r/Nintendo2ds

Some time ago, I got a Nintendo 2DS XL with Luma3DS installed from a friend. The program was installed by a relative of his, but the console hasn't properly booted up for several years now.

When I turn it on, the screen lights up a bit (in the sense that it starts working), but seconds after that it gives the error message in the first picture. After looking up the problem online, two possible reasons appeared. One, it might be a problem with the camera, but when I took it to a repair shop, they told me there was no fix, with any more explanations given, from which I understand that it's not a hardware problem.

I'm don't know much about hacks or piracy, but the other reason to this problem that I found online was that it could be due to Luma3DS missing a couple files from the SD card which, in fact, was not even in. So, I firstly checked if it was installed by pressing [Select] while booting, and as shown in the second photo, it was. Then, I got an SD card, formatted it into FAT32 as said in different sources and copied the files boot.3dsx and boot.firm that supposedly were needed for Luma to load properly. Still nothing. Same error.

I've read that the problem might be caused by Luma not being updated, but really, I'd like a specific advice without touching anything that I'm not sure I should.

I just feel like there must be a way to restore it into a working state. This console has an important emotional value for my friend, and, after all this fight of waiting two months for a null professional opinion, I’m genuinely determined to fix it

So, if anyone here could/knew how to help me with this, I would be really thankful.

I know it's the Pokemon blue edition but I can't find much online and I'm curious.

Bought this thing in January this year used. The original owner would get on it once every year to play 5 minutes of Mario Kart 7. All but an hour on MK 7 of play time is mine. In the span of 4 months. It is modded.

2017 is when the OG owner bought it.

I recently bought a refurbished 2DS off ebay. Came in excellent condition with only a faint scratch on one screen & another on the front shell. I thought everything was great after testing buttons & screen, so i put a skin on it & then i realized there’s a rattling noise. I believe it’s the volume dial that is causing this. Is this normal &/or easily fixable? Or should i return it?

One idea ?

Can my 2DS start up without a battery? Just using the AC adapter?

Because, I have tried to remove the battery and put on just with AC adapter, but it doesn't work, she don't boot

It is a issue ? or 2DS does not allow this boot mode ?

Hey, just got this for a damaged blue and black 2ds. Wondering if I should put a new screen in since this one is broken ? (I'll probably use a black and blue 2ds screen, and I just love this color)

So..I made a post yesterday, saying that I accidentally spilled some salty water on that thing. Just got back to it to clean it and it's now like that...what do I do ?

Can anyone help giving me some idea for a 2ds case as u can see in the image (they r from zeblabz) if someone has dimensions or something like that u can dm also I'm not a 3d printerer i want to give this info to the one who is a 3d printerer. Please help guys

So I had this happen a couple days ago after dropping it accidentally and what I did was remove the Wi-Fi chip and put it back in, and it started turning on again just without Wi-Fi which I didn’t think was a big deal. This morning, I tried turning it back on again, and it was stuck on the backlight screen. I did the same thing again and took the Wi-Fi chip out and back in. I removed the SD card multiple times, I formatted the SD card fat 32 with 64 kB cluster sizes and moved all my files back on, and right now it’s still stuck on the backlight screen. My SD card is 64 gb and I know it’s recommended to have 32 or less but it was working just fine for like a week. So is there anything else I can do? Should I order a new Wi-Fi chip?

So my brother got this used 2ds on october 2023, and somewhere in 2024 or probably 2025, it doesnt turn on, you put the charger, doesnt turn on, it just flashes that blue light, help please!

So I had a glass of salty water on my desk, and accidentally spilled some of it on my 2ds... Left it out charging (since I'm using it to charge my new battery) and I came back to this...it wasn't charging, so I took it apart and found this. What do I do in that situation?? EDIT : Don't have IPA sadly...

So, my local game store was normally gonna give me broken consoles pieces, but since I waited for over a month he gave me the 2 DSes in pieces. The white one doesn't work (except for the screen) and the blue one had one piece missing + the R button torn off. Am I lucky orrr...

Found in garage sail 🥹🥹🥹 about to play all rhe 3ds and ds games for pokemon

Tried to open up this 2ds and clean the inside because of how dirty and grimy it was and I broke the connector off this ribbon cable. It won’t turn on because it needs that connection to the main board so unless this can be fixed, I basically bricked my console. And tips or ideas on what to do? Thanks for any advice

Hello, je cherche à pouvoir lire sur ma 2ds une vidéo en format .avi ( le même que les vidéos que je prend avec ma ds) j’aimerais bien comprendre comment, je met le fichier sur ma carte SD, puis ensuite sur mon album photo je copie les fichiers de la carte Sd à la console et ça me dit que les fichiers vidéos ne peuvent pas être copié HELP MEEE
+ j’ai pas de wifi pour télécharger un lecteur de vidéo sur ds
Merciii ( j’ai tester extension .dpg et .avi)

He gave it to me yesterday to fix it for him. Apparently a couple years ago, a younger sister of his absolutely bolted or thrown it onto the ground, causing the frame to form 2 major cracks near the hinge (image 2). My friend claims that the 2DS had its screen freeze more often than each of the previous times he would boot it up over the years, until the screens never activated. Upon taking the console apart myself, I didn’t see any initial problems, as all of the cables weren’t damaged and the battery wasn’t ballooned. I’ve heard multiple apparent fixes for this issue like “Hold the power button for 30 seconds” or “booting into safe mode.” I’ve tried both multiple times to no prevail, so I assume it’s an internal issue.

Next time I take it apart, what should I look for? Should I try re-attaching the ribbon cables? Should I try cleaning anything? Should I tell my friend to take it somewhere professional to get fixed? What should I do? Also: this console is not modded.