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!!!

 

[Ericss]

Simply combine the Tutorial. Pulling from .3ds, pushing into .3dz.

That's awesome. Who needs a MT?

Right now you can do it regardless of being card 2 or card 1. That's the whole point. You could already do all this before with card 2 games and now you can do all this with card 1 games

Oh, sorry, I'm sleepy. I quickly went through your post without reading the details and didn't realize you were repeating the present tutorial's steps, so I thought you were talking about some weird method I hadn't heard of

 

[Lordjontan]

Can I export a save from a .3dz and import it on a .cia?

 

[lemanuel]

Can I export a save from a .3dz and import it on a .cia?

Yes. That's what the tutorial says

Doesn't matter if it's .3dz/.3ds. If the save can be read by SDF, it can be converted

 

[liomajor]

I tried this with my US fantasy life ROM, after getting into SDF it shows that the ctr is broken, and the old save is back in the ext tab. Could I just export that instead or is there a difference.

Even if Fantasy Life is listed as Card1, but it stores Savegames as eShop no matter what.

 

[ka_kui]

i will ask again, can i inject a save from a ROM into a physical/original cartridge?

 

[mmn]

i will ask again, can i inject a save from a ROM into a physical/original cartridge?

Only if the game was made before 6.0 save encryption would there even be a remote chance of that working.

 

[liomajor]

Sorry, Retail isn't supported as you can't start SDF in Classic Mode. If your Dump from Gateway doesn't work, SDF is most likely not capeable to fix that. (Currently i don't have non working Savedumps from Gateway to test on.)

 

[ka_kui]

Only if the game was made before 6.0 save encryption would there even be a remote chance of that working.

I want to buy the original Monster Hunter 4U cartridge, but i think i will play in ROM first, meanwhile my copy arrives, and im wondering if i can inject the savedata then into the cartdridge :/

 

[lemanuel]

I want to buy the original Monster Hunter 4U cartridge, but i think i will play in ROM first, meanwhile my copy arrives, and im wondering if i can inject the savedata then into the cartdridge :/

Difficult. But maybe doable. Only by testing is that you would know tho

 

[NyaakoXD]

I want to buy the original Monster Hunter 4U cartridge, but i think i will play in ROM first, meanwhile my copy arrives, and im wondering if i can inject the savedata then into the cartdridge :/

Well, if Gateway can merge Classic Mode into Gateway mode where retail carts still work on Gateway mode, then savedatafiler will work with no problem. But that hasn't happened yet.

 

[liomajor]

Difficult. But maybe doable. Only by testing is that you would know tho

Testing would mean dumping save/game including header and just following my tutorial to see if it works.

 

[lemanuel]

Testing would mean dumping save/game including header and just following my tutorial to see if it works.

Yeah. lol

Well.. actually he wants to put it back in the cartridge. That game is card 1, right?

He would have to use the option of GW Menu to put in the save instead of doing it with SDF. But first he would have to inject it in a .3dz rom created from his cartridge so that the save is linked to his header.
And that's assuming the saves between GW and cartridge are compatible in this case.

So tricky...

 

[liomajor]

When i get my games back tomorrow, i can test if at least the exportet dump will work. If someone is eager to know, just go ahead and keep us posted

 

[Jiro2]

Is there a way to use this to save Streetpass Mii Plaza? (That is 218, which is also usually listed as broken, however, Streetpass Mii Plaza is not available as a ROM so I cannot do the "mount your game" step for it.

 

[ubergeek77]

Wow... This is just... It's amazing. I've spent a long time trying to figure out how to do this, and asked around the forum many, many times.

For it to be this simple... and it works! How did you figure this out? I'm very interested.

 

[Duo8]

I wonder how does this work.

 

[lemanuel]

I wonder how does this work.

it's simple. the save used is the save that is created by GW. so since the GW cartridge is inserted and can be read in GW Mode, SDF thinks that save belongs to the GW cartridge and we're allowed to read it.

 

[Duo8]

it's simple. the save used is the save that is created by GW. so since the GW cartridge is inserted and can be read in GW Mode, SDF thinks that save belongs to the GW cartridge and we're allowed to read it.

Well things is I tried loading the ROM before starting savefl, it still say ctr broken.

 

[veekay]

Worked perfectly - thanks a ton for this

 

[_eyCaRambA_]

Great find! I'll try what ka_kui is aiming for with MH4G.