So, I had a special edition 4.4 JP O3DSXL with Gateway on EmuNAND sitting in the closet for years, and decided to pull it out recently, only to discover Gateway team is dead.
Figured I'd have to finally bite the bullet and go CFW so I went and followed the https://3ds.hacks.guide site and got myself to 11.6 CFW.
Problem is, I never realized that the saves made when using the Gateway were in different formats than CFW installed games.
So anyways, I've spent the last several days looking up ways to extract my saves, but a lot of the answers seem several years old so I thought I'd ask and see if there's a better/easier way than these.
Option1:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/help-can-someone-convert-my-gateway-saves-to-cia.480330/#post-7503961
Creating and downgrading a new EmuNAND (problem is I can't find CTR transfer 11.2 JP files anywhere).
Option2:
No idea if this would work at all, but I made three NAND backups for my 3DS when I first bought it using my Gateway. Is it safe to restore this from Godmode9? Are they compatible? Figure if I can get it back to the way it was in one step, that'd be simpler than trying to downgrade through the above methods.
Option3:
Asking a friend to borrow his 3DS on 4.4 (that I installed CFW and gifted to him years ago) when he comes up from out of state next year mid 2020. Not sure if this would work, I hear Gateway saves are encrypted? Does it need to be on the original console to extract saves?
Option4:
I hear Gateway and Sky3DS merged to form Stargate? Are Gateway saves compatible with that?
I really only have 3 saves I really want to recover, Pokemon AS, X, and Miku.
Figured I'd have to finally bite the bullet and go CFW so I went and followed the https://3ds.hacks.guide site and got myself to 11.6 CFW.
Problem is, I never realized that the saves made when using the Gateway were in different formats than CFW installed games.
So anyways, I've spent the last several days looking up ways to extract my saves, but a lot of the answers seem several years old so I thought I'd ask and see if there's a better/easier way than these.
Option1:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/help-can-someone-convert-my-gateway-saves-to-cia.480330/#post-7503961
Creating and downgrading a new EmuNAND (problem is I can't find CTR transfer 11.2 JP files anywhere).
Option2:
No idea if this would work at all, but I made three NAND backups for my 3DS when I first bought it using my Gateway. Is it safe to restore this from Godmode9? Are they compatible? Figure if I can get it back to the way it was in one step, that'd be simpler than trying to downgrade through the above methods.
Option3:
Asking a friend to borrow his 3DS on 4.4 (that I installed CFW and gifted to him years ago) when he comes up from out of state next year mid 2020. Not sure if this would work, I hear Gateway saves are encrypted? Does it need to be on the original console to extract saves?
Option4:
I hear Gateway and Sky3DS merged to form Stargate? Are Gateway saves compatible with that?
I really only have 3 saves I really want to recover, Pokemon AS, X, and Miku.