I’ve never played any of them but that one did catch my eye when it came out. Gonna pick it up!
@“sabertoothalex”#p40342 heck yeah
@“whatsarobot”#p40339 Most excellent suggestion! I am partial to all SegaSaturn-born IPs but I agree this is an excellent game and the best episode to get into the series. It improves on literally everything the first 3DS game did, it has a genuinely good single player mode and proper introduction to the rules of the game, the visuals and Kinu’s art fit the hardware, and it’s translated.
It’s a shame it probably came something like one or two years too late in the hardware’s life. Switch was already a thing and by then, that’s where its potential audience were ready to give weird new experiences like Culdcept a try. I do keep proverbial stock in the IP for the inevitable day Culdcept gets tied to a much bigger game or anime IP and releases on the right platform at the right time and finally takes off.
The prior Culdcept 3DS game would‘ve had a much better chance of blowing up, had it been localised during that early stage of the 3DS’ life where people were desperate for anything to play.
I'd love to be so optimistic about any new Culdcept game but the developer's been MIA for years now and I worry that they may no longer be up to the task for whatever reason. I know certain western rumour-mongers have suggested there's a Switch entry coming but I'll believe it when I see it.
Come to think of it, I wonder how that new Dokapon IP game did...
a new Culdcept on the Switch would be wonderful, and i am now consumed with trying to imagine which unit-moving IP would make the best crossover.
obvious examples would be: Final Fantasy (boring), Dragon Quest (can't deal with Dragon Quest music), Fire Emblem...
it would be fun to see some big Japanese game company buy the rights to Culdcept and jam a bunch of their all-star characters in there. Capcom All-Stars Culdcept Megamix.
Checked the statuds of R3Dragon Virtual Boy emulator for 3ds… Am disappointed to see it basically requires a New 3DS.
…. It should be ironic that the most I've wanted the New 3DS hardware upgrade is for a Virtual Boy emulator that is still in beta. I wish Nintendo had just released some proper Virtual Boy ports to 3ds 
@“whatsarobot”#p40372 Be careful what you wish for, or you may will “Mario Party: Culdcept” in to being
@“copySave”#p39884 This damn post made me spend $40 to re-buy a copy of this game that I lost years ago. It’s definitely not as tight, polished and aesthetically appealing as Fire Emblem, but it is a solid tactics game and probably one of the only examples of a Western developer making a serious effort on the 3DS. Also nice that you can play multiplayer by passing around a single system rather than needing two.
I‘ve been diggin’ deep into the 3DS library lately, and you know what game is really cool?
Labyrinth no Kanata.
It's a shame it never got officially localized, because there's really no other game like it, to my knowledge. For the first half hour or so, it presents itself as a willfully obtuse and old school PC dungeon crawler that is played over a network, so you, the player character, are chatting with three other party members who have connected online.
But then, all of a sudden, a young girl calls out to you, the screen fuzzes away, and you're interacting with said girl, who is herself trapped in a big, 3D dungeon. She is as surprised to see you as you would have been to see her if you hadn't seen literally any of the marketing materials for this game.
It's developed by Tri-Ace, so of course it's not the most intuitive experience and it has its flaws, but it makes really neat use of the hardware, and would have been pretty impressive back in 2012! I've wanted to play it since then, but it's always been kind of pricey to take a gamble on. Luckily there are ways around that now, in 2021. Heh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BicNpZrhqzA
Catching up on all these
@"marlfuchs2"#p35170 people do keep recommending this but it's 40 gol dang dollars and it's really hard to want to spend that on the 3DS right now!
@"dylanfills"#p35108 sadly I can't find this on the eshop, I guess I'd have to pirate.
@"whatsarobot"#p42564 it's pretty sad that on certain nintendo consoles these japanese releases are just going to be more or less gone or inaccessible from a western standpoint. Old genesis or snes games can be emulated, but the DS and 3DS experience is so console-dependent that these things are going to extra fade into obscurity :\
I can hack a 3DS in 13 minutes. All I need is my R4i and a magnet. It used to be my bread n butter. I miss those days. I used to have customers lined out my door when I lived on the east side, I'd make $600 in a day of jailbreaking 30 3DS systems simultaneously/in a row. I was charging the least out of everybody in LA.
@“exodus”#p58314 the saddest part is that (i think) Labyrinth no Kanata was never even available on the eshop!
but, as @"treefroggy"#p58319 says, it's real easy to get a 3DS playin games in other ways. so if you know what you're doing, and you have a 3DS console, there's not much holding you back from playing stuff you might not otherwise have access to!
i agree it's sadly hardware-dependent, though. because once my 3DSs eventually stop functioning, i don't know what i'll do...
3DS Emulation with Citra is pretty wonderful though– with the ability to upscale and use dual screen in tate mode– in the future I could see private servers and various goings-on to emulate the original experience of these games.
PS-- a bonus of jailbreaking your 3DS is it's also a sweet way to play any GBA game you want **natively** in the most epic 3-tier backwards compatibility that was barely ever utilized and hardly ever talked about. I put mother 3 on every 3DS I ever softmodded as part of my softmodding service package, which could be misconstrewn as selling pirated software but is actually *righteous*. They missed out as usual on a major opportunity to sell some games that way.
@“treefroggy”#p58341 hey what‘s wild is i’m actually currently a few hours into a Mother 3 replay, and am playing it on my 3DS. can confirm that this may be the best way to play Mother 3.
I even love the GB border you get on GB and GBC games lol, looks sick in 3D
@“whatsarobot”#p58342 While I have played Mother 3 every which way that is shows on the back of the original box, from DS Lite to AGB-001 and everything in between, I barely touched it on 3DS, but figured the circle pad would be quite comfortable.
@sabertoothalex yes and with some exceptions you may always want to remember the secret, not-telegraphed at all button combo to switch to 1:1 scaling for pixel perfection instead of the often ugly anti aliasing that happens by default on DS backwards compatible gameplay.
@“sabertoothalex”#p58344 The Game Gear VC border is great too! Really makes it a one-of-a-kind emulation experience.
Speaking of which, hopefully the Virtual Boy emulator for 3DS will progress to completion someday.
https://github.com/mrdanielps/r3Ddragon
It was moving slowly but I haven't heard of it since 2017 when the last update was posted.
It seemed like such a no-brainer for Nintendo to make happen. I just want to play Virtual Boy Wario Land and not have to buy the only console I still have yet to buy because it is so expensive!!
That said if anyone here has a busted, fubar, or otherwise SOL virtual boy, I am in the market for such a thing.
@“exodus”#p58314 yeah I was crestfallen when I got my sister‘s old 3DS and couldn’t find it on the shop (even after learning that the game is actually called Rising Board 3D). Just worsens the blow of getting my 3DS stolen from my house a couple years ago.
I saw this thread today and thought it was a pretty solid recommendation list: https://twitter.com/Sonic9jct/status/1493762122060292096
Aside from that, the Etrian Odyssey series is probably my favorite series and they're regularly on sale for ~$10. Also, I heartily recommend getting the Dreamcast theme which makes some cute noises at startup.