Easy Way To Make Your 3DS Region Free
Region lockouts make it so a Japanese 3DS game cannot be played in an American or European handheld. There are various legal reasons why they’re used, but it’s never stated publicly why, and to make things more confusing, they’re only applied about half the time. All the handhelds in the Game Boy line were region free. The DS line has been the opposite. But not anymore! Someone’s discovered a way to make any 3DS game from any country play in an American system, and you don’t need special chips or a soldering iron. 3DS hacker Smea (who has done other things like make a Portal game for the DS from scratch) discovered the exploit and made a video detailing how to pull it off. All you need to take advantage of the flaw is…..Cubic Ninja. Yes, that again. Remember Cubic Ninja, and its firmware-breaking powers that allowed homebrew to be installed on the 3DS? It didn’t take long for Nintendo to sew that loophole up (and remove Cubic Ninja from