
It’s an 11-character string, so make sure you enter in that last number as well, the one inside the little box. You’ll find it on the back of your portable, located just beneath a SKU code on a little white sticker.

Simply follow the above link and input your 3DS serial number into the text box.

You can double check just to be sure now though, thanks to an update on the company’s support site. 3DS owners quickly learned that there was no confirmation of Ambassador admittance on the 3DS side, you simply had to take Nintendo’s word for it that signing in would set you straight. To appease disgruntled gamers who had just spent $250 on the now-$170 device, the company offered an open invitation to all pre-price slash 3DS owners for its Ambassador Program, which will reward members with 20 free downloadable games on the platform before the end of 2011.Įnsuring your admittance to the program was as simple as firing up your 3DS and signing into its online eShop by August 11, the day before the price drop went live. Nintendo had to do some quick sleight of hand when it announceed an $80 price cut on its 3DS portable gaming device less than six months after its launch.
