Moving sd card from broken N3DSXL to new N3DSXL

If the console doesn't work anymore, how should you transfer the stuff to the new console? Only new install is your only option. Use custom install to install your games. This is much faster.

 

If you have a NAND backup of the old console, then you can use GodMode9 to get the movable.sed from the essential.exefs of said backup, then you can inject it into the new console (1:/private/movable.sed). Then you can continue using the old SD Card perfectly fine! After you run faketik, of course.

 

Injecting movable.sed seems to come with problems, though I've never been quite clear on the exact details. (I mean, isn't everything on the NAND still encrypted with the old movable.sed?)

I just thought I should mention that a safer alternative is to use ninfs on a PC (with the old movable.sed) to decrypt the save data, which can then be unpacked with 3ds-save-tool and restored using Checkpoint. You still have to reinstall the software with that method, but at least you get your save data back.

 

(Permanently) injecting movable.sed into another system is not a good idea.

There are SD transfer methods, but it requires time, patience and attention. Happy reading:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/transferring-all-data-from-one-cfw-3ds-to-another.571430/#post-9160324

 

All that it would do is duplicate the effects of a factory reset, which shouldn't matter, as it's a new console anyway.