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manuel on 28 March 2011

I know that Nintendo says the games are region locked, but has anybody tried playing Japanese games on an American/European 3DS or vice versa? Maybe a gaming blog/site?

I think it was Joystiq who cut off the nob of a 3DS card to fit it into a normal DS, only to discover that it doesn't work. :/

But I haven't heard of anybody actually try to play a game from a different region. I'd like to know what kind of error message is displayed...

BTW: Stupid region lock!



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Chibi.V.29 on 28 March 2011

Cant say iv seen anyone try either :/ though to be honest if they say it has one if probobaly does (i. hate. region. locks.)



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Mr Khan on 28 March 2011

If i were actually going to Japan this semester i would have tried that (USA 3DS displaced, after all)

Stupid, stupid, stupid catastrophe :<

The way Nintendo made it sound was as though it would be "non-optimal" to use one game in the other region, and not like it wouldn't work at all, so i'm also curious



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manuel on 28 March 2011
Mr Khan said:

The way Nintendo made it sound was as though it would be "non-optimal" to use one game in the other region, and not like it wouldn't work at all, so i'm also curious

Yes, I heard that, too, and that's why I'm wondering...



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ZaP~ on 28 March 2011

1up  did a video trying American games on a japanese console, it didn't work.

The video is (1st try to embed ever)

 

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manuel on 28 March 2011

Thanks, ZaP!

That was exactly what I was looking for. And it's quite disappointing, too... :/



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pokeclaudel on 29 March 2011

Yeah but that's a Nintendo 3DS game of course their games are gonna be region locked cause they're the ones trying to enforce it.

 You have to check the third party games to see if they work in it. If they're smart they won't lock their games. I know plenty of people with japanese games for their Ds



Alby_da_Wolf on 30 March 2011

Reviewers should subtract 10/100 from scores for region locked portable titles and 5/100 for home console titles. It's an unjustifiable crippling, totally unuseful, and, worse, damaging for the users, particularly for those of portables.



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FinalEvangelion on 30 March 2011

While I know the purpose of region codes are to keep the distribution chain in tact, they mainly serve to punish honest consumers that are legally buying their product.  This is one of the biggest turn offs of the 3DS.



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Zlejedi on 30 March 2011
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Reviewers should subtract 10/100 from scores for region locked portable titles and 5/100 for home console titles. It's an unjustifiable crippling, totally unuseful, and, worse, damaging for the users, particularly for those of portables.


And damage their relationships with nice corporate people holding the keys to those huge marketing budgets?

Surely you jest? ;)



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