Is the Nintendo DS region-locked?

[Emmett The Crab]

I'd always heard no, but today I finally got around to trying out Super Monkeyball Touch and Roll that I won on Sega Nerds a few years ago, and when I put the game in the DS, it says "There is no game pan inserted",  This is a european version--since Grant sent it to me, and it was new.  What's the deal?

[Barry the Nomad]

I think it's locked, sadly.

[Emmett The Crab]

Thanks Barry.  And I should have said Graham, not Grant.

[Barry the Nomad]

DS was region free, but 3DS is locked and that includes DS games. I love region free, so i'm sad that its locked. Poopie

[SOUP]

Just like Barry said, the DS is region free, but the 3DS isn't.

I've got a few European, and Japanese DS games that work just fine on my DS Lite, and original DS. It could be that the game card is just bad.

[crackdude]

I won that exact same game from Sega Nerds. It worked fine.


But I also won that portable MegaDrive gaming thing. And it came broken, the buttons don't work.
Maybe they just sent used up shit? I dunno..

[Emmett The Crab]

Yeah, I'm using a US DS Lite.  So thoeretically the game should work?

[SOUP]

If that's your setup, it should absolutely work.