So a day ago or so, I dumped my Alpha sapphire cartridge to make it into a CIA file, and naturally, I wanted to bring over the save I had been using on the cartridge, so I attempted the following:
1. Exported the save from my retail cart using SaveDataFiler (referred to in this post from now on as SDF)
2. Ejected the cart and went to the SD tab, highlighted the save, and pressed R + A to import the save to SD.
3. Went back to User tab and deleted the secure value with R + X.
4. Went in-game and got a message about the save not being compatible with this version, even though the secure value had been erased.
Other things I tried:
-Making a new save on the CIA and simply overwriting "main" with the one from my retail cart, deleting the secure value, and got the same error.
-Deleting the 1.4 patch and importing the save, then deleting the secure value, got the same error.
-Deleting the CIA's save with SDF before importing a new one, and then deleting the secure value, got the same error.
-If I make a new save on the CIA and then export it, I can import it just fine (but this isn't really useful).
-I can export and import either save (new one created on the CIA, as well as my old retail save) onto the retail cartridge without issue.
I've pretty much reached my limit in terms of how I know to import saves, so I could use a hand. I've also searched, and the existing threads just say to delete the secure value, which I already did, and it doesn't work.
Here's my setup:
Japanese Alpha Sapphire cartridge
AS patch 1.4 from the eShop
Reinand 9.5.0 emuNAND
SDF r53438
N3DS XL on 9.0.0-20U
1. Exported the save from my retail cart using SaveDataFiler (referred to in this post from now on as SDF)
2. Ejected the cart and went to the SD tab, highlighted the save, and pressed R + A to import the save to SD.
3. Went back to User tab and deleted the secure value with R + X.
4. Went in-game and got a message about the save not being compatible with this version, even though the secure value had been erased.
Other things I tried:
-Making a new save on the CIA and simply overwriting "main" with the one from my retail cart, deleting the secure value, and got the same error.
-Deleting the 1.4 patch and importing the save, then deleting the secure value, got the same error.
-Deleting the CIA's save with SDF before importing a new one, and then deleting the secure value, got the same error.
-If I make a new save on the CIA and then export it, I can import it just fine (but this isn't really useful).
-I can export and import either save (new one created on the CIA, as well as my old retail save) onto the retail cartridge without issue.
I've pretty much reached my limit in terms of how I know to import saves, so I could use a hand. I've also searched, and the existing threads just say to delete the secure value, which I already did, and it doesn't work.
Here's my setup:
Japanese Alpha Sapphire cartridge
AS patch 1.4 from the eShop
Reinand 9.5.0 emuNAND
SDF r53438
N3DS XL on 9.0.0-20U
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