Just tell them your 3DS was lost, and you should be good to go. Something about the magic word 'stolen' sends you down a whole different script in their phone service and it's a lot more of a pain. First off, do not tell them that your item was stolen unless you feel like filing a police report. If you don't have that you can still get your stuff back, but it's more hoops to jump through. I still maintain that the easiest solution for everyone is to write your serial number down ASAP and keep it somewhere safe. Update: Something I discovered from this whole ordeal was that, essentially, the representative you get and what you tell them means a LOT.

Not a great day for me today, but hopefully you can all learn from my horrible mistake.

I should be able to deactivate my account on any device, and my device serial should arguably AUTOMATICALLY become associated with my single username password, not unlike Steam.īut that's all pointless to argue at this point, because I'm down about 150 dollars worth of games, plus the system (300). It's easy to get mad at the shitty system Nintendo has in place. Not only am I down an expensive system, but likely down the games I bought with it. Don't be like me and think 'I'll do it later' and then never do it. Apparently, the entire Nintendo e-pay system requires that you have your old serial number to work. Since I haven't been able to find it, I began looking into how to transfer my purchases to a new system when I finally get around to buying one (could be a while). Since I had a few beers throughout the day, I simply wasn't paying close attention so it's really impossible for me to know when or where exactly it might've popped out of my bag. I brought my n3ds in my backpack to a park this weekend and at some point during the day it fell out. I'm sure this has come up before, but I wanted to bring it up AGAIN for those who own a 3ds or N3DS Archived PSA: Get your serial number, write it down NOW

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