Umbre

EDIT: No longer needed - see first post

EDIT: Completely mixed up what I did in the past =\ Sorry! This thread can be closed/deleted. Thanks!

Well I saw that thread first, but it says right off the bat that you can’t use any of those methods with a 3DS, so I thought all those options were out of the question. Like I said, I only have 3DS XLs, no DS/DS Lite/DSi/DSi XL. If I’m in the wrong place, sorry! Haha sorry, I just like to be thorough so people know exactly what I’m asking and to help me get the appropriate answer (plus it saves me from doing the “thanks, but that’s not what I meant” responses). I did try to basically make it in point form (without the actual points) by keeping each question in a separate paragraph. Sorry if it didn’t help though By this, do you mean if the save file I’m trying to back up is already corrupted? Or if the save file on the cartridge ends up corrupted but I still have an earlier save backed up? Thanks a lot for the answers I’m really clueless when it comes to how all this hardware and software works on the games.

So I've looked at this thread but just want to clarify some things... If I were to get the NDS Backup Adapter Plus, I'll be able to copy the save files of my 4th and 5th gen games (which are on actual cartridges and not r4s or something)? And I'll be able to restore them should my games ever corrupt? I also only have 3DS XLs. I'm assuming that since it's a USB adapter, that the 3DS (and all its updates) won't be involved at all in the process, and so it won't matter, but I'd like to be sure (I see it's good for 3DS games too, so the answer seems obvious). And I see X/Y won't work with these things, so I guess I'm lucky that I have nothing worth saving on those games. I also see that you apparently can't copy a save file onto a different cartridge? So then if I copied a save file from SoulSilver, then rented a copy of SoulSilver, I wouldn't be able to restore the save file onto the rented copy? My only concern regarding that is if my cartridge breaks or stops working entirely or something. So then, for example, would I be able to do this: Copy my Platinum file, trade the pokemon I want preserved to my HeartGold file, restore the Platinum file onto the cartridge (still containing the pokemon I traded), and then if my Platinum cartridge was ever unusable, I could buy a new Platinum and just trade over the pokemon that were originally on my Platinum file that were sent over to my HeartGold? Would doing what I mentioned somehow mess something up? Like could my Platinum and HeartGold not interract afterwards in case of some risk due to having the same exact pokemon or something? (Let's say I messed around, went into battle between the two games, and sent out the same Empoleon. Would this risk causing either or both of the games to glitch up or anything?) Does using any of these adapters risk messing the games up at all? Restoring a save file will let the game work exactly how it should in every way? My biggest concern is having my games randomly corrupt one day and losing the handful of pokemon I desperately want to keep. I don't cheat/clone/glitch/pokesav/whatever else, and I try to be very careful with my games/systems (even taking a game out of its case makes me worried I'll somehow mess a piece of hardware up and lose my save data), so hopefully a corrupt save file won't happen. I don't even trade with people, especially once I saw that people who cheat can mess up your own game just by trading/battling with them (supposedly). All I want to know is that I'll be able to retrieve these pokemon should something go wrong with the save file or cartridge, and that 'cloning' these pokemon to store on other games (in case of cartridge failure) won't somehow mess any of my games up or prevent them from interacting. Sorry for asking so much, a lot of which seems to be obvious (though I have no idea about the cloning stuff), but I'd dread to lose these, especially if I ended up losing them in the process of trying to back them up =\ So far, I've only had a SoulSilver game tell me the file was corrupted (which happened once, not sure why) and while there wasn't anything too important on there, it luckily still worked again once I turned it off and back on again...I think I read HG/SS have backups in them already.