So after waiting the better part of a month for my mint condition 3DS to arrive from the land of the rising sun, I set out to explore the wide and wonderful world of Nintendo 3DS hacking.

Nintendo is now completely out of parts to repair the majority of the 3DS family of consoles in Japan, giving us a solemn reminder that that glorious previous-gen console era really is over.

For the last five years or so, Nintendo has been selling the 3DS, the latest in a long line of handheld consoles. Around two years ago, Nintendo announced the New Nintendo 3DS, with a faster ...

Nintendo announced that the company has run out of replacement parts in Japan for the Nintendo 2DS [FTR-001] model and the New Nintendo 3DS LL (XL) [RED-001] model handheld systems, and it is no ...

Nintendo has been winding down repairs for some of its older hardware in Japan over the past few years and today the company's customer support in this location has issued an update regarding the ...

Following an announcement last August that it had run out of replacement parts for the New 3DS, Nintendo Japan now says it has run out of parts for the New 3DS XL and the 2DS. As a result, it will no ...

Following the complete discontinuation of Wii U repairs in July 2024, Nintendo is also gradually running out of spare parts for 3DS and 2DS handhelds as it no longer procures new stocks for those.