Hi GBAtemp. User @shutterbug2000 has found a way to merge two badge datas to essentially give yourself the badges of another player that has made their files publicly available. In this tutorial, we'll be using @Februarysn0w's badges (he/she has collected over 900 badges).

Februarysn0w's badge data: https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=b6305612e3c95fbd&id=B6305612E3C95FBD!694&authkey=!ANwz34EVEYjGARc

1. Open the target's BadgeMngFile.dat and yours in a hex editor of your choice. (HxD is preferred)

2. Copy from 0x0 to 0xc (ctrl+g "C"; hex checked) from the target and then pastewrite the strings onto your file.

3. CTRL+G to "3E8" and select everything starting from there to the end of the file and pastewrite it to yours once again. (Alternatively, you can copy from 0x1C to 0x20 from your file and then pastewrite the strings onto the target. Using this method, you can skip step 2 and 3. Then simply copy the target file to your 3DS)

4. Save the edited BadgeMngFile.dat.

5. Copy the modified BadgeMngFile.dat and the target's BadgeData.dat onto your SD card and import them.

Please reply to this thread if this worked for you!

Great videos by @Ericzander:
CFW users:
Homebrew users:

EDIT: A lot of people don't know what to use. If you're a CFW user, use SaveDataFiler. If you're a *hax user, use ext_data dump tool or Sunshell by Rinnegatamante.

 

[Nyannurs]

aw poop D: thanks for the offer at least :>
maybe your pictures idea will help lol

Actually, if this worked for you, can you tell me if the person who uploaded has the halloween themed badges? That's really the only ones i want so if it doesn't have it i wont have to go through all this stuff lol

i think he doesn't, no. he has the christmas mario badges though! or at least some of them

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[anonynom]

i think he doesn't, no. he has the christmas mario badges though! or at least some of them

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Ah ok, darn! Thank you though!

 

[RetroBitMig]

The tutorial was great, I've got the latest badges on my 3DS now, but there were no Pokémon badges (that didn't matter to me, I had my own.) Upon injection, my badges were overwritten, so I went to the Help Desk restore them (knowing that the others might be erased.) However, they weren't and I've got mine and the ones from @Februarysn0w

 

[Koldur]

when i restore badgemngfile.dat it gives me the error: Restoring to /BadgeMngFile.dat, archive_getfilesize() ret=0x00000002, size=0x00000000 Copying failed!
@Rinnegatamante e se provo a usare sunshell ho solo un sacco di stemmi invisibili. (and if i use sunshell i just have a lot of invisible badges.)

How did you solve your problem? I have the same thing and cannot get rid of it. Thanks!

 

[Deleted member 373223]

How did you solve your problem? I have the same thing and cannot get rid of it. Thanks!

the extadata dump or the sunshell one? (i just forgotted to dump both badgemngfile.dat and badgedata.dat in sunshell)

 

[Koldur]

the extadata dump or the sunshell one? (i just forgotted to dump both badgemngfile.dat and badgedata.dat in sunshell)

Thanks for the quick reply, I use extadata.

 

[Deleted member 373223]

Thanks for the quick reply, I use extadata.

for me is better sunshell.

 

[Ericzander]

oh, *hax user? can't help you much, so sorry. i'm cfw D:

@Ericzander, we need your tutorial magics

Actually good timing i just woke up and decided to dedicate my day to doing this. Would have to be with my o3ds though because i cant get badgedata on my n3ds since i cant connect to the game on firmware 9.5 (unless someonr has a fix for that.)

 

[dimmidice]

The tutorial was great, I've got the latest badges on my 3DS now, but there were no Pokémon badges (that didn't matter to me, I had my own.) Upon injection, my badges were overwritten, so I went to the Help Desk restore them (knowing that the others might be erased.) However, they weren't and I've got mine and the ones from @Februarysn0w View attachment 30235

that's interesting, i also wanted pokemon badges so i tried 14D1_BadgeData+14D1_BadgeMngFile after i used badge2file and badge2date. 14D1_BadgeData+14D1_BadgeMngFile has some pokemon badges.

 

[Koldur]

for me is better sunshell.

So you use this:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-sunshell-a-powerfull-shell-for-3ds.382483/
And then how do you run restore the two files? That part isn't really clear to me.

 

[Deleted member 373223]

So you use this:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-sunshell-a-powerfull-shell-for-3ds.382483/
And then how do you run restore the two files? That part isn't really clear to me.

just click evey icon until you find the right one! (yes i clicked every icon)

 

[Nyannurs]

Actually good timing i just woke up and decided to dedicate my day to doing this. Would have to be with my o3ds though because i cant get badgedata on my n3ds since i cant connect to the game on firmware 9.5 (unless someonr has a fix for that.)

I'd absolutely LOVE for you to do this on whatever console. The steps don't change if you use o/n, so go right ahead

 

[Ericzander]

I'd absolutely LOVE for you to do this on whatever console. The steps don't change if you use o/n, so go right ahead

I know i just want it on my n3ds for my own personal benefit xD.

 

[Nyannurs]

I know i just want it on my n3ds for my own personal benefit xD.

same, i lost all entrypoints on my n3ds because i'm dumb, and updated to 10.3 D:

 

[infinete]

Is there a quick way to copy 3E8 - 109f without dragging?

edit: I figured it out /sigh.

 

[Necrojinsei]

Thank you so much for the fantastic guide. I really appreciate it, but I do have a question. Now that i have all his badges I seem to be having some odd categorize issues for sorting all the badges. There are all out of wack and place in peculiar location. For instance the swap note section has furniture in it, did I do something wrong or is this unavoidable?

 

[Rioluwott]

Is there a quick way to copy 3E8 - 109f without dragging?

edit: I figured it out /sigh.

Post it

Also it worked for me but all the badges are black and i can´t place them any fix did i do something wrong?

 

[infinete]

Post it

Also it worked for me but all the badges are black and i can´t place them any fix did i do something wrong?

In HxD it was a simple case of right clicking anywhere, left clicking select block and then typing in the 2 offsets you wanted to block.

 

[aos10]

i am using ext_data dump , i got my files and edit them , then put the files back to my sd card

then i press restore then

 

[Deleted member 373223]

i am using ext_data dump , i got my files and edit them , then put the files back to my sd card

then i press restore then

use sunshell.