A player spent hours unlocking specific content of a 3DS game. Because without the official servers from Nintendo, this is no longer possible.
Dragon Quest 7: Fragments of the Past was released in 2016 as a remake of a PlayStation game for the Nintendo 3DS. However, certain DLC content can only be unlocked if you have internet access.
However, Nintendo has now shut down the 3DS servers. A dedicated player went to the trouble of “saving” the game in a feat before its deletion. This is reported by colleagues from Gamesradar.
Content only available by downloading from the official server
What is the problem with the game? The 3DS version of Dragon Quest includes over 50 DLC “tablets” that you can collect after a certain point in the game, as well as three tablets to expand the story after the game. However, these tablets are only available at a specific point in the game and require an internet connection, where you then have to confirm the download.
This is especially annoying because you have to play the game up to a certain point before you can even initiate the download.
However, this download no longer works, as Nintendo shut down the 3DS servers on Monday, April 8, 2024. Players have long criticized when publishers sell content only online or with an internet connection. Just recently, Ubisoft shut down the servers for a revolutionary racing game, which is now unplayable, despite having paid for it.
The enthusiast Gronya shows on YouTube how she secured the DLCs of Dragon Quest 7 for posterity. We have embedded the video for you here:
How did she “save” the content? Gronya began speedrunning Dragon Quest 7 with multiple guides. In doing so, she started unlocking all the DLCs step by step so that they are available and no longer require a download. Overall, the player spent 340 hours unlocking all the DLC tablets.
She then uploaded the save game. Since these save files are now available in a public archive, anyone who wants to complete Dragon Quest 7 can easily do so by downloading the files. A download from the official Nintendo servers to unlock the DLCs is no longer needed.
More about old video games: In one of the largest auctions for an unpackaged video game, a rare, sealed copy of Castlevania for the original NES console was recently sold on eBay for $90,100. This is equivalent to about 81,000 Euros:
