A team hacker, says he has managed to modify the code of the 3DS handheld in order to allow anyone interested to be able to play games imported from regions other than their own.
Those who are interested in procedure they should have firmware 4.5 or earlier and access on a DS flashcard, according to the magazine The Escapist .
The mod has been carefully crafted so that you can't play bootleg game roms (ROMs) but only genuine games intended for a different geographic zone than yours (which means a jailbroken 3DS can't become a device which plays pirated titles).
Nintendo has made it clear that they don't want to remove the region lock from the 3DS and will likely release new firmware for the machine which will make the current hack obsolete.
