Checkpoint VS TWLSaveTool

If you have a 3DS with custom firmware, it's easy. Just used Checkpoint, it's designed for exactly this: https://github.com/BernardoGiordano/Checkpoint

Save manager app, if you used 3DS.hacks.guide to homebrew it should be already installed (flag icon). Otherwise find it here

I can't remember if this specific method also copies your save game for you, so if the save game doesn't appear on the digital copy, you can use Checkpoint or JKSM to copy your save game from the cartridge to the installed version. You won't lost your save data.

For DS/3DS, you can use Checkpoint on a 3DS to backup saves from carts.

3DS with CFW, using the Checkpoint homebrew. You want the .cia version. DS cartridges sometimes take up to 20 seconds to appear, but always show up at the top left of the icon grid. Backup and restore behave exactly how they do for 3DS games. This is the best and easiest way, do it if you can.

On a 3DS with official carts you can use [Checkpoint](https://github.com/BernardoGiordano/Checkpoint) to back up *and restore* your DS & 3DS saves.

If you have a hackable switch that will get you going in the right direction. Then you need to use Checkpoint to dump the saves.

A quick web search proves this wrong. If you own the hardware and have physical access to the data, you can always make your own backups of it. (And you should, if the data is important. Never, ever, ever trust a cloud provider to backup your data properly.)

To get checkpoint, go here and download the cia file. Put it somewhere on your sd card (it doesn’t matter where as long as you remember where it is) and then open FBI on your console. Click SD and from there find where you put the file. When you get to it press A and select “install an delete cia.” This will install it your home menu and then delete the cia so it doesn’t clutter your sd card (once it’s installed the cia isn’t needed).

I assume based on your cfw comments you already backup your ds/3ds games, but for anyone googling or searching this reddit in the future... TWLSaveTool can backup your DS games. 3ds has Checkpoint or JKSM. You need homebrew or a cfw 3ds for these.

You could try TWLSaveTool which is an NDS save dumper/restorer for 3DS, but it could be that whatever file structure the emulator used isn’t compatible with the OG cartridge.

Since it's a DS-era game, you shouldn't be using Checkpoint, btw. Have you tried using TWLSaveTool?

If you want to extract the save from the cartridge you can use TWLSaveTool

TWLSaveTool

Rudolph’s GBA backup Tool / TWLSaveTool