1 00:00:05,081 --> 00:00:13,595 Hello, my friends, and welcome back to 3DS Cast, the podcast that celebrates the 3DS line of gaming handhelds. 2 00:00:13,595 --> 00:00:15,425 I'm your host, Brian. 3 00:00:15,906 --> 00:00:25,809 And today I want to talk about a topic suggested by Seagull Dreams84 on ~ Reddit. 4 00:00:26,450 --> 00:00:29,911 He asked, or they asked, excuse me, I'm not going to assume. 5 00:00:30,191 --> 00:00:34,503 They'd love an episode that introduces the modding community that I mentioned. 6 00:00:34,541 --> 00:00:35,542 Basically. 7 00:00:35,542 --> 00:00:37,304 That was pretty much a quote. 8 00:00:37,304 --> 00:00:50,365 So since falling back in love with my 3DS several months ago, and I have to apologize, I've noticed as I make these, I swallow a lot and I have to get some water a lot. 9 00:00:50,365 --> 00:00:53,938 That's because I'm not used to talking this much in one go. 10 00:00:53,938 --> 00:01:00,124 So I apologize in advance if I have to pause to swallow or whatever. 11 00:01:00,124 --> 00:01:01,841 ~ 12 00:01:02,425 --> 00:01:07,847 I'm gonna try and get better at that as I as I do this, but this is my first time doing this by myself, so please forgive me. 13 00:01:07,847 --> 00:01:10,138 So I wanna talk first about Discord. 14 00:01:10,138 --> 00:01:11,677 I have joined many Discords. 15 00:01:11,677 --> 00:01:13,510 We're gonna talk about two today. 16 00:01:13,530 --> 00:01:14,820 I've joined a lot of Discords. 17 00:01:14,820 --> 00:01:20,473 The one that I hang out in the most is called slash R slash 3DS. 18 00:01:20,473 --> 00:01:26,896 It's basically a mirror of the 3DS subreddit that we'll talk about in a bit. 19 00:01:26,996 --> 00:01:29,677 I love this server, they're great people. 20 00:01:29,757 --> 00:01:33,280 Very active, very fun, very positive. 21 00:01:33,801 --> 00:01:35,632 They all love the 3DS and the 2DS. 22 00:01:35,632 --> 00:01:37,563 Very positive, very helpful. 23 00:01:37,684 --> 00:01:41,067 And if they can help you, they'll direct you to the next server we're going to talk about. 24 00:01:41,067 --> 00:01:43,477 But it's a very great community. 25 00:01:43,477 --> 00:01:45,394 I just absolutely adore it. 26 00:01:45,394 --> 00:01:50,315 I'm in there all the time, almost as much as the Discord servers that I manage. 27 00:01:50,315 --> 00:01:51,516 I'm in there a lot. 28 00:01:51,516 --> 00:01:57,441 ~ but it's a great server run by great people that I have a lot of fun in. 29 00:01:57,493 --> 00:01:59,814 And you can get a lot of homebrew advice there. 30 00:01:59,814 --> 00:02:06,385 ~ there are some people who are helpers in both the that server and the server I'm about to talk about. 31 00:02:06,385 --> 00:02:12,117 That can be very helpful if you have modding problems or software problems. 32 00:02:12,117 --> 00:02:20,940 It's a great all-around server to hang out with, to celebrate the 3DS, to talk about video games, to talk about Nintendo stuff. 33 00:02:20,940 --> 00:02:22,500 It's a really great server. 34 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:26,591 And again, it's the one I spend the most time in. 35 00:02:26,749 --> 00:02:28,450 I I absolutely love it. 36 00:02:28,450 --> 00:02:32,073 The other server I want to talk about is the is the one I was getting to. 37 00:02:32,073 --> 00:02:34,205 It's called the Nintendo Homebrew Server. 38 00:02:34,205 --> 00:02:37,017 And again, there'll be links to all these in the show notes. 39 00:02:37,117 --> 00:02:47,185 This is an insanely active, busy server where people go to get help with not just their 3DS, but their Wii's, their switches. 40 00:02:47,585 --> 00:02:50,107 It's all Nintendo homebrew stuff. 41 00:02:50,167 --> 00:02:52,609 I basically lurk in this server. 42 00:02:53,089 --> 00:02:55,631 And I watch the 3DS assistance channels. 43 00:02:55,631 --> 00:02:57,071 There are two of them. 44 00:02:57,432 --> 00:03:12,983 And I have great, I have gained more faith in humanity by watching these channels because there are people that come in there with a variety of problems all the time. 45 00:03:12,983 --> 00:03:15,264 Hardware, software, you name it. 46 00:03:15,485 --> 00:03:19,227 There's a separate channel for hardware too, but that's that's another thing. 47 00:03:19,888 --> 00:03:22,429 The people that are helpers. 48 00:03:22,647 --> 00:03:34,080 The experts on that server, they seem to have a never-ending supply of patience for just about anybody who has a problem with their 3DS. 49 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:35,331 It's amazing to watch. 50 00:03:35,331 --> 00:03:45,764 And I have learned so much about how the software and hardware of the 3DS works just by lurking in those channels and watching these helpers help people. 51 00:03:45,964 --> 00:03:48,691 I have learned so much and I want to learn more. 52 00:03:48,691 --> 00:03:49,505 I I've 53 00:03:50,061 --> 00:03:51,262 I feel like I'm a sp. 54 00:03:51,262 --> 00:03:54,112 I don't know if I want to become a helper at some point in the future. 55 00:03:54,112 --> 00:03:59,465 I don't know if I have I have the patience for it, but I just want to learn all the stuff that they know. 56 00:03:59,625 --> 00:04:11,610 And and just watching them help people has been so joyous because they're patient, they're kind, they're helpful, and they know everything. 57 00:04:11,610 --> 00:04:12,290 I don't. 58 00:04:12,290 --> 00:04:16,272 There's so many nooks and crannies to homebrew on the 3DS. 59 00:04:16,272 --> 00:04:18,293 So many nooks and crannies. 60 00:04:18,293 --> 00:04:19,383 And they know. 61 00:04:19,939 --> 00:04:21,450 Just about everything. 62 00:04:21,450 --> 00:04:24,772 It's insane and amazing and wonderful. 63 00:04:25,433 --> 00:04:32,578 And I spend so much time lurking in there, just reading how these people are helped and solutions to these problems. 64 00:04:32,578 --> 00:04:34,138 And I just love it. 65 00:04:34,219 --> 00:04:44,606 I love hanging out there and just read go and just lurking and reading these solutions because it's just I'm, I feel like I'm learning so much, not only about the 3DS itself, 66 00:04:44,606 --> 00:04:46,747 but about the community that surrounds it. 67 00:04:46,908 --> 00:04:49,421 It, it, it does not surprise me at all that. 68 00:04:49,421 --> 00:04:54,084 This beautiful little handheld has such a vibrant and wonderful community. 69 00:04:54,084 --> 00:04:59,861 This is an ex great example of that kind of vibrancy and passion. 70 00:04:59,861 --> 00:05:08,955 I mean, I love the 3DS server too that I just talked about, but this homebrew server is like a prime example of what is keeping this homebrew scene alive. 71 00:05:08,955 --> 00:05:10,516 It's amazing. 72 00:05:10,736 --> 00:05:12,117 It's amazing. 73 00:05:12,117 --> 00:05:17,443 So I could recommend anybody go to these two servers because. 74 00:05:17,443 --> 00:05:19,294 You'll have a good time talking about the 3DS. 75 00:05:19,294 --> 00:05:23,735 And if you have a problem with 3DS, you will get help in one of them, if not both of them. 76 00:05:24,596 --> 00:05:27,057 There are other Discords I'm on. 77 00:05:27,057 --> 00:05:28,798 I'm on the NetPass Discord. 78 00:05:28,798 --> 00:05:30,399 I'm on the Pretendo Discord. 79 00:05:30,399 --> 00:05:36,221 But they're, I'm not going to talk about them today because they're a little more specific to those specific platforms. 80 00:05:36,221 --> 00:05:45,905 I'm doing a little more general overview of the communities I feel you should join if you're going to fall down a 3DS rabbit hole like I have. 81 00:05:46,329 --> 00:05:47,300 So those the two discords. 82 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:49,831 I want to talk about some subreddits now. 83 00:05:49,831 --> 00:05:54,402 And the biggest one I know of is R slash 3DS. 84 00:05:54,402 --> 00:05:55,571 It's 3DS subreddit. 85 00:05:55,571 --> 00:05:59,196 I'm not going to say R slash anything anymore because y'all know what I mean. 86 00:05:59,196 --> 00:06:10,542 The 3DS subreddit is huge and it's busy and it's active and it's well maintained and it's full of all kinds of posts from people seeking help to people showing off their collection 87 00:06:10,542 --> 00:06:15,775 to, you know, people asking questions about, you know, whether I should buy this or yada yada yada. 88 00:06:15,775 --> 00:06:16,535 It's 89 00:06:16,641 --> 00:06:24,625 A very active, busy, and helpful ~ general 3DS community. 90 00:06:24,625 --> 00:06:34,219 There they do talk about some homebrew stuff there and whatnot, but there it's more of a larger ~ not upscale. 91 00:06:34,219 --> 00:06:35,125 What's the word I'm looking at? 92 00:06:35,125 --> 00:06:35,719 Big picture. 93 00:06:35,719 --> 00:06:42,312 It's more of a big picture ~ community that covers like the 3DS as a whole, not just homebrew. 94 00:06:42,312 --> 00:06:43,973 I am going to talk about. 95 00:06:44,227 --> 00:06:47,963 Some specific servers that get a little more into the weeds with that sort of stuff. 96 00:06:47,963 --> 00:06:52,409 But that is probably the biggest general. 97 00:06:54,007 --> 00:06:56,559 Reddit subreddit that you'll find. 98 00:06:56,559 --> 00:07:02,583 There's also Nintendo 3DS, which is another general subreddit about the 3DS. 99 00:07:02,604 --> 00:07:06,947 That one's not as big as 3DS, but very fun, very active. 100 00:07:07,267 --> 00:07:12,521 ~ if you follow multiple 3DS subreddits, you'll see that people repost things all the time. 101 00:07:12,521 --> 00:07:18,866 So you might get some duplication, but it's something you learn to live with if you're a Reddit connoisseur. 102 00:07:18,866 --> 00:07:19,981 ~ 103 00:07:19,981 --> 00:07:22,903 But Nintendo 3DS, this is these are all one words, by the way. 104 00:07:22,903 --> 00:07:28,826 Nintendo 3DS is another great subreddit that's more of a general subreddit. 105 00:07:28,826 --> 00:07:29,637 That's a lot of fun. 106 00:07:29,637 --> 00:07:34,850 There's also a Nintendo 2DS subreddit that focuses on the 2DS and the 2DS XL. 107 00:07:34,850 --> 00:07:41,384 ~ I joined that shortly after getting my own 2DS, and that's been a really fun community. 108 00:07:41,384 --> 00:07:45,716 I've been very jealous about some of the 2DSs people have over there. 109 00:07:45,716 --> 00:07:47,317 Like someone's got that. 110 00:07:47,417 --> 00:07:51,797 Beautiful light blue Pokemon 2DS that I want so badly. 111 00:07:51,797 --> 00:07:55,561 I someone posted it the other day and I was like, ~ I want that. 112 00:07:55,561 --> 00:07:58,912 I already have a 2DS, but you know, I I can covet other 2DSs. 113 00:07:58,912 --> 00:08:00,153 So that's a great community. 114 00:08:00,153 --> 00:08:07,906 But now that I want to talk about some other communities that are a little more focused. 115 00:08:09,047 --> 00:08:14,273 the the the most active, I think, one of the biggest ones is 3DS Homebrew, which 116 00:08:14,273 --> 00:08:15,644 Is exactly what it sounds like. 117 00:08:15,644 --> 00:08:23,247 It's a subreddit dedicated to the massive homebrew community that ~ focuses and surrounds the 3DS. 118 00:08:23,247 --> 00:08:27,445 A lot of more homebrew questions like why isn't Universal Updater working? 119 00:08:27,445 --> 00:08:30,978 You know, how, you know, what's wrong with NetPass today? 120 00:08:30,978 --> 00:08:31,788 Things like that. 121 00:08:31,788 --> 00:08:36,032 I mean, you can go from to more specific places for those answers typically. 122 00:08:36,032 --> 00:08:40,606 But that's a good kind of catch all for homebrew questions. 123 00:08:40,606 --> 00:08:42,197 So 3DS homebrew. 124 00:08:42,741 --> 00:08:48,185 Is an excellent subreddit if you want to get a little more into the weeds about homebrew. 125 00:08:48,466 --> 00:09:03,038 Now, if you want to mod your 3DS via hardware, and there are hardware mods for the 3ds, you can get a USB-C placement for your power ~ power thing, power thing, your power plug. 126 00:09:03,038 --> 00:09:08,312 You can get an inboard capture card, for example, that's also USB-C. 127 00:09:08,312 --> 00:09:11,845 So there are several hardware mods you can do. 128 00:09:12,589 --> 00:09:16,800 And there's also people replacing their like screens and things like that. 129 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,589 So there are mods and repairs you can do. 130 00:09:19,589 --> 00:09:22,012 ~ and we'll talk about that. 131 00:09:22,012 --> 00:09:31,784 So 3DS mods is helpful for the mod side of things when you want to talk about, you know, capture cards and you know, charging port upgrades and things like that. 132 00:09:31,784 --> 00:09:36,336 And that's very useful if you want to see kind of the inner workings of these machines. 133 00:09:36,336 --> 00:09:41,707 Cause my God, some like the the the the the ones that are the clamshell. 134 00:09:41,827 --> 00:09:45,549 They are so intense on the inside. 135 00:09:45,549 --> 00:09:48,020 Like I would never think to repair one myself. 136 00:09:48,881 --> 00:09:50,882 But they're very intense on the inside. 137 00:09:50,882 --> 00:09:56,855 And if I was going to get a USB-C charging port mod or a capture card mod, I would pay someone else to do it. 138 00:09:56,855 --> 00:09:59,046 But these are people trying to do it themselves. 139 00:09:59,827 --> 00:10:08,001 And in that same vein, there's also 3DS repair, which is dedicated to repairing machines in the 3DS line of gaming handhelds. 140 00:10:08,001 --> 00:10:11,737 And that thread that subreddit. 141 00:10:11,737 --> 00:10:16,509 Can break my heart sometimes because I'll see them taken apart and I'll see all these ribbon cables everywhere. 142 00:10:16,509 --> 00:10:17,880 And it's like, my God. 143 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:29,544 But these people are dedicated to fixing these things and making them work again, making them work better, fixing cracked hinges, you know, shells, face plates, things like that. 144 00:10:29,544 --> 00:10:40,841 So that is a great, ~ that is a great subreddit to to visit if you need ~ help repairing your 3DS and you think you can do it yourself. 145 00:10:40,841 --> 00:10:42,362 I know I can't. 146 00:10:42,362 --> 00:10:44,523 But if you can, great. 147 00:10:44,744 --> 00:10:45,134 I forgot. 148 00:10:45,134 --> 00:10:47,605 There's also ~ 3DS for All. 149 00:10:48,306 --> 00:10:51,308 there's also 3DS for All. 150 00:10:51,308 --> 00:10:54,010 It's more of a general community, but it's also fun and lively. 151 00:10:54,010 --> 00:10:57,172 So there are a lot of subreddits dedicated to the 3DS. 152 00:10:57,172 --> 00:11:01,415 There are more out there, but those are the ones I hang out with the most. 153 00:11:01,415 --> 00:11:03,836 Those are the ones I feel are the most important. 154 00:11:03,937 --> 00:11:10,231 Those are the ones I feel that are the biggest places to hang out if you're interested in the hardware. 155 00:11:11,105 --> 00:11:12,465 side of things. 156 00:11:12,566 --> 00:11:13,986 It's fascinating. 157 00:11:14,466 --> 00:11:20,369 It is it is fascinating watching people repair these things, people homebrew these things. 158 00:11:20,369 --> 00:11:26,982 And you really get a sense of the community surrounding this machine by visiting these Discords and these subreddits. 159 00:11:26,982 --> 00:11:39,356 It's another just an just another way to see just how vibrant and wonderful this community is that surrounds this amazing little machine that we all love and cherish. 160 00:11:39,717 --> 00:11:40,557 So 161 00:11:40,651 --> 00:11:42,221 Again, there'll be links for all these. 162 00:11:42,221 --> 00:11:46,373 I know I talk kind of fast, and I know I'm not great with my vowels and whatnot. 163 00:11:46,373 --> 00:11:48,101 So there'll be links to all these again. 164 00:11:48,101 --> 00:11:50,584 I have a couple more to mention before I go. 165 00:11:51,244 --> 00:11:54,725 There's one forum, and I know you're like, forums? 166 00:11:54,725 --> 00:11:55,965 That's for old people. 167 00:11:55,965 --> 00:11:56,566 I know. 168 00:11:56,566 --> 00:11:57,941 I'm old though. 169 00:11:57,941 --> 00:11:59,206 I love forums. 170 00:11:59,206 --> 00:12:01,717 I prefer forums to Discord, to be perfectly honest. 171 00:12:01,717 --> 00:12:03,067 I love forums. 172 00:12:03,087 --> 00:12:08,803 And there's a forum called GPA Temp that covers just about everything, Nintendo, I think. 173 00:12:08,803 --> 00:12:11,555 But they have a dedicated section for the 3DS. 174 00:12:11,555 --> 00:12:21,424 And that's a really fun place to hang out because people talk about their dev projects there, like someone made a music player, someone made a Spotify player, someone made a 175 00:12:21,424 --> 00:12:22,895 YouTube app. 176 00:12:22,895 --> 00:12:25,346 You know, people usually post about it there. 177 00:12:25,407 --> 00:12:27,739 You know, people get help there, people ask questions there. 178 00:12:27,739 --> 00:12:37,747 So that's a really fun and fascinating forum to, you know, get a get a sense of the work people are doing to add things to this machine to make it better. 179 00:12:38,241 --> 00:12:42,082 Because there are so many software product that that should be another topic. 180 00:12:42,082 --> 00:12:48,364 Like some of the apps, the homebrew apps people are making, like I said, music players and YouTube players and all sorts of things. 181 00:12:48,364 --> 00:12:50,524 People talk about it a lot on GPA temp. 182 00:12:50,524 --> 00:12:57,046 ~ they'll mention it on subreddits too, but GPA temp seems like a more centralized place for that sort of thing. 183 00:12:57,046 --> 00:12:59,657 So I don't know how you feel about forums. 184 00:12:59,657 --> 00:13:00,197 I love them. 185 00:13:00,197 --> 00:13:05,548 I've been using them for decades, but you know, if that seems like an old person thing to you, fine, sure, whatever. 186 00:13:06,509 --> 00:13:07,819 I love forums. 187 00:13:08,051 --> 00:13:13,035 And finally, ~ I know a lot of people have various thoughts about Facebook. 188 00:13:13,035 --> 00:13:17,019 I am, sadly, as an old, I am entrenched in Facebook. 189 00:13:17,019 --> 00:13:19,030 I mean, my wife and all her family are on there. 190 00:13:19,030 --> 00:13:21,162 So I'm entrenched in Facebook. 191 00:13:21,162 --> 00:13:25,998 But like any other social network, you have to curate it. 192 00:13:25,998 --> 00:13:27,758 You can't just go to the main thing. 193 00:13:27,758 --> 00:13:31,701 You can't just, you can't just go to the all page of Reddit, for example. 194 00:13:31,701 --> 00:13:32,732 You gotta curate it. 195 00:13:32,732 --> 00:13:35,104 You gotta find people. 196 00:13:35,104 --> 00:13:36,445 You gotta find them. 197 00:13:36,823 --> 00:13:47,656 And so on Facebook, there are some groups dedicated to the 3DS, but the one I have found, I've only found really one Facebook group that I really enjoy and that is really active. 198 00:13:47,916 --> 00:13:52,816 It's got a long name called Nintendo DS, 2DS, 3DS, et cetera, and more. 199 00:13:52,816 --> 00:13:54,077 That's the name. 200 00:13:54,758 --> 00:13:58,779 But it's a private group, so you have to apply to join. 201 00:13:59,319 --> 00:14:01,880 But it's a really fun, active group. 202 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:06,859 People show pictures of their mods, people show pictures of the collections, people show pictures of their machines. 203 00:14:06,859 --> 00:14:09,410 It's a really fun and active group. 204 00:14:09,410 --> 00:14:13,173 And all these groups ~ I should mention are very positive. 205 00:14:13,173 --> 00:14:16,825 There's a lot of love surrounding this machine. 206 00:14:16,825 --> 00:14:17,825 A lot of love. 207 00:14:17,825 --> 00:14:24,079 And you can really see it clearly when you visit these communities and start talking to people and start seeing what they post. 208 00:14:24,079 --> 00:14:27,931 There is so much love surrounding this machine. 209 00:14:27,931 --> 00:14:30,432 And it just it fills me with joy. 210 00:14:30,432 --> 00:14:35,575 Not the mach it's not just the machine that fills me with joy, because it does. 211 00:14:36,405 --> 00:14:41,828 It's the people who make up these communities that also fill me with joy. 212 00:14:41,828 --> 00:14:45,790 And I think it's that kind of joy that'll get us through these dark times we live in. 213 00:14:46,291 --> 00:14:56,496 So if you have any interest in the 3DS at all, if you're new to it, if you just found one, if you just bought one, these are communities worth joining because they will help you get 214 00:14:56,496 --> 00:14:57,127 it modded. 215 00:14:57,127 --> 00:15:04,851 They will help you fix your problems, and they will share their love and joy for this machine. 216 00:15:04,857 --> 00:15:09,141 Because it is an amazing machine, absolutely worth your time. 217 00:15:09,141 --> 00:15:12,283 I've said this before, but the 3DS and the 2DS are amazing. 218 00:15:13,024 --> 00:15:19,489 And you get a sense of just the love and care and passion people have for it in these communities. 219 00:15:19,489 --> 00:15:29,377 So I suggest everyone go to these communities because they are fabulous and wonderful and fun and joyful 99% of the time. 220 00:15:29,377 --> 00:15:34,051 I mean, like any internet place, you know, you get some crap heels here and there, but 221 00:15:34,051 --> 00:15:37,762 For the most part, these are very positive places. 222 00:15:38,342 --> 00:15:39,883 So that's gonna do it for this episode. 223 00:15:39,883 --> 00:15:46,405 I feel like I've given a good broad overview of the communities I visit. 224 00:15:46,405 --> 00:15:51,986 And if you have any that you visit that I missed, please leave a comment. 225 00:15:51,986 --> 00:15:53,526 Please make a comment. 226 00:15:53,807 --> 00:15:54,577 I'll check it out. 227 00:15:54,577 --> 00:15:58,088 And if I like it, I'll add it to the list of links on the website. 228 00:15:58,308 --> 00:15:59,568 Because there are a lot out there. 229 00:15:59,568 --> 00:16:01,139 And I, you know, you miss things. 230 00:16:01,139 --> 00:16:02,093 You don't, you don't 231 00:16:02,093 --> 00:16:03,384 You know, things fall through the cracks. 232 00:16:03,384 --> 00:16:05,375 You don't see everything because you're one person. 233 00:16:05,375 --> 00:16:14,199 So if there's a community you love about the 3DS that I didn't talk about today that you feel I should include, please leave it in the comment on the website or on YouTube or 234 00:16:14,199 --> 00:16:17,350 whatever, and I will add it to the list. 235 00:16:17,350 --> 00:16:19,551 So thank you so much for listening, everyone. 236 00:16:19,551 --> 00:16:21,702 Have a wonderful day. 237 00:16:21,702 --> 00:16:26,764 Find your joy with gaming with the 3DS and take care.