You have a japanese sysNAND and you was using with USA EmuNAND?

 

I wasn't sure this would be excess information, I supposed I'd better clarify. I have a Japanese Sysnand running A9LH Luma. I actually have two 3DS consoles, a US n3DS and a JP n3DS. I created the Game Sync ID on my US 3DS as I wanted to be able to use the US Pokemon Global Link service / website and I also play on both consoles. If you create a Game Sync ID on a JP 3DS, even if it has region emulation through Luma/NTR, it creates Japanese Game Sync ID, forcing you to create a Japanese account etc.

I was hoping there might be other users with out of region consoles who might have found a way around this problem. I recall some others having some similar issues with Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, though I was able to get around this previously myself by just creating the Game Sync ID on my US 3DS as mentioned.

I suppose using a US 3DS Emunand on my JP console could potentially get around this, though I'm not 100% on the safety and limitations of doing so. AFAIK a main side effect is loss of things like eShop and Miiverse access, though this isn't a huge concern if that would be the only problem and this is my only option.

Would it be possible to safely create a second US Emunand just for this purpose?

 

There are a few reasons I'd like to be able to play on both preferably. A US Emunand could be an option, I kind of edited that in when you posted.

Sorry to ask to be spoon fed, but is it actually as simple as copying/switching the region on my Emunand as a second NAND/boot option? Is there a good resource on doing this? I haven't exactly been "on the scene" since I switched to A9LH and before that time doing something like that was fairly complicated and risky.

Also, thanks for your interest and help already guys. I thought this community would be a the best place to turn to for something like this and it seems that was very much the case

 

The carts aren't region free, actually. They still contain the same game code, but they are locked to the region they are made for.

 

That's enough to region lock the cart, though. If you tried to use the cart on an unmodified system from a region that doesn't match the cart, it will not work.

 

Multiemuformat tool (or something like that) can format multiple emunands on one SD card, the once you have the emunand you can region change it to USA following the region change guide like normal

 

Which again, dosent surprise me.
But IMO, it dosent really matter, considering we can cross region play anyway. Even going into Pokémon GL ranked, you could be linked to someone in Korea or Japan despite your system being from cananda

 

A permaban would've been very unfortunate, yes. I know those were doled out for those who used pirated copies online before the game release. I actually had to do a double take and feared that they had issued an actual ban. I do believe all the Pokemon games are region free though or at least that was the case with X/Y and ORAS, so this scenario can happen with or without CFW/region emulation. Even if the updates are region locked there has not been a title update yet for Sun/Moon.

Hoping that creating a USA emunand will make this a non-issue regardless. I'll report back once I've sorted all that out and I think I've found all the information that I need to make this happen with my setup.

If anyone has already tried using a different region emunand and tested this prior to me completing this please let me know your results. Thanks again for your insight/ideas everyone.

 

While the game itself IS region-free. You still cannot launch a US game in a JP console without using at least HBC.

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No reason to go through all that. Just edit your save file so it's from Japan instead of the US so the contents match.