Not one to comment or like tech walkthroughs like this, but your attention to detail in preparation, the concise delivery of instructions, and the clearly illustrated points to look for really made this one stand out. Thank you because this was the clearest, easiest answer to the question I've gotten.
it’s a fun system to use for tons of games. I have a lot of fun putting things like GBA rom hacks and SNES games and stuff on it. custom themes and badges are also a cool way to play around with the home screen
Seriously man thank you! My Samus Returns cartridge I got at a pawn shop works but it’s faulty at the same time and couldn’t continue the game much, this helped out a lot! Thanks again!
Do the saves from the NDS files get transferred in the cart dump? I dumped my animal crossing wild world NDS file using this method. But when I loaded up the ROM into my DS emulator, my wild world save file was not saved and registered as a new file. When I load up the NDS cart in my 3DS, my original town save is there. Is there a way to transfer all the data from my save to the ROM and not have it start from scratch?
Can you explain how to inject that back up in the game? I tried using the injection method with godmode 9 and it keeps giving me the injection failed message, any help would be greatly appreciated
Jeff Parker you can do it all within checkpoint. Before you dump the game you need to make a backup. (If you didn’t then you can always just put the cartridge back into the 3ds and then make the backup.) once you have the backup and have named it something really fucking funny like milf Denny’s, you need to run the dumped game. After that just go back into checkpoint select milf Denny’s or whatever u named it and then hit restore.
Pretty good video. Now I can play my old Pókemon Pearl and erasing my savegames the times I want (without needing backup and restore). Thank you so much :)
I'm stuck with a black and white screen. I don't know where the roms are supposed to be left and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong with rewatching this guide. EDIT: Never mind, I figured it out. Both the nds and cia files had different file names so I made them both identical. Now it works. Thank you so much for helping me with this video.
I'm still stuck at the black and white screen. I noticed that the forwarder 3DS creates a nds rom (kb in date) and cia file with a forwarder prefix, but the original rom (mb of data) still exists. Any guidance here as I have 3 files.
I ran into a couple problems with this while trying to dump a copy of one of my DS cartridges onto my cfw 2ds. I kept getting a "cartridge not inserted" error. I figured out this was a result of two issues. The first one is that you need to find the "_nds" folder he references but appears to have vanished from the links in his description. You can find them if you do a web search for "nds forwarder" and go to the latest gbatemp page. Scroll down, and you will find it discretely embedded in a section below all the main links. It simply says "download THIS" and no longer resembles the link he shows in the video. So read carefully and you'll find it. Secondly after downloading and extracting the "_nds" folder to the sd card, the second issue I ran into was that the forwarder needs to be set to a Target of "3DS SD Card". He doesn't highlight the importance of this setting for members using sd cards, but the forwarder program appeared to be set by default to "r4". So I suggest double checking to make sure the app is set to "Target - 3DS SD Card". Overall a great tutorial but things have clearly changed a bit since he posted this. Hopefully my input will help someone else in need.
my luck was that i know some about this nps dump already so i noticed both problems, the dislikes on this video probably come from people that didnt know or didnt noticed
My 3DS forwarder download is different than yours. I have a .jar file which is completely different to what is shown in the video. Please help. The website was also changed and there is no link to it in the description, the top link it says to download in the video is no longer listed on the site.
When dumping games does it affect the original game in the cartridge? or is it only copying the game and exporting it into the 3ds? I would like to be able to play my games using the cartridge or sell them in the future.
I just wanted to add something in. I notice this works for a lot of people, and for them I am super happy! ... Like really!! However, this completely bricked my 3DS, and thanks to PENCE's advice on backing everything up (the "sysnand" file) I was able to bring it back to life. What happened was that the NDS game landed on my home menu (Mario Kart), but once I ran it the 3DS frooze and I had to make a force exit after waiting for 10 minutes by a black top screen and a white bottom screen. Once I loaded it up again, the D and Circular pad didn't work anymore, either the touch screen. But by loading my sysnand file and running it through GodMode9 I could save it. So, I wouldn't recommend putting the NDS file on your home menu, but it's up to you. Just wanted to put it out there.
Currently testing this out, let's see if this works. I'll edit this post if it does. Edit; Damn, this actually works! Thanks! Note that don't delete the CIA file with DS games, unlike me who has to repeat the process again now because I didn't pay attention.
Is there a reason why the "trim" variant was chosen to become the .cia file and not the original? I can see they are different sizes, but does it matter which one you choose?
Is it possible to transfer its gameplay data? I wanted the play my Pokemon Diamond with the items and pokemon I have in the card rather than start entierly new. I guess I could just trade myself back the pokemon but I would like to have my items back too. Guess I'm asking for too much since I've been waiting for DS dumping for years.
I think there s something i don t get ! You need to install a 3DS game each time you want to install a DS game converted in cia ? And do you absolutly need to dump the NDS.rom from a legit game or from an R4 (or else) or is it possible to copy a rom downloaded from the net into the out folder of gm9 ?
For everyone wondering; Yes, these roms can connect to the actual cartridges, ASSUMING that you ARE using twilight menu (for ds and dsi games. Not tried the 3ds games yet)
could you help me some of my games that i downloaded from fbi like pokemon ultra moon are in a startup screen loop from the 3ds with these red arrows but if i delete the update it is fixed but i need the update... my mario maker game is also ruined. I BOUGHT IT FROM THE STORE.....
Hey, quick question: So I downloaded both the Forwarder 3DS & 3DS SD Card file and I put the nds file in the root of my 3DS SD Card. But when I opened the Forwarder 3DS, the target remains blank. Is there something I did wrong?
Hey, I have a problem. I tried the method with the nds forwarder you linked in the description. I used Winrar and I have Java installed. When I wanted to generate the cia files, the folder „generated“ appeared, but the folders inside the folder were empty. I tried it with Mario & Luigi Bowsers inside story. And please excuse my bad english. It isn‘t the best, especially in this technical area. I hope you could help my anyways
Why does it keep failing to convert to CIA??? I followed instructions... So far so good. But when I go to convert it as instructed, it loads as usual.. only to be abruptly stopped as it tells me it's failed. Is it because I need more space????
I've struggled for a couple of hours now wondering of something. When Im using the Forwarder, it doesnt generate a cia file. In the generated folder it generates another folder, but with nothing in it. Please help me. Im in desperate need of playing Mario Party DS
I seem to be having issues soft resetting on Pokémon DS games I dumped, like platinum and heart gold. After resetting it gives an error saying “an error has occurred, please hold the power button to reset the system”. Any fix for this?
I've installed the latest Java and I still can't get the 3DS Forwarder (jar file) to open. I do not have WinRAR installed and I've been using Windows 10's automatic file extractor unzip the files. Is there a specific version of Java that works with 3DSForwarder or am I missing something?
btw this works using a sky3ds cart with 3ds games on it. ive been dumping all my games on the SD card since the sky card kept having discontect issues. live saver!
Hi everyone, I have a question... I'm STILL running into the black & white screen problem. Yes, I've seen all the comments and all the suggestions. I swear to god, I've followed this tutorial so, so, so closely. I'm not stupid. Still, when I load in my game, I click on it, it shows the DSi launch screen quickly and then, my top screen turns black and the bottom one turns white. I have no idea what else to do. I've triple-checked that my ROM is in the SD before I turn it into the .cia. Please help me out...
the .cia thing with the game isnt working? can i have some help? btw its a super mario 3d world if that helps edit: nevermind it just didnt show up but its not on my home screen
great video, thanks. but I have a question. do you know if nintendo bans you if you download a game illegaly today and, for example, play online with it? or is the ban wave over?
Hey I'm new to 3ds hacking and i mean verrrrry new. My 3ds has homebrew with cfw. I'm using a MacBook Air 2017 running MacOS catalina 10.15.4. My 3ds is an old 3ds XL. Whenever I try to generate a .cia file, a .nds file is formed which is labelled forwarder-(Insert game name here).nds. I read the FAQs of the GBATemp website and it asked me to execute chmod +x make_cia in the terminal on the .jar file's directory and I don't know how to do that. So pls help me.
so i managed to fix and get the cia installed, but when i launch the game, its sends me into the twilight ++ app instead of straight into the game. sure i can launch the game from there but i wanted to launch it right away like in the video. Any fix??
Okay so I have the problem that after I installed the cia, it only shows a menu on my bottom screen with 4 different things that I can click on. I reinstalled the .cia again and I still have the dump in the gm9 folder. What can I do now? I cant find any solution.
Can anyone help me, I have it all set up and can boot into the game but for some reason I seem to have some text on the bottom of the top screen warping especially on pokemon games. Any idea why? The text seems to stretch an warp downwards?
is the old save file downloaded and playable too? I followed someone else's tutorial earlier but it just gave me a brand new game. I had to start completely from scratch.
Dumping NDS ROMs will automatically remove the AP patch requirement ? Cuz I can't play certain games just because of this :'( (a valid example would be Pokemon black 2 )
It doesn't make a difference. Even though the non-trim model is a bigger size, it looks like it gets trimmed anyway when converted to CIA. So, unless you're creating .3ds files to back up on your computer, there is no difference. Even then, worse case scenario, the game just takes up a little bit more space than it should, since the cartridge tends to be a little bigger than the actual size of the game. I just converted both the trim and non-trim to CIA, and they are both the exact same size, despite the non-trim one was bigger to begin with. So, I wouldn't really worry about it.
if you have to leave the. nds file on the card and install it as a cia.....arent you using double the space for each game? or can i delete the nds file once i install and delete the cia using fbi? thx.
I have a Nintendo DS game that only works if I hold it just right will doing this be able to download it to my 3DS and not have to worry about the cartridge?
