I understand why it was so cheap now… It’s password-locked. There’s a place in the manual to write down the password, but it’s blank, and it also says "if you forget your password, send the cartridge to Nintendo Customer Support"

So now I have two options:
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I use the safe mode key combination at boot that has been found by people online to be able to erase the data. But the combination in question is L+R+Up+X+B+Select. It’s very annoying and I’m struggling to pull it off
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I erase the save file with my hacked 3DS
Or… I can go for the third, secret fun way
I used my 3DS to extract the save file and opened it up on my computer with a hex editor. And right at the beginning of the file, there it is: what I assume to be the password, stored in cleartext (obviously no encryption needed! You’re not supposed to be able to access save file like this, thought the fools at Big N back in the 2000s). So "Tie77" it is
Let’s try it out…

…bingo
Obv since TLS 1.1 and 1.0 support has been dropped, this browser can’t reach most websites nowadays. I tried to open the second bookmark, but unsurprisingly it reset the connection.
I also found those bookmarks in cleartext in the save file

For context, skyblog/skyrock was a stable of personal blogs for teenagers and pretty much everyone in the French 2000s internet. So I was pretty excited to access it on my desktop computer, but unfortunately for me and fortunately for them, it seems it’s been deleted, and I couldn’t find any archives.
Oh well! Now I’ll have to try more stuff with a HTTPS to HTTP proxy, se how broken websites are on this thing

