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.

Repair/reinstall nds-bootstrap

UniKlixX

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Mar 4, 2022

Hi everyone,

I am having some issues with nds-bootstrap when running my DS-games using forwarders from the home menu. For this reason, I would like to try and repair the installation or reinstall nds-bootstrap. Maybe the nds-forwarder as well. I believe something has gone wrong with a config file or something since I am not able to bring up the Y menu when starting a forwarded nds.

It did not help deleting nds-bootstrap and ntr_forwarder.ini. Also, it did not help deleting what I think is all related nds-bootstrap and forwarder files (including nds-bootstrap and ntr_forwarder.ini) from _nds folder among a few other places and reinstalling. The Y button still doesn't bring up the menu :cry:

Does anyone know of a way to revert nds-bootstrap to when the Y button menu worked? I know the button itself is functional. I have tested it

Thanks in advance

SOLVED: I managed to uninstall nds-bootstrap and the forwarder by deleting the following:

Root:
_nds folder

Inside 3ds folder:
ndsForwarder.3dsx
forwarder (dir)

However, after reinstallation I found out that the issue was related to a cartridge being present in the cartridge slot while loading the forwarders

Last edited by UniKlixX, Mar 5, 2022

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