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nightsintodreams
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| I have a 3DS and can confirm that DS games from all regions are compatible. |
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Rooster_2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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| I have a 3DS and can confirm that DS games from all regions are compatible. |
Original DS games are region-free.
3DS games are not.
A Japanese 3DS will play original DS games regardless of region, but it would be impossible to, say, play a 3DS game from America on a Japanese 3DS.
So...when I bought my 3DS, I essentially made a 19,800 yen commitment to playing only Japanese 3DS games for the foreseeable future (fortunately, I'm okay with that, since I'm studying Japanese and trying to get better as quickly as possible). However, my 3DS still plays my foreign original DS game library (such as the Korean [Asia region, not Japan region] Mabeop Cheonjamun DS) just fine. |
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seklarwia
Joined: 20 Jan 2009
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Location: Monkey onsen, Nagano
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Rooster_2006 wrote: |
| nightsintodreams wrote: |
| I have a 3DS and can confirm that DS games from all regions are compatible. |
Original DS games are region-free.
3DS games are not.
A Japanese 3DS will play original DS games regardless of region, but it would be impossible to, say, play a 3DS game from America on a Japanese 3DS.
So...when I bought my 3DS, I essentially made a 19,800 yen commitment to playing only Japanese 3DS games for the foreseeable future (fortunately, I'm okay with that, since I'm studying Japanese and trying to get better as quickly as possible). However, my 3DS still plays my foreign original DS game library (such as the Korean [Asia region, not Japan region] Mabeop Cheonjamun DS) just fine. |
Thanks for that.
Back when I got my 3DS, nobody could give me a definitive answer yet because although DS games are "region free", even back then there were already some region limitations in place, like how in Pokemon (don't laugh!) you couldn't participate in Japanese gift events unless you had a Japanese version of the game and you couldn't get online gifts from EU events unless you had an EU/US version of the game. |
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Rooster_2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 8:47 am Post subject: |
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| seklarwia wrote: |
| Rooster_2006 wrote: |
| nightsintodreams wrote: |
| I have a 3DS and can confirm that DS games from all regions are compatible. |
Original DS games are region-free.
3DS games are not.
A Japanese 3DS will play original DS games regardless of region, but it would be impossible to, say, play a 3DS game from America on a Japanese 3DS.
So...when I bought my 3DS, I essentially made a 19,800 yen commitment to playing only Japanese 3DS games for the foreseeable future (fortunately, I'm okay with that, since I'm studying Japanese and trying to get better as quickly as possible). However, my 3DS still plays my foreign original DS game library (such as the Korean [Asia region, not Japan region] Mabeop Cheonjamun DS) just fine. |
Thanks for that.
Back when I got my 3DS, nobody could give me a definitive answer yet because although DS games are "region free", even back then there were already some region limitations in place, like how in Pokemon (don't laugh!) you couldn't participate in Japanese gift events unless you had a Japanese version of the game and you couldn't get online gifts from EU events unless you had an EU/US version of the game. |
Don't worry seklarwia, I'm not laughing, actually, just before signing on here, I was planning on creating a Pokemon game to use with my students tomorrow... Still trying to figure out the fine points on how to play it, though. I'm thinking of maybe hiding the "Pokemon" around the room, and students have to find them like Easter eggs, then "catch" them by throwing a "Pokeball" at them (really just a sticky ball in a Pokeball-looking case). Something like that. The students love video game tie-in classroom games... I had enormous success with both the Mario Bros. poster game and the Dragon Quest poster game. |
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Sour Grape
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For billingual games I suggest using the PlayAsia website. I tried playing CODMW2 in Japanese to improve my listening but ended up just following the objective markers 
There are little pockets of expat gamers in Japan. We had a nice Xbox360 group in Fukuoka area but we are now spread all over the world. |
Indeed. Chinese games will work on Japanese 360s, and nearly always have English support, and they are cheaper than Japanese games too. |
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nightsintodreams
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Going off topic, but let me recommend some good games for improving Japanese.
Pokemon- Entirely in hirigana and katakana, plus most sentences are pretty simple.
Dragon Quest 9- All Kanji have furigana, much easier to understand than most other RPGs such as Final Fantasy.
Zelda Phantom Hour Glass/Spirit Tracks- The zelda titles are a Japanese learners dream. By clicking on the kanji you can reveal their yomikatta. |
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Rooster_2006
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| nightsintodreams wrote: |
Going off topic, but let me recommend some good games for improving Japanese.
Pokemon- Entirely in hirigana and katakana, plus most sentences are pretty simple.
Dragon Quest 9- All Kanji have furigana, much easier to understand than most other RPGs such as Final Fantasy.
Zelda Phantom Hour Glass/Spirit Tracks- The zelda titles are a Japanese learners dream. By clicking on the kanji you can reveal their yomikatta. |
Ah yeah, amen to FF being tough to understand.
I seriously don't know how kanji illiterate kids are able to play the FFs. I guess they don't. Which is why Dragon Quest and Pok�mon are so popular with elementary schoolers, but FF is virtually unknown to anyone younger than sixth or seventh grade, or perhaps a really smart fifth grader who reads several years beyond grade level.
I've played hiragana/katakana games for years in an effort to improve my Japanese (Famicom and Game Boy games are great for this, since virtually all of them are pure hiragana/katakana due to hardware limitations). I'm working on ヘラクレスの栄光 right now, which I got from the Nintendo 3DS eShop for 400 yen. I have learned a lot of vocabulary by playing lots games in Japanese, and I'm definitely better off for having played them in Japanese instead of English thanks to the vocabulary I learned from them (in context, at that), but the problem is that ordinary play (battles, the overworld, and dungeons) tend to be highly routinized and I don't encounter much new vocabulary. Once you know the word 戦った （たたかった, attacked） and やっつけた (defeated) and "＿＿＿＿が手に入れた" ("Obtained ____"), there isn't a whole lot of new vocab that pops up in battles.
I'd really love to get into a Japanese MMORPG so I could encounter "real" Japanese (slang, colloquialisms, etc.), freshly and non-repetitively, from the other players. But every time I ask Japanese people which MMORPGs Japanese people play, I hear "Ragnarok Online, Lineage, and Maple Story." In other words, Korean MMOs. I dunno, I guess I'll settle for a Korean MMO on Japanese servers with J-players if I have to, but I'd rather get into something "home-grown." And before anyone mentions FFXIV, I hear it's terrible and that Square offered an apology because it was so bad.
Does anyone know a good Japanese MMORPG? |
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