Just when you thought the 3DS was dead, Nintendo does the unthinkable and goes and releases a system update for this legendary handheld unit.
Of course, at this point in the system's life, it's all about making it more stable than ever before. There are also some other "minor" adjustments to enhance the user experience. Here are the full patch notes:
Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience.
In all seriousness, production of the 3DS is over - with Nintendo announcing in September that all versions of the system had been officially discontinued.
Have you downloaded this latest firmware update for the 3DS yet? Leave a comment down below.
[source en-americas-support.nintendo.com]
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THE 3DS WILL NEVER DIE
THE 3DS WILL NEVER DIE
Still NO Free Region patch on 3DS ? 😕
Oh, well...
I already have four 3DS XL machines with two 3DS XL USA, one 3DS LL Japan, one 3DS XL PAL.
I can play any region 3DS games now. 😁
THE 3DS WILL NEVER DIE
All this to stop piracy for the dead and canceled system...
THE 3DS WILL NEVER DIE
Stay golden pony boy.
It's sad to think my 3ds may not get any more stable in the future.
Got the update now my new 3ds xl is bricked
I really wish some random 3rd party or indie would still make games for the handheld powerhouse.
I really regret not buying a 2ds or 2ds xl in the summer. I'm still rocking the original black version from 2011 😂
This is how long it takes for true stability to be achieved.
It baffles me that after all this time, they never bothered to remove things like the Miiverse icon and other services that are no longer supported.
What's a 3ds? Is it a fancy name for one of those decks of cards Nintendo started out with in the 1800's?
funny. coincidentally played my new 3DS XL last night...
I guess it will never die 🤷♂️
...When are they going to update the Wii U?
@Joeynator3000
Never
@Juan758 Bricking consoles on purpose, such as what Nintendo does, is a direct act of malice. I have no clue how they get away with it.
C'mon Nintendo more Wii and GameCube ports for the 3DS would be nice.
THE 3DS WILL NEVER DIE
I'm still playing my 3DS. Just in case you were wondering.
Mostly just going back and playing some DS games I missed out on for now, though.
@Juga my sister got the same thing. so far l can't fix the console
@Mountain_Man Yeah. Nintendo don't care about 3DS at all except for blocking exploits.
The last 10 firmwares were only for blocking.
@Juga I can't really do anything because its a black screen full of random codes. It said press any button to shut it off. I did tried your way, but maybe it will work again. Really hope l don't have to reboot over n over to make it work.
My 2ds xl is got a black screen that says AN EXCEPTION OCURRED. What happen?
@agente01 sister got the same. Right now l'm waiting when a YouTube video uploads of how to fix it with the latest update
God dammit! I just hacked the friggin thing!
The REAL reason Nintendo discontinued the 3DS line is due to how overwhelmingly stable they are. You literally can't lift the units after all stability updates are installed.
@premko1 They still sell games at most retailers/online/eShop.
Stability. We've had 86 updates in total since the launch of this overly-stable handheld console.
Just did it now so I could boot up Badge Arcade
3DS: "I AM STABILITY."
finally, a reason to start playing games on my Nintendo 3DS after years of it taking a nap.
hopefully Nintendo will add (new) support for Hulu and Netflix? hopefully other media streaming apps will come to the 3DS. hopefully Nintendo will add more media streaming apps to the Nintendo Switch as well...
Or better yet, Nintendo can release a new version of the Nintendo Switch with a cellular radio in it. another way to make things easier for the Nintendo Switch for when it is on the go.
@premko1 if thats the case then good. Piracy is trash
3Ds will always be an iconic system. It had some great games!
If this is the final final 3DS update wouldn't that include shutting off access to the eshop? I thought a while back they said they were closing that down soon. Unless i heard wrong.
@Zeldafan79 They'll likely just pull the plug on the service rather than update the system. Like the Miiverse.
@MundaneName @Zeldafan79 If the Wii Shop closure is anything to go by, then we may have a number of years left before they shut down the 3DS/WiiU portions of the eShop. But since the current Nintendo accounts' balances are able to be linked to all 3 devices, they may take their time discontinuing them, if at all, depending on how deeply they're integrated at the server level.
I'm still playing Fire Emblem Awakening!
I do without all that new-fangled stability. Might as well run CFW and play my English patched games. Full GBA support is nice too, I’ve ripped all my old carts so it’s cool playing YuGiOh GX Duel Academy on the 3DS.
Even 20years from now we'll be having system updates!
I don't know if I can stand the excitement of updating my 3ds to this version.
@arekdougy I literally just finished FEA on Sunday night! Need to decide which FE to get next but both FEF and FESV are still full priced
Also need a discount on Maj’s Mask - still priced about £40 physical and digital whereas OOT is only £10 currently
@Anti-Matter THAT is a great idea!
@Mr_Persona go to YouTube type in 3ds update 2020
@agente01 go to YouTube type in 3ds update 2020
@BongoBongo123 2ds xl is really worth skipping. i wouldn't recommend it.
The 3DS is now what holds the fabric of space and time together
Nintendo, stop updating it. If you cared about the 3DS, you'd remove the useless miiverse icon at the very least. Stop bricking consoles that people spent their money on just because you're greedy.
I should not have to be afraid of hacking a console that is 10 years old and is no longer supported. What people do with their 10 year old 3DS that they paid you for is absolutely their business.
@stevenw45 They won't. They don't care. They're just bricking hacked consoles. That's all.
@Noid now I have to reflash everything
@premko1
To be quite honest I don't see the point why Nintendo is so fixated with stopping piracy It will never stop I have learned that several years ago People will continue to pirate games as long as It's for non-profit reasons I'm okay with it but if people are pirating games for profit that is a big no to me 😑👎
@jobvd Didn't need to because it was reccomend to me in the morning just now as l woke up! Ty 3ds gods
THE 3DS WILL NEVER DIE
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THE 3DS WILL NEVER DIE
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@redpanda0310 got the right avatar for that
@Mr_Persona yaaay!!!
@JHDK
3DS basically stands for three-dimensional system And it's the first Nintendo handheld gaming device to have a built-in 3D feature without 3D glasses 😉👍
@Joeynator3000
I'm sorry I have to say this but Nintendo completely abandon the Wii U They stopped manufacturing the Wii U and officially stopped supporting it They don't see any reason to keep supporting it since the switch is making the biggest profit of all time 😲
@masterLEON
Actually the reason why Nintendo shut down the Wii online store is because the servers were hosted by game spy and unfortunately the company shut down due to bankruptcy so Nintendo had no choice but to shut down the online service entirely including the DS handheld devices 😢 The Wii U and 3DS handheld devices is hosted by Nintendo for the first time 😉👍
@Mr_Persona Truth
THE 3DS WILL NEVER DIE
I Knew 3DS will live..
When somebody says "full GBA support" and then forgets Mother 3
@Commander91_YT No, the GameSpy shut down affected the online multiplayer (in 2014). The Wii Shop was still running for nearly five years after the GameSpy closure (Nintendo took out the option to add funds in 2018 and completely shut it off in early 2019. You could probably even check the forum here and maybe find locked 2018 posts from people begging others to "gift" them more games once their own accounts had been drained. )
They might've closed the DSi shop somewhere around that time, but that was probably because only DSi consoles, and not earlier DS models, could access it so it was a far more limited potential market. But I'm not certain on that and have a feeling DSi Shop lived a year or two longer.
@Commander91_YT +1 to what @KingMike said. GameSpy was only responsible for Wii online matchmaking.
I still have 3ds it’s brilliant handheld
I still check the 3DS e-shop, almost every week. Sure, most of what's still coming out is low quality shovelware, but it's still interesting to see something new. The last truly noteworthy game was Miles and Kilo in March, although I got a puzzle game recently that despite looking like shovelware, it was surprisingly good.
Well it didn't even take a day before luma3ds released a fix for the update haha
@BongoBongo123 same lol. my 3ds is so beat that the d pad's rubber fell off
Still playing my 3DS's quite a lot (more than 130 hours this year so far). I like to play with the 3D effect on, on my New 3DS XL, while I play Resident Evil Revelations on my normal 3DS XL with a Circle Pad Pro attached (never get tired of Raid mode in that game or Resident Evil The Mercenaries 3D - the gameplay is too good).
Did you know that the Switch version of RE Revelations Raid mode is different to the 3DS version's - you have to hook up residentevil.net to really get anywhere in the Switch version, while the 3DS version is relatively easy compared
Played some Theatrhythm Curtain Call yesterday, on my final batch of characters that I haven't gotten to lvl 99 before. It struck me that I've been playing this game for over 6 years now.
3DS will never die.
@FirLocke Oh, my gosh. I love that game!!! What's your favourite song on it? Mine is "You're Not Alone" and some other ones.
@Absworthy Yoooo! You're Not Alone is soooooo, so good. If I had to pick one song, it would be Sight of Spira/Spira Unplugged from FFX. I love it so much, so chill and yet hopeful. But there are so many others!!
Hey if you want I'll post my friend code, maybe we can have some versus matches!
@Christofu That sounds so dirty.
@Anti-Matter From what I understand, the region lock is baked in quite deep, and is unlikely to be removed with a simple patch. Even consoles with hacked firmware had issues playing out of region for a long time.
@Willsy @premko1 lol nope, it didn't change anything at all, all the exploits that worked on 13 still works. Most likely they decided to fix a final few bugs once and for all.
Well, Nintendo just realised that the 3DS is still better than the Switch, so they decided to improve it.
Long live 3DS
First, Nintendo and now Sony too.
The future is 2D only and that's really sad.
RIP 3DS...RIP PSVR
Thank you Nintendo, finally enough stable for all the horses.
@FirLocke yeah, that'll be epic! I haven't played for a while, but I might try to get back into it. I have Final Fantasy Viii characters as my main ones, like Squall, Rinoa, Seifer and I also have Chaos as my group leader. They're all level 99 with Squall being LV99 2 starred along with Rinoa. Seifer is 99 1 starred. It's such a simple, yet wonderful game!
@premko1 This. It's just a waste of time at this point.
@Jorzha LMAO!
I play my 3DS daily and am enjoying getting second hand 3DS games for it still, not to mention DS games too!! And like everyone else said... THE 3DS WILL NEVER DIE!!!
@BongoBongo123 store.Nintendo.com has great referbished systems. https://store.nintendo.com/nintendo-3ds-2ds/nintendo-3ds-systems.html
I still like my 3DS. Still fun system with fun games.
THE 3DS WILL NEVER DIE!!!
Awesome, just like the Switch I can't get enough of those "system stability" updates!
3DS WILL NEVER DIE!
I hope the 3DS never dies, it's such a great console and I had and still have so much fun with it, however underpowered it might have been
Why is everyone saying "THE 3DS WILL NEVER DIE"
I don't get the reference!
I mean, The 3ds has great games, but I just get hand cramps every time I play.
LONG LIVE THE 3DS!!
@Juan758 Is your system modded?
@Juan758 If you have LUMA https://github.com/LumaTeam/Luma3DS/releases
Extract the .ZIP then extract both the .3dsx and the .firm
Make sure you replace the files on the SD Card
I thought it was weird that when I opened my DS yesterday it told me I needed to do a system update. I think it's interesting that they're still updating their consoles even after they've been discontinued.
@GamerDad66
What do you mean by RIP PS VR? The PSVR is not dying and according to Sony they said More PSVR games are coming next year 2021 😎👍 plus the PSVR is the most used VR headset compared to Oculus or HTC Vive and the most affordable high-end VR headset and the max resolution is 1080p 😎👍 Just make sure when you buy the PSVR the picture should show it has a built in earbuds 😉👍 Which means You have the newer model CUH-ZVR2 😉👍
@KingMike
Well I guess you're right about that I had to dig up more information and apparently GameSpy only hosted the online service but not the Wii shop that alone was hosted by Nintendo's own servers But to be honest I never trusted Nintendo's DRM policy anyway They are far more corrupt than Sony which is why I never bought any digital games from Nintendo I always buy them physically And thank God I never bought any digital games on the Wii my sister did and she 100% regret ever purchasing digital content and she lost complete access to them after the Wii store shutdown The only time I ever buy something digital is strictly for DLC on my Wii U Plus new 3DS XL and switch eShop store physical games I do not trust Nintendo's DRM policy They even shut down the DS store and people lost access to their digital content even Nintendo is already shutting down the 3DS eShop store in certain countries Only some countries like UK and US is still currently active because there is a high amount of people purchasing digital content and games So it's safe to say they won't shut it down anytime soon 😉👍
@masterLEON
I know I had to do some digging asking my Google Assistant and after several hours and days of research GameSpy only hosted the Nintendo Wii online service Not the Wii shop store That alone was only hosted by Nintendo's own server which was running until it was shut down on January 30 2019 😢 But to be honest Nintendo was really late getting into that digital distribution business meanwhile the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 had its own dedicated digital store Which is surprisingly popular after past 10 years that's way longer than Nintendo 😱 But I don't know for how long they will stay active even now I still purchase so much DLC directly on 360 and PS3 to this day because I want to keep those digital stores active as long as they see an income of money coming through they will keep it open 😉👍
I have a limited edition snes 3ds that came with super mario kart
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@Juan758 if you are running luma3ds custom firmware then just update to the latest version and it will be unbricked
@Anti-Matter can we be PALs? 😂
@rambo_ando
I already have 3DS XL PAL version. 😉
Probably has to do with this guys help. https://hackerone.com/mrnbayoh?type=user
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