Hurrry! Hurry! Gotta take a picture of the home screen and post it on the internet! Gotta spend $400 on a handheld with no games for the internet likes!
>>731420601I have one of these why is it going up in value?
>>731420601>No games
I just sold mine. Made a pretty penny off of it and the games.
>>731420693easy as shit to hack and can run tons of shit
>>731420849It can run mario 64!!!! MARIO SIXTY FOUR
>>731420601There are almost 900 n3dsxl being sold EVERY MONTH on ebay. If you take in account local sale and other website, there is probably like 2000 3ds that get sold each monthWhat the fuck is going on with this handheld? i don't know anyone who play it and there supposed to be only like 12m xl and 2m n3ds
>>731421168>What the fuck is going on with this handheldzoomer nostalgia hit
3DS is THE place to play Sega SuperScaler and Virtual Boy games.
>>731421224Nobody is playing any games on their 3DS. It's always the home screen.
>>731421213What nostalgia its just the scalping/manchildren problem. In 2019-2020, people were barely buying/selling shit or at normal priceYou gonna tell me within a few month, everything suddenly went x4? it concern EVERYTHING: music, movie, anime, game, video games, books. Everything get sold out asap and resold onlineThe n3ds in europe are still cheap, worst is probably the psp or dslite: those sold much more (80-90m unit) and are sold for like 80e for god sake, meanwhile a mint vita is fucking 110eGod bless the pirate and emulation scene. Imagine having to pay Pokemon XD 250$ to some retard
>>731421386I use mine to play VB Wario Land and Power Drift.
I need to get rid of mine desu.I was gonna hack it but only bought it for zelda so fuck it, will just get rid of it
>>731421386Same case on reddit. I only have the basic screen with a few games. People that have like 60 games loaded up are probably not playing any. I just put like 10 games max ... i saw people complaining about 512gb sd card like what the fuck are you gonna use it for? you don't even play video games other than league more than 5h a week
If you have one collecting dust just sell it now, don’t listen to the coomlectors telling you not to sell.
>>731420601I prefer the DS more
Now now, the DS and 3DS libraries didn't disappear just because your sorry ass can't afford one.
>>731421542They are probably only gonna rise up in price unfortunately: it read natively gba game, it got 3D, can't be emulated, can work with ds games altough in a shittier way ...Especially the new 3ds (2m and 12m for the xl). Rn in europe the price been stable, mostly because people just buy, larp on a 1tb sd card home screen and then sell it lol. But if people started keeping them, your gonna get fuckedThey cost 200e rn, they gonna cost 350e in 10 years easily
>>731421386For me it's all about randomizers.
>>731421386stay mad
>zoomers using old tech as a fashion statement againRemember when zoomers jerked off the ps2?Now they moved on to 3ds
>>731421719There's randomizers for Zelda on 3ds?
>>731421386The last game i played on my 3ds was.I really liked it.but that was last year.
>>731420693The real answer is performative 2000s-2010s gaming/larp is trending on tiktok therefore scalpers are buying them up to sell at extraordinary prices
>>731420601Kill pirat_nigger. Behead pirat_nigger.
>>731421386I agree with your statement however there is validity in posting the home screen. You don't have to list out every single game you have installed and you can also showcase the modifications to it like the theme you chose and the general other homebrew apps you have. Plus if the discussion is about the console over a specific game, it works well as an OP pic as opposed to something focusing on one game, because then the topic might be on that one game instead primarily. Threads have been derailed for less.Also opening a game to showcase your progress is trivial as it is... like cool you showcased that you play the game in some way on a platform where Checkpoint is available.
Citra is $0
I have a blue and black 3ds XL I bought in Italy brand new over a decade ago and it still serves me just fine. The cstick seems fucking pointless on the N3DS. Why would you pay that much? The 3ds XL new literally cost me less.
>>731421903YupOot3D and MM3D can even be randomized from a homebrew app on your 3DS.LBW only has a PC app, so it is a bit more steps to create the randomizer and move it over to console.
>>731421907man I used to hate scalpers but now I've just grown to hate the consumers who keep buying shit from them.
Why did millennials have to rape the secondhand video game market?
>>731421907Some people didn't have the money bro, when you are minor in the 2000s, people don't want to pay you or free labor only lmfao bro thought we could sell lemonade for money. i'm 25 and i was like 20 with barely any money when they started increasing the priceThe real retards are the 33-36 years old milenial that buy at those price, they had no excuse
>>731420601I think people who buy 3ds for that much are fucking retarded but saying that it has no games is probably even more retarded
>>731422632Retards and brainwashed consumerist nintendo npc: niggas pirate everything but pirating an old game or some shitty triple AAA game from steam? god forbid! those guys don't even make any senseAlso lot of people are empty inside so they collect shit, not video games or stuff they like, they collect BOXES and they keep only talking about the PRICE they never play or read the shit
Soulless slop console
>>731420601I unironically wanted to get a 3DS for a bunch of games that I'm interested in in both 3DS's and DS's libraries that really suck when playing on PC, but once I saw the price I changed my mind.
>>731422953Yeah, make sure to send all the dogshit games that everyone even 3ds users were making fun of back then, that will show them
Unless you really need the 3D slider for some reason just buy one of the 2 screen emulation handhelds if you're going to spend $350+, it'll at least emulate other consoles well too. Might as well play some WiiU games too for that much.
It's hilarious how Nintendo releases a traditional update to their console with no new gimmicks, and then the one with a gimmick everyone hated, the 3D screen, becomes popular.
>>731421945It's about marketing.>YOU CAN PLAY ALL THESE GAMES!Why would I want to play the worst pokemon games and those weird jank 64 ports?>UHH UHH SHUT UP PAY $500 FOR DUAL IPS!!!
>>731420601Still have mine, how much os it worth now?
Do you faggots literally just hate everything? How can you enjoy being alive?
>>731423615Who said anything about enjoying being alive? LMFAO
I have a cib 3ds xl snes edition and honestly starting to get tempted to sell the damn thing at these prices.But then again what the fuck am I going to do with that 600 dollars? Buy a single whopping 16gb ddr5 ram stick?
>>731420601I gotta offload my expensive ds pokemon games before zoomers realize that you can play every pokemon game on the 3ds, natively, for free.
>>731423615>enjoy being alivelol
>>731420601Non-tendie here, why are they getting expensive? Don't they make tens of millions of these things?
I have an og, XL, New, Pokeball and Zelda variants. Can I buy a house now?
>>731420601I bought my original 3ds new from target for $140. I was just playing it today. I want a 25 year old to read this and get really angry.
>>731420693Nintendo does gimmicks as anti-piracy with the mentality that it's better to play on their hardware. While it is still easy as fuck to play free games on the 3DS, the hardware is unique if you want the 3D effect.
>Have a New 3DS with a fucked screenI wonder how hard it is to replace them
At least people aren't contributing to shitloads of dangerous plastic waste by doing this. The trend a few years ago was those cheap Chinese handhelds that were fire hazards
>>731424089Bottom or top? top is always a massive pain in the ass getting the ribbon cables through the hinge but other than that it's a simple teardown, pull out old, throw in new, put it back together
>>731420601Bought this edition for like 220 USD on eBay many years ago, box and inserts and all. Slapped on the case and it served well as a dedicated Poke-slop machine. Went XY, ORAS, then SM which at that point I fell off Pokemon and shelves this thing. Brought it back a bit with homebrew if only to play WarioWare Gold and Tomodachi Life before it began collecting dust again. Even if I wanted to play the 3DS again, I have a grey one I use instead because I like the colors on this one.>>731423615I enjoyed it. I love enjoying things. =w=>>731423887Probably. Keep HODLing, fren!
this is just a meme right? I looked on ebay last week and the prices were fine.
>>731424479its a tiktok trend, just sell while its hot
>>731424178thisI felt bad when my brother gave me an n3ds and didn't really have all that much to play on itnow whenever I go on a trip and play some emulators on it I get some good feelings that it didn't go to waste on itespecially ps1 resi games ran suprisingly great and had a good time playing thoseprobably not as good to play on compared to like a steamdeck, but it has actual buttons and can still reasonably fit in my pocket or bag make the most out of your hardware, upgrading with all kinds of new shit isn't worth it unless there's specific games you NEED to play anyway
>>731421386>Nobody is playing any games on their 3DSSpeak for yourself faggot, I played a lot of games on my 3DS. I've played everything on its actual library that I'm interested in at this point but I still use it for DS and GBA. Literally played through DQ4, 5 and 6 on it earlier this year.
>>731424904Show us your app history of 2025Only like 2% of the people posting their "home screen" actually share it, i wonder why? maybe its because they don't play anygame
>>731420601>emulationfaggots in shambles over the inability to emulate the home screen
>>731425021kek
>>731420601What a bunch of morons lmao
>>731420601>$400I recently spent $550 on my favorite model.
>>731420693Limited supply, especially since handhelds were in decline during that era, no console is backwards compatible with 3DS, on top of unique dual screen format
>>731421663>can't be emulatedRetard. The amount of chinkhelds that exist with 2 screens now is insane. You don't even need a second screen to play most games.
Azahar gets better all the time The whole library plus dlc is already out thereSoon we won’t worry about hardware failure and used prices
>>731427074Adding to thisEmulating at 3x resolution already drastically improves the experience, and it’s pretty easy to go above that tooExternal controllers like dualsense already have native mapping and can replicate gyro, leading to a much more comfortable experience The hardware is meaningless
>>731420693The real answer is flipping culture has become the norm.
Bought a brand new N3ds non xl last year for about 900 bucks. No regrets.
>just talked about replacing my old worn out 3ds with a 2ds xl yesterday>hope i could do it for about a hundred bucks>wake up and see this threadguess im stuck emulating still
>>731420693I haven't seen one emulation handheld that recreates the 3d effect.
>>731420693People realizing the chink machines pale in comparison.
>>731423248I liked the Pokemon games and got multiple saves of at least 200+ hours when they first came out. Sure the campaigns weren't to my liking for a majority of them, but postgame battling/dex completion was good. Can't say anything about 64 ports, would rather emulate on my Steam Deck instead or even use an Everdrive for hardware usage. But in general, if you don't like the software you don't like the software. I don't know why you would get pissed off for not liking something no one's forcing you into in that case. To me the software library is a lot like the GameCube where there may not be a ton of heavy hitters, but what does land with me fucking stays.
>>731426416>>731427547ty for your purchase sirs ;)
>>731420693poorfag tendies LARPing as 2010s wealthy now that they can pirate decade old games
I sold my launch 3DS for about $70 back in 2023. Still have my New 3DS XL.
>>731427284the worst scourge of the modern era along with collectors. people post about the used hardware prices being so good in japan when that's just how it was when you were selling old hardware nobody used anymore
OP is seething
>>731421386I just don't get why you need every game in the entire library installed at once. I only have the games I know I'm playing now installed and then when I'm done with them I delete them (and back up save data if necessary)
>>731420783whats this
zoomers being nostalgic for the 3DS or the WiiU is just hilarious
>>731420601cool I'm playing Pokemon black and white 2 right now
>>731420601the library is pretty good (the ds one especially) considering stuff like etrian odyssey, smt, etc. Not worth over like $100-150 though even if you can easily pirate all the games once you have it
>>731428460a good microsd is relatively cheap so you can just throw things on pretty easily
>>731422953Get LM2 off that image
>>731427613in like half a year you'll probably be able to get a chinese imitation at like half the price anyways
>>731420601I wish I still had a 3ds. Me and a friend would record stupid audios on the 3ds and share pictures together. Man this was over ten years ago. I've still got the chip.
>>731424394Nice you got it in stasis early, I didn’t get a case on mine until after it started dissolving in my hands
>>731429328Sure, but what's the point if you aren't playing 98% of those games and they're just sitting on your home menu for months? They're effectively just for decoration
>>731430025Yeah, I just sort of naturally developed a large library from like a humble Nintendo bundle or something and it’s just cumbersome to navigate and use when it’s that big
>>731430025it's a matter of preference, a lot of people like just having the library there instead of needing to manage it with their pc. That's how I handle my stuff nowadays but I can imagine it being annoying with the 3ds's layout unless you organize things into folders super hard
>>731429724I hate how prone to paint peeling the N3DS XL is. In that aspect the regular XL feels like the more premium product. The micro sd card placmeent is as on the new model too.
This thing came off after a few years and I had to play with the hard nub.
Will hacking it increase or decrease its value when selling it?
>>731430025Availability. Most people use hShop/Ghostshop and I'm not sure about you, but I don't know if those will ever go offline or not. Maybe they could since the 3DS is getting more popular and they'll do it what they did when people discovered phone emulation. I'd rather download whatever it is while I still have the option to even if I end up never touching it in 100% of cases.
>>731430214 absolutely, folders are essential if you're gonna hoard ROMs like that. i’ve got mine broken up by genre and region, and even then it's a mess sometimes. the home menu crawl when you’ve got like 300+ titles doesn’t help either. still, booting up and seeing your entire library right there scratches some weird collector itch that i can't explain.
>>731430683get a psp analoge stick and use that instead.its much better than the regular 3ds one.
>>731420601Already got my N3DSXL in 2019Had everything but the box for only $120
>>731420693It supports anything from GBA up to 3DS without emulation if you put Luma and godmode9 on it and since 3ds and nds games require special hardware because of the dual screen combination with the bottom touch screen their entire library is going to be a hassle on hardware that wasn't custom built for it, like tablets or PCs.
>>731430912Too bad I threw my PSP away after its battery fucking exploded.
>>731430498My back cover is ruined because of it.These shit Chinese replacements never fit properly either.
>>731421524How would a 512GB card even make sense on a hacked 3DS? The title limit of that device is 300. You're going to run out of slots for your homescreen before you run out of storage space. I have a 128GB sd card in mine and I already reached the title limit. Even if there were a bunch of 3DS games left that I really wanted to play I'd have to uninstall previous titles first or go through the hassle of setting up and using a profile bank. The Wii U had the same issue with its title limit. Even with every remotely decent Wii U game installed on my HDD with some Wii U and Gamecube games I barely scratch 1tb even though I got a 2tb HDD for good measure. The only Nintendo console where getting the maximum size SD card makes sense is the Switch because it doesn't have a title limit.
>>731431764Not that anon, but Twilight Menu's games don't take up home screen slots
>>731420601Why wouldn't you just buy one of the chink 3DS handhelds at this point? You literally get a better screen, better buttons and it's easier to load emulated games on it.>muh latencyIt's already negligible at best and it literally does not matter for 99% of the games actually worth playing which are all either turn based or slow paced platformers. Unless you're playing the fucking SFIV 3ds port it doesn't affect you.And if it really bothers you that bad, just wait cause the hardware only gets better with each new version.
>he didn't get one while they were currentshiggy diggy
>>731432385the latency is barely noticable even in action based games with ds emulation, 3ds just has a bit to go. Big issue with chinkhelds now is the hinges; I'd say to wait a bit longer since it's a kind of new trend
>>731430756People value the designs a lot so there will always be a buyer regardless.
>>731432040gba, gbc, gb, snes, fc, md and ms games barely take up any space. Most of these if you'd slap their entire library on a 128GB SD card they'd be a rounding error. All NES games excluding homebrew is 237MB, SNES is 1.7GB, GB/GBC is 568MB. Even if you don't use a forwarder to get some of your DS games to the homescreen and reserve those title slots for 3DS games exclusively you're going to sit comfortably with like 256GB. The heaviest thing here would be the entire NDS library at 83.2 GB but even then you have around 170GB left on a 256GB card to reach that 300 title limit with exclusively 3DS games. I have a dedicated emulation handheld that emulates everything up to PS1 (with some NDS games that don't require touch screen controls) and I can't even scratch the 100GB mark on that thing on a curated list. I feel like the only way to go past 256GB is if you are a data hoarder that just doesn't curate their library at all.
>>731431764128gb here, I'm close to the limit but haven't touched it yet, granted that's mainly because I decided to use VC injects instead of open_agb_firm. You can trim a lot of the fat off the home screen by relegating homebrew you don't use often to the homebrew menu and using dedicated emulator titles instead of giving each game its own title.I think 512GB might make sense if you were to have a ton of PS1 roms alongside a bunch of 3/4gb games installed, granted if you wanted to emulated PS1 I would recommend using a Vita instead. If I were to upgrade my size it would probably be 256gb.>>731432385It doesn't matter how good those chinkhelds are if Citra and its successor still have compatibility issues.
I got a capture card modded new 3ds for like $300 locally like 5 years ago and sold it on eBay for $2k. Probably worth way more now. I prefer to keep my animal crossing pop tart version anyway.
>>731420693The young generation is getting back into old tech, and by 'old' they mean shit from the 2000s. I still have my 3DS but I only use it for Ocarina of Time 3D so I might as well sell it.
>>731420601What's the reason to raise the price of this old portable console?
>>731430756Look at the prices of a hacked 3ds compared to a stock one and compare them. If it's hacked you need to copy paste that fact in the description of your item 50 times anywhere you can cause retards online can't read. Nintenkeks are an autistic bunch and omitting that fact is grounds for them to fuck with you by returning it, haggling for a lower price or sicking ebay on you. Literally half the buyers online are already other sellers trying to flip shit at a higher price, the other half are nit picky fags. You need to cover every inch of your ass when selling.
>>731432550I gave mine away, because it was so useless. I had two pokemon games and mh4u. literally no games except visual novels and nintendo core games for babies
>>731433124I honestly don't think the 3DS makes a good emulation machine for what it can emulate. If you want to play retro games you are probably going to get something that does the job much better in a more compact form factor with a better screen at fraction of the price. Unless the 3DS is a device you already have and you like the idea of playing random shit on it from time to time it's okay I guess but it feels distracting to me to just have an entire screen permanently unused on anything that isn't 3DS and NDS. It's like playing Pokemon Red on a 4k monitor with massive black bars on the side.
>>731433128pretty sure you can stream from a N3DS over WiFi dude.
>>731428201It's amazing how old consoles are so salvageable these days that even the market for broken non functioning ones has gone way up because they know you can probably make it work again with some homebrew parts.
How are the Zero escape games?Any good?
Imagine not having owned a 3DS since release
