triple Deluxe (or not? 1 report from a user that has it running with English text)
- Luigi's Mansion 2
- Mario Tennis Open
- Yoshi's New Island
Hopefully Gateway releases a method to boot the system menu with a different language else all the games that are entirely in Japanese will all need patches. In the meantime we just have to work with what we got.
~Kaine