You should still be able to get games from the USA eShop on it with a credit card, even living on Netherlands, but it cannot play a game from the EU/PAL region.
The 3DS is region locked. Meaning that a device bought in North America won't play games bought in Europe or accept European currencies and vice versa. You either need to import the games and eShop cards from the US, or get a European 3DS. There's no reset function or anything like that unfortunately.
Guys, yeah...my bad..i should have research a bit before buying the codes..they are scratched...but i just used my credit card and it worked adding funds...
@drexciya If the cards have been scratched then I am afraid you are out of luck on a refund. Best I can think of is see if you can find someone to trade a European code for a NA one but with it being scratched it would be hard to convince someone it wasn't used already.
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This is just one of those regrettable situations where it is made painfully obvious that region locking serves no purpose in this day and age, other than make the consumers' lives a lot more complicated. People travel a lot, from continent to continent and take their systems with them often.
Nintendo should really be embarassed of it, as the only console manufacturer still set on such anachronical practices.
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