This week Nintendo unleashed a large ban wave that permanently knocks the 3DS into offline mode oriented at users of hacked game systems. That includes people who downloaded software that allowed usage of emulations, dump game cartridges, pirated games and more.
Forums like GBA Temp, Reddit as well as 4chan are on fire with users actively discussing why their systems were banned. According to their reports, the banned 3DS show Error Code 002-0102 when trying to access online services such as friends list, Netflix, Miiverse and more.
Nintendo representative spoke to Kotaku about the ban wave:
As a result of a number of users making unauthorized system modifications, playing unauthorized versions of one or more games and/or connecting to the game servers in violation of our terms of service, Nintendo has banned those users’ systems from accessing its online network, effective immediately.
There are also many reports that even people who did not modify their consoles got banned. However, it is impossible to verify. We can only wait for Nintendo’s deeper investigation into the matter and following response.
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