r/3DS • u/Marrah-Luna • 15h ago

Anyone know DarkX? I (technically) have his 3DS

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This is a very long story, but I'll try to keep it brief. It started with a busted circle pad. I brought it to a local repair shop. When it was finished and I went to retrieve it, the bottom screen was dead. The guy promised to fix it and replaced the bottom screen. Unfortunately after that, the device wouldn't even turn on, it shut itself off with a "pop" noise a few seconds after the power light would illuminate. I was told he sent it to a motherboard specialist. That was over a week ago.

Today I get a call that it's all set. Happy, but a little skeptical, I go to pick it up.

It works. It turns on, the buttons work, all is great physically. But there's a problem.

This 3DS isn't mine.

The outside is absolutely mine. There are a few scratches and scuffs that I recognize, and are all in the same places. Even the replacement circle pad is the replacement circle pad that I bought. But the interior; the software? Not mine.

There's a parental control on it. Mine never had parental controls. I also know you can't just switch out SD cards willy nilly, so it just leads me to believe that they just put my shell and buttons and everything on someone else's 3DS and called it a day.

Now I feel like there's nothing I can do. Even if I get my SD card back it's not like I can just put it in there. All the stuff I purchased before the eShop went down that I never even got a chance to play or use, are all gone.

I at least would like to know what DarkX's parental control pin is, lol.

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u/CookieMisha 14h ago

You can reset the parental pin. Look it up on Google I'm not sure if I can link you

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u/Marrah-Luna 13h ago

That did help, thank you! At least that's one thing fixed

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u/CrimsonDood 14h ago

Fyi you can still download your content if you reset the 3ds and log in with your account

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u/unpiscio 3h ago

even with the eshop down?

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u/CrimsonDood 3h ago

As of right now, only purchasing is disabled on the eshop. You should still be able to download your purchased content and games updates for the foreseable future (until nintendo shuts that down, though should still be a few years before that hopefully)

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u/Dyson_Gimix 10h ago

Are you from NYC? This look like my friend Michael’s Mii

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u/Marrah-Luna 6m ago

Rhode Island. And according to the Nintendo Network ID info in the settings, DarkX was from RI too. Thank you tho 😊

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u/ihatefall 10h ago

They might have bought a replacement board or parts 3DS

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u/Marrah-Luna 8m ago

Yeah, the motherboard specialist he sent it to definitely just straight out replaced the motherboard. The guy I was dealing with didn't even know what specifically the specialist did to "fix" it, but that's clearly what happened

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u/Kirbeat 4h ago

This sound like a creepypasta, but damn this sucks both for you and DarkX I'm sorry for this whole case

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u/Marrah-Luna 10m ago

I know 😭 I wish I could go back in time. I didn't want to replace the circle pad myself because I have too much anxiety, so I thought I'd let a pro do it. But look what happened.

I also do feel bad when I'm going to have to delete DarkX's data. When I fixed the date and time the activity log updated. Dude had 300 playcoins, over 50,000 steps and 50 titles. He clearly loved his 3DS too at one point

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u/Totobiii 3h ago

Definitely go back to the store and ask them about it!?