Hardware Empty home screen after a successful system transfer between a 3DS XL to a new 2DS XL

[dreampeppers99]

Short;

1. Bought a new 2ds xl and equip it with a 128GB SDXC card
2. Made a transfer system (followed the Nintendo official guide through Wi-Fi) from my old 3ds xl
3. The transfer was sucess, both systems (source and target) showed success messages
4. In order to turn off my old system (3ds) I had to accept its format
5. when I turn on my new 2ds, it showed an empty home screen (BUT with my users logged, folders and empty spaces the way there were at my old system)
   
6. from this new 2ds, when I go to eshop it says "Error Code: 007-2075 - Could not access the SD Card."

Long;

After that I started a jorney to recovery my games AND MOST importantly my saves =/ , to sum up, I learned that no xDS system seems to be compatible with a bigger microSD card.

Someone pointed me to copy and past the folder "Nintendo 3DS" from this micro sd card and then I put the card at my computer and it shows used 9GB:



But when I copied this folder it was faster than I'd expected ;/ I try to see its content and it seems to not match the advised sd card usage:

ls -lah /Volumes/NO\ NAME/Nintendo\ 3DS
480K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/Private/00020400
512K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/Private
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/000a5900/data
64K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/000a5900
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/0006e800
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/00054600
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/000ef800
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/00119a00
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/0014d600
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/00033500
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/00111b00
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/0014c200
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/000c6600
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/000b3c00
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/00125500
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/00050100
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/0011a300
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/0011a600
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/0015d800
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/000dcd00
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/00126d00
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/00066300
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/0013ee00
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/0015a400
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/0012e700
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/0014f100
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/00161b00
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/0006f100
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/000c2900
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/0016f600
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/00132700
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/001c7400
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/001bb200
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/001afa00
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000/001d1900
1.1M /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040000
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/0004008c
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/0004000e
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title/00040002
1.2M /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/title
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/dbs
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/extdata
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/backup
32K /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000/Nintendo DSiWare
1.3M /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933/0322010c440000004150505300003000
1.4M /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS/453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933
1.9M /Volumes/NO NAME/Nintendo 3DS

Now, what can I do? how can I copy this (imcompatible) sd card to a smaller one? (the pure cp -r or cmd + c and cmd + doesn't work)

 

[TurdPooCharger]

Real 128 GB cards are roughly 119-120 GB in usable capacity. Your's states having 134.22 GB, which is not normal memory size.

Your supposed 128 GB card is fake. To see this for yourself,

1. Copy everything off your SD card onto a computer.
   
2. Reformat the card in [FAT32 format | 32 KB cluster size | Primary Partition | MBR disk] with Windows File Explorer, guiformat if bigger than 32 GB, or MiniTool Partition Wizard (free edition).
   • For Linux or Mac, you'll have to find whatever comparable programs that does this.
3. Scan the empty card in H2testw (Windows), F3 (Linux), or F3X (Mac) for hardware problems.

 

[dreampeppers99]

Thanks, I'll do it =/ so I might guess that I lost my 2 years animal crossing saving? (can I recovery from the old sdcard, with some data recover tool?)

But at least my games I'll be able to recovery isn't? Do I need to reformat my new 2ds or can I just enter on the home screen with a valid sd card and 3ds will start to download them? (or do I need to go to eshop->mygames and download one by one?)

 

[lone_wolf323]

Thanks, I'll do it =/ so I might guess that I lost my 2 years animal crossing saving? (can I recovery from the old sdcard, with some data recover tool?)

But at least my games I'll be able to recovery isn't? Do I need to reformat my new 2ds or can I just enter on the home screen with a valid sd card and 3ds will start to download them? (or do I need to go to eshop->mygames and download one by one?)

As long as your 3ds has your NNID on it. Which you said it should. You can go the the eshop and redownload each game you have purchased before.

 

[TurdPooCharger]

Thanks, I'll do it =/ so I might guess that I lost my 2 years animal crossing saving? (can I recovery from the old sdcard, with some data recover tool?)

But at least my games I'll be able to recovery isn't? Do I need to reformat my new 2ds or can I just enter on the home screen with a valid sd card and 3ds will start to download them? (or do I need to go to eshop->mygames and download one by one?)

Maybe.

• List of data recovery programs

 

[dreampeppers99]

Thanks you two I could see some files that seems to be the save from the games:

From new microSD card:

From old SD card:

But now some questions:

• How can I know which game does belong the folder LostXXX? are those numbers something that I can map to the 3ds released games?
• If I can map these .sav files to games, can I just create a folder and past them there and my new 3ds to work as my save? (in which I'll dowload all the games again, since it didn't work out)

I accept any new suggestions

 

[TurdPooCharger]

Thanks you two I could see some files that seems to be the save from the games:

From new microSD card:

From old SD card:

But now some questions:

• How can I know which game does belong the folder LostXXX? are those numbers something that I can map to the 3ds released games?
• If I can map these .sav files to games, can I just create a folder and past them there and my new 3ds to work as my save? (in which I'll dowload all the games again, since it didn't work out)

I accept any new suggestions

Here comes the tricky part. You have to copy all the lost folders over onto computer. Then, you make another copy of that copied set and delete all the CMD and APP files. Next, you would need to manually look in each TMD files with a hex editor to find what each of their Title ID goes to.

You would then painstakingly relocate each of those SAV files depending on the Title ID, like this:

For example, the title ID of Pokemon Sun is 0004000000164800.

• smdc:/Nintendo 3DS/<ID0>/<ID1>/00040000/00164800/data/00000001.sav

Your stated <ID0> is 453d5ee684e3403a62c06924ccf59933, which matters as it has match to the correct movable.sed for which system that has it (the target n2DSXL in System Transfer).
Your stated <ID1> is 0322010c440000004150505300003000, which doesn't matter as long it is 32-char long.

Once you have all the SAV files in the correct directories, you'll then need to reinstall clean copies of those games with the exact Title IDs. Follow this guide about copying and pasting those saves.

• I made a NAND backup awhile back, now had to recover, missing games.

Edit - My bad. You can't even look in the TMD files because they're encrypted. They need to be in the correct folder locations with the movable.sed to view them in hex editor. There's so much guess work working your ways backward.

 

[GerbilSoft]

Real 128 GB cards are roughly 119-120 GB in usable capacity. Your's states having 134.22 GB, which is not normal memory size.

Your supposed 128 GB card is fake. To see this for yourself,

As of Mac OS X 10.6, the system displays storage device sizes using decimal megabytes, not binary. (I guess they thought it's "easier", but it just gets in the way most of the time.) 134.22 GB == 125 GiB, which sounds about right.

 

[TurdPooCharger]

As of Mac OS X 10.6, the system displays storage device sizes using decimal megabytes, not binary. (I guess they thought it's "easier", but it just gets in the way most of the time.) 134.22 GB == 125 GiB, which sounds about right.

That's still roughly 5 GB too many. Flash memory takes a rounded down approach in selling stated capacity (128 GB) versus actual capacity (119-120 GB).

I'm sorry as I didn't distinguish the difference between GB vs GiB.

• 1073741824 bytes = 1 gigabyte (real definition, conversion factor)

However, due to manufacturing tolerance, flash product companies agreed that:

• 1000000000 bytes ≃ 1 gigabyte

While not a perfect formula for some of the lower capacities:

128 GB [stated market size] × (1000000000/1073741824) = 119.2 GB [actual usable size]

Somethings, you get a little more or less; I've read reviews for Silicon Power 128 GB micro SDXC going as low as 117 GB.

 

[dreampeppers99]

Thank you very much, you're being soo much helpful =)

The only games I care about their saves are Animal Crossing: New Leaf (0004000000086300) and Animal Crossing: Happy home design (000400000014F100) (I took these titles ids from http://www.3dsdb.com/).

Let's take ACNL as an example, if I understood correctly, I should then the find the folder structure in my (recovered) SD card that has the folders 00040000 followed by 00086300?

If yes, I don't see anything close to these two numbers ;/ I see the files .sav into folders with the pattern Lost<Number>/Lost<Number>/<Number>.sav Where can I see the title ids?

PS: I'm still using the "free" version of this recovery data tool, this is the "recovery view", the app itself might recover the full path.... I don't know, since it costs 79 USD, I'm only gonna pay it if I see I can get back my saves.

 

[TurdPooCharger]

Thank you very much, you're being soo much helpful =)

The only games I care about their saves are Animal Crossing: New Leaf (0004000000086300) and Animal Crossing: Happy home design (000400000014F100) (I took these titles ids from http://www.3dsdb.com/).

Let's take ACNL as an example, if I understood correctly, I should then the find the folder structure in my (recovered) SD card that has the folders 00040000 followed by 00086300?

If yes, I don't see anything close to these two numbers ;/ I see the files .sav into folders with the pattern Lost<Number>/Lost<Number>/<Number>.sav Where can I see the title ids?

PS: I'm still using the "free" version of this recovery data tool, this is the "recovery view", the app itself might recover the full path.... I don't know, since it costs 79 USD, I'm only gonna pay it if I see I can get back my saves.

You need to make sure you get the correct region (EUR vs USA) and edition (New Leaf - Welcome aiimbo) for those games. Also, for the Animal Crossing series, you can't drag and drop the SAV files and launch the games because they'll get deleted due to anti-cheat protection. The only way to bypass this is to reset something called the Secure Value by backing up and restoring the save in place.

Start with one game, and go through matching the APP size and numbering versus what is installed. The SAV file size should match between dummy version and what was retrieved.

Drag and drop the save where it's suppose to be located and try backing up & restoring with Checkpoint or JKSM. Afterwards, launch the game and check if the save was restored. If not, you try the next suspected save.

 

[dreampeppers99]

You need to make sure you get the correct region (EUR vs USA) and edition (New Leaf - Welcome aiimbo) for those games. Also, for the Animal Crossing series, you can't drag and drop the SAV files and launch the games because they'll get deleted due to anti-cheat protection. The only way to bypass this is to reset something called the Secure Value by backing up and restoring the save in place.

Start with one game, and go through matching the APP size and numbering versus what is installed. The SAV file size should match between dummy version and what was retrieved.

Drag and drop the save where it's suppose to be located and try backing up & restoring with Checkpoint or JKSM. Afterwards, launch the game and check if the save was restored. If not, you try the next suspected save.

I'll try to follow what you described but first I'll recover my sd card using an open source and free alternative =/ TestDisk (or photorec) as soon as I'll be able to see the files, I 'll try your suggestions.

 

[TurdPooCharger]

I'll try to follow what you described but first I'll recover my sd card using an open source and free alternative =/ https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf (or photorec) as soon as I'll be able to see the files, I 'll try your suggestions.

I don't recommend free or trial versions of recovery data software because they generally suck in finding files or limitation in how much you're allowed to recovery.

You should get the good stuff. You don't necessarily have to buy them if you know how to search bittorrents and have flexable morals. What you do and how you go about getting paid software is your own business.