Homebrew Can't restore SD card, lost digital game saves

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I thought I could just restore my SD Files. How would I fix this? An older backup works, but when booting DSI titles, I get an error, same with Gameboy, but NES games work, and I got my saves back via old backup. These are all ambassador games by the way.
 
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Why can't you restore it? What is the error?
My emunand doesn't boot when copying my "Nintendo 3DS" folder. I also have double the stock apps, which go away after launching Miiverse and exiting, or whatever home menu refreshing action.
 

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What about using save manager and extradatadump homebrew apps to extract them them inject them to emunand.
 

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did you re inject the backup emunand? One cannot Drag and drop and hope emunand will be fine
See, I inject my NAND.bin, and get my things back, but then I can't update. Injecting lower emunand firmware, and it doesn't boot. I have to clone my 9.2 sysnand, so my emunand is 9.2, then inject my NAND.bin, or Emunand.bin.
 

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Are the backup files and emunand made at the same time?
No. I am using a backup I made before even creating Emunand. My saves and stuff work if my emunand is on 9.2, I just can't update. I get a black screen on "Creating Home Menu" or something of that variant.
 

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First pretend you never made emunand before, sysnand keys will be 1,emunand will be 2,when you made your backup,all games were linked to 1,and when you create emunand,it makes a copy from sysnand meaning emunand keys will be 1 too so when unlinking by formating sysnand,it's keys switch to like ugh...3...so the saves and games in your sd card are still linked with 1 and won't work with 3,3=/=1,but it still works with emunand since both of the keys are 1 and sysnand is 3 meaning that's now unlinked nand, problem if you create a new emunand, it will have the key 3 since it copy's sysnand, and your sd backup files is linked to key 1 since it was made before emunand and you formatted after...get what im trying to say, the sd files don't match with current emunand keys

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To backup your emunand system, backup emunand with a tool and copy the sd files linked with it
 
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First pretend you never made emunand before, sysnand keys will be 1,emunand will be 2,when you made your backup,all games were linked to 1,and when you create emunand,it makes a copy from sysnand meaning emunand keys will be 1 too so when unlinking by formating sysnand,it's keys switch to like ugh...3...so the saves and games in your sd card are still linked with 1 and won't work with 3,3=/=1,but it still works with emunand since both of the keys are 1 and sysnand is 3 meaning that's now unlinked nand, problem if you create a new emunand, it will have the key 3 since it copy's sysnand, and your sd backup files is linked to key 1 since it was made before emunand and you formatted after...get what im trying to say, the sd files don't match with current emunand keys

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To backup your emunand system, backup emunand with a tool and copy the sd files linked with it
Gotcha, ok. Thank you
 

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