That leaves only one option: desoldering two chips from a US XL and placing them on the board from a Japanese 3DS. With a board preheater and heat gun, [Stephen] was able to desolder the eMMC chip ...

In short, this was the worst possible time for me to decide that I finally wanted to buy a 3DS. Then one day I noticed the average price for a Japanese model was far lower than that of its ...

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With the gaming giant now being a household name, let's hone in on the History of Nintendo to see how it happened.

A notice on the Japanese firm's site says "manufacturing ... It was revamped and relaunched several times - on top of the "XL" models, the "New 3DS" had increased horsepower, while the 2DS dropped ...

Unfortunately, the Circle Pad Pro is hard to find for a reasonable price these days, unless you happen to have a Japanese Nintendo 3DS LL (the XL's name in Japan). Generations wasn't the only ...

Nintendo has announced that it will be ending repairs for the Famicom Classic, Super Famicom Classic, and the New Nintendo 2DS XL in Japan ... in Japan, following the New 3DS and Wii U, when ...

Nintendo, one of the gaming industry's biggest opponents of third-party emulators, is found to be emulating its own classic ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Here's what you need to know Planning a trip to Japan? Here's what you need to know How to plan the ultimate trip to Japan How to plan the ultimate trip to Japan ...

Nintendo Hong Kong has finally announced that it will officially start selling its new 3DS XL handheld console this month, with prices set at HK$1,749. The device, which goes on sale on September ...