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One of the Home Menu's functions, is to regulate region lockout. The region lockout data for any given title is held in the [[SMDH#BNR Region|ICN data]]. There are 6 regions of which have their own region lockout, Japan, USA, Europe(including Nintendo Australia), China, Taiwan and Korea. There is also a value which makes a title exempt from region lockout, and consequently accessible from any region of 3DS. | One of the Home Menu's functions, is to regulate region lockout. The region lockout data for any given title is held in the [[SMDH#BNR Region|ICN data]]. There are 6 regions of which have their own region lockout, Japan, USA, Europe(including Nintendo Australia), China, Taiwan and Korea. There is also a value which makes a title exempt from region lockout, and consequently accessible from any region of 3DS. | ||
The region-field stored in the [[SMDH|ICN-data]] is only checked when Home Menu itself launches a title, not when other titles use NS to have Home Menu launch titles. This isn't actually useful for gamecard region-free however, due to the gamecard system-updates, see below. | |||
=== Effects of Region Lockout === | === Effects of Region Lockout === | ||