My 3ds is long past its prime, I know. Booted it up a few days ago because I wanted to poke around and see if I can download a few games before the inevitable. I replaced the Factory SD card(with 2 gb of storage) that came with the 3ds when I bought it with a brand new micro Sd card /w microSd card adapter so I can have more space to download games, but my original 3ds didn't read it. Looked online at their help section and it told me to format the sd card. I did, and attached it back to the 3ds. nothing.
I resolve to delete what paltry games I have to be able to buy Brain Age Concentration Training to round out my 3DS catalogue. It works great for three sessions(today too). I poke around on my 3ds further to see if I can find some other games that I may have not noticed and past me downloaded swap*oodle. I open swap*oodle and go through the tutorial. The shop opens up(Red pen now available! New frames available! get it here at the store for free!) and as I press the purchase button the system errors hard. Black screens and "error: hold power button to shut off." and so on. Confused, I turn off my 3ds and turn it back on. Everything is cheery and stuff again. Relieved, I press the system application and the 3ds blackscreens error pops up once again. This time I freak out and check to see if it does this without going online. I flip the internet switch on the side and voila, the whole thing doesn't blackscreen on me when offline.
I have never used a malicious program on my 3ds for all of it's fun life and hope that this thing that happened at a whim didn't shatter my ability to do anything with it for the rest of it's aging lifecycle. HELP. I tried connecting to my Nintendo account to literally do anything with it but nothing.
Generally speaking, if nintendo support troubleshooting can't resolve an issue, this is usually a reliable indication of hardware failure somewhere, which would require repair or replacement. I don't know if that's the case here, but figured I'd mention it.
Generally speaking, if nintendo support troubleshooting can't resolve an issue, this is usually a reliable indication of hardware failure somewhere, which would require repair or replacement. I don't know if that's the case here, but figured I'd mention it.
I thought it was SD card compatibility too at first but it makes no sense when I placed the original SD it had back into the 3ds. The error only happens after the device connects to the internet, when I have the wireless connection slide turned off nothing happens to my 3ds.
Nope. The wireless connection seems to be needed to verify most, if not all the functions of the 3ds that the operators suggested. I would have to have a deeper knowledge of the system programmings AND be able to access the device from a computer terminal to even remotely understand what the shell happened to it. The operator explained that they no longer have those devices available publicly due to the discontinuance of my specific line of 3ds(I dunno if I should call it the legacy handheld at this point.) I would need time and resources that are not available to me at the time. womp womp.
I could take the time to learn the inner workings of the thing, but that'd take me a year+ to be able to code and stuff. No resources there, no devices I can reach for to even begin and using those devices might even result in a ban I can only shake my fist at. I guess I have to play offline permanently from now on. (┬┬﹏┬┬)
I suspect a hidden overflow integer based on the date that the DLC E-shop of a certain game application could have messed with an internal ping code that pings to say if the internet is connected as soon as a connection checks to see if any games need updates or streetpass is having a cascade error as soon as the wireless switch is flipped. The power to fix this will not come "from a Jedi".
Breakthrough! While having my WS(wireless switch) off I went into the internet settings. I could access the wifi connection screen of both N3ds and the older DS connection setup when prompted to turn on the WS. If I try to search for a wireless point to add a new connection, it shows me a blank screen.
Maybe you've already tried - not mentioned in your previous posts - but since the issue occurred after you installed swap*oodle (swapdoodle?), have you tried deleting that?
@dmcc0 I deleted it, its extra data, and its streetpass data. It is gone from my handheld in all these ways, unless downloading it applied a hidden variable within the wireless connection.
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