As the Nintendo DS and 3DS age into the retro category, keeping cartridges in working condition gets harder and harder.

Dedicated superfans have been keeping the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U servers alive long past their expiration date, but those days are now over. The online servers for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U ...

Nintendo has discontinued its 3DS handheld after about 76 million sales over a nine-and-a-half year period. A notice on the Japanese firm's site says "manufacturing of the Nintendo 3DS family of ...

but the necessary metadata to actually install them as if they were an official game or application downloaded from the Nintendo eShop. Since software installed via CIA appears on the 3DS’s main ...