Sadly, yeah. It is.

Ok ok thanks

I'm worried it could destroy potential MH sessions if it sounds bad

If I were to get, yes

There are only some games I would play in Japanese and MH happens to be one of them

I would still go for English for most games, but region lock sucks

Im sure MH will come to EU and NA
Hopefully, nintendo will remove region lock via firmware update (if thats even possible)

any1 know who or whr can repair/fix 3ds??

abit weird with the standard 3DS controls....need the Circle Pad Pro add-on

and btw, Monster Hunter 3G confirmed for US/Europe release later this year...

I doubt that will happen this year.

Netflix and the Nintendo Video you'll need VPN for that. Eshop however, is as easy as changing the region settings. I thought I told you to change the country what? (If you're using Asian/MY 3DS lah)

just copy all content out (incl games, e-shop stuff etc) to a temporary space on your pc and copy back to the newly formatted SD card, no problem, even with ambassador games. provided same 3DS is involved.

there is a east way to get nintendo zone
just set ur ssid as "attwifi"
and disable encription and ur 3DS will detect nintendo zone available for u to connect and now u have a nintendo zone at ur home

for nintendo video, I know 2 ways to do it:

1. Using a vpn, free US vpn service like TunnelBear works very well, but your computer connected to the vpn need to be an internet server or setup a internet sharing connection, or have a wifi dongle that can do AP (access point). Then connect your 3DS to your wifi that pointed your vpn pc as a gateway. But nintendo video download those 4 video at random times, so im not sure when the 3ds will downloaded their video, or i could be wrong..

2. This maybe hard for a normal user, setup our own dns and webserver, this one is called a dns/web spoffing. It would be too long to explain how to do it but this works very well on my setup, yeah i have my own server run 24 hours in my house. If I have free time, I'm planing to move this to my dedicated server in US, so everyone can do this easily without the trouble headache setting up dns and web server part, just use my dns server ip (replace those google dns u been using 8.8.8.8 with my dns ip, u know google also been blocking and filtering the internet now) then nintendo video will work auto-magically.

I will let you all know when I'm done with this, maybe tonight I have free time.

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Added on March 22, 2012, 2:21 amHey, I have done a working Nintendo Video clone/spoff dns and website server, up and running in my dedicated server, so if you guys want to use this, just set your dns server in your router wifi using my dns server ip which are 184.22.4.38 or/and 184.22.4.37, simple as that!!

However, as per http://gbatemp.net/topic/303158-nintendo-v...erver-spoofing/, I only set this to a US region 3DS machine. I dont have a ASI 3DS machine, but if you set the region as US it should be work, need a tester from you guys. The request from US 3DS set that I have setup is "http://pubus-p.est.c.app.nintendowifi.net/1/49/1/", if your have the knowladge on how or what the 3DS request the web access url, please let me know if it request from different url so I can add it to the list.

The content of 4 videos in my server will syncronize with the official Nintendo Video server everyday at 4.09AM Malaysia time.

If this doesn't work with your 3DS please let me know, along on which region your 3DS machine is and which country you set in it.

The link is just for reference on what is going on in the backgroup or inside the server, to used this just set your dns server ip to my dns server IP in your router/wifi/server/pc, simple as that , then start the Nintendo Video and touch the "connection check", just wait for a while and if you got the "Your connection enviroment allows you to download videos." then its working!

I need someone with ASI or other US set to test it out. I have tested my US 3DS, and working great!!

If someone need an EU set please let me know, I can put it inside the server also.