You need three things to answer this:

1. 3DS/2DS
2. Sky3DS
3. Datel Powersaves Pro 3DS

This is not about how to use Powersaves to get headers.

This is about getting the Sky3DS to work with Powersaves dongle like the rest of your retail carts.

I know that Pokemon ORAS/XY work when trying to max items, but won't when trying to restore savedata backups. Results in "savedata is corrupt" when booting up game from Sky3DS.

If I try any other game, it blinks Powersaves software on/off until an eventual "This game is not compatible" prompt.

Anyone else have this problem? If not, how did you get it to work? Headers? Chip ID? EEPROM ID? Explain... I'd love to know.

 

Powersaves can read games other than Pokemon XY/ORAS. However, most of the time it won't work (like 99%). I think it's a trick in this story but haven't found it out yet.

 

Well sky3ds doesn't work with gateway's save management either, perhaps that related?

 

There has been several discussions about this before. It is understood generally that it won't work for two reasons:

1) Powersaves somehow knows it's a Sky3DS
2) The powersaves dongle may not output enough power to fully 'run' the Sky3DS cart

 

Toúché! Although I'd say that comes under the remit of point 1

 

I know what you're saying, however, I'd have thought Nintendo would be pretty good at blocking the Sky3DS if it was significantly different to a retail cart.

 

For Pokemon only? Because mine won't even let me backup other games... It'll let me backup Pokemon. But then when I restore that powersaves backup to Sky3DS it reads "corrupt savedata"

 

Nope. Same problem. So even if it has the exact same ROM and template header as a retail cart, they're blocking the Sky3DS.

Maybe do a memory dump with HxD on Powersaves when Sky3DS is connected might reveal something...

 

Anything helps... There's obviously something about the way their server does the edit and tears the SAVEDATA apart. But then it shoots it back encrypted.

Sometimes I have this weird daydream where I imagine a server rack with a few shelves of 3DS units all crunching away trying to run Powersave's traffic. (just a funny image that makes me laugh when I get tired of thinking about it)

I'm sure they have this all done by software. Which really ticks me off. Well... at least makes me jealous.

Kid Icarus and Braverly are both EEPROM-YES games and not NAND based. But do they save any data to SD card during gameplay? I think that might have something to do with it.