Hello there, in an attempt to replace the buttons on my new 2ds XL one of the connectors on the PCB for the bottom display ribbon cable broke. It was one of the ones that you have to bend up the pins directly to open, unlike a normal ZIF connector, and it ended up snapping the first time I tried to bend it open. I made sure to be very careful doing so, only bending it 45 degrees like the other similar one nearby.
I tried holding it to the contacts with tape, museum wax, and butyl putty and the butyl putty ended up tearing the rest of the connector off the pcb, leaving only the traces on the motherboard. In a desperate attempt to salvage what I had, I tried soldering the cable directly to the board and nothing would work, as the 3DS doesn't boot unless that cable is plugged in.
So my real question is, how do I go about recovering my save data and my NNID off of it? From my understanding the data on my SD card in the Nintendo 3DS folder is encrypted so copy and pasting it onto a new system won't work. I have nand backups saved, but I don't think those will help if the original system won't turn on.
I tried holding it to the contacts with tape, museum wax, and butyl putty and the butyl putty ended up tearing the rest of the connector off the pcb, leaving only the traces on the motherboard. In a desperate attempt to salvage what I had, I tried soldering the cable directly to the board and nothing would work, as the 3DS doesn't boot unless that cable is plugged in.
So my real question is, how do I go about recovering my save data and my NNID off of it? From my understanding the data on my SD card in the Nintendo 3DS folder is encrypted so copy and pasting it onto a new system won't work. I have nand backups saved, but I don't think those will help if the original system won't turn on.
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