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.

Unable to bring up nds-bootstrap menu

UniKlixX

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So I am suddenly having a weird issue with my NDS games that I load with nds-bootstrap using forwarders on my start screen (New 2DS XL with Luma3DS). For some reason I am unable to bring up the menu where I can enable TWL etc. I used to hold Y immediately after loading a forwarded DS game and then the menu would appear. But now it seems impossible and I don’t recall changing anything except replacing my SD with a larger one, moving everything to the new card. Everything else seems to work. Did I miss something maybe?

I am worried something is wrong. Is there a specific timing and is anyone else experiencing this? I want to play DQH Rocket Slime with TWL clock speed

Thanks for reading! :yay3ds:

And in advance for any help!

SOLVED: I have now found the reason that the menu would not appear when holding Y! It was because there was a 3DS cartridge present in the game slot. It is so weird but when I removed it I was once again able to load the menu. I have also tested inserting the cartridge again and then it didn't work once again! So this is the solution: No cartridge must be present for some reason!

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