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12 hours ago, theSLAYER said:

so yup, it's an encrypted save indeed

JKSM is for modded 3DS, nothing to do with whether you mod your SD.
If anything, how does one mod their SD card? XD

well as long as it's the same 3DS (and hasn't been formatted since), it should work.
Also, to clarify (in case the question pops into your mind): installing CFW in-between won't matter.
All that matters is the 3DS is the same 3DS, and has not been reformatted since.

To explain: encrypted saves require the specific cart (if extracted from cart) and specifically the same 3DS (if encrypted save is taken from the 3DS) to be decrypted. So moving an encrypted save to another 3DS will render the save useless. Reformatting the 3DS also makes it as tho "it's another 3DS'.

So while decrypted saves will work on any other device or cart, encrypted saves are not so simple.

So as long as your 3DS is the same 3DS, and has not been reformatted since, it should work :3

You, sir, are a hero, thank you. You just saved the collection of Pokemon I've been hauling with me since I started my journey. Gonna get on transfering and banking this shit asap.

7 hours ago, SkyLink24 said:

How did you menage to extract your save from the corrupted SD card? 

I don't know any tools can menage .sav files. Did you use a Gateway 3DS?

If so, do you have the possibility to run the gateway with the new SD? In that case I think you can decrypt the .sav into a main save file.

I put the old SD card into my laptop and extracted the 0000001.sav file. Sorry, I seem to have forgotten to mention that my previous SD card was not modded, and therefore I didn't have anything like a save manager, I only installed everything on my new SD card. I'm also unable to install anything on my old SD card because it's corrupted/read-only.

2 hours ago, theSLAYER said:

It sounds like your original .sav is in fact not a decrypted .sav file.
If you managed to save properly in-game and JKSM extracted it properly, no reason PKHeX wouldn't read it.

As was said above, how did you obtain the .sav from the old game?
Is it a 00000001.sav file you found on the SD? If so, it is an encrypted save. (PKHeX deal with decrypted saves).

If you have not formatted your 3DS (not SD card) between the old game and the present load out,
you should try decrypted the old save (by placing the save back on your 3DS, then use a save manager to dump it), before placing it onto your cart:

Note: if it is indeed an encrypted save, the 3DS has to be the same 3DS. It cannot be reformatted between the time of the time the SD card corrupted, till now.
 

If it's not the situation I described, kindly answer the original question:
how did you obtain the .sav from the old game?

Hiya, thanks for you answer! As mentioned in my other response above, my previous SD card wasn't modded so I didn't have JKSM or anything along those lines, the .sav I extracted is straight out of the game directory and, indeed, encrypted. I'll try your method, and the guide you posted later this afternoon as I currently have to go do something, but thank you for the advice, I hope it works!

Hi guys! I'm posting this here but not too sure if this is the right place. If It isn't, please let me know where I'd be allowed to post this! I posted this same message on Reddit but I'm trying here too cause I'm getting kinda desparate.

Context:
So I own the software version of Ultra Moon, and not a physical copy. I have an old save file that I managed to extract off a corrupted SD card. I was unable to play my copy and would sometimes get max 40 seconds of gameplay before it would crash on me, I was also unable to move to any new areas or save the game.

The SD card, when plugged into my laptop, is read-only. No, the slider isn't on the wrong setting and I've tried everything (command prompt, 3rd party software, file explorer) to format the SD card or whatever but it looks like it's futile. I extracted my save data (the .sav) file from USUM and have it saved on my laptop.

I now have a new SD card in my 3ds with a new copy of UM and have modded this card and my console. I've got homebrew and JKSM (Save manager), etc set up and have been playing around with multiple save files as well as genning pokemon.

Now, my question:
Is there any way I can import/convert my .sav file from my old UM save and import it into my new copy on my new DS? If not, can I somehow salvage (or at least view) the Pokemon I had on that previous save file so I can recreate them using PKHeX?

I've already tried:
1. Copy-pasting my old save file over my new save file > "Save file outdated" error (downloading different software updates for Ultra Moon did not help)
2. Opening my .sav in PKHeX (switched my generations around, only get error messages)
3. Forcefully smacking my .sav into my game through JKSM, but JKSM handles in .main files so I should've known that wouldn't work lol

If there's any extra/specific error messages you guys would like me to provide, I'd be happy to. If I need to provide the actual .sav I'll also gladly do that.