So I decided to upgrade from a 2DS to a 3DS in preparation for

good investment but it's on 11.1 or something so you can't easily downgrade it to put A9LH and CFW

waste of money

>>29652185
If you've got an N3DS, then the SD card is going to be a bitch to remove.

>>29652185
Jokes on you, I had a 3DS since Launch, and since upgraded to a New 3DS

>>29652185
GOOD SHIT

>>29652185
>buying the tumblr-3ds

>>29652185
New 3ds xl has bigger screens and it looks nicer. In terms of playing pokemon, their function is exactly the same.

>>29652211
>2016
>No screwdriver
Are you physically handicapped?

>>29652185
>Was this a good investment?
Yes and no. Do you like 3D? Because the 3D on the New models is really nice.

But really, Nintendo has not supported the thing as well as they should have. It has maybe 3 exclusives worth playing not counting SNES games.

>>29652185
Only if you lucked out and got an IPS screen

>>29652267
There are SNES games exclusive to the New 3DS? That seems kind of odd.

>>29652207
Shut the hell up.

>>29652185
You did good, OP. Sun and Moon have some frame rate drops in certain areas so buying a N3DS was a good call.

>>29652229
That's not the hard part, cuntstallion.

>>29652341
Then what is?

>2016
>No SD Card Slot in computer

Yes but why did you get that atrocious colour

>>29652185
The new 3DS is generally more portable than any other 2ds. It's also more generally powerful so there's less loading and starting wait on games like Smash.

Nice skin style, and god speed.

>>29652185
Why didn't you get the SuMo 3DS?

>>29652369
Prying that plate the fuck off.

>>29652386
Because god has forsaken us and a wide range of console colours, not to mention ones that aren't exclusive to a certain region or limited edition are a thing of the past.

>>29652227
Get some taste, faggot.

I definitely want your version op. What's holding me back is the fact that even this newest version is not a guarantee of getting stupid ass TN panels, which I'd loathe.

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>>29652227
Nice buzzword

>>29652294
old 3ds isn't powerful enough to emulate snes games

>>29652540
Really? It has little ridges to get your fingers into, doesn't it?
The main problem I had is that the screw started to wear down by the time I was reattaching it.

>>29652611
Huh, that does sound like a bigger problem. Can we at least agree to say that the whole process is unecessarily clusterfucked compared to the old one?

>>29652608
>old 3ds isn't powerful enough to emulate snes games
We've been through this many times, homebrew has had fully compatible SNES emulators on old 3DS for years.

>>29652540
that's not hard you pry it open on the sides next to the screws and just slide it out

>>29652185
bad fw I suppose?

>>29652540
So you are physically and mentally handicapped? It tells you the appropriate way to remove in the manual.

>nintendo will never do their own equivalent of the xbox design lab to allow us to custom make a wide variety of our own 3ds casings with no third-party bullshit

Why?

>>29652660
fuck the manual, they want you to use the stylus to pry the plate off, that is hard af. God gave me fingers for work like that

>>29652639
snes9x and blarg for o3ds are horrendously subpar emulators which cut corners through timing, frameskipping, and sound quality.

if I absolutely need to play snes games on the shitter I'll use my phone.

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>>29652608
I know nothing about game programming at all so apologies in advance if this is a stupid question, but how is it possible that a console that can run full 3D games like Smash and Kid Icarus can't run games from a 16-bit console?

>>29652735
Takes more to emulate.

>>29652185
Speaking as someone who owns three 3DSes, I'd say it's a perfectly fine investment. That said, really the only difference that matters is the bigger screen. Since you got a N3DS, you also get the extra nub thing, but that's irrelevant for pokemon at this point. Having 3D is also irrelevant for basically everything because even though it's an impressive feat of technology, it will barely even exist in SM, it isn't worth using in XY, and you stop noticing the 3D effect after like 5 seconds of using it.

Do the N3DS' buttons, ridges and circle pad leave marks on the top screen like those of the regular 3DS?

>>29652185
Getting an XL is a huge investment if you mostly play at home.

I got one myself and I can not play without the bigger screen anymore, it just makes everything so much more comfortable.

>>29652786
i've had a n3ds since may and no marks so far

>>29652583
13 year old tumblrina detected

>>29652828
N3DS > N3DS XL

>Bigger screen than OG 3DS
>Comfortable one handed egg hatching
>No hand cramps
>Ability to customize
>More portability

>>29652583
just bring a scale and weigh them in the store, the IPS panel weigh 150g more than TN

>>29652735
It comes down to hardware and emulator coding.

Different cpu/gpu architecture. The 3ds's cpu and gpu are specially engineering to executing 3ds games.

When it comes to emulation, all people have done in terms of emulation for the 3ds is port existing emulator which emulate the snes hardware. They're not coded like nintendo's VC which interprets the rom through the cpu and gpu at a lower/dynarec level. It just so happens that the n3ds has just enough power to faithfully emulate snes games at that level.

The best example I can give you is comparing zsnes with bsnes.

Zsnes will run on absolutely almost any toaster because it's coded at such a low level and focuses on hacks for specific games to run as close to how they would have. However it's innaccurate and some cpus may do weird thing when it comes to timing.

Bsnes requires a lot more computing power because it's faithfully emulating how the hardware would have interacting with every single chip in an emulation sense. This leads it to being more faithful and accurate to how snes games would have been played at the cost of needing more power.

>>29652676
That feel
Man, I would love to buy a new system in atomic purple to match my old gbc

>>29652517
The Target nearest to my house were all out of stock.

>>29652975
There is still stock near me
Should I do it? Its expensive as fuck but I got some amiibos that I could use i guess

>>29652185
You pretty much just wasted your money. Game Freak is so incompetent not even the N3DS could save it from FPS drops. No sense in buying a N3DS if it isn't for Monster Hunter or something similar t b h.

>>29652892
This takes me back to those old Yugi oh days...

Im definitely doing this even if I get the strangest looks.

But is it the weight of two screens combined? Because getting just one IPS and one TN sounds just as awful.

>>29653476
>Because getting just one IPS and one TN sounds just as awful.

they... they wouldn't do that would they?

I've only read of a bunch of ppl weighing n3ds xls and the full n3ds (still in the package ofc) with TN panel weighs around 535g, with IPS panel ~700g

>>29652660
The manual and every guide online tells you that the stylus is designed to let you pry open the backplate, but that's fucking bullshit. The stylus does NOT work, the edge is way too short. nails work best

>>29653566

I went flathead screwdriver. Really regret not doing a system transfer between my old and new 3ds's. Sucks going back and forth between systems to play shit.

>>29653616
? why aren't you doing one now

>>29652185
>Nintendo switch about to release
Uhhh

>>29653627

Won't it overwrite everything I put on the new system?

>>29653731
what specifically? you should do basic backups first (savegames for eshop titles etc), but I don't think that's much of an issue

>>29653691
>Switch doesn't play 3DS games
uh

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>>29653691
>Implying the Switch is a successor to the 3DS
>Implying OP is a NEET
We don't have to ask our parents for money, underage : )

>>29652185
>Any differences I should know about?

Yeah on the 3ds you can do 3D

>>29653754

I bought a bunch of games on the New 3ds XL and it has a new Nintendo ID, if I do a system transfer now, won't it overwrite everything that's on it and just put on my games from the old 3ds?

>>29653540
They still do it, the bastards.
I watched a couple of unboxing vids and there were a couple with IPS at the top and TN at the bottom, which is bearable but not the other way around.

>>29652185
I picked the same ds you have in the pic OP, and it's a great system.kinda wish they had the galaxy design all around and not just on the backscreen piece,but oh well.unfortunately mine came with 11.1 so not so easy to hack

>>29653846
well, you can just log back in to your old nnid after system transfer, your hacked 3ds nnid will be stuck on the n3ds though, unless you call nintendo to unlink.

Savegames will be lost unless you back them up beforehand.

Friend Id idk what happens with it, but bought games don't matter, you have freeshop afterwards anyway

>>29652299
There will be the same framedrop on both console stop wishful thinking, the game iis not optimized for the NEW 3DS.

Basically OP, aside from the 3D that the game almost never use, you pretty much lost money.

>>29654070
>what is luma3ds overclocking

>>29653691
This

>>29654070
>not overcocking your hacked 3ds

>>29652611
Are you using a #0 or #00 screwdriver?

>>29652632
>Can we at least agree to say that the whole process is unecessarily clusterfucked compared to the old one?
Yes, if you are retarded.

>>29652686
Fingers work even better than the stylus so no problem there.

>>29654070
I'm just gonna butt in here and say that you're way off the mark on the 3D comment. Yeah, pokemon might not use it much, but damn if the rest of the games library doesn't use it to excellent effect most of the time, and the super stable face-tracking 3D is fucking amazing. With an original 3DS I couldn't turn 3D on more than a bit without causing fragmentation and severe headaches. With the new version, I crank it to max and leave it there. Bravely Default/Second look fucking gorgeous in 3D, KH3D is even more astounding, the Zelda remakes look phenomenal, DQ7 really benefits from the added depth, and that's just the ones I've played that I can think of offhand. There are tons of games for the 3DS that will look just as awesome with stable 3D, so yeah, the old version sucked for that, but the new version blows it out of the water. Even if it doesn't work with Sun and Moon, they are *far* from the only games on the system. A wise investment.

>>29654635
>tfw the old 3d works just fine for my eyes
>tfw some games are really great with 3d on
Life is good.

>>29652916
Ah yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for the detailed reply dude, I know fuck all about programming but I always find this shit interesting.

>>29652185
For Sun & Moon? No. Not even a little.
It has no 3D or amiibo functionality. You basically bought a shinier version of the same device.

But if you're looking into other games, yes.

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>>29652540
Unscrew both screws and stop when you hear them click, then insert the flat part of the stylus into the the hole and pull back gently until they open.

Or you can just cut off the two screws so all you have to do is just pull off the backplate. Same shit, really.