Pretty much what the topic says.

With the original Sky3DS, I could customize the sort order just by dragging them into the DiskWriter in the order I wanted. First, second, third and so on would be on the card in that order.

Now that it's just using FAT32 it's a bit...erratic. At first I thought it based the order on file write times (so something like FAT Sorter could make them go in alphabetical order, for example) but when I put a couple .3ds files on there without letting the card create its default save data, they were in the reverse order than I thought.

I managed to get four games in the order I want, by putting only one on the card, letting it make the .sav, putting another on and so on. But that seems to be it... I tried to put a fifth game on there and it always shows up in the middle. As #3 of 5. I deleted the file, verified the four were in the order I want, put it back on again, back to #3... whether I have game 1, 2, 3 or 4 mounted when I do it.

I know this card is brand new, but has anyone figured this out yet? It would be handy to know, some of us are super anal about the order their games appear

 

If you really want to, you could put a number in front of the file name if you want to order the games in a certain way

 

I put my games on my SD card randomly and they appear in alphabetical order in the 3DS...

 

Well, let me ask, did you put a bunch of games on and then put the Sky3DS into your 3DS - having not loaded any of them before? It might resort to alphabetical order if it detects several new games that don't already have config files.

Haha, totally wasn't intending to use the word "order" 3 times in a row...


Anyway, I'm going to do a little testing and report back. I have a theory, but it doesn't fully satisfy my curiosity.

 

No I didn't put all my games at the same time on the SD.
But now this makes me wondering too if it works like I thought. I'll have to test later.

 

What doesn't add up, though, is that when I rename the game it changes the order. From what I know about file allocation tables (FAT32 and whatnot), that shouldn't happen.

Anyone else want to do a test? Get these four games (US region)

Pokémon Y
Pokémon AS
Tomodachi Life
Super Smash Bros.

Put them on the MicroSD in that order (Y first, then AS and so on)

They should show up in that order on the Sky3DS+. But that's not alphabetical, S comes before T!

Then get Cubic Ninja, put that on

It'll be somewhere in the middle

So it's not "order the game was put on the SD" either.

 

Yeah, it seems to work if I use numbers and keep them that way. (though it's actually backwards with the highest number being first o.O)

so I have

1. Pokémon Y.3ds
2. Pokémon AlphaSapphire.3ds
3. Tomodachi Life.3ds
4. Super Smash Bros.3ds
5. Cubic Ninja.3ds

The numbers are in the filename

But it's gotta be something like "if nothing else, use alphabetical order, but also try to sort by ____"


I've emailed Sky3DS before but they're a bunch of Engrish-speaking vague hackers who don't want to answer technical questions like this. I'm probably on their ignored senders list after I bugged them with the last question, LOL.