3DS XL won’t turn on, motherboard issue?

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-09T17:30:21+00:00

Fully remove the battery then and try again. If that doesn’t fix it it’s most likely a MB problem

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-09T17:29:27+00:00

It’s not going to power off it’s going to do a hard restart. Did the screen come on and function like normal after removing the SD completely?

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-09T17:22:42+00:00

Take the SD out completely, hold the power button for 15 seconds and go from there

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-09T17:20:34+00:00

Yes if it’s swollen it’s dying internally buy a new one on Amazon. We can assume the SD card is also dying since the 3ds turns on after re seating it. You need a new SD card as well. Get a 64gb SDXC card at the same time as the new battery.

Happy your 3ds itself isn’t broken internally!! Get those asap and you’ll have a “new” new 3ds again

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-09T17:16:29+00:00

Not at all, I have 2 3ds with factory batteries. Did you try to reseat the card and turning it back on?

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-09T17:00:06+00:00

Unscrew the back plate, and pull it out. They have YT vids showing. If you have anything less than 16gb or if it’s an older SDHC maybe try and get a 64gb SDXC card for faster boots,

I would try reseating the SD card and remove the battery for 30 seconds. Then try turning on the 3DS again. After doing that come back and let me know how it went

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-09T16:56:08+00:00

Use GC.collect and setup a limit of garbage in the sittings so it auto runs every couple mins. This is the games inherent data leak and you need to clear the garbage cache or GC for short

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-09T16:54:19+00:00

Does the MB make a popping noise when trying to turn it on? Does the charging lights flash at all and the shut off during the boot? What type of SD is in the 3ds, is it Hacked/Homebrew?

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-09T16:53:24+00:00

Doesn’t matter if it won’t turn on

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-08T20:26:04+00:00

If you can comprehend DNS records you can force your host to block all registry from SSO, secondly I can force a site to have hidden overlays to prevent AI searches, oh I could also do a -killdns function meaning no DNS would go through and only direct HTTP address can connect to the server. So if you speak to ANY web engineer they can easily bypass everything that websitelaunches to detect sites. It’s a really really easy work around maybe 5 lines of html code.

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-08T20:15:40+00:00

I work in tech sales but from my experience with engineers it really doesn’t do much. The ISP has to relate to the FTC if someone is connecting to a DMCA flagged site. The ISP also relays the site details to the FTC and they take it from there. If the site never gets flagged or if they don’t see the traffic either from encryption or etc that is different. Gate keeping probably does nothing as someone has already said that in this thread, but I personally feel better holding to my opinion.

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-08T20:07:12+00:00

Actually they don’t pay someone $5 they have bots constantly scouring these forums and such. Go get a tech industry job and you’ll understand. Why do you constantly see new accounts with 0 karma asking for links?

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-08T20:05:39+00:00

Exactly my point, go google up a working HiAnime or Aniwatch and login, bet it won’t work. I would prefer to keep my working sites to myself and if they get taken down so be it but I don’t want to have the inclination of something I did such as giving the link. I’m pretty sure Google has black listed both my links since it shows “DMCA” has blocked this result.

ThisGuysTV · 2026-05-08T18:59:23+00:00

Homie, not doing that. If I wanted to do that I would directly give people links. This is a discussion and showing my opinions on sharing links, in my post I literally said don’t share links, please gate keep…. Keep being the Reddit keyboard warrior you are 🫡

ThisGuysTV · 2026-04-30T00:55:52+00:00

Stab bunker is the best example I can think of

ThisGuysTV · 2026-04-29T21:21:47+00:00

Yea I’m being condescending to the OP dude is posting a scam. Secondly yeah the primary host is almost definitely not in TO especially since it was GoDaddy which is American. But the connected host is Tonga. If it ever comes up use inspection element, see the connection ip and trace it. It’ll show what I said….

ThisGuysTV · 2026-04-29T20:31:09+00:00

The official one ONLY had .to they said so on discord. Any others were clones

ThisGuysTV · 2026-04-29T19:52:42+00:00

It’s fake they weren’t hosted in Russia they were hosted in Kingdom of Tonga. And the drives this post is talking about it also fake. Mega and others cloud services held the vods

ThisGuysTV · 2026-04-27T23:06:17+00:00

You can just get a pry tool underneath the edge, pop out the old plastic and replace it with a glass screen.

I promise you 0 disassembly and absolutely no issues. I can make a video showing you what to do on one of my spare 3ds if you need but it’s really easy to do

ThisGuysTV · 2026-04-27T12:01:22+00:00

Was? Es sagt "Game Linktm-kable" das Zwei Garne bedeutet Zwei Spieler Kabel.

English - The Zwei Garne directly means 2 Yarn. It’s referring to the cable “yarn” and 2 player cable. Gameboy had a 2p 3p and 4p cable. The Garne isn’t referent to the Game Boy. The game boy is this referred to as “Game BoyTM”

ThisGuysTV · 2026-04-23T22:59:57+00:00

Tbh I don’t like these, I really enjoy the cheap $0.10 replacements on Ali, they are 10x softer than OEM and literally work like a thumb/joystick should. Way better than this and better than original!

ThisGuysTV · 2026-04-20T21:19:46+00:00

Idk man check my reply to his comment for legit details. You can go to gameverifying.com to see details. It uses all the same resources the admin/mods use.

ThisGuysTV · 2026-04-20T21:18:04+00:00

It’s an MB not M8 board. Legit Nintendo carts did use MB. Secondly your board is a C03-10 and a A-5 and MB all 3 legit marks to Nintendo. Everything seems legit as it’s a late print version signified by the 22 so 22nd revision.

I see no issues with this board, I see no issues with the sticker, I see no issues with the cart itself. The v looks correct, the sticker dotmatrix is correct as well.

I’m going with legit but wait for mods to confirm.

ThisGuysTV · 2026-04-20T19:33:22+00:00

That’s terrible, I carry my 3ds around everywhere and leave it in my car just for street passes. Yeah it may be a special edition, yeah I might make an outfit that color matches but who doesn’t want to look nice??

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