You tell me to install savedatafiler but then you say that you can't install CIAs on Citra.. I already have SaveDataFiler on my console and have dumped the save. I don't understand how to load it into Citra... Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your replies but there is no way to run CIAs in Citra because they're unsupported (pretty sure because they're mostly encrypted), and there is no savedatafiler in other formats because it is an application from the 3DS devkit which came with devconsoles, and was dumped as a CIA and has no other working formats. I obviously can't just place the save in a folder in the 'sdmc' folder because it's in a decrypted format and the emulator won't detect it. Though, I can't exactly find a save manager which works on Citra and supports importing. Do you see my dilemma? I'm missing a step somewhere but I can't understand where..
Thanks for the help
You install save data filer cia on your 3ds console, then you can extract the game according to the ID of your game.
Use this
http://www.3dsdb.com/
And find the ID of your game under the column labled TitleID
http://i.imgur.com/mgXbGJb.png
Type in your game, and make sure you get your region and look at the titleID
http://imgur.com/2ZgX39C
Get the last 5 digits before the 2 zeroes at the end just like the higlighted ones
Those digits should show in savedatafiler like this
http://i.imgur.com/BOX0NqY.png
Press Y on the ID of the game you want to extract then press confirm. Now it will create a folder called filer, go to it on your PC and open it. You will see another folder called userdata, open it, then another folder of the date and time, open that too. You will now see your save file.
http://i.imgur.com/fyqdREg.png
Now open that folder too that shows he ID and you will see decryped save files. Copy these as you need to paste later, first make sure you have open the game first in citra for it to create a save directory. then go to the save to
Citra Folder\user\sdmc\Nintendo 3DS\00000000000000000000000000000000\00000000000000000000000000000000\title\00040000"
Open the folder with the ID of your game, should be one with the last 7 digits of the Title ID
http://i.imgur.com/J46e5JI.png
open the Title ID folder, then open data, then 0000001 and lastly put your decrypted saves into there!