Homebrew Is it possible to backup an app to the SD card?

[joelcanciones]

Hi: I installed a game using freeshop and I would like to know how to backup it to de SD card as a CIA file or something so in case I need to format my SD card or for some reason I want to uninstall the game I can reinstall it later and have it as well backed uo in my PC. Thanks for your help. Also the game dows not appear in JKSM so I cannot backup the save file. Why could this be? How do I do these 2 things with the game I want which is Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo?

 

[Ichiriki]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutoria...-to-cia-dump-private-headers-ds-carts.432600/

 

[Jayro]

I believe BrainDump can do this... But it seems complicated. Never used it myself.

 

[Tomy Sakazaki]

Hi: I installed a game using freeshop and I would like to know how to backup it to de SD card as a CIA file or something so in case I need to format my SD card or for some reason I want to uninstall the game I can reinstall it later and have it as well backed uo in my PC. Thanks for your help.

If you do generate a CIA from your 3DS you must remember that a truly complete backup (that is, game+save) you will have to resort to either savedatafiler or jksm to dump your saves. The CIA will have only the app, not the saves.
Also, a faster way to generate CIAs is to use apps like https://gbatemp.net/threads/release...p-content-super-easy-and-fast-2-1-fix.376941/ to generate and store the CIA directly on your computer, instead of slowly downloading to 3DS, slowly generating the CIA on 3DS and having to copy back from 3DS to PC.

 

[Charganium]

Hi: I installed a game using freeshop and I would like to know how to backup it to de SD card as a CIA file or something so in case I need to format my SD card or for some reason I want to uninstall the game I can reinstall it later and have it as well backed uo in my PC. Thanks for your help. Also the game dows not appear in JKSM so I cannot backup the save file. Why could this be? How do I do these 2 things with the game I want which is Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo?

To make the game show up in JKSM, you have to use the Refresh Games option.