Hacking Upgrading Big SD-card with emunand and cia files

[Pitalacta]

Here's exactly what I've been doing
1) Format the big sd card that goes into the 3ds (both the emunand partition (shows as unallocated) and the main partition)
2) Copy laucher.dat to the newly formatted card
3) Put the card in the 3ds, boot gateway menu and format emunand
4) Plug it to my PC, inject my old emunand.bin using emunand tool, copy/paste my backed up files
It should work but it doesn't. Gateway loads emunand 9.2 but none of my games and extra data are there

 

[piratesephiroth]

Here's exactly what I've been doing
1) Format the big sd card that goes into the 3ds (both the emunand partition (shows as unallocated) and the main partition)
2) Copy laucher.dat to the newly formatted card
3) Put the card in the 3ds, boot gateway menu and format emunand
4) Plug it to my PC, inject my old emunand.bin using emunand tool, copy/paste my backed up files
It should work but it doesn't. Gateway loads emunand 9.2 but none of my games and extra data are there

It should work fine. Are you sure you copied the files to the right place?
Remember your games are in the "Nintendo 3DS" folder.
That folder should go on the root of the SD card.

If you see that message about "creating software management information" when booting the 3DS with your new SD card with the backup restored into it, you've clearly done something wrong.

 

[Pitalacta]

It should work fine. Are you sure you copied the files to the right place?
Remember your games are in the "Nintendo 3DS" folder.
That folder should go on the root of the SD card.

If you see that message about "creating software management information" when booting the 3DS with your new SD card with the backup restored into it, you've clearly done something wrong.

Yeah, everything is in the right place and I don't see that message.

 

[Pitalacta]

I managed to do it!
What I did was, instead of copy/pasting my files to the clean SD card, I first put it into the 3ds and let it create its files. Then, I copied over my backup without replacing what the 3ds had created.
All my games and extra data are there now

 

[quantumboy]

I did this, and bbb menu was there and savefiler, but not my other cia files like pokemon or ftpony are not there

 

[flabulousfreddy]

I managed to do it!
What I did was, instead of copy/pasting my files to the clean SD card, I first put it into the 3ds and let it create its files. Then, I copied over my backup without replacing what the 3ds had created.
All my games and extra data are there now

Glad to hear that, man! Enjoy!

 

[quantumboy]

Strange, when I go back into devmenu(BBB) the title ids for the theme pack, pokemon x, and as, was all there but not visable on the title screen. Any one have any idea how to fix this? do I just need to re install the cias?

 

[quantumboy]

I managed to do it!
What I did was, instead of copy/pasting my files to the clean SD card, I first put it into the 3ds and let it create its files. Then, I copied over my backup without replacing what the 3ds had created.
All my games and extra data are there now

When you said you put it into the the 3ds do you mean you booted the 4.5 sys menu or you booted emunand too before putting your backup files back on

 

[Pitalacta]

When you said you put it into the the 3ds do you mean you booted the 4.5 sys menu or you booted emunand too before putting your backup files back on

Emunand (I don't think it matters if you run sysnand too, but idk).
I guess your sysnand and emunand are separated as well, huh? If so, you'll have two folders inside you "Nintendo 3ds" folder in your sd card. It happens when you format you sysnand or when you do a system transfer to your emunand.

For example, my 3DS folder looks like this:

The first folder is from my emunand and the second is from sysnand (order may vary, you'll have to figure out which is which).
The folders in your backup should have the same name as the folders your sysnand and emunand create, but for some reason if you replace the new files with your old ones it doesn't work.
Try letting your emunand generate its stuff, then copy your backup without replacing anything.

 

[quantumboy]

Emunand (I don't think it matters if you run sysnand too, but idk).
I guess your sysnand and emunand are separated as well, huh? If so, you'll have two folders inside you "Nintendo 3ds" folder in your sd card. It happens when you format you sysnand or when you do a system transfer to your emunand.

For example, my 3DS folder looks like this:

The first folder is from my emunand and the second is from sysnand (order may vary, you'll have to figure out which is which).
The folders in your backup should have the same name as the folders your sysnand and emunand create, but for some reason if you replace the new files with your old ones it doesn't work.
Try letting your emunand generate its stuff, then copy your backup without replacing anything.

Yes, Once I figured I had to load the contents of this folder to the right location (trial and error)it worked again. Thanks so much for the help guys

 

[Skeet1983]

I backed up my EmuNAND, now formatting EmuNAND through GW. After it is done, what NAND do I use with the emuNAND tool?

 

[Arkansaw]

I used the emunand tool to "downgrade" as well, this way I can install cia games to a smaller sd card that is otherwise impossible (since twice the space is needed)

 

[Ralph1611]

What does extract and inject mean

Are they making it sound more complicated than it is? I just learned how to make the CIA files myself....so I am going to need a bigger SD card.

Im guessing im supposed to get the new SD card, put the launcher file in there...format emunand... this is where I get lost with extracting and injecting.

I need it explained slowly....

 

[Ralph1611]

Nevermind. I got it working. Wasnt that difficult after all. went from 4 gigs to 32. WAH!