Video Guide (slightly outdated)

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Introduction

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This thread will guide you through on how to get any official badge you could possibly think of, and also how to group each badge into sets.

NOTE: Nintendo's servers have officially "shutdown" as of the 8/4/2024 and the downloading part of Allbadge Tool may stop working any day since it still relies on said servers. Replacing the links with mirrors that lead to the same files could be a way to go, but until the servers are fully down, we'll have to wait.

Setup

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Before starting, you're going to need a few things:

• A modded 3DS with boot9strap
• Simple Badge Injector
• Allbadge Tool
• Advanced Badge Editor
• A way to read your SD card

Assumptions

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This guide assumes the following:

• You followed the 3ds.hacks.guide step by step to mod your 3ds, or update your modded 3ds.
• You know some basic understanding of transferring files from your 3DS's SD card to your PC and vice versa.

Getting the arm9 bootrom

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This will be needed for the allbadge tool, as it is required for decrypting some files.

• Boot your 3DS holding Start. This should open GodMode9
• Move to [M:] MEMORY VIRTUAL and press A
• Move to boot9.bin and press A
• Move to Copy to 0:/gm9/out and press A
• While holding R, press Start to turn your 3DS off

Your boot9.bin file should now be on your SD card inside of /gm9/out.

Getting the badges

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Having obtained the arm9 bootrom, you can now use the Allbadge Tool.

• Make sure your boot9.bin is in the same folder as allbadge_tool.exe
• Open allbadge_tool.exe
• Select the versions you wish to download ex.: EUR v131
• Click the begin button
  • Wait until everything is done
  • If any error occurs, make sure to read what the error says. If it's something you can solve manually, do it so. Report any other weird errors to me
• Once done, you should have zip files for the badges you want inside a data folder
• You may want to extract the folders for the sets you want

With this step done, we now have all the badges.

Spoiler: EXTRA: Getting badge data from the Nintendo Badge Arcade updates

This is not usually needed, but may include badges that are otherwise missing on the other files.

• Move this GodMode9 script to the /gm9/scripts folder on your SD card
• Boot your 3DS holding Start. This should open GodMode9
• Press the HOME button
• Nagivate to Scripts... > BadgeExtractTool
• Select the desired options from here
• Select Exit and press A once you're done
• While holding R, press Start to turn your 3DS off
• Take any pc_REGION.sarc file from the /gm9/out folder on your SD card and move them to the data folder of the Allbadge Tool
• Running the Allbadge Tool, you can now make use of the pc REGION options to extract their contents

With this step done, we now have ALL the badges (specially if you extracted the Japanese sarc).

Creating badge data

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To actually import the extracted badges, you will need to use Advanced Badge Editor.

• Open Advanced_badge_editor.exe
• Go to File > New data
• Go to Import > Entire set data (*.prb and *.cab)
  • An alternative to this process could involve using the Simple Badge Injector to dump your own BadgeData.dat and BadgeMngFile.dat files
  • In that case, use File > Open data and select the folder where those files are
• Select the set's .cab file
• Select the set's .prb files (you can select multiple)
• Click 255 of each badge for essentially all the badges you need
• Go to File > Save data to...
• Select a folder to save the badge files to
• You can close the app

Now you should now have seemling legit BadgeData.dat and BadgeMngFile.dat files.

Installing Simple Badge Injector and injecting the data

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Finally, to use your badges, you're going to need to inject them.

• Move the SimpleBadgeInjector.cia to anywhere on your SD card
• Move the BadgeData.dat and BadgeMngFile.dat files to /3ds/SimpleBadgeInjector relative to the SD card's root
  • If the folder doesn't exist, make sure to create it and name it exactly the same!
• Boot your 3DS with the SD card inside
• Open FBI
• Install the SimpleBadgeInjector.cia
• Close FBI
• Open Simple Badge Injector
• Select Dump badge data. This will backup any badge data you might have (optional)
• Select Inject badge data and press A
  • In case any unexpected errors occur, please report them to me

You should now have injected a generous amount of official badges!

Credits

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This guide would not have been possible without a lot of research done by other people:

• 3DBrew for documenting most of data I had to deal with
• Custom Mario Kart Wiki for having information on Yaz0 compressed files
• SciresM's BadgeArcadeTool for code on reading and extracting SARC archives
• yellows8's boot9_tools for having a lot of information on the ARM9 Bootrom's AES keys

Please report any issues here, or on this repository!

Spoiler: Outdated tutorial here

Introduction​

This thread will guide you through on how to get ANY OFFICIAL badge you could possible think of, and also how to group each badge into sets!

Setup​

Before starting, you will need a few things:

• Nintendo Badge Arcade. (optional)
• A 3DS system with CFW (Preferably with Boot9strap)
• GodMode9 v1.2.7 (Read the "Quick start guide". aeskeydb.bin, seeddb.bin and encTitlekeys.bin are not needed)
• A Tool Pack I made for this guide
• Nintendo Badge Arcade's latest update installed or as CIA. (optional)
• An SD card reader

Make sure that you have GodMode9.firm inside the "luma/payloads" folder on your SD card, and that you have FBI installed!

Get the official badge data and get the arm9 bootrom file​

This is the first thing you will need to do if you want to get anything at all.

• Boot your 3DS while holding Start + Select + X. (you need to stop holding them if you want to boot normally)
• Turn your 3DS off.
• Un-zip the Tool Pack.zip you downloaded.
• Run "download data.bat" and select the data you want to download. (the data will be downloaded to the "gm9" folder)
  • If you want every single badge, then download the Japanese badge data. (They have all the badges -.-)
• Insert your 3DS's SD card in your computer.
• Copy the boot9.bin file from the boot9strap folder on the root of your SD card to the Tool Pack folder.

There exists some extra badge data, but that is located inside of the Nintendo Badge Arcade files. This part is optional, and you can do it after downloading the BOSS encrypted ("allbadge_[VERSION]_[REGION].sarc") files:

• Copy the gm9 folder from the Tool Pack folder to the root of your SD card.
• Insert your SD card back in your 3DS and boot your 3DS while holding Start.
• If you have the CIA file of the latest Nintendo Badge Arcade update:
  • Make sure the CIA file is inside the gm9 folder (on your SD card) and that it's named NBA Update [REGION].cia (replace [REGION] with the region of the CIA)
  • Boot your 3DS while holding start to launch GodMode9
  • Press the Home button
  • Select the following options: More... > Scripts... > BadgeData CIA [REGION] (select the one with the region of the CIA)
• If you have the latest Nintendo Badge Arcade updateinstalled:
  • Boot your 3DS while holding start to launch GodMode9
  • Press the Home button
  • Select the following options: More... > Scripts... > BadgeData Title [REGION] (select the one with the region of the installed title, usually the region of your console)
• Turn off your 3DS by holding R + Start.
• Insert your 3DS's SD card back into your computer.

Extract and decompress the compressed badges and sets​

Now that you have the encrypted boss files (allbadge_[VERSION]_[REGION].dat) (and optionally, the badge_data_[REGION].sarc, which isn't BOSS encrypted), you will have to decrypt the boss encrypted files and extract the badges and sets within them:

• Move the badge_data_[REGION].sarc (if you have it) file from the gm9 folder on your SD card to the Tool Pack folder on your computer.
• Run the extract badge data.bat batch file inside Tool Pack
• You should now have all of the badge data!
• Additional information:
  • The badge data was extracted to the decompressed folder.
  • The badges and set files are located in their respective set folder.
  • This Pastebin has the names of all of the sets you can get from the European and American data (The Japanese data has more badges and sets)

Edit it your own badge data (for the users that have badges, either from Nintendo Badge Arcade or customized)​

Now that you have the decompressed badges and sets, you might want to add some to your own badge data. But first, you will need to extract it...

• Insert your SD card back in your 3DS and boot it up normally.
• Launch FBI
• Go to TitleDB and look for Simple Badge Injector. Install it.
  • If for some reason you can't install it, then install it with the SimpleBadgeInjector.cia inside of the Tool Pack folder.
• Exit FBI
• Launch Simple Badge Injector
• Select the Dump badge data option, and wait...
• Exit the app
• Shutdown your 3DS and insert the SD card back into your computer.
• Inside of the Tool Pack, open Advanced badge editor
• Select File > Open data. Next, browse for your badge files folder (Select This PC > <Your SD card> > Dumped Badge Files)
• Repeat the following steps to add new sets:
  • Select Import > Entire set data (*.prb and *.cab)
  • Open the decompressed folder and choose a set folder.
  • Select the set file inside of the set folder.
  • Select all of the badges inside of that set folder.
• You can give yourself 255 of each badge by clicking the 255 of each badge button
• Select File > Save data to... and navigate to the root of your SD card and create a new folder called Badge Files (if it doesn't exist). Select it and click ok
• Close Advanced badge editor and insert your SD card back into your 3DS
• Boot your 3DS.
• Launch Simple Badge Injector
• Select the Inject custom badge data option, and wait...
• Exit the app
• Enjoy your new badges

Create badge data (for the users that never used Nintendo Badge Arcade and don't have badges)​

This will let you create your own badge data without needing Nintendo Badge Arcade

• Inside of the Tool Pack, open Advanced badge editor
• Next, select File > New Data. You will now have to find your NNID if you want your badge data to work (which is explained here).
• Insert your SD card back in your 3DS and boot it up normally.
• Launch FBI
• Go to TitleDB and look for Simple Badge Injector. Install it.
  • If for some reason you can't install it, then install it with the SimpleBadgeInjector.cia inside of the Tool Pack folder.
• Exit FBI
• Launch Simple Badge Injector
• Copy the NNID number that is displayed on your 3DS to the NNID box in the Advanced badge editor application.
• Exit the Simple Badge Injector app
• Shutdown your 3DS and insert the SD card back into your computer.
• Repeat the following steps to add new sets:
  • Select Import > Entire set data (*.prb and *.cab)
  • Open the decompressed folder and choose a set folder.
  • Select the set file inside of the set folder.
  • Select all of the badges inside of that set folder.
• You can give yourself 255 of each badge by clicking the 255 of each badge button
• Select File > Save data and navigate to the root of your SD card and create a new folder called Badge Files (if it doesn't exist). Select it and click "Ok"
• Close Advanced badge editor and insert your SD card back into your 3DS
• Boot your 3DS.
• Launch Simple Badge Injector
• Select the Create ExtData archive 0x14D1 option, and wait...
• Select the Inject custom badge data option, and wait...
• Exit the app
• Enjoy your new badges

Credits​

Here comes the part that everyone loves! Right?

• Information about *.prb and *.cab files and links to the badge data files - @redunka
• CTRAesEngine and SARC.cs (used to make BadgeExtract) - @SciresM
• BadgeExtract - @TheMachinumps
• Advanced Badge Editor V1.3.1 - The one and only, @TheMachinumps
• Simple Badge Injector - Once again, @TheMachinumps
• FBI - @Steveice10
• GodMode9 - dok3 (on GitHub)

Help​

Have any questions? Just ask me, and I will try to answer them =)

You cannot get banned by getting official badges this way (at least I don't think having them effects you in any way, I might be wrong though). If you get banned, that might be because you were caught using unauthorized software, in which case I recommend you use Luma3DS's (if you have it of course) "masking" feature to load Homebrew Launcher with a system application and also using the 3DSX version of the "Simple Badge Injector". (you need to patch the "SM" process using Rosalina (if you have Luma3DS) if you want to know what your NNID is).

Oh, and I discovered that you can only place up to 360 badges, and no more, on the Home Menu (with folders included)...

If you have succeeded in getting any badge you wanted, then take a screenshot and share it here =P (Just for fun)

Spoiler: ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿'̿'\̵͇̿̿\з= ( ▀ ͜͞ʖ▀) =ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿̿

I hope this isn't illegal -.-

 

[gotchi]

Perhaps it was one of the last added in rotation for the Western versions, but the Japanese version received them much earlier, even before the last app update got released (Badge Arcade itself was exclusive to Japan for a long time).


Seems like you might be running an outdated version of GM9, could you check it?

Bless you and your swift replies Outdated godmode (v 1.4..!) was indeed the issue.
HHDs files were present in the regions .sarc : )

 

[G11dog]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but is the limit 1000 different badges or will I reach the 1000 badge limit if I have 255 of 4 different badges?

 

[kuro0628neko]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but is the limit 1000 different badges or will I reach the 1000 badge limit if I have 255 of 4 different badges?

Why would you have that exponential multiple of only four badges? Genuine question because I may be reading this wrong.

 

[redunka]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but is the limit 1000 different badges or will I reach the 1000 badge limit if I have 255 of 4 different badges?

It should only affect unique badges, so you can safely set each of them to 255 without hitting the limit.

Why would you have that exponential multiple of only four badges? Genuine question because I may be reading this wrong.

Well, maybe not only four, but having multiple copies of certain badges allows doing fun stuff like this:

I wonder if anyone had ever managed to max out any badge legally, i.e. by catching it in the Badge Arcade again and again.

 

[r1cola]

regarding NNID...should it be taken from your legit account or the one that's shown while set to Pretendo?
Mine dont always match up

 

[Trip_Away]

I think some of the badges in allbadges tool are missing. I don´t found some shortcut badges from the set of NES The Legend of Zelda.

regarding NNID...should it be taken from your legit account or the one that's shown while set to Pretendo?
Mine dont always match up

Pretendo put instructions about how restore NBA badges here

 

[redunka]

I think some of the badges in allbadges tool are missing. I don´t found some shortcut badges from the set of NES The Legend of Zelda.

Those are not included in online packs, they're inside of NBA app itself, and the tutorial has an "EXTRA" spoiler that explains how to get them.

 

[Trip_Away]

Those are not included in online packs, they're inside of NBA app itself, and the tutorial has an "EXTRA" spoiler that explains how to get them.

Oh, thanks.

If only i make a backup of my badges before they erased it.

 

[Onxyloa28]

Maybe i'm just stupid but everythng in the tutorial went succsefully but I still can't seem to get the badge menu on 3ds to appear in the first place. I never used badge arcade when the online servers where still on so think I'm just stuck

 

[AntiMach]

Maybe i'm just stupid but everythng in the tutorial went succsefully but I still can't seem to get the badge menu on 3ds to appear in the first place. I never used badge arcade when the online servers where still on so think I'm just stuck

Did you set the NNID when using Advanced Badge Editor correctly? I'm working on changing this, might just make a quick change to make it work for now and then I'll fix the rest later, but this is usually caused by setting the wrong NNID or by not setting it at all.

Post automatically merged: Aug 11, 2024

Update: Simple badge injector is now simpler, check the release for more details.

 

[PigglyWiggly]

for some reason i get

Failed to write to extdata archive

 

[AntiMach]

for some reason i get

Failed to write to extdata archive

Try doing this:
- Close Simple Badge Injector
- Open the home menu's badge box (if you have it)
- Close the badge box
- Open Simple Badge Injector and try injecting again.

Please tell me if it still does not work!

 

[PigglyWiggly]

Try doing this:
- Close Simple Badge Injector
- Open the home menu's badge box (if you have it)
- Close the badge box
- Open Simple Badge Injector and try injecting again.

Please tell me if it still does not work!

I dont have the badge box, is this compatible with pretendo? if not then thats why im still getting an error

 

[AntiMach]

I dont have the badge box, is this compatible with pretendo? if not then thats why im still getting an error

This should absolutely be compatible with pretendo, but lemme check!

Edit. This issue has now been fixed (hopefully)

 

[Parkay]

Thank you for the tutorial! But when I extracted the 1.3.1 JPN PC SARC. There seem to be some sets missing like Pixel Collection and Pokemon Pixel set thingy. As well as some of the Pokemon Event stickers missing. Is there something I can do about it?

 

[AntiMach]

Thank you for the tutorial! But when I extracted the 1.3.1 JPN PC SARC. There seem to be some sets missing like Pixel Collection and Pokemon Pixel set thingy. As well as some of the Pokemon Event stickers missing. Is there something I can do about it?

Unfortunately, unless you had been using Nintendo Badge Arcade every week since the game's release up until the game's weekly updates stopped being maintained, there's probably no way of getting those badges anymore. If you know someone who might have used the arcade that much, they may still have a lot of saved SpotPass data that could contain these badges.

I am currently looking into data I might have from the game on my consoles, just to see if it's even worth it, I'll update on here eventually I find anything new or not.

 

[redunka]

Thank you for the tutorial! But when I extracted the 1.3.1 JPN PC SARC. There seem to be some sets missing like Pixel Collection and Pokemon Pixel set thingy. As well as some of the Pokemon Event stickers missing. Is there something I can do about it?

You need both v130 and v131 as well as the extra "pc" SARC from a .cia or installed update of Badge Arcade itself to get the complete collection.
This way you'll get 8 572 badges, which should be everything ever released, so as long as you have those 3 specific SARCs backed up you won't ever need any other data.
If you're curious about JPN v100 - that's an older version of SpotPass archive that got superseded by v130+v131, it doesn't have anything unique and can be skipped.

 

[Parkay]

Thank youuuuuuu!!! But what is the Extra "PC" SARC? And how do I extract it?

 

[redunka]

Thank youuuuuuu!!! But what is the Extra "PC" SARC?

There's a spoiler in the tutorial that says "EXTRA: Getting badge data from the Nintendo Badge Arcade updates", you should follow that.
If you want to get Japanese badges, you'll need a .cia of the latest update for Japanese Badge Arcade, it will have TItle ID "0004000E00134600".
After you follow the extra tutorial above and get the pc_JPN.sarc from that .cia, just put it in the allbadge tool's data folder and check "JPN v130", "JPN v131" and "pc JPN" - this will download any missing SpotPass archives and extract everything.

 

[Parkay]

HOLY SHOT IT ACTUALLY WORKS!!! THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!

Post automatically merged: Sep 1, 2024

(Idk if I should merge this) Honestly, I'm kinda curious, what does these Book folder thing do? Why are they empty?