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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Hacking N3DS hangs on home button press

Thread starter BORTZ
Start date Jul 6, 2021
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BORTZ

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Simple as it sounds. When not on the home menu or trying to leave certain homebrew with any "exit" command hangs my console. I have to do the hard shut down by holding the power button for about 10 seconds until the blue light winks out.

I am on the latest Luma. Any ideas?

Hayato213

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Jul 6, 2021

when it hang, does it exit and go back to the home menu after certain amount of time or does it still hang?

BORTZ

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Hayato213 said:
when it hang, does it exit and go back to the home menu after certain amount of time or does it still hang?

So I haven't really taken much time to check that. I assumed that if my N3DS wasn't doing it in a matter of seconds it was hung.
I think the longest I waited was 30 seconds. I will check again, waiting longer.

EDIT: as far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to exit back to the home menu after a reasonable amount of time.

Last edited by BORTZ, Jul 6, 2021