You CAN play online after region change!

Yeah it works. eShop? forget it. eShop will NOT work.

 

lmao. Do you really think that your smarter than everyone here? People will not say it wont work, if it will not actually work. You already went into that with being told so. Dont act so surprised when it dont work.

 

This is my first time looking into this and I'm a little confused since I see threads like this: https://gbatemp.net/threads/using-pokemon-bank-with-usum-cia.557259/

where people are using pokebank on CFW. doesn't that require going on to the eshop to get the pokebank and paying for the service? or are they sideloading pokebank and then paying somehow else? Just updated my luma to the latest version and updated the oFW but can't get into the eshop, and I wasn't sure if it was supposed to work or if it was an issue with my NNID since it isn't showing the right region at all. I bought this 3DS pre-hacked and it seems to have weird country selection on the menu. No North American countries, no Asian countries. (korea/japan at least aren't there). Seems to be africa/Europe only selections, but this was originally a Japanese 3DS as far as I know.

Edit: I did grab a pokebank CIA but it wants to update first, but it throws an error whenever it tries to update.

 

Performing a "region changing" normally comes with that kind of "secondary effects" about NNID and eShop usage. It is warned on the respective guide, indeed:
https://3ds.hacks.guide/region-changing.html#required-reading

 

I have a hacked Japanese o3DS and I can play all my games in English or other languages if *.cia file is EUR (Multi). I just use LumaLocaleRegionAutoSetter and LumaLocaleSwitcher. No need to change region. The console main language is still in Japanese and I can't change it, but that doesn't bother me at all, as I have another one with European Region (non-hacked) and I'm used to the menu.

 

off topic but Locales don't work at all for me.

 

I know, I remember your case. I don't know why. It works really well for me.

At least for a console which region was never changed. Probably if you change the region Locales may not work afterwards. I don't know.

 

I had region changed my 3DS, but I undid that with a NAND backup made before I region changed. Apparently I have to turn Locales on, but I don't know how and where I turn them on.

 

You'll probably need to do the following:

1) install LumaLocaleSwitcher
2) boot-up your console while holding SELECT
3) make sure the " enable game patching " option is selected, then just press START to save
4) start LumaLocaleSwitcher, select " Choose Locales Directory " and change the path to the second one down, labeled " /luma/titles/%s/locale.txt " .
5) You can now configure your games' regions and languages matching the region and possible languages of the *.cia file.
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I actually didn't hack this myself. I bought it from a brit here, and I recall him telling me it was originally japanese. I think I've still got the box somewhere and it's got all japanese markings on it. He might have mumbled something to me about the eshop when he sold it to me.

So does that mean if I restore the original region to the 3DS, and have it go back to the original japanese menu, I could connect to the japanese eshop and get pokemon bank that way? but I would have to leave the system menu in Japanese?

"After this process, only New 3DSs which have never accessed the eShop before and all Old 3DSs will be able to access the eShop after creating a new NNID on their new region. Region changed New 3DSs that have already accessed the eShop on their original region cannot create a new NNID and access the eShop on their new region!"

This would seem to apply that any old 3DS will be fine to access the shop, which mine is, it's not a 3DS xl.