will my Japanese DSi work with Americas DSi store?
Hope to hear from you soon. Don’t buy a Japanese DSi expecting to use the American DSi Shop! This is one of the most confusing issues around the DSi. When people talk about the system being region-locked, even if they don’t know which aspect their referring to, it’s this one. You can play DS carts from any region, but each region has its own shop. There’s a faint hope that some genius will figure out a homebrew method for accessing cross-region shops, but don’t spend money assuming that will happen. Jamie asks: Does anyone have any idea whether or not a later firmware update will/could tank the current DSi flashcards? I need homebrew for music creation! It would be hard to imagine Nintendo including upgradeable firmware for any other reason! The good news is that the DSi firmware has been updated since the release of the system, and the few DSi flash carts still work just fine. There’s a bit of a Russian roulette element to using your DSi for homebrew — Nintendo could go off at any ti
