Badge Issue Help Desk

[tribal smelt]

We are a small group of people compiling and solving issues related to badges.
Our main question is: Why are there some cases where badges briefly carry over across profiles, only to later lock to one? Does this relate to data loss others have reported?

@minor totem get in

Welcome to the Badge Brigade Help Desk! We are a thread of people attempting to solve badge concerns that come with the migration from Nintendo to Pretendo! This is our small FAQ to help you get started.

My badges vanished when I switched to Pretendo!

This is normal! Pretendo profiles are separate from Nintendo profiles, meaning that your badges will not carry over between both profiles. This is simply a limitation of Pretendo as a program.

Can Give You This Badge / GYTB be used to fix this?

• Using GYTB saves all your badges as plain images with no Categories or other data, and old versions of GYTB delete your real badges when it's done.
• Signing into Badge Arcade on Pretendo Network completely deletes your badges on the 3DS because of a different account ID (Don't launch Badge Arcade, it's useless now! IT WILL ACTUALLY DELETE YOUR BADGES.)
• Anyone who used Badge Boxes to store more than 100 badges only has one Badge Box saved on their 3DS, the rest are on dead Nintendo servers.

Using GYTB results in you losing access to your official badges on the Nintendo side, meaning that you will only be able to keep your badges on one profile at a time. Please ONLY use it for custom badges.

How do I prevent being locked out of my official badges?

Back up your official badge directory into a safe spot! You can find this directory in:

SD Card:\Nintendo 3DS[ID0][ID1]\extdata\00000000\000014d1

(Keep in mind that ID0 and ID1 are placeholder numbers and can vary.)

For safety's sake, it's best to back up the entire Nintendo 3DS folder. Better safe than sorry!

Can I use Simple / Advanced Badge Injector to load my badges?

We've attached a guide to get you started with SBI / ABI: https://github.com/PretendoNetwork/website/pull/277/files

The same guide is found a few messages below for your convenience.

[minor totem]

YES SIR WE ARE SO BACK

[tribal smelt]

this mf lied we can change the title

[minor totem]

very nice person just didn’t want to change it. smh

[tribal smelt]

can't pin tho

alr what else to add

Restoring Nintendo Badge Arcade Badges

1. Insert your SD Card into your PC.
2. Back up your badges at the folder on your SD Card SD:Nintendo 3DS/ID0/ID1/extdata/00000000/000014d1.
3. Download Simple Badge Injector.
4. Insert your SD Card into your console.
5. Use Nimbus to switch to Pretendo.
6. Open Simple Badge Injector and make a note of the "Nintendo Network ID" value.
7. Still inside SBI, choose the option to dump your badge data files.
8. Turn off your 3DS and remove the SD card. Insert your SD card into your PC.
9. Download and open Advanced Badge Editor.
10. Go to File > Open Data, then choose the folder where BadgeData.dat and BadgeMngFile.dat are.
11. Replace the NNID value with the one you made a note of in SBI earlier.
12. Select Save As to save the modified file separately from the backup.
13. Put your SD card back into your 3DS and go back into SBI
14. Inject your modified badge data files.

If you encounter any errors, restore your backed up badge data through SBI. Injecting badges while using Pretendo Network will make them disappear when swapping back to Nintendo Network, and vice versa.

[minor totem]

and please don’t be afraid to ask for help! we’re all in the same boat, discovering pretendo’s newest data murders little quirks that you may run into. we’ve learned a lot in the past week, so if you have questions about your badges please put it in here!

[tribal smelt]

what other guides have we made to dump here,,,

[sand vigil]

hi, i have done everything in the instructions (albeit, after my badges went missing.) and under my Pretendo 3DS account, I get the error "failed to copy badge files". the files are there, where else do I put them?

[tribal smelt]

from when was your backup?

[sand vigil]

the backup was made after my badges went missing, but i had also returned to my NNID 'account' on the 3ds (by nimbus), and then was functionally able to "dump" them, assuming there was anything to be dumped.
this was done minutes or 2 hours within the few since this midnight

[tribal smelt]

ah, yeah, that's your issue

[sand vigil]

ok so its gone

[tribal smelt]

hang on, hang on

alright, what events lead to your badges vanishing?

[sand vigil]

probably opening swapdoodle, my guess. the only thing i really opened

[tribal smelt]

and your badges vanished immediately afterwards?

[sand vigil]

i didn't notice immediately but thats what I think.

swapdoodle can use badges and it probably checked & compared the badge NNID (mismatching) with my current PNID, then vanished them.

[tribal smelt]

mmm, yeah. swapdoodle isnt even compatible w/ pretendo yet

[sand vigil]

welp. first bug for them when they get to that bridge

[tribal smelt]

this is a very urgent bridge seeing how it is on fire

[sand vigil]

so with my data, is there something i can do or do i effectively have nothing at this moment

[tribal smelt]

alright guessing your deal failed at step 7

[sand vigil]

except i still dumped and did the advanced badge editor thing

[tribal smelt]

cases similar to this usually spell corruption but tbf i am NOT the guy that decrypts badge data (theres like 5 of us on this little group and we just moved threads)

[sand vigil]

and even checked in HxD and found string names for (nintendo ips, related to badge groups), though not necessarily anything i could distinguish as the 'data' except maybe interesting blocks that might resemble an ACNL pattern (if thats the hex data holding the badge texture?)

[tribal smelt]

so your hex data wasn't all 00!! that's a great sign

it means your badge data's still intact

[minor totem]

if the text on the right side of the screen in hex editor is a bunch of random symbols and unreadable text, you’re seeing the encrypted file. you need to look at it unencrypted to know for sure if your badges are there or not

[tribal smelt]

ah shit i assumed it was decrypted already. im not a tech wiz!!!!!!!!

[sand vigil]

i contain not knowledge of decryption for this case but would value if there was a lead or guide to follow.

[tribal smelt]

use GM9's A: drive

from our resident stev, who is our tech guy

you'll need to crack open godmode9 for this

[minor totem]

there is a short guide that a wonderful person named stev helped me through, i can walk you through it as well

[sand vigil]

i'm at the file in GM9 rn, A: drive, i'm there

[minor totem]

alright so you’re gonna have to go back to the main “page” of GM9, you won’t be able to see the decrypted file through the SD. you need to go into “SYSNAND SD”

then you can make your way through the files back to the 000014d1 folder, and up to (I think they’re all the same for everyone) 00000004 file

hit “mount as DIFF image” on the bottom, press A for yes, then A again to select partitionA.bin, then “show in hexeditor”

if your badges are still intact and (I think) salvageable, they should have the names of each badge/collection on the right side of the top screen next to the hexcode

if it’s all 00’s all the way down…unfortunately that would be the worst case scenario

[sand vigil]

ok could Pretendo Please Prioritize a PSA (pppp) to prevent ppl from destorying their badge collection and homescreen murals
like yesterday, i hope

[minor totem]

this would be fantastic.

[sand vigil]

i'm dying here. i'm gonna (use a search engine)

[tribal smelt]

(we've been asking quite a bit, and giving out advisory warnings. many people have destroyed their collections and saves-)

[sand vigil]

(i had collection names, but the rest looked 00.)

[sand vigil]

are you telling me this applies to saves as well, which ones if i may ask

[tribal smelt]

weve uh

been investigating that over the past week?

this jank seems to be tied to some type of check the system runs, and it's been wiping out random saves left and right

[sand vigil]

golly this open beta test. as much as i love them for their efforts.

[tribal smelt]

honestly none of us are programmers and we've been hypothesizing based on cases we've seen and had described to us

giraffe lost their badges after simply swapping profiles quickly post-mario kart, one guy booted up mario kart and just lost his save, someone had several of their saves wiped out

[minor totem]

you have collection names? this is a semi-good sign…i didn’t have that luck, so i never needed any help past that. when stev comes in here later, he might be able to help!

[tribal smelt]

honestly the whole lotta 00s implies corrupted badge data, yet intact collection data?

[minor totem]

yeah, that definitely sounds like a possibility. mine were wiped altogether so there would be no names, but if the files are corrupted it would still show them but no data

you’re probably right about that

[tribal smelt]

we saw people lost their saves to Pretendo Badge Arcade throwing up an error saying "The ID mismatches your badge data, your save has been deleted" and immediately destroys all badge data. it's how we began theorizing that the system's running random checks that's causing loss of data

[sand vigil]

the file size is constant, yay or nay (looks fixed, so irrelevant to actual content?)

[tribal smelt]

hmmm

[sand vigil]

i don't mind sending my data decrypted or not if it can help. i won't if its copyrighted or something.

[slim plank]

The reason I wrote the text in the second paragraph are warnings when messing around with badges.
GYTB hasn't been updated in 7 years (according to https://github.com/mrcheeze/gytb and you shouldn't be telling people to use it, unless they want to add custom badges.

You should replace the random forum posts for SBI/ABE with LiamM's instructions for moving badges to Pretendo
https://github.com/PretendoNetwork/website/pull/277/files

[tribal smelt]

gotcha! this warning's a bit outdated, so i'll get to editing it now

[minor totem]

i personally agree with this, since it seems like GYTB can potentially take away your official badges when mixing with pretendo. from my experience ABE and SBI have been much more reliable (and easy to use)

[tribal smelt]

god wait i misread my own guide and took my 'hypothetical exclamation' as an instruction. absolutely changing that

horrendous wording mistake, it's been edited out

[slim plank]

Just copy this stuff into the main post instead of putting the GitHub link

or say something like "see the instruction guide a few messages below for how to back up your badges"

[tribal smelt]

i put the link namely bc im running out of characters

will give it a shot regardless

yeah it physically does not fit

pay me nitro and i'll do it /j

i just kinda take comms on occasion for nitro or sometimes get it as a handout

alright, edited

so, will we take foil's decrypted data to examine it?

[slim plank]

Yeah you could send those .dat files and we have a look at them in Advanced badge Editor or try to load them on our 3DSes, I don't know if we can fix the files though

[sand vigil]

do i Copy to 0:/gm9/out from inside A:/?

[tribal smelt]

correct!

[sand vigil]

any additional files? (or the whole folder)

[tribal smelt]

mm. toss us all of 14d1 if possible

[slim plank]

14d1 folder is encrypted to foil's 3DS, I don't think we can use any of the files inside it

[tribal smelt]

ah, shit, apologies

can we at least review the decrypted files to see what's up w/ them, or is that breaking some kinda rule?

[sand vigil]

this is the question

[sand vigil]

noted, not the files from 14d1 but the .dat files extracted

delete as necessary [i can too lmk

[tribal smelt]

not virus totally real

ok, got badgedata open

holy shit the categories are there

visual studio's having a rough time actually processing the text and notepad crashes,, lemme try another program

[slim plank]

I can't open them in Advanced Badge editor 😭

The same files from my 3DS open fine in this program and show all my badges,
but it shows nothing when I try to open foil's badge data

[tribal smelt]

visual studio's not enjoying actually displaying it but the scroll bar is??

my dumbass

well i softlocked notepad trying to open this

[slim plank]

Use a hex editor
Most of it is image data from the badges that a human or normal text editor can't read

[tribal smelt]

.

my dumbass trying to force visual studio to do this

since youve got it open, what's the state of the data looking like?

[slim plank]

There's some badge names at the start of the file,
then stuff like this which might be parts of an image with the same color repeating over and over

[tribal smelt]

so this bad boy's corrupted as hell

its weird that this is partially corrupted and not even fully?

[slim plank]

No it's just computer hex code that human's can't read
The red parts doesn't mean that it's corrupted

[tribal smelt]

oh i was talking about the sporadic blips in the first image

[vital hatch]

I'm going to copy/paste the questions I asked on the other thread here. I've backed up my 3DS' SD card about half way through the CFW installation. Can I recover my badges from this? How do I translate ID0 and ID1 to what's on my 3DS' backup? Can I install the Simple Badge Injecter without taking my SD card out using FTPD?

[fringe tapir]

You only need one folder to backup your badge data.

Nintendo 3DS \ [ID0] \ [ID1]\extdata\00000000\000014d1

This is on the SD card.

And yes, you can install SBI using FTPD.

[hasty thicket]

hello!

we are so back

[vital hatch]

But when you say ID0, do you mean the first folder or the second one? And which one's ID1?

[fringe tapir]

The one with a bunch of characters.

[hasty thicket]

@tribal smelt I’m going to make a temporary github site for the guide, and we could link people to that once its made, will prob be abt 5-15ish mins

[fringe tapir]

Basically. Nintendo 3DS -> 9r8uydfs9hdsiufhdsu -> ncjkxzcvhufsshoi -> extdata -> 00000000 -> 000014d1

[hasty thicket]

32 char folder

[vital hatch]

There's two of them

[fringe tapir]

Well I've never seen that before lol

[hasty thicket]

hold on

i know this, i just gotta look at the hb discord rq

i think its answered there

Just give me a min and I’ll find it

@vital hatch https://wiki.hacks.guide/wiki/3DS:Troubleshooting/multiple_ID0

alright going to start working on the temp guide hold on

@fringe tapir and @tribal smelt https://github.com/LiamMGit/PretendoBadgeLostGuide/wiki

[fringe tapir]

You might also want to add that all badges on the home menu will be deleted, and that you have to readd them.

[hasty thicket]

alright

done

[fringe tapir]

About Allbadges, even after dumping the update data there is still not every single one. For example, the BoxBoy badges are no where to be found.

The easiest way to import the BoxBoy badges for example would have to be to download the sprite sheet and then use a tool to get every single .png of the entire set.

[obtuse saddle]

Did you extract the update data for all regions? If you did and it's still not there, it could either be:

1. In the regular game's pc.sarc rather than the update,

2. In an older update but removed from the current one (hopefully not), or

3. In an older version of AllBadge.dat from Nintendo's servers that they don't distribute anymore, which would suck the most because they're no longer available at all, meaning you'd have to inject your own manually.

[fringe tapir]

I can only extract the update data for my region, the US.

[obtuse saddle]

I think I remember seeing BoxBoy in the JPN one (and maybe the EUR one) - let me just double-check...

[obtuse saddle]

Aha - I thought it was missing as well, but then I realised it's in the folder named "Hakoboy" because that must be what they're called in Japan: (see pic below)
This means Allbadge Tool almost definitely can give you all the badges, but you may need to "jump through some hoops", so to speak.

Apologies for the pic quality, lol

I can tell it's BOXBOY because I remember the main character is named Qbby after Kirby.

[fringe tapir]

Ah, thanks for letting me know.

Currently trying to rebuild my badge collection from GYTB with all of the categories and fowarders lol

[obtuse saddle]

If there are any others that appear to be missing, it might be a Japanese name issue.
Speaking of the Japanese files, every single badge has its own name in the Japanese files rather than just being called "<set_name> Badge"

Unfortunately, they're all in Japanese. Perhaps the localisation team decided it was too much time & effort to translate the names of thousands of badges, so they just went with generic names.

[obtuse saddle]

Nice job, but I've thought of a few possible changes to the "Restoring deleted badges." page:

1. Maybe rename the page to restoring vanished badges, since if Badge Arcade (or Swapdoodle, apparently) deletes your badges, this method won't bring them back since they're gone - only AllBadge Tool or a backup can give you your badges back at that point.

On this topic, perhaps the quick method to check if your badges still exist should be listed there? (#1227137764529803294 message or #1228611794575294545 message)
Also, perhaps the Allbadge Tool GBAtemp thread should be linked somewhere for people who find out their badges are missing: https://gbatemp.net/threads/get-any-official-badges-without-other-users-data.476300

2. On step 9, I think it'd be a good idea to mention the location of the dumped files (i.e. sdmc:/3ds/SimpleBadgeInjector/Dumped).

3. Between steps 11 and 12, there should be a step telling readers to put their modified badge data files into "sdmc:/3ds/SimpleBadgeInjector".

4. I'm a little confused on why it says the badges will now be deleted at the end, since the whole point of going through this process is so they'll show up again at the end of it.

[hasty thicket]

the "deleted" part is that they wont be in the order you laid it out in, aka just the badges shown on places on your home screen but i'll remove it as it is kinda confusing

[obtuse saddle]

Here's the info on the the structure of the badge files for you:
https://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/Home_Menu#Home_Menu_badge_SD_ExtData

This lets you know the offsets where you can find each piece of data (those being badge set names, badge names, set icons, large badge icons and small badge icons for BadgeData.dat, as well as a bunch of metadata stuff, such as the "Nintendo Network ID Number"/PrincipalID, which is the number that shows up under "NNID" in ABE that must match the one that shows up in SBI, in BadgeMngFile.dat. I think both files are in little-endian).

[obtuse saddle]

Ah, I see - that means the ones that were placed. Perhaps it should day that placed badges will have been removed rather than "All badges on the home menu will be deleted"? (Unless I'm the only person to have ever misinterpreted that, lol)

[hasty thicket]

yeah, i removed it for now just to not cause any confusion

[hasty thicket]

everything is done/fixed

steps updated on PR now

[obtuse saddle]

That's great - nice work.

The only thing now is that you could move the link to the Allbadge Tool thread to the page for checking if the badges have been fully deleted, since, if they're gone, you can create new badge data files in ABE and inject them with SBI without having to convert your empty badges from NNID to PNID, then replacing them anyway.

[hasty thicket]

ah alright

done

[obtuse saddle]

Cool. Thinking about it, though, I don't think people whose badges are fully gone will need to follow the restoring vanished badges guide because have none to make reappear, so maybe the guide should tell people to start at the the deletion check page, then tell people who do have badges to proceed to the backing up their data page and then to the restoring vanished badges page, and tell people whose badges are gone to go to the Allbadge Tool thread instead.

[hasty thicket]

Yeah the "Home" page link links you to the check first

ill change it to the stuff that you mentioned though

there we go

oops didnt take a pic of the full thing

[obtuse saddle]

Looks like it currently links you to page 2, i.e. backing them up. I think it should probably go like:

Start -> Checking if badges have been fully deleted
-> If they have, go to Allbadge Tool
-> If they haven't, continue to backing up badges -> restoring vanished badges

[hasty thicket]

Yeah, i picked up on that earlier, already fixed now lol

[obtuse saddle]

Ah, sorry - just had a look and it's different now. Seems like it's now perfect, afaik 👍 🎉

[misty brook]

Hello I’m back!

[misty brook]

Yep

[misty brook]

Yep. It’s constant because there’s lots of filler 0x00 bytes

[misty brook]

OOH HES

[hasty thicket]

it is out

https://github.com/LiamMGit/PretendoBadgeLostGuide/wiki

[misty brook]

Just saw that ❤️

[obtuse saddle]

Now if only we could pin this link somehow...

[hasty thicket]

we can get a mod to pin it

[misty brook]

@moderator

nvm that didn’t work

[obtuse saddle]

lol rip - guess they don't want people abusing that

[misty brook]

I mean in the AP discord you can ping a moderator in a thread and ask for pin permissions through their bot

[obtuse saddle]

Looks like the correct ping would be @ Moderator, but I'm not sure if we'd be allowed to do that. Might be alright in this case, though

Wait, you already tried that one - maybe they're case sensitive? (Or they've disabled it due to constant pings)

[hasty thicket]

I think we should wait until a mod is in #pretendo and then ask them there

[misty brook]

@vital trout can we get some messages pinned in here?

[tribal smelt]

This is USUALLY for when cards have been used on two 3ds consoles, its not an issue

We are so back

[obtuse saddle]

Or if you format without having the SD in the 3DS

[kind jolt]

how can i tranfer my badges from nnid to pnid using advance badge editor

[tribal smelt]

did you back them up first

[kind jolt]

yep

[tribal smelt]

Oh awesome

[kind jolt]

ok, how do I open those encrypted files on the advanced badge editor?

i have the movable.sed

[tribal smelt]

The encrypted files are opened through godmode9's A drive, i believe

[kind jolt]

now i got partitionA.bin

[kind jolt]

now?

[fringe tapir]

Read this: https://github.com/LiamMGit/PretendoBadgeLostGuide/wiki/Restoring-vanished-badges.

[vital hatch]

How do I mount the 00000004 file as the DIFF image?

[hasty thicket]

through gm9 i think

[vital hatch]

I know, I'm in GM9 now

It's not showing the option

[hasty thicket]

it should be near the bottom

i think

[vital hatch]

No mention of mounting or DIFF image

I found the file, just don't know what to do next

[hasty thicket]

hm, @tribal smelt or @obtuse saddle?

where do you think it should be

[vital hatch]

Let me take a pic of what I'm looking at

[obtuse saddle]

Looks like you're in 0:SDCARD rather than A:SYSNAND SD - you need to be in the latter because they're encrypted in the former, so GM9 can't do anything with them unless you go into A: where they're decrypted.

[vital hatch]

Yeah I made my way there, but now I have no idea what I'm looking at. Let me snap a pic

[obtuse saddle]

Ok :)

[obtuse saddle]

The fact that you can see the names of the sets means your badges are intact :)

[vital hatch]

Really? cuz there's a lot of 00s on this list

[obtuse saddle]

That's only if it's completely 0s - if you can see the names, they're there. The reason there are so many 0s is to give Nintendo a lot of space when naming the badges.

You can now move onto the next part of the guide.

[obtuse saddle]

Here's a list of everything else to change:

I think step 4 of the badge deletion check page saying "if it's all 0s" is fine, but it should stress that there will be values other than zeroes if your badges are intact.

Secondly, that same step should also tell people who already have a backup to restore their "000014d1" folder by copying it into "Nintendo 3DS\ID0\ID1\extdata\00000000\000014d1", then continue with the guide.

Also on that same step again, for those who have their badges, it should tell them to switch to Pretendo in Nimbus first, then follow the Allbadge Tool thread.

Also, on the vanished badge restoration page this time, step 4 should say to only switch to Pretendo if you aren't already in Pretendo.

On the same page, step 11 should say to select File > Save Data To instead of saying "Select Save As ..."

Inbetween steps 9 and 10, there should be a step saying to check the right side of the window to see if the badges show up, and that the badge data is probably corrupted if they don't, in which case they should either restote a backup or follow the Allbadge Tool thread.

Finally, also on that same page, instead of "extract" the badge data, step 6 should say "dump" the badge data because that's how SBI words it.

...Sorry if this is a lot!

[vital hatch]

I'm about to download the simple badge injector. Where on the SD card do copy it to?

And do I download both the 3dsx and cia?

[tribal smelt]

Just the .cia! You don't need two versions

[hasty thicket]

Ah, I’ll try and do it later as I am about to do stuff

[obtuse saddle]

If you have a cias folder, you can put it there, but it doesn't really matter

[hasty thicket]

hopefully nobody gets confused

[vital hatch]

I just made a folder for CIAs

[obtuse saddle]

If you want to access it via the homebrew launcher, get the 3dsx. If you want it on your home menu, get the cia and install it.

[obtuse saddle]

Cool - now put the CIA in there & install it with GM9 or FBI.

I prefer doing so with GM9 because you can do more things with it, such as install DSiWare .nds files & uninstall & reinstall games without deleting their saves.

[vital hatch]

Ok, I'm in the injector. Inject custom badge data?

or do I dump it?

[obtuse saddle]

Wait, no

Extract, sorry. Lol
(For context, I originally told them to inject by accident, then deleted the message, but now I'm starting to think the "failed to copy badge files" message displaying is the common thread between the two cases of BadgeMngFile.dat corruption, i.e. accidentally selecting "Inject" with no data in the SBI folder causes them to become corrupted.
Update: Nah, it wasn't that. Maybe it's opening SwapDoodle with mismatched IDs that does this, then?)

[vital hatch]

"failed to copy badge files"

there is no extract option

[obtuse saddle]

What shows up on your screen?

[tribal smelt]

Hey wait someone else had this exact issue last night

[obtuse saddle]

Dump, then - perhaps that's another thing to be reworded, lol

[vital hatch]

says it was successful

[obtuse saddle]

Dump = extract when it comes to software stuff

[vital hatch]

now inject?

[obtuse saddle]

Not yet

Follow the next bit in Advanced Badge Editor first

[vital hatch]

Sorry, I'll go back to the guide. I'm jumping the gun here

[obtuse saddle]

That's alright 👍

[misty brook]

yeah if it has text in it they're fine

the way to actually get the two .dat files is to use 3ds-save-tool to unpack the decrypted thing from the a-drive

[vital hatch]

Is there a step missing on this page? Step 4's got me worried. https://github.com/LiamMGit/PretendoBadgeLostGuide/wiki/Restoring-vanished-badges.

I've been on Pretendo the whole time

[obtuse saddle]

That said, the Japanese one will just have gibberish on the side because Japanese does not display correctly in a gex editor when represented in UTF-16 LE encoding.

[obtuse saddle]

That step's just for people who haven't switched over yet - don't worry. (Another thing to re-word, though - my fault for putting that originally)

[vital hatch]

I followed the guide and injected the modded badge file, but it still says I have no badges.

[obtuse saddle]

You mean the files you edited the NNID value of in ABE?

[obtuse saddle]

You can also dump them in SBI or copy them from Ext Save Data to your SD card in FBI to acheive the same result of ending up with BadgeData.dat and BadgeMngFile.dat.

[vital hatch]

Yeah, I used ABE

Changed the NNID to the Pretendo one

[obtuse saddle]

Then you chose File -> Save As and saved the modded ones somewhere else, then copied those modded ones into the SBI folder?

[vital hatch]

It doesn't have save as, it has save data and save data to

[vital hatch]

I opened the one in the dumped folder and saved it to SBE's root folder.

[obtuse saddle]

It's the latter, then

[vital hatch]

Wait a minute. I just opened the one in the dumped folder again. all the readings are zero

[obtuse saddle]

Uh-oh. There should be badge entries on the right side. Could you go into GM9, then navigate to "0:SDCARD/3ds/SimpleBadgeInjector/Dumped", select BadgeData.dat and show it in the hex editor, then provide a picture of your screen?

[obtuse saddle]

Okay, now press X, choose "Go to offset" and then input "00035E80", press A and send a pic of that?

[obtuse saddle]

Thanks - now press X, choose "Go to offset" and then input "00250F80", press A and send a pic of that

[vital hatch]

Something scared me about this bit. The values are repeating until the 3rd way down the bottom screen

[obtuse saddle]

That's probably the background, which would be a solid colour.
Finally, repeat the process with offset "00318F80".

It looks like they're there, but I'm just making extra sure.

[obtuse saddle]

Yep, they're all present. Maybe try copying them to somewhere on your PC first, then try opening them in ABE? (I suggest making two folders, "Nintendo" and "Pretendo", putting your dumped files in the Nintendo one, then saving the modded ones to the Pretendo one.)

[vital hatch]

I might start this again, but this time, run the SBI in Nintendo mode to begin with

[obtuse saddle]

Well, they show up fine in the hex editor, so that shouldn't affect anything. What does the dumped BadgeMngFile.dat look like in GM9?

Maybe this is some sort of ABE bug...

[vital hatch]

I'm guessing this is the problem?

[obtuse saddle]

I don't know, actually. I thought perhaps it'd be invalid somehow, but I can't see anything wrong with it at first glance.

[vital hatch]

So all those 00s are normal?

To be honest, I think it's because I've fucked up somewhere. I'm sure I followed the guide to the letter.

I've scrolled past a lot of 00s to find a lot of FFs. This that normal?

[obtuse saddle]

There is one weird thing, actually - it says your total badges are 1495, but it also says that yiu have no badge sets, placed badges or unique badges. Maybe you should try dumping them again in NNID and see what happens? (Also to see if they're still there...)

[obtuse saddle]

Whereabouts do the FFs start?

i.e. what value does it say on the left side of the screen on the line where they begin?

[vital hatch]

The 00s start at 00000020, the FFs start at 000003E8

Want a pic?

[obtuse saddle]

Yeah, sure 👍

[honest token]

I made a support on this too but I just wanna fix it soon and dont know if anyone will

When opening Badge Arcade it comes up with the following error code

[tribal smelt]

...on pretendo?

because badge arcade isn't supported yet, and opening the badge arcade on pretendo actually deletes your data

[vital hatch]

Any news?

[obtuse saddle]

Was really confused for a bit, then realised I was looking at the wrong data.
Again, it looks normal at first, but then I realised it's saying you have a bunch of badges with ID "FF FF FF FF", and you own 0 of each type of badge, which might explain why they appear to have no data in ABE. They also appear to have links to EUR System Settings and EUR 3DS Camera for some reason.

[vital hatch]

Oh, that's right. There were badges that opened those apps. I used the Zelda Wind Waker themed ones.

[honest token]

no on Nintendo

[tribal smelt]

why were you opening badge arcade on nintendo?

[obtuse saddle]

Okay, so it looks like parts of the data are correct, but other parts are wrong - for instance, it should come up with the title ID for those apps twice, whereas yours says a bunch of FFs before the title ID. Also, I don't think the badge IDs should be FFs, and it should say you own at least 1 badge.

[vital hatch]

Here's another factor to consider. About half way through my jailbreaking my 3DS, I backed up the entire contents of it's SD card. After I finished the jail break, the badges came back once when I switched back to Nintendo mode. What if I fished out the back up?

[obtuse saddle]

So it looks like your badges are still present, but BadgeMngFile.dat is somehow corrupted - to test this, could you please try switching back to Nintendo via Nimbus and seeing if the badges show up?

[obtuse saddle]

Oh yeah - that could work. Maybe try restoring that after seeing if the badges show up as they are on the Nintendo side.

[vital hatch]

Badges are absent in Nintendo mode now

[vital hatch]

I just want Nintendo 3DS\ID0\ID1\extdata\00000000\000014d1\00000004, right?

[obtuse saddle]

As suspected - something happened in Pretendo mode that corrupted their metadata. Lucky thing you made that backup, then!
Try repeating all the relevant steps after replacing the 000014d1 folder.

[slim plank]

copy everything inside of Nintendo 3DS\ID0\ID1\extdata\00000000\000014d1 from your Backup to the SD Card and it should replace your broken badges with the old ones from the backup

[vital hatch]

Okay, so I'm going to try the whole thing again. Do I start in Nintendo mode or Pretnedo mode?

[obtuse saddle]

The whole folder, as the guy above me says - extdata is structured in a way that it's usually impossible to replace 1 file on its own.

Either - I don't think it matters, tbh

[slim plank]

@obtuse saddle There's another corrupted badge file posted by this user that I was trying to help with yesterday
It looks okay in a hex editor from what we checked, but won't show any badges in Advanced Badge Editor or a real 3DS
Kind of the same problem that Virtual Knight was having

[vital hatch]

Now we're getting some positive results.

[obtuse saddle]

Aha - checked their BadgeMngFile in a hex editor, and they have the exact same issue, just like you said.

[vital hatch]

Thank you!

@obtuse saddle

[obtuse saddle]

That's such a relief - glad you managed to restore them!
The only mystery now is what action you took that corrupted BadgeMngFile.dat without deleting the data from BadgeData.dat.

[vital hatch]

Good question. I have no idea what I did.

[obtuse saddle]

Looks like the problem is that your BadgeMngFile.dat has somehow been corrupted despite all the data in BadgeData.dat being present.

I can see you had 455 badges, but not which ones - the IDs have been replaced by FFs.

[sand vigil]

i may have an SD backup of sorts from some years back. sans the sparse inclusions in the past few.
i appreciate yalls analysis and efforts, regardless

don't stop pushing until a PSA is made- ppl are finding out their badges are poofing

[tribal smelt]

god im marveled that the same error happened twice but one was accidentally fixed

this isn't as impossible as i thought itd be

[tribal smelt]

i dont understand why you're opening badge arcade in nintendo mode?? @honest token

the servers shut down last week, what was the plan here?

[obtuse saddle]

If you want any extra badges back, you can use Allbadge Tool to obtain them, then extract your working badge data files in SBI and open BadgeData.dat in ABE, then import the .prbs and .cabs Allbadge Tool gave you.
Don't forget that ABE can give you 255 of each badge!

[minor totem]

all of nintendo’s official servers shut down on monday, so the badge arcade application will no longer load anything past the welcome screen

[fringe tapir]

badge data on the servers is gone, millions will perish

[tribal smelt]

😭 theyre dead, andrew

[fringe tapir]

🫡

[austere horizon]

on badge editor, I'm trying to make badges that link to certain apps. How do I do that?

[fringe tapir]

There’s a little drop down menu which allows you to pick an app.

Just make sure you’re on the right region.

[austere horizon]

oh forgot the region toggle, thanks for help!

[pearl raptor]

My dumb*** deleted all my badges...

[tribal smelt]

what did you do exactly?

[pearl raptor]

I... opened badge arcade with my pretendo account selected.

[fringe tapir]

https://tenor.com/view/table-hit-yakuza-hitting-table-walk-out-gif-15307369

[tribal smelt]

...did you make a backup of your badge extdata?

like beforehand?

[pearl raptor]

...Yeah...

I didn't read.

Until now.

Its...

[tribal smelt]

OH YOU HAVE A BACKUP??

[pearl raptor]

Gone.

[tribal smelt]

oh

[fringe tapir]

it's so over

[tribal smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/table-hit-yakuza-hitting-table-walk-out-gif-15307369

its joever

welcome to the club

you can replace them w/ allbadge tool tho

[pearl raptor]

Oh!

How do you do that?

[fringe tapir]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/get-any-official-badges-without-other-users-data.476300/

[fringe tapir]

You'll be able to get any badges you want.

[pearl raptor]

You're a god!

[tribal smelt]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/858765243449999360/1228641301461729370/RDT_20240412_1901045919631580848076110.gif

that's what the badge issue help desk is for,,,

go recover those babes

[pearl raptor]

I will!

[minor totem]

if you need help at any of the steps in this process, don’t be afraid to ask! i just learned how to do it two days ago and feel confident in my guiding abilities

[pearl raptor]

Quick question... Do I need a Window's computer for this?

[fringe tapir]

Yes.

Or you can use Wine on Mac and Linux iirc.

[vital hatch]

One question I've been meaning to ask, since Pretendo requires jailbroken and hacked 3DSes, will we be able to make our own badges for our home screens?

[fringe tapir]

Yes, people have done that for years now.

[pearl raptor]

I have a Chromebook. That count?

[fringe tapir]

https://themeplaza.art/?category=badges&query=&sort=newest

[slim plank]

Advanced Badge Editor is only made for Windows computers (they only have an exe on the GitHub releases)
https://winehq.org lets you run Windows programs on most other systems if you can figure out how to set it up

[fringe tapir]

Do you have access to Linux on it?

I think that's a feature on Chromebooks.

[pearl raptor]

It messed up my chromebook once.

I guess I'll have to use a backup windows computer.

[slim plank]

epic chromebook moment
https://alvarotrigo.com/blog/wine-chromebook/

[austere horizon]

Thanks! It works!

[pearl raptor]

My god. This is so complicated.

But I'll try.

[austere horizon]

Imagine making badges that link to the homebrew channel 😲

[obtuse saddle]

I remember reading somewhere that you can only link to system apps, unfortunately... but it might be worth changing the Title Shortcut (Low ID) to D921E00 and the High ID to 40000 to test it out.

[austere horizon]

Besides, anything is possible with homebrew, who knows within a few months, you can link badges to any application or game. That would be sick! In ABE, you can apparently link badges to Face Raiders Imao

[obtuse saddle]

And AR Games and Mii Plaza, but again, they're all system apps, so it'd be cool if someone figured out a way to link to SD apps.
Unfortunately, neither badge app has been updated for years, so I don't think a workaround will be implemented. :(

[obtuse saddle]

Just realised something - if you had 1,495 badges, but you can only have up to 1,000 at a time, and you only had one backup, does that mean you left some in your badge box? In that case, I think they might be gone now :(
Also, do you have SwapDoodle on your 3DS?
Edit: Never mind - it isn't SwapDoodle that resets BadgeMngFile.dat.

[pearl raptor]

Update: My Chromebook. has no space. I literally can’t even run Linux. I’m gonna have to wait until I get a GOOD Windows computer

[tribal smelt]

sorry that you're using garbage

[pearl raptor]

Yeah…

I know.

I need to save money.

Worst part?

18, and don’t have a job.

[tribal smelt]

hey its ok

< unemployed

[pearl raptor]

Oh. Didn’t know.

[tribal smelt]

i mean how're you supposed to lmao we just met

[pearl raptor]

Lmao yeah

[tribal smelt]

yeah youre outta luck unless you borrow a computer

[pearl raptor]

I mean, I may be lucky.

In the state I’m in, they have a program.

I can try to apply.

[tribal smelt]

mf gonna apply for a program just to get their badges

[pearl raptor]

LMFAOOOOO

[tribal smelt]

motive:

badj

[minor totem]

if you have any friends with better PCs you might be able to ask them to borrow it as well!

[fringe tapir]

If you tell me what sets you want, I could give you the badge data.

[pearl raptor]

Hmmm…

Well, there’s a lot.

I know that.

I need time to decide.

Then, when the time comes, I’ll tell.

[pearl raptor]

Some sets I remember having:

• Super Mario bros
• Mario maker

There's more.

I clicked the wrong button.

[minor totem]

you can look through the badge collections on this page to see which ones you had/want https://nintendo-badge-arcade.fandom.com/wiki/Collection

[pearl raptor]

Super Mario Bros. 293 53
Super Mario Maker 488 35
Mario & Friends 65 14
Mario Kart 8 90 15
Mario Party 29 6
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Bros. 105 8
The Legend of Zelda 91 18
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds 33 7
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D 71 13
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD 162 22
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD 139 10
Pixel Collection 121 22
Cat Mario 6 1

Here

[fringe tapir]

It might be over the limit, but I’ll see what I can do.

[pearl raptor]

Then just Mario and Luigi Paper Jam, Pixel Collection and Mario maker

[fringe tapir]

Also, I’ll need your NNID value to make it work.

[pearl raptor]

Oh crap.

Forgot

How do I find out again?

[fringe tapir]

Open SBI.

It’ll be at the top.

[pearl raptor]

Wait. SBI, or FBI?

[fringe tapir]

SBI.

Simple Badge Injector

[pearl raptor]

Oh crap.

Hold on...

Can I find it on Universal Updater, or do I have to download it manually and add it manually?

(In case its obvious, I'm a little new to this)

[minor totem]

i believe SBI is in universal updater, but i’m not 100% positive

[tribal smelt]

i believe its not, no

[pearl raptor]

Not.

Just checked.

I'll add it real quick.

[fringe tapir]

Also, what's your 3DS region?

[pearl raptor]

NA

[fringe tapir]

Everything is ready, just need the ID.

[pearl raptor]

Ok

I trust you. Ready?

[fringe tapir]

Yes.

[pearl raptor]

629C08CA

[tribal smelt]

ok andrew inject the virus

[pearl raptor]

NO

LMAO

[fringe tapir]

on it

[tribal smelt]

INJECT IT

YES

[pearl raptor]

Ok...

So, what do I do with those? Put it on the SD card, and inject?

[fringe tapir]

I believe you need to make a folder in the “3ds” directory.

[pearl raptor]

named what specifically?

[fringe tapir]

called “SimpleBadgeInjector”

Then place those files in there.

[pearl raptor]

Got it.

And then, inject?

[fringe tapir]

Yes.

[pearl raptor]

Alright.

Thanks, you absolute lifesaver.

[fringe tapir]

No problemo

[pearl raptor]

IT WORKED!?!?!?!?!

HOLY!!!

[tribal smelt]

the funny image returns

[minor totem]

this is a fantastic revelation for everyone who doesn’t have access to the allbadgetool and ABE

[tribal smelt]

other versions

just for storage

[minor totem]

speaking of that pic, is juxt down right now? i’ve tried going into it a couple times today and it says maintenance

[pearl raptor]

Yes

Just checked

I wanted to post about it lmao

[fringe tapir]

Yeah servers are wacky right now

[minor totem]

alright

[tribal smelt]

juxt is 50/50 shitting itself yea

[minor totem]

MK7 servers are working great rn, i was playing for a bit

full rooms too which is based

[tribal smelt]

did your badges stay

[minor totem]

yes! on NNID side

i’m not gonna fuck around with injecting or deleting badges for a little while and just use my 3DS in MK7 and other areas (not badge arcade) and see if the badges disappear off the NNID side at all, if not my next goal will be to figure out how to balance badges on both profiles

if that’s even possible but we’ll see

my idea is to make the same badge file twice in ABE, just with the different unique NNID values for each profile, and then inject them

the only problem i can think of is the fact that SBI wipes the other badge file before injecting a new one

[tribal smelt]

pretendo making an independent badge arcade will be tossing wrenches in this too

[minor totem]

pretendo turning the badge arcade into a dual-profile badge injector…that’s the dream

[tribal smelt]

that'd be the pitch of a lifetime. and jank filled

[fringe tapir]

held together by duck tape and hope

[sand vigil]

for 'Allbadge Tool', what is 'data folder' referring to, my Nintendo 3DS\id0\id1\..\000014d1 folder?

[fringe tapir]

The data folder is just where all of the badges are dumped to.

When you run the program.

[sand vigil]

ah. gracias.

[sand vigil]

hey, did someone here share a link to a page detailing like, each Badge Set & their technical names? so I can have an idea of what i'm importing? e.g. i'm looking to import the retro console pixel arts. idk what set they're in.

[tribal smelt]

we have an archive of the .pngs, but not their technical names, sadly

i do know the retro consoles are titled the Pixel Collection

[fringe tapir]

You can just import the sets into ABE to see what they are.

[sand vigil]

"DotHard"

[minor totem]

I have the folder of PNGs if you want it!

[sand vigil]

I would appreciate this

[minor totem]

well, partially. for some reason when i tried unzipping it, it errored halfway through. but the pixel badge pngs are all intact!

[fringe tapir]

That’s the pixel collection.

For whatever reason

[tribal smelt]

i mean

those dots sure are hard

[fringe tapir]

deep.

[minor totem]

you can't send folders in discord can you

[fringe tapir]

I mean you can compress them and send the .zip

[tribal smelt]

you can send .zip files

[sand vigil]

make a big .7z (or .rar), i can handle it

[tribal smelt]

go on. send a .zip file

[fringe tapir]

send the 10tb zip bomb

[minor totem]

zip bomb

[tribal smelt]

make the people happy, giraffe. zip bomb this stranger's computer

[minor totem]

here comes the bomb

[tribal smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-eat-baby-feed-feed-me-gif-7995768

nyoooooooooooooooo

[minor totem]

like i said when i opened it originally, half of them did not work so the pngs are just broken

but all of the dothards are working

[tribal smelt]

how much is in there

[minor totem]

18 mb don't worry

[tribal smelt]

how many silly pngs

[minor totem]

oh

um

as many as there are badges

so like 10k?

[tribal smelt]

you sent a folder containing 10 thousand pngs to a 40k member discord server

[minor totem]

yes!

[tribal smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/steamed-hams-superintendent-big-eyes-annoyed-squint-gif-14484119

well hey at least its accessible

[minor totem]

i'm actually gonna try to fix the file right now so all the pngs are accessible

okay i fixed it, i'm gonna send the full png folder now

kaboom. the motherlode of silly little pngs

now we can send silly little pngs in here

[tribal smelt]

free discord emoji

i got this one

shoutouts to silly little pngs. the club penguin set on theme plaza is what got me into this mess

[sand vigil]

if my 000014d1 data (backup from November 2017) indicates that, my Region is "EUR",, even though I'm ||american||, am i still okay to use this data?? or what is the program doing, miss-reading outdated data?

[minor totem]

is it showing EUR in ABE?

[sand vigil]

Yes.

The rest of the data (which is present at this state) looks valid and is parseable. But the region is set to EUR, which I had no part in afaik

[minor totem]

yeah, it seems to be a consistent symptom of using ABE. every imported badge dump from your 3DS says EUR in ABE

mine did the same thing when i checked the new badges in ABE today

[sand vigil]

should I touch that setting or ignore it 😅

[minor totem]

i didn’t touch it before injecting and they work just fine anyway, so you could change it but i’m not sure it matters lol. up to you!

[tribal smelt]

thank you for spoilering that :] very sensitive topic

[tribal smelt]

i now have my funny role

[minor totem]

HOW

[tribal smelt]

ask a mod for it in general chat

[minor totem]

where do we see this page?? i’d love to watch when servers are up and down

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1228792642033160314/1228799438068252702/IMG_0483.png?ex=662d5ba8&is=661ae6a8&hm=e3bb9954daff2811b531e467d6d5a2cd6aed3043e89e6de16dbe7907f90a2b71&

[tribal smelt]

https://stats.uptimerobot.com/R7E4wiGjJq/

[minor totem]

so fl*pping cool. i love it

[tribal smelt]

fr*ck

[minor totem]

i’m having so much f*n on here

[tribal smelt]

f***

[obtuse saddle]

If you ever want to add any more badges in the future, and you're wondering what they are, you can use this and turn on large icons in your file manager to look at previews of the .prb files' images without having to compare them to anything else or open them in ABE first:
https://github.com/GerbilSoft/rom-properties

[humble canyon]

puffle‼️

I miss those little guys

especially when they used to look like that

[hasty thicket]

If you have badges that launch applications, change it to the correct region.

[hasty thicket]

gonna get mine soon hopefully

[obtuse saddle]

Just found out that SwapDoodle is actually the most lenient 3DS app to use badges - not only does it not delete them, it also lets you view & use them regardless of whether your PrincipalID matches or not!

[obtuse saddle]

Btw, in case you haven't seen, I updated that message with a few more things to change in the guide:
#1228611794575294545 message

I hope this isn't too much of a nuisance, though, lol

[hasty thicket]

nah its good, I just got home so I’ll start working on it in a min

[obtuse saddle]

Ty very much :)

[hasty thicket]

Step 6 already does say "dump"

[hasty thicket]

also, everything should be done!

[obtuse saddle]

Just checked it and it looks pretty good. I can't think of any other ways people could misinterpret the guide now, but you never know if anyone else will report any new problems with their badges...

[floral kettle]

if advanced badge editor says no badges are the badges gone for good ?

[obtuse saddle]

Would you mind sending over your BadgeData.dat and BadgeMngFile.dat?

[obtuse saddle]

Thanks - I'll have a look at them in a hex editor.

[floral kettle]

Thank u

[obtuse saddle]

As I suspected, it's the same situation 2 others have had - somehow, BadgeData.dat is still intact and has all set names, badge names & images, but BadgeMngFile.dat has been reset by something - the only thing I can see in there is that you had 291 badges, and what software shorcuts certain badges had.

I'm not really sure what it's been reset by, though, because Badge Arcade normally resets both files. Do you remember what apps you opened since switching to Pretendo?

[floral kettle]

The apps i can recall opening after installing Pretendo are MK7, Tennis open, NTR CFW, CTGP7, Anemone3ds, and Checkpoint

Maybe it was Anemone3ds?

[obtuse saddle]

Maybe - I'll test some of those apps out with deliberately invalid badge data to try and see for myself. Thanks for the info 👍

[floral kettle]

👍

Is it possible to somehow reconstruct BadgeMngFile.dat or would it just be better to go through and manually re-add them

[obtuse saddle]

I think it might be faster to do the latter, but you can look through BadgeData.dat in a hex editor (e.g. HxD or the one in GodMode9) to see which sets you had badges in if you want.
If you don't have a backup, you'll need to follow the Allbadge Tool method, in which this (https://github.com/GerbilSoft/rom-properties) will help you preview all of the badges you obtain so you can see which ones are which.

I'm starting to wish there was a PC program to easily extract all images from BadgeData.dat so you can see ehich ones you had before.

[hasty thicket]

i think that could easily be done with some python code

[wide owl]

So I ran gytb on pretendo, and now when i go to NNID mode my badges are gone. Oops

[fringe tapir]

Did your badges save to the badge folder?

[hasty thicket]

it reads the data from the BadgeData.txt and compiles it into a nice to read .json/.txt, or just exports images of the badges

[obtuse saddle]

Oh, and don't forget to extract your pc.sarc with the gm9 script, or that ABE can give you 255 of each badge!

[wide owl]

ill check

[fringe tapir]

If they did, just run GYTB again and they'll appear again.

[wide owl]

theres nothing in the folder

[fringe tapir]

Do you have a backup of your badge save data?

[wide owl]

No.

I guess I screwed myself, huh

[fringe tapir]

It happens. However, you can get any badge you want now!

https://gbatemp.net/threads/get-any-official-badges-without-other-users-data.476300/

[wide owl]

thanks.

[fringe tapir]

Follow this and you'll be able to get any badges you want.

[floral kettle]

is this in the megascript?

[hasty thicket]

@obtuse saddle im going to work with @analog skiff to make a application that will take the badge data file and export it as a nice to read json, we may need to ask for your help with it because you know like everything about this 😭

[analog skiff]

😭

i never said yes but ok

[hasty thicket]

hallo

[analog skiff]

il try smth

[hasty thicket]

you dont need to, i can do stuffs

[obtuse saddle]

I'm only reading off of https://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/Home_Menu#Home_Menu_badge_SD_ExtData, so you might not need me if you can understand the format from there.

[floral kettle]

where can i find the script?

[obtuse saddle]

If you're following the Allbadge Tool thread, it's in the part where it says something like "EXTRA: extracting pc.sarc from Badge Arcade updates".

If you aren't following it yet:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/get-any-official-badges-without-other-users-data.476300/

[hasty thicket]

@obtuse saddle I'm really not familiar with Hex, I'm trying to understand it but all I can understand is the badge set, (i think?) which might be all I need, I'm reading from @floral kettle's (sry for ping) data. Is it possible for you to show me exactly where the badge title is?

[obtuse saddle]

Well, it doesn't look like Checkpoint or Anemone3DS causes BadgeMngFile.dat to reset - maybe going online in the former 3 games does that, or perhaps it's MK7 specifically because that game had an update years later?

I'm not sure because I'm actually holding off on moving over to Pretendo for now, but other people have had issues with MK7 on Pretendo, so maybe it's something to do with that...

[obtuse saddle]

The badges' titles are at offset 0x35E80. They are in UTF-16 Little Endian format, and there are 16 names per one badge (one for each language).

I've used this site to decode UTF-16 LE strings before:
https://dencode.com/en/string/hex
(Choose UTF-16 LE from the drop down arrow)

Not sure how useful that info is when coding something, though.

[hasty thicket]

alright, im getting somewhere

going to make a backup of my badges rq

[obtuse saddle]

Also, the set names are at the beginning in the same format, but I'm sure you'd already figured that one out yourself.

[hasty thicket]

yeah, I think it shouldn't be too hard, I just need to it convert every HEX string starting at offset 0x35E80 into a json/txt, and end when it reaches the junk text like this

then i can make it remove the unnessasary titles and dots

[obtuse saddle]

I think that "junk text" is the where the images start, lol

[hasty thicket]

ah, well i dont think we need the images?

even so, i do not know how to read that lmao

[obtuse saddle]

You might do, because all the badges' names are the same outside of Japan

i.e. they are all named after their sets, like "Super Mario Bros. badge"

[floral kettle]

i wish i could help you all with this tool but im entering finals season at uni unfortunately

[hasty thicket]

ah yeah, do you know how to read the image data?

[hasty thicket]

its alright, need an excuse anyways to make something

[obtuse saddle]

They're like BCLIM files in format 5 (RGB565), but without the 0x28-byte footer.

Open-source programs that can open BCLIM files:
https://github.com/PabloMK7/EveryFileExplorer
https://github.com/kwsch/png2bclim

And an example of the footer:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/help-bclim-files-to-png.403158/#post-5808185

[hasty thicket]

how would i go about making the HEX image data into .bclim, or is that a different file i need to find?

[obtuse saddle]

Actually, thinking about it, because those tools are open-source, all you would have to do to view the image data in BadgeData.dat as pngs is to incorporate one of them into your own badge extraction program.

For example, you could have your program separate each bit of 0x2000-byte-long 64x64 RGB565 image data for the badge sets starting at 0x250F80 - as well as the 0x2000-byte-long 64x64 RGB565 image data for the badges themselves starting at 0x318F80 (skipping out the 0x800-byte-long 64x64 A4 alpha data right afterwards for each entry, since that's only useful for the backs of the badges) - into separate files, then have your program add the following BCLIM footer to the end of each file and save them as .bclim files:
43 4C 49 4D FF FE 14 00 00 00 02 02 28 20 00 00 01 00 00 00 69 6D 61 67 10 00 00 00 28 00 28 00 05 00 00 00 00 20 00 00

Then just have png2bclim mass-convert all the bclim files to png. 👍

[hasty thicket]

hm, ill try manually coverting it first to understand it then i'll try to write some code that'll automaticlly do it

yeah, i have no clue on what im doing 😂 im sure someone else here would actually understand this

[fringe tapir]

#1229166566055219221 message

Another victim o7

[hasty thicket]

redirect them here please

[fringe tapir]

I did

[hasty thicket]

nvm you did

Praying Jon or someone else gets my PR approved soon, just waiting for people to review it 🙏

[tribal smelt]

me when i press the death and dying button

[tribal smelt]

#pretendo message

death

[fringe tapir]

the great badge purge of 2024

I made a post on Juxt about this thread to hopefully save some people.

[tribal smelt]

badges, saves

n w/ people willy nilly unlinking IDs,,,

[hasty thicket]

now that juxt is back everyone is going crazy trying every single online service again

so tons of people are losing their badges as we speak

[pure flower]

Alr, I lost my badges, did not have GYTB, but I do have a backup of my nintendo 3ds file

[ionic spire]

Did you boot up the badge arcade

[pure flower]

yes, thats how It got deleted

my backup file is my nintendo 3ds file from before that happened

[tribal smelt]

alr we need you to find a specific folder within that backup

[pure flower]

alr

[tribal smelt]

SD Card:\Nintendo 3DS[ID0][ID1]\extdata\00000000\000014d1

look for this directory

[pure flower]

alr

well its not in the SD card

its downloaded on my pc

[tribal smelt]

dont matter, just look for it in your pc

[pure flower]

found it

what's next?

[tribal smelt]

go find the 14d1 directory on your sd card

youll copy your backup over to replace it

[pure flower]

so replace the whole folder

[hasty thicket]

the whole 14d1 folder, yes

[pure flower]

then what

is it done?

[tribal smelt]

yup

thats it

[hasty thicket]

i think?

yeah

[dusky sphinx]

Iirc yea

[tribal smelt]

just slip in your sd card again and boot up the console, it should work

[pure flower]

alr I got them back

but is there any way to bring my official badges to pretendo?

[tribal smelt]

it, ah, takes a lot of jank

but it is possible in some ways

[obtuse saddle]

Yep - follow this guide: https://github.com/LiamMGit/PretendoBadgeLostGuide/wiki

[hasty thicket]

our lord and savior stev is here

[vital hatch]

I asked earlier about modders making their own badges, how do you add them? They don't mean erasing the official badges you already have, does it?

[fringe tapir]

Just add them to using SBI with ABE.

Like create a badge, then import the .png.

[dusky sphinx]

1. Basically what asomn said
2. No it shouldn't erase current badges

[dusky sphinx]

This may help a bit but I could be outdated so check earlier comments if this link doesn't apply for custom making: https://wiki.hacks.guide/wiki/3DS:GYTB

[ionic spire]

Dude

[fringe tapir]

Yeah but GYTB erases the categories and fowarders don’t work.

[ionic spire]

Asomn answered his question already

Didn't we already have a fucking conversation about this

[fringe tapir]

No need to get upset, it’s all good.

[ionic spire]

Alright man, I'm sorry

I'm just pissed cause he did the same damn thing in another thread

[tribal smelt]

hey man this is the funny badge desk, we all like badges here. we grind for silly pngs

however, we don't suggest gytb due to reasons asomn already noted

[ionic spire]

Yeah.....

[fringe tapir]

Also GYTB erased like 2 of my badges 😔

[ionic spire]

Apologies for the outburst 💔

[tribal smelt]

gytb burned our crops

[dusky sphinx]

That's why I said check earlier comments if I'm wrong

[dusky sphinx]

There are no pinned messages here and it's a universal thread so that's why I asked others to check in case I'm wrong

Also, I can't find where asomn said don't use gytp so again you're not right in this situation

[tribal smelt]

i mean we physically can't pin here

[dusky sphinx]

Unfortunately but a mod could

[tribal smelt]

im not summoning imora again

[dusky sphinx]

This time I actually had possible useful info on what to do/not to do

[dusky sphinx]

Probably best if we don't unless absolutely necessary. I think a solution to this is to have at least 2-3 people confirming the next step unless physically cited and found/used in the instruction process

[tribal smelt]

i mean we generally do that

and also we wrote the instructions so 🤷

[dusky sphinx]

Yes but it got flooded and no pinned so idk

[tribal smelt]

p sure i left key words

yeah 'badge brigade' is the key word

[dusky sphinx]

I had to scroll up 11 times to the top

So it's pretty long

Ngl

[tribal smelt]

correct, we talk here often

idk what you want us to do about that lol

[dusky sphinx]

Nothing

Just make sure we are correcting each other and we should be fine lmao

[tribal smelt]

ah yeah itll be fine

[dusky sphinx]

accidentally wipes someone's console (joke)

[ionic spire]

You were kind of close to doing that by recommending this though.

Just be more careful when giving help next time, don't contribute unless you are absolutely sure you know what you're talking about, etc.

[vital hatch]

I'm not using that again! it erased my bades!

[dusky sphinx]

I said correct me if I'm wrong

[vital hatch]

Good thing I was able to use the SBI to get them back in an instant!

[dusky sphinx]

Otherwise I wouldn't post

[dusky sphinx]

e

[ionic spire]

Awesome!!!!!

SBI is goated

GYTB never worked for me lmao

[dusky sphinx]

I should rephrase this: I wouldn't have posted if there were pinned/easily accessible messages that said don't use GYTB. Since there weren't and knew about his, I suggested and wanted people to correct me if I'm wrong since I'm not sure with the whole switching to PNID from NNID

That's why I said correct me if I'm wrong because I knew there was a good chance I had outdated info

[vital hatch]

GYTB erased my badges for the custom one I tried making. Good thing I still had the injectable profile from earlier.

[dusky sphinx]

Now that I know GYTB is bad, I can now use this info to correct any further problems with badges

It benefits both sides as I learn something new and help them advise others on what not to use

Sorry if I seem aggressive in this message.

[pure flower]

wait GYTB is bad?

[dusky sphinx]

Yes

Now I know

[pure flower]

well. thanks for saying so

was about to download it

[ionic spire]

You're good. Sorry for lashing out

[dusky sphinx]

Np man

[hasty thicket]

dont think i got support helper :(

[tribal smelt]

i feel like folks thought support helper was like. a type of mod role

bc theres a weird amount of people grinding for it

[fringe tapir]

support helper speedrun

[tribal smelt]

ive seen like three folks actively grind for it

[austere horizon]

I want your role 🥴

[hasty thicket]

i am grinding for it

i want it

i require it?!1!1?1!2!1!1!1!

[fringe tapir]

how will i go on if i dont have a png next to my name

wait a minute

the role is basically a badge if you think about it

[hasty thicket]

exactly

i want the badge

i need the little png next to my name

[austere horizon]

Me too, but no mods online 😥

[hasty thicket]

i asked a mod, and they said “wow, you really did a lot of stuff in badge related support stuff, impressive” and then never contacted me again

[tribal smelt]

they stopped giving them out tbf

you lost your chance

[austere horizon]

Wtf it just started today #announcements message 💀

[tribal smelt]

well yeah thing is right

everyone saw the funny badge and like 5 people scrambled to grab it

[austere horizon]

But I would actually use it

[tribal smelt]

wym actually use it

its got no benefits

like, unironically

all that happened is that someone confused me for a dev

[fringe tapir]

omg we have a dev in the chat

pls give me tester

[tribal smelt]

ligma bals

but yeah all thats happened so far w/ the addition of this role is like

a few people desperately scrambling for the role + a few pings asking us to do things we physically cannot do

[fringe tapir]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-manhattan-gif-18899941

[tribal smelt]

and one actual question

[pure flower]

you did make a backup of your nintendo 3ds folder, right?

[fringe tapir]

They said they didn't.

[pure flower]

oh

[fringe tapir]

Tis sad.

[minor totem]

i actively don’t want it just because i don’t feel skilled enough to help people and would look like a poser lmfao

[tribal smelt]

my brother in christ

you immediately superceded my ability in the past week

[tribal smelt]

#pretendo message wake up chat we have another one

@hard creek

ok so your badge data is gone forever

like eviscerated completely destroyed

[hard creek]

Damn

[tribal smelt]

but we can offer you means to like. manually rebuild your collection another way

[hard creek]

There's another way to get badges?

[tribal smelt]

yes, you can inject them

[hard creek]

Oh

[tribal smelt]

https://github.com/LiamMGit/PretendoBadgeLostGuide/wiki one of our dudes made this guide. its a LITTLE complex though

[hard creek]

Ah

[tribal smelt]

if you get that done you can just get whatever badge you want

[hard creek]

Alright then

[tribal smelt]

good luck out there n dont open badge arcade n all

[hard creek]

Aight

[sand vigil]

lovely. recommended. thank you

[tribal smelt]

wtf solving issues,,,,

[minor totem]

just spent way too long drawing this to post on juxt

[tribal smelt]

isnt juxt down

[minor totem]

nope thank god otherwise the hours i spent on that would’ve been painfully wasted

[tribal smelt]

???

wtf i thought it was down for maintenance

[sand vigil]

have pretendo made any warnings or advisories for badges yet

[tribal smelt]

✨

no but one of our guys submitted a request to add a guide for badge recovery

[sand vigil]

The region matters for Badges that act as shortcuts to system apps, after checking the github of ABE (last updated in 2017, except for the desc. in 2023), the issue I've described and only being able to save with the region of EUR despite choosing USA (https://github.com/AntiMach/advanced-badge-editor/issues/4), in addition to.. the clunkiness of the interface (can't rearrange the order of sets? And I have duplicate sets, possibly badges too. there's too much to remember & 'recreate')
Coupled with the badge archive missing badges that I seem to have in my backup, this is a situation with increasing hairiness that makes me weep. I wish I could just make the program I'm desperate for.

i'm also wondering if my choice of badge extraction (.3dsx) resulted in avoidable corruption. .too late

[austere horizon]

Also you may have problems linking apps to badges, which may have different title ids in different regions

[glass steppe]

Which guide should I use if I used GYTB to get my badges usable on Nimbus Pretendo and I just want to get my stock badges back?

[loud robin]

do you not heve them on NNID anymore?

[glass steppe]

I don't know, I have the same NNID on my system for what it's worth. I'll check with GM9 though

...there is no Nintendo 3DS folder in SYSNAND SD, though

[loud robin]

but how?

shouldn't there always be one

That directory should already be there even before modding

[glass steppe]

I don't know. There's only backup, dbs, extdata, Nintendo DSiWare, and title.
There's a Nintendo 3DS folder in my sd card, but it doesn't have the ID0 or ID1 folders. Maybe I just need to switch back to Nintendo Network

[loud robin]

you could try viewing the SD with a pc

[glass steppe]

Oh yeah, I remember I backed up my extradata in Checkpoint in November

[loud robin]

Not sure how that works tbh I usually just back up my entire SD card and this really is at the end of my kwgnoledge

Try asking "Guy 3Deri"

[glass steppe]

yep, GYTB seems to have deleted all my badge data as the hex editor is all zeores. that's nice

[pure flower]

Ok, so guessing I really should not use GYTB

[glass steppe]

oh wait, I scrolled down a bit and started to find some data!

But yeah, you really shouldn't

[loud robin]

you don't happen to have a backup of that file

by chance

[glass steppe]

No, but I have a Checkpoint extdata backup and I scrolled down further and found data! Looks like ther were just some collections I didn't have any badges in

Is there a way to restore badges to Nintendo Network as well as Pretendo?

[loud robin]

Not sure how to do that using the checkpoint backup sadly

[austere horizon]

FYI: GYTB is good if you just want PNGs for badges, use SBI and Advanced Badge Editor for custom sets and badges that link to apps

[fringe tapir]

You lose the categories if you use GYTB however.

And you can also just add custom badges in ABE as well, there’s no reason to use GYTB.

Another thing is that whenever you add or remove badges in GYTB, the home menu gets messed up with all of the badges changing.

[austere horizon]

You can also make custom categories too

[minor totem]

as a general rule, GYTB kind of sucks and doesn’t perform the way you expect. it’s always better to use ABE and SBI when possible

[hushed field]

Is there a way to get my supressed badge back ??
And is pretendo preparing a server for the badge arcade ? (With rotation ect)

Thanks for your response

[tribal smelt]

pretendo will be restoring the badge arcade with new, original badges, meaning that it's not a way to actually collect your old collections

did you open badge arcade on pretendo mode?

[hushed field]

Yup

[hushed field]

Nice, is there a date for release or something like that ?

[tribal smelt]

no date of release, badge arcade is a massive project that needs a lot of time

[tribal smelt]

did you have a backup of your badge extdata?

[hushed field]

Nope

[tribal smelt]

ah, that's permanent

[hushed field]

Oh damn

That is sad

[tribal smelt]

sadly, opening badge arcade while on pretendo instantly erases all your badges

https://github.com/LiamMGit/PretendoBadgeLostGuide/wiki we have a guide on how you can rebuild your collection another way tho

(thank you liam youre a godsend)

[hushed field]

Okay thanks for your response

[hushed field]

Literaly me

[tribal smelt]

you and ten other people over the past week

[minor totem]

should we keep a list of users who have lost their badges like an “in memoriam” section

[hushed field]

[hasty thicket]

yw :)

[tribal smelt]

itd help make our statements more intimidating

[hasty thicket]

just writing about stuff i love

[hasty thicket]

also it would bring more attention to the problem so devs would see it

[glass steppe]

Thank goodness I didn't open Badge Arcade on Nimbus Pretendo out of curiosity... now to get rid of GYTB's uncategorized badges & restore my originals

...do I just reopen GYTB to delete the bad badges?

[tribal smelt]

im fairly sure they just get overridden

[glass steppe]

...weird. Advanced Badge Editor says the data's region is EUR despite my console being NA, and the Title shortcut settings seem to be scattered. random pokemon pixels have them but not the actual badges with home menu app icons

By Home menu app icons I mean stuff like 3DS Music, eShop, System Settings, etc.

[minor totem]

this seems to be an ABE issue, so far everyone (including myself) has seen the badges’ region say EUR when importing the file to ABE

[glass steppe]

I did the "restore vanished badges but it didn't restore my organized badges; they're all still GYTB generics under "All badges".

[obtuse saddle]

1. A:SYSNAND SD is the decrypted version of Nintendo 3DS/<ID0>/<ID1> - since you're already inside those folders, you won't see them there.
2. ID0 and ID1 are placeholder names - the actual names will be a bunch of letters and numbers that are specific to your system.

@hasty thicket New edits!

1. For step 2, "Nintendo 3DS\ID0\ID1" can be removed from the file path because A:SYSNAND SD already takes you there.

2. Since ID0 and ID1 are still mentioned in a few more places, I think the guide should explain what these are values are on page 2 (i.e. the backup instructions), as well as moving the "more than one ID0" troubleshooting steps to that page as well.

[hasty thicket]

alright cool

i got my support helper role

lets goooo

will start working on doc edits in a few lol

[glass steppe]

Yeah GYTB wiped all the set data. The right side of Advance Badge Editor is greyed out. cool, nice. I guess here's to hoping I can restore it with Checkpoint

[obtuse saddle]

Also, I just remembered a program that technically dumps data from BadgeData.dat... unfortunately, that program is the dreaded GYTB, and the way it's coded makes it fail to dump your badges as .pngs if you have an invalid BadgeMngFile.dat since it reads the badge IDs from there to add to the file name, as well as the badge indexes so that it can determine which badges in BadgeData.dat are multi-part so it doesn't get get the names wrong (but it DOESN'T read the shortcut IDs and write THOSE to your pngs' names so that you don't lose your shorcuts).

It then claims it has successfully dumped your badge data, then WIPES BadgeData.dat if you have a badges folder in your SD's root! Wtf?

Here's the code that reads the badge data; unfortunately, I don't know C, so I don't know exactly how this works:
https://github.com/MrCheeze/GYTB/blob/master/source/main.c

Edit: tbf, Advanced Badge Editor also does this, but 1. it actually reads the shortcuts from it, and 2. it lets you save your data as separate files and warns you if you try to overwrite your original data (rather than instantly wiping it as soon as you open it), so it gets a pass from me for that.

[austere horizon]

Create a new set Imao

[glass steppe]

OH SNAP, I realized I made a backup with threeSD to setup for Citra!
Only problem is the extdata folder is setup like this, but the /user/ folder has two familiar files! and it WORKS in ABE!

[obtuse saddle]

Wait, which file were you looking at in your Checkpoint extdata backup?

I didn't know checkpount could back up badge extdata, tbh, although I know it can back up Badge Arcade's extdata

[glass steppe]

Yeah, I was hoping that it backs up badge data in Badge Arcade's extdata

No need to now, though!

[obtuse saddle]

I tried that, but all that backs up is two save data files for Badge Arcade and two badge data .sarc files.

Btw, that sounds promising - looks like all you'll need to do now is pop those into 3ds/SimpleBadgeInjector after editing their NNID value, and you'll be able to reinject them!

[glass steppe]

It's missing 2 unique badges since it's 2 months old but man, am I glad I started getting into Citra (and by that I mean set it up for whenever I wanna use it)

They were some unique ones I got right before the Nintendo Network shutdown

[hasty thicket]

you could still import them, you’ll just have to do it manually

[obtuse saddle]

Also, if you ever want to put them back onto Nintendo again, you can replace BadgeMngFile.dat with the unmodded one from your threeSD backup.

[obtuse saddle]

If you want those 2 badges back:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/get-any-official-badges-without-other-users-data.476300/

[glass steppe]

Ladies & Gentlemen... we got 'em (back)

[obtuse saddle]

Note that the locations of the pins on the backs of the badges will reset to the centre whenever you use AllBadge Tool, as well as all your badges being put back into your badge box.

[sand vigil]

pleas

[obtuse saddle]

I think those are the only quirks I can think of for now, though.

[glass steppe]

Would that make it possible to have the badges on both networks?
I get it's not necessary, I just like the "time capsule" factor

[obtuse saddle]

If you mean on both at once, then no - there's an internal ID called the PrincipalID that changes every time you switch from one to the other, and if a certain value in BadgeMngFile.dat doesn't match that ID, the HOME Menu won't open the file and opening Badge Arcade will have it wipe all of the badge data except the total badges number and the values of each badge's software shortcuts.

[glass steppe]

Aaaahh, I see. Thank you!

[pure flower]

If I try to use the new pretendo badge arcade, will it also delete my nintendo badges?

[glass steppe]

And thank you to the peeps who manage the Lost Badge guide VERY much!

[obtuse saddle]

np 👍

Further info:
https://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/Home_Menu#Home_Menu_badge_SD_ExtData

[pure flower]

or would i have to reload my backup every time I want my nintendo badges back?

[obtuse saddle]

You would have to load your unmodded backup files to use them on Nintendo and load your modded ones to use them on Pretendo.

[pure flower]

so I have to swap backups to swap services

[obtuse saddle]

Yep, unfortunately - #1228611794575294545 message

[vital hatch]

How do I use the SBI and the ABE to add custom badges without deleting my collection?

[obtuse saddle]

Just an FYI, the dev of that tool ceased development in 2017 due to GYTB being more popular because of its simplicity (oh, the irony of that now), so you might not get any response, but you never know - they might have a change of heart if Pretendo suddenly makes it popular again :)

[obtuse saddle]

Make sure you select File -> Open Data, and then choose the folder where your badge files are, then import new .prbs and .cabs.

[pure flower]

so question

would a nand backup contain badges

[minor totem]

as far as i know, no. it has to be an SD backup containing the extdata files from the badge arcade application

[hasty thicket]

no it does not

its only on sd

[pure flower]

Asking for someone else btw

[tribal smelt]

nope, theyre separate

[hasty thicket]

oh crap i forgot about this, I’ll make the changes after school lol

[pure flower]

ngl I feel like pretendo should do a better job at telling people not to use badge arcade

[tribal smelt]

weve tried submitting warning requests but theyre busy in development

[austere horizon]

[Badge arcade moment |https://juxt.pretendo.network/posts/2B8BHvNTebQQ9tUwgLPxZ]

[tribal smelt]

#pretendo message

We got another one

[pure flower]

uh oh

[dusky sphinx]

Should we ping him here to help?

[tribal smelt]

He didnt want help

[dusky sphinx]

Bruh

[random nova]

I used GYTB and it did not work with badges I did not back up

[dusky sphinx]

Never use GYTB

We stress this a lot

[random nova]

sarcastically Great! Now I have lost all the other badges!

[dusky sphinx]

Alr

[dusky sphinx]

Do you know how to get them back normally in here or do I need to send you links

[dusky sphinx]

https://github.com/LiamMGit/PretendoBadgeLostGuide/wiki Just in case

[fringe tapir]

Are your badges still in the “badge” folder?

3ds -> badge
They should all be .pngs, but they should still be there.

[random nova]

I forgot to mention a crucial detail

I hopped between Nintendo and Pretendo a few times

[dusky sphinx]

🗿

[fringe tapir]

All GYTB does is save all of your badges as .pngs, then injects them.

Switching shouldn’t matter.

[random nova]

good

I have good backups

[fringe tapir]

As in the badges were saved in the badge folder?

[random nova]

yes

Should this work in WINE https://github.com/AntiMach/advanced-badge-editor/releases/tag/1.3.1 ?

[fringe tapir]

Yes.

To get your badges, open GYTB.

They should appear again if you run it.

Something like this.

[random nova]

They did, but the layout did not

[fringe tapir]

The layout doesn’t save, you have to place them again.

[random nova]

ok

At least, I have one of my old layouts saved

[honest musk]

ah it seems I have found the new badge forum

[tribal smelt]

yesss hello hello

[pure flower]

welcome to badge hell

[woven stratus]

The forum post gets the Luni badge of approval

Here

[tribal smelt]

WHAT THE FUCK MOD ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

[fringe tapir]

we are so back

[humble canyon]

WJAT

[dusky sphinx]

Here

[tribal smelt]

"Gytb burned our crops" means "gytb has caused massive issues"

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-blame-gif-10327026

idk what beef you got with farmers but burning people's crops usually is extremely bad

[pure flower]

HE DID?

[tribal smelt]

WDYM HE

GYTB IS AN APPLICATION

NOT A PERSON

[pure flower]

OH CRAP I MISGENDERED AN APPLICATION

[tribal smelt]

Oh wait mb i confused you with alex and thought you were like one giga dumbass 😭 really sorry i woke up like ten minutes ago

BUT YEAH NO GYTB POISONED OUR WATER SUPPLY BURNT OUR CROPS DELIVERED A PLAGUE UPON OUR HOUSES AND SHIT IN THE SINK

[pure flower]

IT DID?!?

[tribal smelt]

YES!!!

[pure flower]

wow

[woven stratus]

What did I read

[tribal smelt]

gytb POISONED OUR WATER SUPPLY BURNT OUR CROPS DELIVERED A PLAGUE UPON OUR HOUSES and SHIT IN THE SINK

[pure flower]

nah, it shit in the toilet

but like

in the top deck of the toilet

it fucked up your toilet water

what a dick

[austere horizon]

PSA
GYTB is dog 💩
SBI + ABE is 🔛🔝

[humble canyon]

damn I use gytb

[pure flower]

Well sorry to say, but you've been using dog💩

I know, first time realizing is always hard

[humble canyon]

I just use it cause it’s easier

Im a lazy lil fella

plus custom badges and what not

[obtuse saddle]

Just realised from looking back through sysdata/00010038's account data file that I messed up - every time I've said "PersistentID", I actually meant "PrincipalID".
Edited every message to be accurate now, though.

[pure flower]

bro

you made me look STUPID

I mentioned PersistentID

[dusky sphinx]

:0

[sinful cairn]

how do i get badges?

[pure flower]

well

In badge arcade, you can't

but use badge injectors

[sinful cairn]

so i cant anymotre via legit ways?

[pure flower]

no

badge arcade shut down