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I bought a Louvre 3DSXL from the Chinese second-hand market. It can be boot without the "CTR Guide Boot Card".
This 3DSXL have a usable HOME Menu and Louvre Audio Guide in 7 languages.
It looks like a development unit, is it possible to run retail software?

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Sorry to ruin the party but that looks like a regular 3DS XL to me.
The Louvre Guide 3DSes have text on the front and I think are all blue instead of grey.
This just looks like a Chinese person just hacked their old 3DS XL, installed the louvre guide on it and sold it as if it was an actual device used in the Louvre.
Just google Louvre Guide 3DS XL and you will probably see what I mean.
 
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pikpol said:
Sorry to ruin the party but that looks like a regular 3DS XL to me.
The Louvre Guide 3DSes have text on the front and I think are all blue instead of grey.
This just looks like a Chinese person just hacked their old 3DS XL, installed the louvre guide on it and sold it as if it was an actual device used in the Louvre.
Just google Louvre Guide 3DS XL and you will probably see what I mean.
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The blue one you said is Louvre Guide New3DSXL, which was equiped to update the guide console in 2020.
The grey Louvre Guide 3DSXL were used in 2013-2020 and has been abandoned now.

You can find some pictures like this.

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The Louvre Guide New3DSXL you said.
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Your first guess as to why its likely not real. is that you got it from a second hand chinese market. Its too easy to get ahold of the apps. And are you able to find any photos that reference that open back plate i see on that grey console?

Aswell as that. Was that console being sold at a oddly cheap price? Or a stupidly expenive price?
 
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Banana720 said:
The blue one you said is Louvre Guide New3DSXL, which was equiped to update the guide console in 2020.
The grey Louvre Guide 3DSXL were used in 2013-2020 and has been abandoned now.

You can find some pictures like this.

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The Louvre Guide New3DSXL you said.
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I see, still I think it's just a regular hacked 3DS XL though.
Just as Lone Wolf said, why would someone from China have this and sell this?
They have enough parts to just make one that looks the same and then just put the right software on there.

Also the Miiverse logo is there. I would suppose that all those units wouldn't have the firmware with Miiverse.
They were in use from April 2012 and Miiverse released two months after that. So those units were already delivered and in use. They wouldn't connect them to the internet and update each and every unit they had. It just needed to work.
Of course I could be very wrong here, but that's what I think happened.
 
pikpol said:
I see, still I think it's just a regular hacked 3DS XL though.
Just as Lone Wolf said, why would someone from China have this and sell this?
They have enough parts to just make one that looks the same and then just put the right software on there.

Also the Miiverse logo is there. I would suppose that all those units wouldn't have the firmware with Miiverse.
They were in use from April 2012 and Miiverse released two months after that. So those units were already delivered and in use. They wouldn't connect them to the internet and update each and every unit they had. It just needed to work.
Of course I could be very wrong here, but that's what I think happened.
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it is definitely is a Louvre unit, look at the serial only 3ds xl Louvre systems have serials starting with REF, and Im pretty sure nintendo used the og 3ds unit before they deployed the xl units.
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Banana720 said:
I bought a Louvre 3DSXL from the Chinese second-hand market. It can be boot without the "CTR Guide Boot Card".
This 3DSXL have a usable HOME Menu and Louvre Audio Guide in 7 languages.
It looks like a development unit, is it possible to run retail software?

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No it won’t be able to run retail software without hacks I think, alternatively if you want to play retail games you can repack games with dev keys and install them via the devmenu
 
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lasscat said:
it is definitely is a Louvre unit, look at the serial only 3ds xl Louvre systems have serials starting with REF, and Im pretty sure nintendo used the og 3ds unit before they deployed the xl units.
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No it won’t be able to run retail software without hacks I think, alternatively if you want to play retail games you can repack games with dev keys and install them via the devmenu
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So if thath's true then OP got very lucky finding one right? :)
Weird that it ended up in China
 
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pikpol said:
So if thath's true then OP got very lucky finding one right? :)
Weird that it ended up in China
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Don't know if this is the case, or is it just me. But it looks to me that they had most likely hacked it with CFW with dev apps installed to make you think that it was the real thing. Hold down <START> whilst powering on the console to see if you get the Luma3DS CFW settings, if so then its 100% a modded retail system, or they could've modified it to make it not show up.
 
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pikpol said:
So if thath's true then OP got very lucky finding one right? :)
Weird that it ended up in China
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Yeah, i’m receiving my Louvre 3ds tomorrow . Pretty sure its from the same seller. I know it’s definitely not hacked though
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M4x1mumReZ said:
Don't know if this is the case, or is it just me. But it looks to me that they had most likely hacked it with CFW with dev apps installed to make you think that it was the real thing. Hold down <START> whilst powering on the console to see if you get the Luma3DS CFW settings, if so then its 100% a modded retail system, or they could've modified it to make it not show up.
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pretty sure he has the real thing since the serial number starts with REF
 
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lasscat said:
Yeah, i’m receiving my Louvre 3ds tomorrow . Pretty sure its from the same seller. I know it’s definitely not hacked though
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the real thing wouldn’t have a serial starting with REF
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Glad to know that you're not getting ripped off.
 
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M4x1mumReZ said:
I don't know why you would want to anyways since you can install both dev and retail titles on CFW.
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No problem.
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Im unsure how to hack a dev unit, I have another panda but I used ntrboot to just dump the titles
 
lasscat said:
Im unsure how to hack a dev unit, I have another panda but I used ntrboot to just dump the titles
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There is a Panda guide for CFW, but at the moment it is under construction. https://panda.hacks.guide/
It tells you to contact "fox8091" on the Nintendo Homebrew Discord for help with installing CFW on a Panda unit.
 
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M4x1mumReZ said:
There is a Panda guide for CFW, but at the moment it is under construction. https://panda.hacks.guide/
It tells you to contact "fox8091" on the Nintendo Homebrew Discord for help with installing CFW on a Panda unit.
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Do you have discord I have a few more questions but I don’t want to flood this thread
And is there anyway I can private message you instead of replying in this fourm?
 
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