Hello.. i lost my save file and town because i stupidly formatted my 3ds micro sd card using quick format option on my pc then i remembered that the animal crossing version i have is a digital which means the save file is ON the micro sd (because i have digital version bought from eshop & never owned the physical cartridge).
Anyway, i installed and bought disk drill software license to retrieve the 3ds folders which i think it did a good job at and i got the same folder structure and everything before it was deleted (but i have no way of knowing or testing, i only reaized after i inserted the sd card again in 3ds and noticed everything is different, but by that stage the 3ds created a new folders and all on the memory card which people say gives you much less hope of retrieving original data since it would be overwritten, but when i checked the retrieved dcim folder with disk drill had the old DCIM with all my deleted images restored so im hopeful it did the same for all data and save files without corruption. And i didnt play anything or create a save data as far as i remember after i realized that everything was gone). So when i returned the retrieved data from the pc to the sd card the game still didnt recognize that i had a save file and there was no "continue" option only "start a new game"
I tried hacking 3ds using the cfw which has homebrew/ godmod and all that but i failed to retrieve it because it is very difficult for me to understand it's so complicated and there is much jargon and things that could go wrong and i had never hacked a thing in my life. No matter how much i read i couldnt learn. I barely managed to download the cfw correctly (there was a youtube video i copied all steps in it except the final step which was the finalizing folder the link he used in description for downloading stuff said there was updated finalizing process and i followed what was written in the website, but he ended up having all new apps for hacking after he finalized while i didnt, i had to install something called fbi i think or cia cant remember and barely managed to launch homebrew launcher using download play) . I tried to do one fix which didnt work ( i saw a video of someone deleting a secure value something to unlock the animal crossing save data) which didnt work and i didnt even know if i did it properly the whole thing is so hard. I got frustrated and ended up uninstalling the cfw and do a system format as part of the cfw uninstallation.
Can you retrieve my town for me? I have the entire original 3DS folder retrieved from disk drill which i hope will work. I also have something called Nand back up folder which has 3 files inside it, that the video i followed for hacking and he said it is very important to keep in case of bricking. I read somewhere that people can use the nandback up to decrypt the save file since the encryption keys change after i formatted as part of uninstalling cfw (but i have the backup from before i uninstalled the cfw and before any system format ever). can you do it for me or teach me how to do it (like u are teaching someone who is 5 years old
? (Im that ignorant when it comes to thesw things). I can also give u both the retrieved 3ds folder and the NANDbackup folder thing. I dont want a hacked console if i can avoid it i just want my town back :,(.
this will take u about 1 hour)
