r/3dshacks

76K archived posts · Apr 2011 – Sep 2026

3DS Hacking and Homebrew

r/3dshacks

3DS Hacking and Homebrew --- This is an unofficial community and not associated with Nintendo Co. Ltd. or its subsidiaries and associates in any way.

Created Feb 11, 2011

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3DS Hacking and Homebrew

This is an unofficial community and not associated with Nintendo Co. Ltd. or its subsidiaries and associates in any way.

Hello and welcome to r/3DShacks!

Rules:

Follow the Reddit Content Policy and reddiquette, which state:

No harassment/bullying
No doxxing/witch hunts
No sexual content involving minors, including animated/simulated content
No piracy or links to pirated content
Don't try to sell or self-promote illicit content or services
Mark NSFW content with the NSFW tag

No tech-support questions.
Illegitimate copies and other copyright violations are not permitted. In particular, this forbids:

Linking to full game data, such as .3ds/CCI and CIA files
Sharing tickets
Sharing encryption keys to copyrighted material
Openly admitting to piracy.
Sharing or naming tools whose primary purpose is piracy.

Posts are to be kept high quality:

No unspecific, noob or support questions; refer questions to Nintendo Homebrew

No ads, deals or sales.

No overused memes.

No bragging about purchases.

No clickbait.

No use of third party link shorteners.

Posts relating to the same general topic have a five day cooldown period. Unimportant new releases have a 48 hour cooldown period.

Do not offer or request hardmods, system transfers or exploit games; please use Nintendo Homebrew or GBAtemp for that.

No redundant, lower quality versions of already existing guides/tutorials

Please report posts that you think break rules. It will help us immensely in dealing with them.

Disclaimer: There is always the potential for an UNRECOVERABLE brick. Everything you do is your own responsibility, neither the subreddit mods/IRC ops, nor the guide makers nor any person helping out on the sub/IRC is responsible for your bricked system.

Full boot9strap CFW Guide – everything you need to know to get a CFW installed on any version

Nintendo Homebrew on Discord

Thanks to u/MachMatic for creating the subreddit banner!

Thanks to u/geo1088 for the Tora theme!

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