Basically what the title says

Older 3ds Models struggle in very specific places, like blazing trial 2 arena fight, secret fortress 4, and snowball ravine 4 because of the abundance of particle effects. Physical and digital have no differences it depends on the hardware of the 3ds, even overclocking your system does not decrease load times because those are static regardless.

edit: i should add that i have not tested if a o3ds truly slows down in those areas since i do not have one myself, but it’s something i noticed when i played online with randoms and noticed this was consistent when a lot of visual effects we’re playing.

I can test it since I have an old 3ds with capture card

go for it if you want.