Hi GBAtemp. User @shutterbug2000 has found a way to merge two badge datas to essentially give yourself the badges of another player that has made their files publicly available. In this tutorial, we'll be using @Februarysn0w's badges (he/she has collected over 900 badges).

Februarysn0w's badge data: https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=b6305612e3c95fbd&id=B6305612E3C95FBD!694&authkey=!ANwz34EVEYjGARc

1. Open the target's BadgeMngFile.dat and yours in a hex editor of your choice. (HxD is preferred)

2. Copy from 0x0 to 0xc (ctrl+g "C"; hex checked) from the target and then pastewrite the strings onto your file.

3. CTRL+G to "3E8" and select everything starting from there to the end of the file and pastewrite it to yours once again. (Alternatively, you can copy from 0x1C to 0x20 from your file and then pastewrite the strings onto the target. Using this method, you can skip step 2 and 3. Then simply copy the target file to your 3DS)

4. Save the edited BadgeMngFile.dat.

5. Copy the modified BadgeMngFile.dat and the target's BadgeData.dat onto your SD card and import them.

Please reply to this thread if this worked for you!

Great videos by @Ericzander:
CFW users:
Homebrew users:

EDIT: A lot of people don't know what to use. If you're a CFW user, use SaveDataFiler. If you're a *hax user, use ext_data dump tool or Sunshell by Rinnegatamante.

 

[jernk]

no need to apologize haha! it's just a little mistake. and really filo97 you don't seem to have any clue as to what you're talking about.

Anyway, you sure that it's not in the menu below? If not then ninty probably left it out in the update

 

[dimmidice]

Anyway, you sure that it's not in the menu below? If not then ninty probably left it out in the update

nope i'm sure. it was there on my o3ds on emunand 10.3 but it's not on my N3ds 9.5 emunand. nor my brothers N3ds 9.5 emunand.

 

[wormdood]

nope i'm sure. it was there on my o3ds on emunand 10.3 but it's not on my N3ds 9.5 emunand. nor my brothers N3ds 9.5 emunand.

o3ds ftw!!!!

 

[dimmidice]

o3ds ftw!!!!

hah. i LOVE my N3DS. the hinge is so much better! my O3DS was really starting to fall apart (it was a launch model so it was pretty ancient) bottom screen has some pixel damage, dpad was peeling off, the hinge was wobbly, the volume control wouldnt work. i did love my o3ds once upon a time though =[

 

[PedroKeitawa]

I try dumps the data i need, follow the video, but the message i got is: could not open archive. Why?
Edit: i try to re-download the hoembrew for dumps the file and follow the istructions and....i select dump extdata specified in config and the screen go black.

 

[wsquan171]

nope i'm sure. it was there on my o3ds on emunand 10.3 but it's not on my N3ds 9.5 emunand. nor my brothers N3ds 9.5 emunand.

If you can't attach badges to folder it's probably because that the owner of the manage file attached badges to some folders before he shared the file. For me, I tried to place a badge and chose to reset the layout. After that I was able to attach badges to folders.

 

[dimmidice]

If you can't attach badges to folder it's probably because that the owner of the manage file attached badges to some folders before he shared the file. For me, I tried to place a badge and chose to reset the layout. After that I was able to attach badges to folders.

no that's not it. the option in the menu to attach the badges to a folder is literally not there. as for a reset layout option 9.5 doesn't have that option either does it?

 

[SomeGamer]

Placing badges on folders was added with 9.6.

 

[DeslotlCL]

Just wondering, wouldnt dumping all the badges data with GYTB and then sharing the png files to install them with the same app easier than using the hex editor?

 

[dimmidice]

Just wondering, wouldnt dumping all the badges data with GYTB and then sharing the png files to install them with the same app easier than using the hex editor?

this method predates GYTB. and yeah it would be but february's data doesn't seem to be (easily) extractable using GYTB because its in japanese.

 

[Bu2d85]

Just gave this a go following the video for CFW. At first it did not work so I deleted the extdata, ran the game again and started over.

Now it works better than I expected. I guess that I am one of the few people that can still play the game after merging my data. It's pretty cool that all of the badges that I catch now just get added to the 950 that I started with. I went into the collection viewer, paid a dollar for a game just to see if it would erase anything but it's all still there. Even after a reboot.

Of course only the ones that i have caught show in the collection viewer but I can still use all of the other ones on my home screen.

For those that are wondering, I have an o3ds XL FW 4.2 with GW on 10.3 still using the MSET exploit.

 

[aos10]

today , i opened the app , then it told me my badges is corrupted , and all 950 badges are gone , only the legit one is stayed.

 

[EmceeKerser]

today , i opened the app , then it told me my badges is corrupted , and all 950 badges are gone , only the legit one is stayed.

Thats normal. Just import the files again with savedatafiler

 

[MichMaster]

Ok so one question, my legit badges stay and don't get lost in the process of merging data, right?

 

[aos10]

Thats normal. Just import the files again with savedatafiler

sysnand 10.3

Ok so one question, my legit badges stay and don't get lost in the process of merging data, right?

yes, it stay

 

[EmceeKerser]

sysnand 10.3

Then use the savedatamanager, duh

 

[UsualNoise]

Two people have asked this question in this thread so far, but there have been no responses:

To start, I had *no* BadgeData.dat under my 000014D1 folder. When I go to restore snow's BadgeData.dat and the modified BadgeMngFile.dat the first fails (I'm guessing because it doesn't exist already?) and the second succeeds.

My question is: if you do NOT already have a BadgeData.dat file is there any way to make this work? I have a few badges already from previous plays so I'm not sure why I don't have the file or what I might need to do to restore it. Any ideas?

 

[secretclean]

Two people have asked this question in this thread so far, but there have been no responses:

To start, I had *no* BadgeData.dat under my 000014D1 folder. When I go to restore snow's BadgeData.dat and the modified BadgeMngFile.dat the first fails (I'm guessing because it doesn't exist already?) and the second succeeds.

My question is: if you do NOT already have a BadgeData.dat file is there any way to make this work? I have a few badges already from previous plays so I'm not sure why I don't have the file or what I might need to do to restore it. Any ideas?

I was having the same problem, and I just now figured it out. Have everything set up as described, and when you're ready to import the files using extdata_dump tool, choose the SECOND menu option first (dump files specified in config file). It showed a blank screen for me, so I hit B to go back to menu. Then I was able to restore the files. Not sure why it doesn't dump BadgeData with the rest of the files when you choose the first menu option.

Hope that helps.

 

[Februarysn0w]

Two people have asked this question in this thread so far, but there have been no responses:

To start, I had *no* BadgeData.dat under my 000014D1 folder. When I go to restore snow's BadgeData.dat and the modified BadgeMngFile.dat the first fails (I'm guessing because it doesn't exist already?) and the second succeeds.

My question is: if you do NOT already have a BadgeData.dat file is there any way to make this work? I have a few badges already from previous plays so I'm not sure why I don't have the file or what I might need to do to restore it. Any ideas?

Use GYTB make or get basic files then overwrite it.

 

[chaojimbo]

Use GYTB make or get basic files then overwrite it.

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oh my god.... I got trouble to post reply... Very sorry.

Even when using GYTB to write the basic files, I am still getting errors on the restoring process in extdata_tool when I try to load your data.

"Restoring to /BadgeData.dat
--- Size is too large. ---
Copying failed!
Restoring to /BadgeMngFile.dat
Success."

I can use custom badges just fine, but for some reason, I can not use your badges. I have opened the game and have gotten my own badges as well before I even attempted modifying anything.

(10.3 N3DS, Ironhax)

 

[UsualNoise]

I was having the same problem, and I just now figured it out. Have everything set up as described, and when you're ready to import the files using extdata_dump tool, choose the SECOND menu option first (dump files specified in config file). It showed a blank screen for me, so I hit B to go back to menu. Then I was able to restore the files. Not sure why it doesn't dump BadgeData with the rest of the files when you choose the first menu option.

Hope that helps.

Perfect! Thanks very much, this worked for me. Odd that you need to dump files before extdata lets you replace them though, but at least it worked.

 

[chaojimbo]

Perfect! Thanks very much, this worked for me. Odd that you need to dump files before extdata lets you replace them though, but at least it worked.

Can you list step-by-step what you are doing? Doing that method does not work for me.

 

[UsualNoise]

Can you list step-by-step what you are doing? Doing that method does not work for me.

I was just following secretclean's suggestion - basically, instead of dumping everything with the extdata dump tool I just dumped the badge files ("choose the SECOND menu option first (dump files specified in config file)"). My config.txt file had only these lines:

DUMP "000014d1:/BadgeData.dat" "BadgeData.dat"
DUMP "000014d1:/BadgeMngFile.dat" "BadgeMngFile.dat"

Then, after modifying the BadgeMngFile.dat according to the instructions in the original post and replacing BadgeData.dat with snow's version I restored only those files. My config.txt file looked like this:

RESTORE "BadgeData.dat" "000014d1:/BadgeData.dat"
RESTORE "BadgeMngFile.dat" "000014d1:/BadgeMngFile.dat"

Hope that helps, I didn't do anything else.

 

[Deleted member 373223]

Can you list step-by-step what you are doing? Doing that method does not work for me.

I was just following secretclean's suggestion - basically, instead of dumping everything with the extdata dump tool I just dumped the badge files ("choose the SECOND menu option first (dump files specified in config file)"). My config.txt file had only these lines:

DUMP "000014d1:/BadgeData.dat" "BadgeData.dat"
DUMP "000014d1:/BadgeMngFile.dat" "BadgeMngFile.dat"

Then, after modifying the BadgeMngFile.dat according to the instructions in the original post and replacing BadgeData.dat with snow's version I restored only those files. My config.txt file looked like this:

RESTORE "BadgeData.dat" "000014d1:/BadgeData.dat"
RESTORE "BadgeMngFile.dat" "000014d1:/BadgeMngFile.dat"

Hope that helps, I didn't do anything else.

or use sunshell.