 So, if you haven't heard, the 3DS servers have just shut down. This means no more online play, no more downloading updates, and most importantly, no more Dragon Quest DLC. You see, the 3DS has two mainline Dragon Quest games, DQ7 and DQ8, and what you might not know is that they both had DLC. Dragon Quest 7 had these DLC tablets that you could download from Nintendo servers, they had lots of additional content including new areas with exclusive monsters, rewards, and even some special story chapters, while Dragon Quest 8 had various weapons, armor, and accessories that would give players a huge boost, including the Sword of Erdrick. Now, because the servers are shut down, this makes getting the DLC kind of difficult, especially if you want to have the complete experience for these games. So that's why I'm going to show you, right now, how to access the DLC for Dragon Quest 7 and Dragon Quest 8. Now, first things first, you're going to have to have a hack 3DS to do any of this. Now that I know, some of you don't want to do that, I've heard it many times, I don't want to hack my 3DS. Look just hack it, there is no reason not to hack your 3DS right now. You are missing out on so much functionality just using a stock firmware, plus what are they going to do? Ban you from the non-existent servers that they just shut down? If anything, this is a very good reason to hack your 3DS because otherwise there's so little you can do with the console. So with that said, I'm not going to show you how to hack your 3DS because it'll take too long and it's really easy. If your 3DS isn't already hacked, just go to this website right here, 3ds.hacks.guide and follow the instructions. It's idiot proof, anyone can do this, just trust me. So follow the instructions and when you get to this point where you have an app called Luma and an app called FBI loaded on your console, then you can come back to this point and we can begin. So first things first, I'm going to show you how to get DQ8's DLC first because it's a lot easier. And this part is easy because with DQ8 you only have the DLC items to deal with. So it's just a matter of using a cheat code with Luma to cheat the items into your inventory. I know it doesn't sound ideal but this is the only way to do this and it's super easy. So it's probably best to do this on a brand new save because the cheat code in question will overwrite the first 29 items in your bag with the DLC items. And this might be harder to do if you already have a game going. So use this cheat code with caution. So everything you need is going to be found here in my google drive. I have a DQ8 folder and a DQ7 folder. In the DQ8 folder I've not only included the cheat codes but I also included various optional mods to enhance the game. You're welcome. So I've got various patches here for you to apply using Laird FS if you choose to do so. These are completely optional. I'm including an orchestral patch that replaces the game's shitty MIDI soundtrack with a symphonic suite. And of course we also have the uncensorship patch to restore the game's outfits. Because as we all know, gazing upon Jessica Albert's thighs is an essential part of the Dragon Quest 8 experience and I'm not about to dishonor the memory of Akira Toriyama by playing a butchered version of his game. I'll include a tutorial on how to use these patches in the description because that's not what we're here for today. We're here for the DLC and you're going to want to use this text file right here for that. This file has the cheat code that you will be using. In order to activate the cheat you have to go to the 3DSSD card root, click on Luma, then title, then depending on your version of Dragon Quest 8 you will make a folder here with a specific name. If your copy of DQ8 is a North American copy the folder will be called this, a whole bunch of numbers. If it's a PAL European copy it will be this. They're very similar looking so make sure you choose the right name. This is very important. You then drop the cheat code text file into your folder. Then it's a matter of inserting the SD card back into your 3DS and booting up the game and starting a new save file. Now you need to at least get to Fairbury to activate the cheat, that's the first town in the game. You can't do it here in this intro tutorial section. If you do it here you will crash the game, trust me I've done it. Get through this quick section and when you arrive in Fairbury you're going to hit these buttons. Left shoulder button, down on the d-pad and select. You click all three of these, then you get into this little homebrew menu. Then you simply go down to cheats and here you activate the cheat to give you your items. And if you check your bag you will see that all the DLC items are here. Now it's safe to go back into the cheat menu and turn off the cheat code so it doesn't overwrite anything else. And that's it, the items should all be here and in your inventory. There's a lot of great weapons here to use, you can use Erdrick's sword which is awesome and I'm sure most people wouldn't want to miss out on this. And that's how you get DQ-8's DLC, very simple right? Well unfortunately DQ-7 is not as simple. So with DQ-7 you've got these DLC tablets with unique areas to explore and actual story chapters so it's a bit more important. And what sucks is there's no way to spoof the tablets into your game. They have to be downloaded from Nintendo's servers. There's no way to hack the game to unlock them and what really sucks is that you have a limited number of tablets you can carry so you can't even have one save with all of them. Of course there are some efforts to make fan servers for 3DS games which seems promising but at the moment they aren't very stable and they haven't added support for DQ-7 yet. So I decided that the best way to preserve this DLC is to run a clean save file with Ostr and Marible as low a level as possible with no chest or barrels open at all to make several save files that people will then use to experience the DLC. And this is where the app called Checkpoint will come into play. So first you need to install Checkpoint onto your 3DS. To do this you download Checkpoint.CIA from the Google Drive. Drop it anywhere on your 3DS SD card. I prefer to have a dedicated CIA folder but it's completely up to you. Boot up FBI, navigate to where you put the Checkpoint CIA, select it and choose Install and Delete. It'll take a little bit of time to install so just wait. And when it's installed we're ready to work on DQ-7. So what you have to do first is play Dragon Quest 7 and save in the game. Very self-explanatory. This will create the folder that we will need to use. You will then go into my Google Drive's DQ-7 folder and here you have different save files to choose from. These are named after the people I had helped me with this project. Danny Fofani from North America and Grania from Ireland who both play through the entire game per my instructions based on a guide by Ignacia to create a clean save file for players to use where Oster and Maribel are both level one so you can enjoy the game from the start. Grania even made an interesting video detailing what the process was like which I think you should definitely check out later on. I'll link it down in the description. Now it doesn't matter if you have an NTSC copy or PAL copy of the game, they are both interchangeable so it's only a matter of reading the readme's, seeing the differences and deciding which one you want to use. Sadly the saves won't work on a Japanese copy of the game. Ironically only the western versions of the game were preserved for a game series that is much bigger in Japan than it is here. Which is really unfortunate but what are you going to do? There is not a lot of time to get this done. So you go into one of the folders and find two save folders to choose from. There's one for when you just get to the haven and one for the exclusive post game DLC. Because we couldn't possibly put them all in one file, these saves each have the DLC spread across three different save files which is unfortunate but it's better than nothing. You can still enjoy the DLC. So you select these two folders, copy them, then you go to the 3DS SD card route. Go into the 3DS folder, then go into the checkpoint folder, then you go into the save folder and here you navigate to the folder for Dragon Quest 7. And here is where you paste the two folders you copied. And that's it for this step. Now insert the SD card into your 3DS, boot it up, open up the checkpoint app, let all your games load up, navigate to the Dragon Quest 7 icon, then you select the game. And here you will choose to either backup or restore a save file. You can backup your own save game, name it whatever you want and reload it later on. It's like having a memory card for your 3DS. It's one of the biggest reasons I tell people to hack this thing. So anyway you're going to want to choose restore to use the save file provided. Simply choose the save file you dropped on the SD card, restore it, and soon enough it should be done. So now which is a matter of playing Dragon Quest 7, you'll immediately notice that there's three different save files and this is because we couldn't fit all the DLC in one save file. So check out the readme, choose the one you want to use, and you'll probably end up here in the Haven download bar which sadly won't work anymore. And your characters will be level 1, which means if you want, you can just play the game like it's your own save. To use the DLC tablets, you just leave this building and go over to this area. Then it's a matter of inserting the tablet into this pedestal, and if you're done with this and want to change to another save, it's as simple as going back into checkpoint and doing the same thing again but for a different save. And that's it. That's how you get the DLC for Dragon Quest 7 and Dragon Quest 8 on the 3DS. Honestly, it kind of sucks that they even did DLC for these games since it's a 3DS game. They could have literally just had it unlocked from the get go, but unfortunately we have to go through all these hoops just to get it, and this is the best we have so far. Maybe one day there will be a better option but for now this will have to do. So I hope this video was helpful. If you enjoyed this and you're interested in messing around with Dragon Quest 9's additional content, I also have a video on that right here that you should definitely check out as well. I'll see you there.