Okay, so as the title says...yeah.

but I still have the save file...

I tried PM'ing the person who created this topic

https://gbatemp.net/threads/pokemon-x-y-flashcard-community-saves.364150/page-52

but I don't have permission to.

Save files apparently only work on the original cartridge, although I see someone in there stated they were able to extract Pokemon from the cartridge save...

while that may be possible, I'm not sure if I would forever only be limited to dumping them into an offline-only version of the game or not.

I'm not even sure if I'll ever find someone who has the knowledge to do this, but I figured as my literal last and final option to retrieve what was an entire decade of lost work, including shinies with perfect IVs that I hatched on my own and almost all of the rarest events ever released that I got myself, I should at least try...

Am I screwed forever?

 

How did you backup the save file? Can you upload it? Depending on how you backed up the save file, restoring it to a new cartridge or CIA-installed game could be very easy.

 

Have you tried using FBI to install a legit cia copy of y onto your console. Then using a save manager such as savedatafiler or jksm save manager from the homebrew launcher to copy the save to the digital version of the game. If you don't have a9lh then there is an FBI fork in this forum that has safehax built into it so you can install legit cia's. Get the CIA from that ISO site and make sure it's legit and not a cartridge dump.

 

It is impossible to recover data from a Powersaves backup without the cartridge.

It might be possible to recover it if you have a full copy of the original ROM from that particular cartridge (as in a Gateway dump and not a Decrypt9 dump - Decrypt9 doesn't keep the private header), but doing so is outside of my skill set.

 

With a Gateway, one should be able to inject the Powersaves save file into the ROM in a way that allows it to boot using the Gateway. Then, the person with the Gateway could dump the decrypted save file using JKSM (the main file mentioned earlier) that can easily be restored by anyone with access to homebrew/JKSM to a new cartridge or SD-installed game.

When you have access to the file, send it to me. There is a good chance I can do the above steps to convert to an easy to restore format.

Out of curiosity, why can't you access the files on your hard drive yourself?

 

Do you not have access to another laptop you can swap hard drives with temporarily to grab your important files?

 

I sent you a PM. You can respond to me there (or here) when you have the save file.

 

3DS cartridge saves are encrypted on a per-cartridge basis. Powersaves backups are a raw backup.

 

True, thanks for the heads-up

 

Yeah, I thought of that, but the thing is, it's actually my father's laptop and he won't allow me to do that since he has important documents and we have had bad luck with laptops/hard drives dying on us for no reason lately. I'll probably be able to talk him into it though

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I also do not have a 3DS anymore, but will be buying another one within the next few weeks or so. I promise I will not disappear; I just need the time and resources to get all of this done ^^;;

This is the best news I've heard in years, as everyone else before I came here told me it was impossible, so I will work as fast as I possibly can on this