I found a workaround how to export/import Card1 Savegames (no retail support)

First you know we had the problem of " CTR - BROKEN ", but there is a little trick to it.

!MT-Card USER can do this without Workaround because the save gets loaded on ROM mounting!

To fetch your Cartridge Savegames, you can use this method: NTR Savegame Manager Plugin

We need:

- Red Gateway Card
- The Exploit
- Launcher.dat (tested with 3.0.3 Ultra)
- SaveDataFiler
- The .3ds/.3dz/.cia Game you want to export/import
- A working Savegame (Dumped Savegames from Retail might not work)
- A PC/MAC (any Device capeable to rename Files)

!MAKE ALWAYS BACKUPS FROM YOUR SAVEGAMES!

A. EXPORT .3ds/.3dz to eShop:

Savegame example: Super Mario 3D Land (0004000000053F00) > http://3ds.essh.co/

1. Connect the SD Card to your PC
2. Copy your Savegame and save it as 000400000FF40A00.sav
3. Put SD Card back into your 3DS
4. Turn it on and execute Exploit
5. Mount your .3ds/.3dz Game
6. Start SaveDataFiler (CTR Card is no longer broken!) and highlight CTR Card
7. Press Y and then A to export the Savegame

SaveDataFiler stores in SDCARD:\filer\UserSaveData\20150131010203\0000053f
YEAR-MONTH-DAY-HOUR-MINUTE-SECONDS \ TitleID low

8. Switch to SD and highlight your TitleID
9. Press R+A and then A to import your Savegame
10. Press Home, select the cia game and press two times A to start

B. EXPORT eShop to .3ds/.3dz:


Savegame example: Super Mario 3D Land (0004000000053F00) > http://3ds.essh.co/

1. Start your 3DS and execute Exploit
2. Mount your Game
3. Start SaveDataFiler and highlight your TitleID low
4. Press Y and then A to export the Savegame
5. Switch over to SD and highlight TitleID low
6. Press L + A and then A to create 000400000FF40A00.sav (CTR Card is no longer broken!)
7. Turn your 3DS off and connect the SD CARD with your PC
8. Copy 000400000FF40A00.sav to your TitleID (0004000000053F00.sav)
9. Put your SD Card back into your 3DS
10. Turn your 3DS on and execute Exploit
11. Mount your Game and start it

Export Retail Card with CFW and SDF:

Note: As for CFW works only with FW4.5, 6.x encryption will fail.

1. You need CFW and installed SafeDataFiler on a spare SD Card
2. Start your CFW and insert your Cartridge
3. Start SafeDataFiler and highlight CTR Card
4. Press Y and then A to export the Savegame
5. Turn off your 3DS and move the 'filer' folder to your PC
6. Switch over to your Gateway (emuNAND) SD Card and add the 'filer' folder from PC
7. Insert your Gateway (emuNAND) SD Card into your 3DS
8. Start your 3DS, execute Exploit and start SaveDataFiler
9. Now you can follow A8 for eShop or B5 for .3ds/.3dz

(Be patient with CFW, sometimes it takes 10 tries to get it working)

Thx queno138 : original Post

Info:

"Nintendo 3DS\ID1\ID2\" = eShop , "000400000000XXXXXXX.sav" = Card 1

If your ID1\ID2 does not match after downgrade or formating 3DS,
your Save is LOST if there is no NAND Backup using that ID1\ID2!!!

If you have the NAND Backup matching ID1\ID2,
you can import it as emuNAND with emuNANDTool!

It is impossible to use NAND Backups or encrypted eShop saves
from another 3DS! You need to decrypt the saves first before you
can transfer them!

EXPORT / IMPORT from Original Cartridge is now possible
with Cubic Ninja + PASTA CFW + SaveData Filer!!!

 

[Pedeadstrian]

oh ok, and theres no .3ds version of that app ether, and even if so theres no way to load that was well on that N3ds cfw right?

Correct.

 

[xdarkmario]

Correct.

ok, well i do have access to some 3ds's both 4.2 and 9.0 fw its just a bit out of my way but i can get to them.
how do i go about this conversion?

 

[Pedeadstrian]

ok, well i do have access to some 3ds's both 4.2 and 9.0 fw its just a bit out of my way but i can get to them.
how do i go about this conversion?

You do know this is a thread devoted to aforementioned conversion, correct? Why not read it?

 

[Localhorst86]

afaik the savegame plugin for NTR 2.1 creates SDF compatible savegame dumps. You could therefore use NTR 2.1 with the savegame plugin to dump them, transfer them to SDF and inject them into your cia or .sav

 

[xdarkmario]

You do know this is a thread devoted to aforementioned conversion, correct? Why not read it?

lol you have a point, sometimes i get carried away with being handfed.

 

[Brewzip]

I've successfully tryed to extract the save from my .3ds/z Mario Kart and import it to the CIA version, renaming the savefile on 3DS sd. But it doesn't work with Super Smash Bros.
The procedure says ok, but when I start the CIA, the save is like a fresh one. Is this a card2 issue or has something to do with encryption?
There is a solution to this? I'm a GW user, with firmware 9.x

 

[xdarkmario]

sorry but the more i read around the web the less i believe that its possible to convert a retail game save to a gateway save. so many people say its impossible.
Also is Savedatafiler available as a cia for non cfw (gateway mode?)

 

[Pedeadstrian]

sorry but the more i read around the web the less i believe that its possible to convert a retail game save to a gateway save. so many people say its impossible.
Also is Savedatafiler available as a cia for non cfw (gateway mode?)

Yes, it is possible to install .cia with Gateway. Get a .3ds version of BigBlueMenu to install it. Then, you can keep the .3ds version or use the .3ds version to install a .cia version of BBM, then use it to install SDF.

 

[xdarkmario]

Yes, it is possible to install .cia with Gateway. Get a .3ds version of BigBlueMenu to install it. Then, you can keep the .3ds version or use the .3ds version to install a .cia version of BBM, then use it to install SDF.

ok for some odd reason i cant find a download link for Savedatafiler on google, do you know wheres the real updated ver?

found this but i have no idea if its the most updated one
*Removed*

 

[Pedeadstrian]

ok for some odd reason i cant find a download link for Savedatafiler on google, do you know wheres the real updated ver?

found this but i have no idea if its the most updated one
*link removed due to copyright issues*

You're not allowed to post links to SaveDataFiler since it is from Nintendo's SDK. No one here can offer you links for the most updated version, or any version period. Just google it.

 

[xdarkmario]

You're not allowed to post links to SaveDataFiler since it is from Nintendo's SDK. No one here can offer you links for the most updated version, or any version period. Just google it.

Fixed sorry, i thought that was a homebrew app. i guess that explains why its hard to find..
but also, if this is been out there for some time why is this just now surfacing?

 

[Localhorst86]

sorry but the more i read around the web the less i believe that its possible to convert a retail game save to a gateway save. so many people say its impossible.
Also is Savedatafiler available as a cia for non cfw (gateway mode?)

[TUTORIAL] How to export/import Gateway Card1 .sav to eShop/3ds/3dz with SaveDataFiler

As I said, you can use NTR CFW to dump your savegames from retail cartridges. That's what I did, worked perfectly fine with NSMB2, Starfox64 3D, Bit.Trip Saga, Pilotwings Resort and A Link between worlds.

 

[wodkamen420]

this SDF dont work on any newer games am i right like xenoblades

 

[xdarkmario]

well i have dumped my smash 4 save with NTR cfw save plugin and it came out ad some

account_data.bin
&
system_data.bin

what can i do with that in gateway mode?

 

[Localhorst86]

You make a backup of the .cia savedata using SDF. It'll create the appropriate folders on the SD. Then replace the files in that folder with the ones from the NTR cfw plugin. Then you restore the savedata with SDF.

Note that smash has a special protection that might prevent this from working.

http://3dbrew.org/wiki/Anti_Savegame_Restore

 

[xdarkmario]

does the anti savedata restore block with only physical carts or any kind of restoring?
because im trying to pull this off
https://gbatemp.net/threads/help-wi...il-save-to-3dz-with-ntr-savegamefiler.385877/

its been done apparently

 

[Localhorst86]

does the anti savedata restore block with only physical carts or any kind of restoring?
because im trying to pull this off
https://gbatemp.net/threads/help-wi...il-save-to-3dz-with-ntr-savegamefiler.385877/

its been done apparently

I was reading up on this and I was able to successfully move my Pokemon y savegame to the cia version.

Basicaly for games with the save restore protection all you have to do is:

1. Restore the save using sdf
2. Delete the secure value of the title of using SDF.

 

[xdarkmario]

I was reading up on this and I was able to successfully move my Pokemon y savegame to the cia version.

Basicaly for games with the save restore protection all you have to do is:

1. Restore the save using sdf
2. Delete the secure value of the title of using SDF.

where do people get all those option from
all i see are 3 small tabs with limited options..

 

[Pedeadstrian]

where do people get all those option from
all i see are 3 small tabs with limited options..

And one of those limited options is "delete the secure value."

 

[HomebrewEnthusiast109876]

Followed the tutorial for smash. 3DZ to cia
"Unable to use the save data since it is not the latest data. Would you like to create new save data?"

What's going on?