can i transfer physical games to my PC for emulation?

[wild light]

i want to make content on a 3DS game im passionate about, and i want to emulate it to do so... but its physical, does the game have to be digital to emulate?

[nimble shoal]

https://citra-emu.org/wiki/dumping-game-cartridges/

[magic pumice]

Format shifting physical games is how you emulate pretty much any console. Data is data https://wiki.no-intro.org/index.php?title=Dumping_Guides

You need a modded console to format shift games for newer consoles

[wild light]

my gamecart is empty it says

[nimble shoal]

does it appear on the home menu?

[wild light]

home menu as in the normal 3ds one?

[nimble shoal]

yes

[wild light]

because im currently on GodMode9

[nimble shoal]

reboot to the home menu and check

[wild light]

the new stuff on my home menu is

Anemone, A Flag, FBI, Homebrew launcher, FTPD, and universal updater

[nimble shoal]

and the game card?

[wild light]

nothing that says gamecare

card

[nimble shoal]

the game card icon says there is nothing inserted?

[wild light]

no i mean theres no application called gamecard (i could be misinterpretting what your saying)

[nimble shoal]

there is an icon for the game card

not a "game card application"

[wild light]

uh hehe, where might that be...

[nimble shoal]

remove and re-insert your game card

[wild light]

done

[nimble shoal]

and it didn't move to the game card?

[magic pumice]

The empty space that has a different border

[wild light]

oooohhh

thats what you mean

[nimble shoal]

https://tcrf.net/images/a/ab/3ds_home_menu.png

[wild light]

im dumb

[magic pumice]

A game cartridge shows up there

[wild light]

lol

[nimble shoal]

if you insert a working card, it automatically selects it

[wild light]

i was thinking microSD card

[magic pumice]

No, we are talking the physical game cartridge you wanted to dump

[nimble shoal]

in that case, do you mean a game on a real game card, or a digital game on your microSD card?

[magic pumice]

Eshop installs go to SD card

[wild light]

ok, got it

now what

[nimble shoal]

^^^

[wild light]

real game card

[nimble shoal]

does it appear?

[wild light]

yes

[nimble shoal]

now go to GodMode9 again and try to dump it

[wild light]

ok ty

and to be clear

when c/p the files

i put them in the . . part of the SD card?

[nimble shoal]

choose "Copy to 0:/gm9/out" and then it goes to that place on the SD card

[wild light]

what? i just hacked my 3ds a few minutes ago... so im extremely new to this, i thought i just hit y in there, then y in the sd card

[nimble shoal]

actually, you need to do a different step

[nimble shoal]

like mentioned on the citra pge

[magic pumice]

You have to dump the game decrypted for Citra

[nimble shoal]

Select [TitleID]_[version].trim.3ds, then select NCSD image options..., then select Decrypt file (0:/gm9/out).

[magic pumice]

Copy and paste is encrypted

There's like 6 different ways to dump, depending on purpose

[nimble shoal]

for game cards used in emulation, this is the way

[wild light]

ok its dycrypting now

[magic pumice]

We also have cartinstall for installing the cartridge to sd

Dumping raw files and folders for making game mods

Dumping installed titles as a file that can be installed on another system

And encrypted and decrypted dumps of installer files or cartridges

Console needs encrypted, Citra needs decrypted

[wild light]

almost done...

done

time to do the same for all my 3ds games

so i can then finally make content about them'

im so hyped

@nimble shoal it says "File is not encrypted" when trying to decrypt it

differant game this time

[nimble shoal]

then choose "Copy to 0:/gm9/out"

[wild light]

gotcha

[wild light]

@nimble shoal what do i do if it says failed decryption instread

try again?

[nimble shoal]

try "Verify file"

[wild light]

kk

ty

[wild light]

what about transfering save data