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Hello my friends, and welcome to this latest episode of 3DSCast. Today, by request, I discuss the sheer joy that are Pokémon ROM hacks. What’s a ROM hack? Basically it’s an edit to an existing game that can lead to an enhanced version of the original game, or a whole new one! They bring me such joy, so I’m hoping that, by sharing this info with you, it’ll bring you joy too! Enjoy!!

• ROM Hacking on Wikipedia

• Rom Patcher JS
• xdelta UI

• Hackdex
• PokeCommunity

• Pokémon VANTA Black
• Origin HeartGold
• Pokémon Unbound
• Pokémon Nova Sun & Umbra Moon
• Pokémon Randolocke
• Soulgold
• The Nuzlomizer
• Pokemon Emerald Rush

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Hello my friends, and welcome to this episode of 3DSCast! Today I interviewed Sif, creator of the GeForce Now client for the “New” 3DS Line (New 3DS, New 3DS XL, New 2DS XL) of handhelds called Kasumi, based on the OpenNOW project! If you’re unaware, GeForce Now allows you to play many of the games you own over the Internet, so you’re basically streaming from another rig to your own. It’s great for folks with older PCs like myself, or laptops that have underpowered GPUs, also like myself.

We talk a lot about the project and how awesome it is, but we also have a ton of tangents (Yo-Kai Watch anyone?). It was such a fun episode to record, and I hope you have as much fun listening to it as we did recording it!

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Hey friends, welcome back to 3DSCast. Today we’re going to talk to Aidan (Instagram, Theme Plaza), an artist and creator who utilizes several tools (linked below) to help people customize their 3DS. One of the 3DS family’s greatest abilities is its customization, and there is a ton one can do to make their 2DS/3DS their own.

We also discover that we’re both kindred spirits in many ways, and as such go on a billion tangents about how much we love the 3DS and are excited and joyful about so much of it. It’s honestly one of my best and most joyful discussions, and I hope you enjoy it!

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Hello my friends, and welcome to this episode of 3DSCast! Today, as requested by Spiritet93 a little while back I talk about my favorite 3DS and 2DS special editions. Now, I did some researched and looked through dozens of entries — why doesn’t Nintendo do this anymore? — and picked about a dozen, which you’ll find below. I encourage you to look through them as you listen to the episode. 

Picture Sources: 

• EMERGENCY! NEW 3DS BUNDLES! – Animal Crossing: Happy-Home Designer N3DS
• Every Nintendo 3DS Variant Ever Released. Probably. – All other images.

Research Sources:

• Every Nintendo 3DS Variant Ever Released. Probably.
• List of Nintendo 3DS LL/XL colors
• List of Nintendo 2DS colors
• The 10 Best Limited Edition 3DS Designs, Ranked

Thank you for listening, and enjoy the show!

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Hello my friends, and welcome to another episode of the show! This time I’m back by myself, with a rant about the recent phenomenon of “LARPing,” as some people call it. These people use the term to put others down, and I’m sick of it, so I’m gonna rant about that, gatekeeping, and those who would rob us of our joy. I hope y’all enjoy it. 

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Hello my friends, and welcome to another episode of 3DSCast! This time we sit down with dwalker109, creator of the amazing game save cloud backup service, Cloudpoint! 

We wax and wane about how amazing the 3DS is, how new dwalker is to the 3DS family, the joy it brings, the challenges in saving its games, and much more. It’s a very fun and, at times, technical discussion, but we love getting in the weeds like that, don’t we?

Thank you so much for listening, and we hope  you enjoy the show. Until next time, happy and joyful gaming, and take care of yourselves and your systems.

• Rust 3DS

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Hello my friends, and welcome to this episode of 3DSCast. In this episode, we sit down with Sorunome, the creator and lead programmer of NetPass! 

If you’re unaware, NetPass allows StreetPass data to be exchanged via the Internet, rather than needing to be physically near another 3DS console, which is how it was originally designed. We take a deep dive into how NetPass works, as well as how it uses existing StreetPass protocols to make it work.

It’s a fascinating and educational discussion, in which I learned a ton, and I hope you do to. Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy the show!

• 3DBrew

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Hello my friends, and welcome to another episode of 3DSCast! In this one, we have our first interview!! I sit down with Luigoalma, the primary mind behind Cleaninty, which you can read about on GitHub or the Hacks Guide Wiki. 

Cleaninty is the software that allows SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) transfers. What this means is if you mod your 3DS, and then change its region, this process allows you to make sure you retain access to your E-Shop account and Nintendo Network ID, or NNID. 

We talk about Cleaninty and a whole mess of other technical amazingness. It’s almost a primer for the hardware and software mess that is the 3DS, and the geniuses that worked their way around those messes to create the homebrew mods we use and love today.

It’s a very deep dive, one I was fascinated to listen to, as I learned so much. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did, and I thank you for listening!

P.S. Apologies for mispronouncing the name of the podcast in the beginning. I’m still new at this. 

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Hello my friends, and welcome to this latest episode of 3DSCast! In this episode, I’ll talk about something a little more serious than usual: mental health, and how I feel the 3DS has helped mine, and hopefully can help yours too. 

This includes talking about:

• The 3DS being a Focused Gaming Device
• The 3DS being a Joyful Device
• The 3DS being a Device with Specific Intention
• How the 3DS Helped Me Replace Doomscrolling

I hope you find this useful, and if possible, maybe pass it on to someone in your life who might need to hear it. Thank you for listening, and I hope you enjoy the show!

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Hello my friends, and welcome to this episode of 3DSCast! In this one, thanks to a user request from SeagullDreams84 over on Reddit, I’m going to give a quick primer into the 3DS and homebrew-focused communities I’ve joined since falling back in love with my 3DS. You can find links to all of these on the Useful Links page, or by clicking below! Enjoy, and I hope to see y’all there!

• /r/3DS – This is the main Discord I hang out in, based on the Reddit subreddit Group.
• Nintendo Homebrew – This is the main Discord if you need help modding your machine. 

• r/3DS – I believe the biggest and most active subreddit dedicated to the 3DS.
• r/3dshomebrew – An active subreddit dedicated to the huge homebrew community on the 3DS.
• r/3DSMods – Help with hardware mods for the 3DS.
• r/3DSforAll – A fun and lively subreddit focusing on the 3DS. 
• r/3dsrepair – Dedicated to help repairing the 3DS family of machines.
• r/Nintendo2ds – A group dedicated primarily to the 2DS subfamily of handhelds. 
• r/Nintendo3DS – The “unofficial” subreddit of the 3DS. Very fun and active.

• GBAtemp – A very fun and lively place where devs post their homebrew apps, folks ask for help and more.

• Nintendo DS 2DS 3DS etc & More! – A private group, but the most active and fun one I’ve yet found on the platform.

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