



This will guide you on how to convert Gateway saves, and import them into cia games. For those who want to abandon Gateway, or those who still want to keep Gateway but use CFW.

No other guide for this existed so I figured I had to create one.

Be sure you have PLENTY of time to work on this, you'll also need a ton of patience for this!



Thanks to Switching from Gateway to CFW can be a pain, especially since all your saves were created on Gateway. There's only one way to get those saves to be usable on cia games, and that's to decrypt the saves and eventually import them in the end. It's a very tedious process, but worth it in the end to be able to keep all your saves you worked hard on for so long. Gateway has become more and more obsolete, with CFW being more convenient to work with. ESPECIALLY Arm9loaderhax!This will guide you on how to convert Gateway saves, and import them into cia games. For those who want to abandon Gateway, or those who still want to keep Gateway but use CFW.No other guide for this existed so I figured I had to create one.Be sure you have PLENTY of time to work on this, you'll also need a ton of patience for this!Thanks to @zhdarkstar for the tip about using JK Save Manager for just about everything! Made the guide ten times easier than it was before.

Requirements

JK Save Manager

CTRXplorer (Can also use FBI)

I. Preperation Steps



1. Right click and copy all your .sav files, paste them anywhere on your computer as backup



2. Make a new folder on your SD card, call it something like "Gateway saves"



3. Copy one of your .sav files into this folder



4. Look up that save file on



5. Rename that .sav file to 1. Right click and copy all your .sav files, paste them anywhere on your computer as backup2. Make a new folder on your SD card, call it something like "Gateway saves"3. Copy one of your .sav files into this folder4. Look up that save file on 3DSDB to see what game it is5. Rename that .sav file to

0004000002C23200



6. Make a new folder and name it to whatever game it is

Example:

SD:/Gateway saves/Super Mario 3D Land/





7. Place the 0004000002C23200 sav file in this new folder you just created



8. Repeat steps 3-7 until every game is setup this way. Can take a while to go through depending on how much saves you have, be really patient.



9. Download JK Save Manager.cia, and CTRXplorer.cia then place them anywhere on the SD card

II. Exporting & Importing the saves with JK Save Manager



1. Install all the cia games you need, for the games you're going to import saves with



2. Launch each and every game one time, allowing it to initialize which creates save data. Again, this takes a LOT of patience to go through



3. Install JK Save Manager and CTRXplorer cia's using any cia manager you like. Assemble them near the game cart icon on the home menu for quick access.



4. Open CTRXplorer and browse into the Gateway saves folder, then into one of the game folders



5. Copy the 0004000002C23200