Hacking 3ds.guide complete.. Can i use this old save?

[fuctfuct]

When i used my gateway i never ran roms off of the cart i just used emunand and CIAs. I have a directory on my PC where i dumped everything (just copy paste) from an old SD card i was using for that (the one that goes in the 3DS not the gateway). So, i have everything set up after following the 3ds.guide and have installed some CIA games.

Is there anyway i can take my saves from a couple Zelda/Mario games from my old "gateway" SD card "backup" and use it with my new setup? No big deal if i can't. But would be cool if i could

 

[OfficialBrony]

Of course!!

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[OfficialBrony]

I had a save from my Sun cart and it works fine on my digital copy.

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[Hyoretsu]

If you used EmuNAND and CIAs, boot to EmuNAND and use JKSM.

 

[fuctfuct]

You mean drag that folder back to an sd card and boot it like i did with gateway before? I didn't think it would still work like that. Guess i will try.

 

[linuxares]

Is it GW save files?

 

[fuctfuct]

i don't know lol.. Most of this stuff is way over my head. They are games i ran after installing CIAs to my emunand.

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The folder looks like this.

 

[HyperT]

Do you have the emunand you were using still?

Did you make those backups with jksm?

 

[godreborn]

u have to use the gateway cart to mount the game to extract the saves since they're encrypted. it's not difficult to do, but u do need the cart if u still have it. also, gateway doesn't work with the latest a9lh version afaik, and it currently doesn't work with the latest firmware either. u can downgrade the firmware and install a9lh v1 to use with gateway, then install the latest a9lh and update to the latest firmware with a9lh. I converted all of my games when I moved on from gateway. works perfectly. good luck!

 

[fuctfuct]

Still have the cart but you're right i wont be able to boot it, easily. Oh well.

 

[godreborn]

maybe one day gateway will update their arm9loaderhax.bin. they might update the launcher.dat to fix the patched 11.3.0-36 block though. however, since they've become so irrelevant, they probably don't care so much.

 

[proflayton123]

When i used my gateway i never ran roms off of the cart i just used emunand and CIAs. I have a directory on my PC where i dumped everything (just copy paste) from an old SD card i was using for that (the one that goes in the 3DS not the gateway). So, i have everything set up after following the 3ds.guide and have installed some CIA games.

Is there anyway i can take my saves from a couple Zelda/Mario games from my old "gateway" SD card "backup" and use it with my new setup? No big deal if i can't. But would be cool if i could

https://gbatemp.net/threads/importing-gateway-saves-to-cia-games.425743/ Guide, credits to @MattKimura

 

[fuctfuct]

Are they gateway saves though if i never ran them from the card? I only used the card to load emunand.

 

[godreborn]

.sav is a gateway save.

 

[fuctfuct]

hmm.. those might be from forever ago when i ran some games off the card. Is there a place in the Nintendo 3DS dir that might have enumand saves? Just thinking outloud lol.. i have no idea about most of this stuff.

 

[godreborn]

the saves should be in the Nintendo 3DS folder. if the NANDs r linked, u'll probably have just one alphanumeric folder name. where? I'm not sure which folder saves r located in. it sounds like ur NANDs were unlinked at some point which is y u can't use the saves in sysNAND. I have no experience with converting saves from emuNAND to sysNAND though, so this is mostly speculation. someone else should know for sure.

 

[fuctfuct]

Yea, i remember unlinking them at some point a while ago.

 

[fuctfuct]

Tried over writing a sav with an old one for funsies.. no workie haha

Edit - figured it out

 

[Troyjoy]

Hey there. I see you have more than one alphanumeric code and I’m new to hacking. The tutorial I’m looking at says you should have one. I see yours looks like mine. What did you do and which did you pick?

 

[Hyoretsu]

Oof, now that was a wild necro.

Hey there. I see you have more than one alphanumeric code and I’m new to hacking. The tutorial I’m looking at says you should have one. I see yours looks like mine. What did you do and which did you pick?

If you just check each of the folders you'll see that one is basically useless with only a few files/folders in it and the other one is huge, the "real" one you're looking for. Also, not hacking.