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So yesterday I got my LavenderxWhite in from my importer, which is a really awesome color. But I just got it setup with ntrboothax, I didn't do my research unfortunately before buying and didn't realize you couldn't change your language region in the settings without messing with SysNAND.

Luckily I didn't use it much, but from what I gather is that I shouldn't attempt to use the eShop in any way before the conversion because it breaks my access after I convert it to an NA 2DS. I already setup Freeshop and loaded in my backups of my physical games, but a few of them are acting up and giving me errors. I'm assuming it's just because of the region being different from the games.

A few of my backups also weirdly don't display the icon in the main menu when highlighted. The song/jingle plays but the icon doesn't show for a few of them.

Is there anything else I should be aware of before trying this? Anything else to watch out for or prepare, please let me know.
 

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If you won't be using the eShop or any existing NNID (NNIDs being more of a disadvantage on 3DS than any gain), no, there's no loss in region changing

A few of my backups also weirdly don't display the icon in the main menu when highlighted. The song/jingle plays but the icon doesn't show for a few of them.
Region/language specific banners which don't happen to include your current setting, nothing special :)

Some games need region spoofing to run indeed, which is completely different from region free
 
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A few of the backups also give me errors when trying to load them (arm11) and another that I'll verify and upload screenshots of later.

And yeah definitely not linking this one, I just wanted to get a spare 2DSXL in case my main one ever breaks and I liked that color a ton. Awesome then, that's good to know!
 

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There's not much risk doing it in SysNand if you have B9S and are following the guide. I have a white Japanese N3DS that I changed the region on and have had no problems with it (other than the eshop not working because I had used the Japanese eshop already). Just make sure you backup your SysNand before doing the CTRNand transfer.
 

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There's not much risk doing it in SysNand if you have B9S and are following the guide. I have a white Japanese N3DS that I changed the region on and have had no problems with it (other than the eshop not working because I had used the Japanese eshop already). Just make sure you backup your SysNand before doing the CTRNand transfer.

So if I haven't accessed the eshop on the JP console at all or logged into an account with it, I can access it after the region swap? Thanks for the info guys, gonna give it a go tonight.
 

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So if I haven't accessed the eshop on the JP console at all or logged into an account with it, I can access it after the region swap? Thanks for the info guys, gonna give it a go tonight.


That I'm not sure on but remember to backup your sd card contents and sysnand before doing any modifications! https://3ds.guide/region-changing.html


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Just made the conversion! All the game errors I was having prior are gone now, but eShop access isn't there. Getting the 007-2001 error when I try to get into the eShop, but it's not a huge deal this is mainly my backup unit.
 

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Just made the conversion! All the game errors I was having prior are gone now, but eShop access isn't there. Getting the 007-2001 error when I try to get into the eShop, but it's not a huge deal this is mainly my backup unit.
Did you make a NNID for your new region? You also need to change the region in the system settings menu.
 

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I didn't make a NNID, but I can do that. And yeah the guide mentioned changing the region and such after the fact! I'm just glad my backups work and I can understand the main menu haha.
 

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