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.

 

[ody81]

yea i got it yesterday mate, for some reason it wasn't working for me. but i figured it out eventually and got it working consistently now.

All good man, didn't feel like digging through the thread to check you got it or not.

 

[aos10]

wah , anyone have something close to this ?

full showcase

http://imgur.com/a/wcl7W

and this for the themes

http://imgur.com/a/vHmst

 

[ody81]

Hmmmm, question...

If my region is EUR, after I've used the snows badgedata, if I win a launcher badge will it overwrite the non-working JAP launcher badge?

If not, is it possible to just remove those badges from the badge data and try and win them then?

 

[noctis90210]

wah , anyone have something close to this ?

full showcase

http://imgur.com/a/wcl7W

and this for the themes

http://imgur.com/a/vHmst

so is this the complete set of all the badges?
hope the owner of the picture share his/her data...
unless the owner is a NintendoPerson

 

[aos10]

Hmmmm, question...

If my region is EUR, after I've used the snows badgedata, if I win a launcher badge will it overwrite the non-working JAP launcher badge?

If not, is it possible to just remove those badges from the badge data and try and win them then?

no , you will have new entry
just like me , i have US console

this is mine

now scrolling to the japanese one

february doesn't have much of pokemon badges

 

[PedroKeitawa]

Im on Italian 3DS so i use Italian version but...i dump but the folder in the tutorial video, i use Homebrew, don't appear on my SD card.

 

[ody81]

no , you will have new entry
just like me , i have US console

this is mine

now scrolling to the japanese one

february doesn't have much of pokemon badges

Thanks for the info, I'll give it a go. I really want that launcher lol.

 

[aos10]

Thanks for the info, I'll give it a go. I really want that launcher lol.

what launcher ?

 

[ody81]

no , you will have new entry
just like me , i have US console

this is mine

now scrolling to the japanese one

february doesn't have much of pokemon badges

what launcher ?

Any working launcher for EUR I guess.

And no it didn't work, won a stack of launcher badges, it never made a new catagory.

 

[PedroKeitawa]

I try again fopr be sure but nothing. The folder for the badge data is not appear, i search evreyware but nothing. So i do somthing wrong? Im on PAL console on the last FW. I use the Homebrew method.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

Anyone can explain why the 'launcher' badges dont work for me?

Like the little System Settings/Mii/Camera app launchers? They just work as normal moveable badges.

 

[aos10]

Any working launcher for EUR I guess.

And no it didn't work, won a stack of launcher badges, it never made a new catagory.

oh , you mean an decorated icon to launch mii plaza or camera ?
i tried one from the Japanese badges ,but it wont work
i must use my own ?

 

[DeslotlCL]

Anyone can explain why the 'launcher' badges dont work for me?

Like the little System Settings/Mii/Camera app launchers? They just work as normal moveable badges.

Because the launcher badges are linked to their japanese app, and since your console isnt a japanese one it wont launch your apps.

 

[ody81]

Because the launcher badges are linked to their japanese app, and since your console isnt a japanese one it wont launch your apps.

I get that much, it's how to legit win my own is where I'm stuck.
I win one, but I still only see the JAP badges, no EUR badges that I've won show up to place. (although they are shown in the collections page).

 

[wormdood]

so i did all steps in the cfw version of the video in the op and i only ended up with 259 badges about 200 more than i had so but i also have no clue what i did wrong i mean 200 is not 900


if it matters in the past i used the jap version and now when i start the usa badge arcade it repairs data every time

 

[Ericzander]

For people who reallly want to change the language of the badges from Japanese to English, I suppose with some hex editing you can just rename the badges.

 

[CrazyMaxx]

I cant dump my BadgeData pls help

 

[duffmmann]

So I have an odd issue, try as I might to open savedatafiler in my emuNAND, the application just doesn't open, it gets past the 3DS logo, but then its just a black screen. I notice the SaveDataFiler.cia that I installed doesn't play any type of music when I hover over it, I'm not sure if that's by design, or if that is an indication that I may have a faulty copy or what. But every other title I have loads up just fine in my emuNAND, so I'm just curious if anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong. I'm on a N3DS, emuNAND FW 9.4 U, if that might make any difference.

 

[Ericzander]

So I have an odd issue, try as I might to open savedatafiler in my emuNAND, the application just doesn't open, it gets past the 3DS logo, but then its just a black screen. I notice the SaveDataFiler.cia that I installed doesn't play any type of music when I hover over it, I'm not sure if that's by design, or if that is an indication that I may have a faulty copy or what. But every other title I have loads up just fine in my emuNAND, so I'm just curious if anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong. I'm on a N3DS, emuNAND FW 9.4 U, if that might make any difference.

It isn't supposed to have any jingle. Try uninstalling and reinstalling?

 

[duffmmann]

It isn't supposed to have any jingle. Try uninstalling and reinstalling?

Yeah, I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, still no luck. Is it possible that it just takes a really long time to load if I have a lot of games on my EmuNAND. If not, I have no idea what could be stopping it from properly functioning.