I found a workaround how to export/import Card1 Savegames (no retail support)

First you know we had the problem of " CTR - BROKEN ", but there is a little trick to it.

!MT-Card USER can do this without Workaround because the save gets loaded on ROM mounting!

To fetch your Cartridge Savegames, you can use this method: NTR Savegame Manager Plugin

We need:

- Red Gateway Card
- The Exploit
- Launcher.dat (tested with 3.0.3 Ultra)
- SaveDataFiler
- The .3ds/.3dz/.cia Game you want to export/import
- A working Savegame (Dumped Savegames from Retail might not work)
- A PC/MAC (any Device capeable to rename Files)

!MAKE ALWAYS BACKUPS FROM YOUR SAVEGAMES!

A. EXPORT .3ds/.3dz to eShop:

Savegame example: Super Mario 3D Land (0004000000053F00) > http://3ds.essh.co/

1. Connect the SD Card to your PC
2. Copy your Savegame and save it as 000400000FF40A00.sav
3. Put SD Card back into your 3DS
4. Turn it on and execute Exploit
5. Mount your .3ds/.3dz Game
6. Start SaveDataFiler (CTR Card is no longer broken!) and highlight CTR Card
7. Press Y and then A to export the Savegame

SaveDataFiler stores in SDCARD:\filer\UserSaveData\20150131010203\0000053f
YEAR-MONTH-DAY-HOUR-MINUTE-SECONDS \ TitleID low

8. Switch to SD and highlight your TitleID
9. Press R+A and then A to import your Savegame
10. Press Home, select the cia game and press two times A to start

B. EXPORT eShop to .3ds/.3dz:


Savegame example: Super Mario 3D Land (0004000000053F00) > http://3ds.essh.co/

1. Start your 3DS and execute Exploit
2. Mount your Game
3. Start SaveDataFiler and highlight your TitleID low
4. Press Y and then A to export the Savegame
5. Switch over to SD and highlight TitleID low
6. Press L + A and then A to create 000400000FF40A00.sav (CTR Card is no longer broken!)
7. Turn your 3DS off and connect the SD CARD with your PC
8. Copy 000400000FF40A00.sav to your TitleID (0004000000053F00.sav)
9. Put your SD Card back into your 3DS
10. Turn your 3DS on and execute Exploit
11. Mount your Game and start it

Export Retail Card with CFW and SDF:

Note: As for CFW works only with FW4.5, 6.x encryption will fail.

1. You need CFW and installed SafeDataFiler on a spare SD Card
2. Start your CFW and insert your Cartridge
3. Start SafeDataFiler and highlight CTR Card
4. Press Y and then A to export the Savegame
5. Turn off your 3DS and move the 'filer' folder to your PC
6. Switch over to your Gateway (emuNAND) SD Card and add the 'filer' folder from PC
7. Insert your Gateway (emuNAND) SD Card into your 3DS
8. Start your 3DS, execute Exploit and start SaveDataFiler
9. Now you can follow A8 for eShop or B5 for .3ds/.3dz

(Be patient with CFW, sometimes it takes 10 tries to get it working)

Thx queno138 : original Post

Info:

"Nintendo 3DS\ID1\ID2\" = eShop , "000400000000XXXXXXX.sav" = Card 1

If your ID1\ID2 does not match after downgrade or formating 3DS,
your Save is LOST if there is no NAND Backup using that ID1\ID2!!!

If you have the NAND Backup matching ID1\ID2,
you can import it as emuNAND with emuNANDTool!

It is impossible to use NAND Backups or encrypted eShop saves
from another 3DS! You need to decrypt the saves first before you
can transfer them!

EXPORT / IMPORT from Original Cartridge is now possible
with Cubic Ninja + PASTA CFW + SaveData Filer!!!

 

[Pedeadstrian]

You need both version extracted save for importing
I, for import EU save to US game, do:
1) export EU save (continued game)
2) Export US save (also at start, dont matter, but need a save)
3) put SD on pc, go in SaveDataFiler folders, and swap the save (dat or bin) from EU to US, dont copy entire save folder or rename it!

for example: if my eu save folder is 1234 and inside have data.dat (example), and mu US save is 5678 with data.dat, simple copy and paste data.dat from 1234 folder to 5678 folder and then import again in the game

My problem is that there is no filer folder. The save shows when I'm in SDF, but when I open up my SD card to try and copy it, it's not there. Unless it's hidden somewhere deep in the Nintendo 3DS folder.

 

[Lord M]

If MH4U is Card1 game (and maybe yes, since you sayd rename a SAV... the sav file is inside the root of SD as id of game for name + .SAV and not in SVF folders

 

[Dan-the-Rebirth]

i tryed to export my Majora Mask 3d save but i allways see CRT CArt --broken-- anyone ryed that game bevor?

 

[piratesephiroth]

i tryed to export my Majora Mask 3d save but i allways see CRT CArt --broken-- anyone ryed that game bevor?

Did you even rename the save to 000400000FF40A00.sav?

 

[Dan-the-Rebirth]

now it worked! I removed everything from my sd card exept the nintendo 3ds folder, the launcher.dat and the 000400000FF40A00.sav

 

[NutellaSwirl]

I tried transfering my Smash 3dz save to cia, but when I load the game it just says "Unable to use this save data as it is not the latest data." What should I do?

 

[Pedeadstrian]

I tried transfering my Smash 3dz save to cia, but when I load the game it just says "Unable to use this save data as it is not the latest data." What should I do?

Try uninstalling the Smash patch.

 

[Liberty]

B. EXPORT eShop to .3ds/.3dz:


Savegame example: Super Mario 3D Land (0004000000053F00) > http://3ds.essh.co/

1. Start your 3DS and execute Exploit
2. Mount your Game
3. Start SaveDataFiler and highlight your TitleID low
4. Press Y and then A to export the Savegame
5. Switch over to SD and highlight TitleID low
6. Press L + A and then A to create 000400000FF40A00.sav (CTR Card is no longer broken!)
7. Turn your 3DS off and connect the SD CARD with your PC
8. Copy 000400000FF40A00.sav to your TitleID (0004000000053F00.sav)
9. Put your SD Card back into your 3DS
10. Turn your 3DS on and execute Exploit
11. Mount your Game and start it

I don't understand this tutorial. I already had a 000400000011C400.sav (Pokémon Omega Ruby) on my SD card while using the cia-version. I couldn't export any additional files, but when I started the *.3dz, my savegame was gone.

 

[NutellaSwirl]

Try uninstalling the Smash patch.

Er.. sorry I'm not quite sure how to do that

 

[Skeet1983]

How do I import a save downloaded online back onto retail cart?

 

[MrJason005]

amazing guide, playing MM as cia ty

 

[DragonSky]

What steps do I miss to convert 3ds to 3dz?

1. Change the 3ds save to 000400000FF40A00
2. Export save to sd card
3. Delete the save 000400000FF40A00
4. Load 3dz game create savegame and change to 000400000FF40A00
5. Import save to sd card

 

[Pedeadstrian]

How do I import a save downloaded online back onto retail cart?

You can't, unless you have PowerSaves.

What steps do I miss to convert 3ds to 3dz?

1. Change the 3ds save to 000400000FF40A00
2. Export save to sd card
3. Delete the save 000400000FF40A00
4. Load 3dz game create savegame and change to 000400000FF40A00
5. Import save to sd card

You need to export saves for both games, open your SD card, locate the folder for your first game, open the folders as far as you can, copy those files, and then paste them onto the same location for your second game.

 

[DragonSky]

You can't, unless you have PowerSaves.
You need to export saves for both games, open your SD card, locate the folder for your first game, open the folders as far as you can, copy those files, and then paste them onto the same location for your second game.

I see now what I missed so then I need to import then after I copied both folders?

 

[Pedeadstrian]

I see now what I missed so then I need to import then after I copied both folders?

Yep, then rename the save to the titleid of the second game.

 

[DragonSky]

Yep, then rename the save to the titleid of the second game.

That title id is on the root that I need to rename to the name from the folder?
Or from the root id to the folder?

 

[Pedeadstrian]

That title id is on the root that I need to rename to the name from the folder?

No, after you import the save, you need to rename 000400000FF40A00 to whatever your second game's titleid is. The one you find from http://3ds.essh.co

 

[Skeet1983]

I am confused... I downloaded Zelda MM save from this site https://www.3ds-savegames.com/game/the-legend-of-zelda-majoras-mask-3d. I tried using savedatafiler to extract save already on card (To create the filer folder on SD card), but it said CTR broken or something like that. Was unable to export save, or even import save... Anyone else get it to work?

 

[Skeet1983]

You can't, unless you have PowerSaves.
You need to export saves for both games, open your SD card, locate the folder for your first game, open the folders as far as you can, copy those files, and then paste them onto the same location for your second game.

Is it possible to play game on GW, export save with savedatafiler, and then somehow reimport save using powersaves device?

 

[Pedeadstrian]

Is it possible to play game on GW, export save with savedatafiler, and then somehow reimport save using powersaves device?

I don't know. I don't have a PowerSaves device so I can't test it,