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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 ===