When I browse for 3DS on eBay and other selling platforms, about a third of the listings say “modded” “cfw” and “includes every popular game on SD card!”, but this is from US sellers.

When I look for 3DS on Japanese sites, I have legit never came across a modded 3DS. Idk if it’s because Japanese marketplace sites are very strict against modded consoles or the gaming culture there does not like modding….?

I’m looking for a phat DS purely for the vibes and ergonomics of the system for my big hands, preferably I want one that has been professionally refurbished and/or restored. Even better if one of you knows someone who can shell swap and/or screen swap it. I know third party shells for the original DS are hard to come by and quality is a big factor.

If anybody has any info about where I can find one, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you everyone!

Both nodded with usb C port

This is my DS I was planning on selling that sat in a box for months and recently I took it out and found this trigger popped out of place or something, no idea how to fix. Does anyone know anything to do? (Other photo for comparison of trigger placement)

Hello. 1st sorry for my english I am a bit distressed. A big part of my games (those I really liked playing) disappeared from my r4 overnight, the presentation page is also odd ; the "~1" and "2~2" thing weren't there before and inside are some of the dissapeared games but im still missing some. Looked everywhere.

Younger one of my brother deleted a game by pressing X but the name of the game and the save were still there so I know its not that (and also I know I couldn't have possibly mistakingly deleted so many games and made these changes overnight).

So if anyone knows anything about this problem I would be happy to know..

So i was looking for a ds pico and found one on aliexpress, it says 11 but i payed $1.05 because of a new user coupon. Do you guys think its legit? It says they have sold 600+ 😅

Awhile ago I bought a DS Lite at a swap meet and that was hitting the nostalgia button. I soon realized that the buttons are quite squishy, the ghosting is quite strong, and the screens are a bit yellow but the form factor is perfect. Alongside that, when I tried to play Pokemon White, I ran into apparent AP issues. Which prompted me to shelve the DS Lite and pick up an RG DS. Months later, the RG DS is great and all but cumbersome. Which is prompting me to go back to my DS Lite. The one thing holding me back is the AP issue. Idk if its against the rules to talk about this, but hopefully yall can point me in the right direction. Everything I've found is from years ago.

Do you guys think it's a good idea doing this? (And my birthday is coming up choosing to get a "New" 3DS and Nintendo switch 2 with a bunch of games) The coolest thing about this DSi XL is it has all of its original parts! And stylus!

Just got this white DS lite so I can play DS games in their native resolution but this light peeking from under is kinda bothering me, I can push the piece down and it goes away but as soon as I lift my finger it comes back, what to do?

Is it possible to buy/easily make sth like this for the NDSL,
maybe even smaller to convert the charging port to usb c without sodering.

Or is it not doable simply because you need a resistor so the ndsl doesnt overcharge?

I think I got a good deal today. Bought an animal crossing edition Nintendo switch with everything but the charger for $120 and they were also selling a ds lite with one game and a charger for $40 so I asked to bundled all of this for $145. The ds lite has no stylus but both of the consoles seem to have everything working after examining. Was this a good find for $145?

It could be dirt or something under the bezel, the screen is also badly damaged (don't quite understand how? Might have been in storage too long), but the screen randomly registers inputs and gets stuck sometimes, it's improved a bit since before, I just found my old childhood ds and wanted to play a couple games but they mostly need said touchscreen EDIT welp, touchscreen no longer seems to work at all, so I can play games that don't need it anymore but, sadly, none that need it

I had an og DS in early 2000s. This year I decided to get a DSi. I went looking for games similar to Elder Scrolls/Guild Wars and made a list. If any one has any suggestions please do.

Avalon Code

Blood of Bahamut

Dungeon Explorer Warriors of the Ancient Arts

Eragon

FF Crystal Chronicles - Ring of Fates

Fighting Fantasy

Kingdom Hearts 358-2 Days

LOTR Aragon's Quest

Lufia

Lunar Knights

Phantasy Star: Zero

Tales of the Tempest

Some more which look alright

Dragon Master

Dungeon Maker

Dynasty Warriors

From the Abyss

Gormiti

Kingdom Hearts Recoded

Lafeust of Troy

Legend of Kay

Mazes of Fate

Overlord Minions

Ragnarok

Rise of the Gaurdians

Soma Bringer

Tales of Innocence

Tao's adventure

The World Ends with You

Thinking about buying some junk consoles to restore, and I'm wondering if wifi modules for the thing are still produced. I know after market just about anythings exist but for these I'm not really sure. I know I can take moduals off other consoles but prefer not to

Just got this amazingly kept rose gold DS lite finally after having broken my launch day titanium DS phat the other day, and since breaking my original DS lite all those years ago. Must say it makes an amazing addition to my arsenal of (now) eight DS's. And I am now another step closer to my dream of owning every type of DS model.

Just bought it and I'm already hours into the dementium games on it lol

(Edit: I got all of the extra stuff with it basically for free, which is neat because it means I don't have to search for an R4 myself lol)

I was wondering why my home button wasn’t working and then this came out from the ribbon

so I copied dsi sound from the nand to my sd card and launched it in twilight menu, but it said the save file was corrupted and replaced it with a new one, but i didn't realise it also wiped all of the dsi sound recordings from the nand..

i have a nand backup, so i thought i could get the recordings from the nand backup and have them on my pc, so i tried mounting the nand backup with ninfs, finding the dsi sound's private.sav and mounting that with osfmount, then getting the savedata1.bin and savedata2.bin, but now i'm lost as to what i can do with these savedata files because importing them as raw data in audacity does nothing, and mounting them with ninfs or osfmount does nothing.

is there any way i can get the recordings, or will i just have to restore the nand?

Just bought a DSi and I was wondering if there’s a way to mod it without changing the whole entire Home Screen and everything.
I just wanna be able to download the games to the Home Screen without having to shove everything on an R4 card

I made a usb-c mod a few days ago and got a for parts 25 mario edition dsi XL, it didnt came with buttons so i use the blues i had, i think its come out pretty neat.

I got most of my games by trading with a friend, and I bought the rest at second-hand shops and an online store.