At over two years old, the 3DS has to date avoided the issue of flashcards that was prominent for the DS family of consoles. R4 cards enabled DS owners to download ROMS of games and boot them up from ...

3DS flash card manufacturer Gateway has been accused of allowing users' 3DS consoles to become irretrievably bricked by a secret "kill switch" it introduced in a recent update. Report indicate that ...

Bad news for those that plan on using a flash card with their 3DS-- if Nintendo detects that you've been dabbing with one, the company might send a firmware update that could possibly brick your ...

Users who have attempted to use a specific 3DS flash card device have been left with a permanently broken console. A thread on the gbatemp forum, as spotted by Eurogamer, reports that users of Gateway ...

Nintendo’s new 3DS gaming device has only been available in Japan for a few days and hasn’t even started shipping worldwide as yet. But a few inventive hackers have already been able to modify the ...

We report this slippery slope to bring to light the desire of earnest 3DS fans to play 3DS games region free. In a shocking development, hackers have revealed that they have successfully broken into ...

A new exploit has emerged which allows the Nintendo 3DS to play games from any region without the need for a flashcard or any software-based exploit. RegionThree merely requires an SD card and access ...

A firmware update released last week for Nintendo’s handheld 3DS console has blocked flash carts on the system, according to a forum post on a device manufacturer’s website. In a forum post from ...

Hackers do what Nintendon’t. Nintendo’s region locking policy has been a point of contention among fans for a very long time. Indeed, one of the most baffling decisions the company made was to ...

In an update to its Japanese website, Nintendo detailed the web browser coming to 3DS next week as part of a fairly large firmware update. Unfortunately, the browser will support neither Flash nor ...