This sounds like the symptoms of trying to use an old game version save on the new installer - as I did the same thing. While I can't confirm what versions the newest one does work on other than the latest game version (1.5), I can tell you that with my 1.1 save, it would just close with no changes. Which sounds just like your situation.
Do not also forget, like I did, that even if you upgraded your console to the latest version and then downloaded the game version downloads, until you actually save again - your save is still considered 1.x that is not 1.5 (for example, I was on 4.1.0 and had been playing a good bit on verion 1.1 of the game. Finally decided it was time to upgrade and get the latest versions of all my games - and since I was now on the latest I figured I would give these a try. So everything updated, extracted the save with checkpoint and gave it a shot - no dice on the new program but money and crystals worked just fine on the old one. Gave it a thought and realized I hadn't actually booted and re-saved my game, so i loaded up the modified save, confirmed the increased moolah and shinies, and then just saved it again. Re-exported that save and then bam - new version worked (because I saved it while I was on 1.5)