Hacking Xenoblade Chronicles size too big....

[Small Kat]

Xenoblade chronicles 3ds file size a little more than 4gb, and i cant put it in my gateway sd card, because 4gb is the size limit to fat32 sd cards.

 

[cearp]

format your micro sd card to exfat, gw supports it

 

[Small Kat]

format your micro sd card to exfat, gw supports it

Would that still work with the gateway?

 

[cearp]

Would that still work with the gateway?

100% yes - the only problem is backing up your roms to your computer whilst you reformat the card

 

[Asia81]

Or just trim the rom.
It's what I did for Bravely Default (4gb)

 

[aos10]

you can always install the game as .cia.

 

[Supster131]

you can always install the game as .cia.

Why are CIA's smaller than .3ds roms?

I don't think I've seen a definitive answer.

 

[Deleted member 370671]

Why are CIA's smaller than .3ds roms?

I don't think I've seen a definitive answer.

iirc, it's because 3DS files are full cartridge dumps, including "unused" space.
CIAs only contain the game's files, so there's not any useless data on those.

 

[dubbz82]

Also (usually) CIA games have update partitions (and often manual data as well) chopped out of them.