Hardware I know you are all sick of this question, but is there a way to boot into cfw if my sd card connector (the one on the motherboard) is broken?

[SamSamuel99]

If there isn't, should I buy a whole new motherboard or find a repair shop? all the ones near me want 150 dollars for any type of repair, and the motherboard is at minimum 130 dollars, so I don't really know what to do, everything is so expensive.

 

[4d1xlaan]

You need cfw files on sd, but that being said there's no reason why it couldn't be modified to put the files on nand and load the files from there instead. but it's never been done before, so currently, no, you need functional sd

 

[Hayato213]

You need a working SD card slot.

 

[plasma]

You can replace the SD Card reader without soldering, can find them on Amazon for cheap.

 

[masagrator]

You can replace the SD Card reader without soldering, can find them on Amazon for cheap.

Read title again.

sd card connector (the one on the motherboard)

They may come cheap, but changing it is impossible for someone who has no experience in this stuff.

 

[plasma]

Read title again.

They may come cheap, but changing it is impossible for someone who has no experience in this stuff.

Oh it's the actual connector itself, my bad.

 

[Vorde]

Bring it to a cellphone repair shop. Those places do motherboard level repairs all day for a living. They should be able to repair it for you if you don't have the tools.
You could also order a working motherboard off of eBay, but I would go with repair first imo. Good luck!

 

[Hayato213]

If there isn't, should I buy a whole new motherboard or find a repair shop? all the ones near me want 150 dollars for any type of repair, and the motherboard is at minimum 130 dollars, so I don't really know what to do, everything is so expensive.

Is this a V1/V2 motherboard?

 

[SamSamuel99]

Thank you all very much for the suggestions, I found a repair shop that accepts Nintendo products (and that hopefully isn't that expensive) and I'll be making a call tomorrow. While I wait for the fix, is there any way to extract my save files from the emuMMC to use them on emulator? obviously without booting into cfw.

 

[4d1xlaan]

Thank you all very much for the suggestions, I found a repair shop that accepts Nintendo products (and that hopefully isn't that expensive) and I'll be making a call tomorrow. While I wait for the fix, is there any way to extract my save files from the emuMMC to use them on emulator? obviously without booting into cfw.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/recovering-games-saves-from-nand-using-nxnandmanager-and-jksv.620758/

do that, except instead of using jksv to restore save data, you put the save data into your folders for the emulator instead

 

[SamSamuel99]

I had some trouble because I was selecting the directory of my sd when i had to select the line right above it instead, but I did it now, thank you very much.

 

[Asia81]

You need cfw files on sd, but that being said there's no reason why it couldn't be modified to put the files on nand and load the files from there instead. but it's never been done before, so currently, no, you need functional sd

I remember loading luma files from nand on 3ds to boot without sd
Good old times