Hacking Homebrew Animal Crossing New Leaf (ACNL) help: data corrupt??

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I have the most recent .sav file (attached to this post) from my unmodded o3DS XL from before my microSD card had succumbed to hardware failure about 6 years ago. Now that Pretendo has come into public beta, I decided to homebrew my o3DS XL in hopes that I could actually recover the save file and play it online (when they get around to building support for it).

If it helps at all:
  • I have not done a system format
  • I still have the original (though corrupt) microSD card
  • My copy of ACNL is the original digital release that has received the Welcome Amiibo update, and is not the re-released ACNL:WA game


Things I have tried:
  • Pasting a copy of the original 00000001.sav file back into the "title/00000000/00086300/data" folder and attempting to run the game
  • Doing the same thing, but using FBI to delete the secure value before running the game
  • Importing a copy the original 00000001.sav with Checkpoint and JKSM
  • Using ninfs with my moveable.sed and boot9.bin to decrypt a copy of the save and then retrying the above sequences
  • Download Save3DS, but the program doesn't even open on my computer
  • Run a copy of the original 00000001.sav through some converters online to turn them into .dat files (one specifically for Pokémon, one for VC games) to try opening it up through the online ACNL save editor which requires a garden.dat/garden_plus.dat
  • Trying the above steps on my homebrewed n2DS XL
  • Uninstalled and reinstalled the game through the 3DS's data manager
  • Uninstalled and reinstalled the game with its ticket through FBI
  • Attempted the prior sequences with and without the Welcome Amiibo update patch


Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated.. Even just knowing if I'm completely boned from experienced users would give me solace in knowing that there was never a chance to get it back in the first place. If it isn't possible to recover the whole save file, I hope it's at least possible to recover information like my Dream Address, villagers, and so on; that way I could at least use the aforementioned save editor to earnestly try to recreate my town.
 

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Depends on how much corrupted it is, but probably I can recover something.
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Quick question: your game version is 1.5 right? Because it's giving me a strange error...
It was the original ACNL game that updated to version 1.5, yeah, but I don't remember if the save error started before or after the update. Is it possible that the update itself may have corrupted the save?
 

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It was the original ACNL game that updated to version 1.5, yeah, but I don't remember if the save error started before or after the update. Is it possible that the update itself may have corrupted the save?
I dont think so
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Extremely stupid question: do you have any backups?
 

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Hey @AndeRei, long time no see.
I am really sorry... but I think your savefile is gone. I tried everything I could, but even confronting your savefile with my corrupted one it's just a bunch of garbage.
If you send me some screenshots I can do my best to recover what's left. I am really sorry :(
 

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