How can I watch 3DS Nintendo Video from another country?

I have an American 3DS, but I now live in Germany. The stupid media-licensing pillowfights are ruining my day, again.

I just found out a bunch of great content is coming to Nintendo Video, and as far as I can tell there's no way for me to view it. When I try to download videos, it tells me they're "not available in this region", even though if I had a German 3DS I'd have no problem.

I know the 3DS has some kind of "proxy" settings in the wireless config, but I haven't been able to get it working. I've tried open proxies from this list somebody linked to from a forum, and I have a SOCKS5 proxy running on my computer (executive summary: ssh -D8080 [email protected]) through which I've successfully watched a ton of Hulu and Netflix on the PC, but which I've never been able to figure out how to use with gaming consoles.

Has anybody gotten this to actually work? Can you lay out in detail exactly what you did to get there? Alternately, is there anywhere online (shady is OK by me, I tried to do it the legit way) where I can watch this content?

Solution 1:

I'm not sure this will work but if you mess with your router/network you might could redirect the IP address from your router to an American IP(creating your own vpn or using IP address forwarding to redirect the traffic). Similar things like this have been done to play games online form consoles that only support Lan games to get them to work over an internet connection. Such things can't be done directly from the console and require a PC to do.