Five 3DS Features You Might Not Know About

Despite being pocket-sized, the 3DS does hold some secrets. The 3DS can do things you might not realize are possible!

Some of these 3DS features are meant to make your experience better; they can be very helpful. And some 3DS tricks are merely for fun. Here are our picks for cool and obscure 3DS features you should be using.

You Can Play Older Games The Right Way

Whenever you boot up a Virtual Console game on the 3DS, it blows up to fit the screen—and this can make the graphics look kind of ugly. Thankfully, you can simply press and hold “Start” while opening a Virtual Console game to make it appear in its native resolution. For Game Boy games, the 3DS even adds a cute overlay to your screen. EDIT: this trick also works for DS games.

You Can Mess Around

Here’s a little tip for the 3DS home screen. If you tap on a game once and then blow into the microphone, you’ll note that the splash screen on the top of the 3DS will react to you. A small but charming detail.

You Can Take Screenshots

While some games have a screenshot function built-in, many do not. You can still take a screenshot, though. All you have to do is press the “home” button on your 3DS, then open up Miiverse. You’ll be taken to the community of whatever game you had running. On the bottom screen, you should see a button that reads “Post.” Tap that, and then on the next screen you can attach a screenshot of whatever you were last looking at in your suspended game.

After you post your screenshot on Miiverse, you can log into Miiverse via a computer and save the screenshot if you’d like. Yes, this isn’t the most intuitive screenshot tool, but it is something. Do note that this feature doesn’t actually work with every single game on the 3DS, so your mileage may vary.

You Can Play Breakout

Here’s a cool thing hidden inside New 3DS systems. Open up the browser. Then, tap out the Super Mario Bros. theme song, like so:

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