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.

Metal Max 4 DLC

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Hello, I am trying to install the Metal Max 4 DLC. This the fixed version from Internet Archive, and the hash matches just fine. However whenever I try to install it through Citra I get the following error in the log:

[ 131.621122] Service.AM <Info> core\hle\service\am\am.cpp:Service:

:InstallCIA:422: Installing F:/Metal Max 4 - Gekkou no Diva (Japan) (DLC) Decrypted-FIXED.cia...
[ 131.751797] Service.AM <Error> core\hle\service\am\am.cpp:Service:

:CIAFile::WriteTitleMetadata:164: Could not open output file 'F:\citra-windows-msvc-20240303-0ff3440_nightly\citra-windows-msvc-20240303-0ff3440/user/sdmc/Nintendo 3DS/00000000000000000000000000000000/00000000000000000000000000000000/title/0004008c/000afd00/content/00000000.app' for content 507.
[ 131.751812] Service.AM <Error> core\hle\service\am\am.cpp:Service:

:InstallCIA:461: CIA file installation aborted with error code c8804470
[ 131.751821] Service.AM <Error> core\hle\service\am\am.cpp:Service:

:CIAFile::Close:332: CIAFile closed prematurely, aborting install...
[ 131.751876] Common.Filesystem <Error> common\file_util.cpp:FileUtil:

eleteDir:295: failed F:\citra-windows-msvc-20240303-0ff3440_nightly\citra-windows-msvc-20240303-0ff3440/user/sdmc/Nintendo 3DS/00000000000000000000000000000000/00000000000000000000000000000000/title/0004008c/000afd00/: The directory is not empty.

What is happening? I have tried different downloads of the file as well as the game itself.

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