I'll start by saying that I'm very new to this and apologize in advance for any "crime" I've committed and any stupid questions that follow it.
So, I bought a New 3DS XL that came with cfw and a ton of games and apps pre-installed. It was pre-cleaned so there were no save files or any account settings of the sort.
I wanted to transfer the legit games and saves I had on my old (non-hacked) 3DS XL, and so I read up on it for a bit, and saw that the solution was a system transfer.
Before I did the system transfer, I backed up my new system with GodMode9, and then proceeded with the transfer. After the transfer was done, I chose to keep the files on the old SD card when it prompted it, just in case something would go wrong. After this, the New 3DS had all my legit games, account and saves, and my old 3DS had been formatted and cleaned up while still having the original files somewhere in the old SD card.
This is where I think I did an oopsie. I then restored the GM9 backup on the New 3DS. I thought that restoring the GM9 backup would simply restore/merge the apps and other games, but it turns out it completely replaces everything, including accounts, saves etc. At the same time, the hacked apps and games were not restored either (I can see their files are still somewhere in the card but I'm not too bothered by it since I can just re-download whatever I want to have on the system).
So here's the situation: I logged in my Nintendo account on the "restored" system and re-downloaded the legit games. I've tried a few ways to restore the saves to no avail. In my new SD card, I have 2 different <ID0> folders, both with the same <ID1> inside it, which in turn has the respective games according to which "system" they belonged to (so one of them has the hacked apps + the redownloaded legit games, while the other one has the original legit games and saves). On my old SD card, as I said, I also have 2 <ID0> folders - one with the old account and one with the formatted account (the "active" one). And yes, I know I should have backed up the original saves using Checkpoint or something but my old 3DS is not hacked and I didn't have an SD card reader on-hand when I did this (everything was transferred wirelessly, and the New 3DS can connect through FTP).
My question is if there is a way to recover the saves from either the "old system-transferred" <ID0> folder, or from the old SD card which contains the original copy of that same <ID0> folder, just with a different <ID1> number since it's a different card.
I have tried to BruteForce a moveable.sed using my original Friend Code so I can get the saves from the old SD folder through ninfs but I can't get past the "add friend" step since that Friend Code account doesn't exist anymore in any of the systems. It's kind of nerve-wracking thinking that I have 2 different copies of the files containing my original saves, but I can't access any of them. There's gotta be a way I'm sure...
Thanks in advance for your help.
So, I bought a New 3DS XL that came with cfw and a ton of games and apps pre-installed. It was pre-cleaned so there were no save files or any account settings of the sort.
I wanted to transfer the legit games and saves I had on my old (non-hacked) 3DS XL, and so I read up on it for a bit, and saw that the solution was a system transfer.
Before I did the system transfer, I backed up my new system with GodMode9, and then proceeded with the transfer. After the transfer was done, I chose to keep the files on the old SD card when it prompted it, just in case something would go wrong. After this, the New 3DS had all my legit games, account and saves, and my old 3DS had been formatted and cleaned up while still having the original files somewhere in the old SD card.
This is where I think I did an oopsie. I then restored the GM9 backup on the New 3DS. I thought that restoring the GM9 backup would simply restore/merge the apps and other games, but it turns out it completely replaces everything, including accounts, saves etc. At the same time, the hacked apps and games were not restored either (I can see their files are still somewhere in the card but I'm not too bothered by it since I can just re-download whatever I want to have on the system).
So here's the situation: I logged in my Nintendo account on the "restored" system and re-downloaded the legit games. I've tried a few ways to restore the saves to no avail. In my new SD card, I have 2 different <ID0> folders, both with the same <ID1> inside it, which in turn has the respective games according to which "system" they belonged to (so one of them has the hacked apps + the redownloaded legit games, while the other one has the original legit games and saves). On my old SD card, as I said, I also have 2 <ID0> folders - one with the old account and one with the formatted account (the "active" one). And yes, I know I should have backed up the original saves using Checkpoint or something but my old 3DS is not hacked and I didn't have an SD card reader on-hand when I did this (everything was transferred wirelessly, and the New 3DS can connect through FTP).
My question is if there is a way to recover the saves from either the "old system-transferred" <ID0> folder, or from the old SD card which contains the original copy of that same <ID0> folder, just with a different <ID1> number since it's a different card.
I have tried to BruteForce a moveable.sed using my original Friend Code so I can get the saves from the old SD folder through ninfs but I can't get past the "add friend" step since that Friend Code account doesn't exist anymore in any of the systems. It's kind of nerve-wracking thinking that I have 2 different copies of the files containing my original saves, but I can't access any of them. There's gotta be a way I'm sure...
Thanks in advance for your help.
