For anyone who just wants the path to your badge data (including the badge box and placement of badges on the HOME Menu), here it is: *SD Card:\Nintendo 3DS\[ID0]\[ID1]\extdata\00000000\000014d1*. ID0 and ID1 are unique to your system, so you might have to dig around a little bit. If you're using a file explorer, you can also search for '000014d1'. For those who are thinking about using _Pretendo_ Network, swapping over will delete your badge box. Normally, you would be able to restore your badges by swapping back over to Nintendo Network and going to the Arcade, but that option is going away soon. Backing up your badges using the method in this video will preserve them though! After backing up badge data, there shouldn't be any worries swapping to Pretendo Network! The folder with badge data can be restored manually with a backup, even after shutdown, if you return to Nintendo Network.
Additionally, the badges are encrypted for your console's use only and will require CFW+effbee-eye (3DS) or Seedminer+ninfs (PC) to ensure they continue to work on another system if your current one breaks.
More info elsewhere (can't go into detail or my comment will get the Cillit Bang treatment again), but the latter way can work even if you lose your 3DS as long as you've ever friended another system or saved a Mii QR.
Here's hoping the next gen console has as much customization as 3DS had and the badge arcade returns in some form. I love the little rabbit guy he's too iconic to just throw away
Aww, yeah, I agree ^^ I loveee the music and charm and stuff of things like this on the 3ds and Wii U! I really, _really_ hope we get themes and (maybe optional, but I don't mind if it's not, personally) menu and shop music
Between themes, Badge Arcade, and the ability to freely sort games, 3DS has the best game system home screen ever. My most played 3DS game is sorting my games and badges. Nobody seems willing to make a home menu that’s fun to navigate anymore.
You mean you're _not satisfied_ with the Switch's HOME Menu???? But it has such incredible, awe-inspiring music for every menu (eShop music is my personal fav btw), and it has such great variety in all two of its themes!
@@MineCrapSteveyeah I know right who needs those really iconic theme songs that only Nintendo seem to really pull off the best we don’t need no stinky shop music we got the khezu fight theme as the shop menu and I blew my car speakers out with it
They confirmed a revival of this with custom badges is something they're considering in their Discord, but I don't think there's any ETA on that yet, so it might be a while yet before they do.
Pretty sure I said this before, but it seems to have been deleted, so I'm crossing my fingers this time: You can also use Allbadge Tool to obtain your own complete set of official ones from now until the shutdown date in April.
I didn't know there was a limit to the number of badges saved to the system since I never got to 1000, so for me the backup of the entire system works, regardless of that I'm commenting so more people can see this and know what to do while they still can, thank you for the insight!
I'm glad RUclips's algorithm recommended me this video. I also feel dumb for actually having spent money in the badge arcade - I figured that all the badges I won were stored on my SD Card rather than on a server (I have a little over 2000 badges). I'm incredibly disappointed with Nintendo for not keeping the Help Desk available in the future.
I feel you, I'm in a similar boat. Luckily I found this video in time, but I'm still upset that Nintendo didn't go through with keeping the Help Desk around for at least a bit (in spite of literally having all the necessary text thought out and already in the code of the game) and just shut the whole thing down with no fanfare.
I sunk so much time and money into badge acarde. even though I kept telling myself I'd only use the free plays there were times when I just really wanted to complete sets. I absolutely hate this age of digital where things are only around for as long as the company decide to keep support going. especially with buying digital games. many now require online to work properly, so as soon as support is gone so is your expensive purchases. all my well looked after games from consoles of the past like my NES and master system still work perfectly. I don't think kids of today will be able to say the same in 30 years.
Thank you very much for this. Because of this video, I was able to save over 5000 badges that I earned with this software and during the eshop shutdown period. And now I can still decorate my home screen with backups. Strange how with this happening, it won't let you even view the software of what you've gotten anymore. Here's hoping future Nintendo consoles will have something like this to design your home screen.
forgot how much i loved the badge arcade... something about the music and environment, and of course the ufo catcher, makes me yearn for days of childhood arcades
Thanks for this man. I only have a little over 1,000 badges so thankfully my backup only consists of two occurrences of that folder. In the meantime I'm thinking about looking for a complete or near complete archive
loot egdablla backwards can help you! (fr though, can whoever or whatever is messing with my comments whenever I try and help people please stop? Thank you.)
Thank you very much for uploading this beautifully done video! I’m very relieved to find out that I won’t have to buy any more expensive MicroSD cards to make my badge backups!
Thank you!! Your solution looks fantastic. I have about 3750 unsorted badges and haven't been able to get to this yet. There's just so much to do before nintendo network shuts down on April 8th. :(
I believe Pretendo Network eventually plans to revive this game with custom badges, but I don't think there's an ETA yet on when (or if) that'll be ready.
i remember downloading as many free demos and games as my SD card could hold just an hour before the eShop shutdown. one of those was the badge arcade. and now almost exactly 1 year later, as of yesterday, i began collecting badges. I didn't start earlier because my SD card couldnt make the data, but after deleting the 0 uses-left demo of nintendogs + cats, I finally was able to start my badge collection just yesterday. its going to be a small collection since the online is shutting down in 2 weeks, but I'm not gonna stop for one day. i will get as many badges as i possibly can
thank you!! i wasn't actually aware of this. i spent a lil money on this game but was also a free player usually, but i have always loved the badge arcade.
I saw this video in my recommended, even sent it to a few friends, but I didn’t actually do the backup. Now my badges are gone 🙌 slightly upsetting but as long as there’s a homebrew method of adding badges I’ll just re-create it all again.
I remember when the Badge Arcade came out, and bought it the same year. I can't believe its been almost ten years since its US release. Going to back up everything now as I paid actual money for many of my badges. I have 636 badges and I'd hate to lose them. I always looked forward to the daily free plays. I legit feel like a happy part of my past is dying. Not only have I lost the Badge Arcade, but will also lose the online feature for Pokemon X, meaning no more trading, GTS, or live battles. I'm rushing to complete the National Dex and battling with my friends for the final few days left...
I've been playing this game every single day since it came out and I'm still playing it everyday even if the badges are the same everyday!! I knew I couldn't be the only one!!!!
I'm fairly confident I have gotten less than 1000 badges over the years (Since I've never seen the Badge Arcade storage box until now), so I should just need to backup one folder, but this is good to keep in mind. Especially since I spent some money close to the end to get a bunch of Zigzagoon and Linoone badges for my home screen set-up and I'd rather not lose them. Lol.
So many games, programs and internet supports for games that Nintendo just ends. Happened with the Wii and although me and my brother barely had any games on it, we still enjoyed the ones we bought; same with the 3ds and especially with pokemon on the gts. Granted the switch is the latest hot thing but, it feels upsetting that we're just supposed to accept that Nintendo will one day just turn off or delete everything we loved and if we're lucky, sell it back to you as either a rerelease on a new console or a new version of the same spirit. They have the rights to do that but, after you buy super mario for the 5th time; you don't really want to buy it again, even on the latest console. I'm glad fans are reviving or recreating past events and services but, it's something I wish Nintendo was doing. Instead of just ending it; I'd love if your purchases stayed on your account and carried over to the next console. There's so many games out there already, so they'd still get so much money. Maybe i'm not the best to speak but, I do miss playing some games; games I cannoy play anymore since nintendo closed downloads for it and they don't sell it any more. (Well without sus means). I still love pokémon pinball and Pokemon TCG on GBC!
4:12 "The boss cares about customers, so I'll be working here a while longer." I guess he got a new boss, or his boss stopped caring about the customers, then
honestly with how many badges there are and how many are just meh. i'd rather just use custom badges. there's homebrew out there to mass generate badges from pngs/jpgs, and another one to create entire sets. and it'll be the only way you can change out the combinations you have. custom badges are a bit more creative imo, but there's also archives of the official badges if anyone is looking for them
This is one of the best things Nintendo ever created, and it is so sad it is going away. I only ended up with 897 badges, but I wanted so much more. Best of luck to ya'll getting your badges safe in hand before the servers go down. ❤❤
I hope the Pretendo Servers will make so you can still play this game with Homebrewed 3DS with, who knows? Maybe more badges that you can put on your modded 3DS, but... That might be a bit of a pipe dream.
They actually do plan to do this according to their Discord, but the badges will be custom ones to avoid copyright. I assume it will also no longer have any paid features (unless they want to get the Yuzu treatment).
I had to stop playing Badge Arcade after a few months because it developed a bug where it would tell me my SD card had insufficient space every time I started it up (the card had plenty of space). I considered uninstalling and reinstalling, but I was worried that I'd lose my existing badges if I did that. So I've just been stuck with the same bunch of badges ever since.
Thank you so much for the heads up! Im checking tomorrow to make sure mine are safe and ill try and copy the file to a computer if i can, would hate to lose all my pokemon and animal crossing icons! It would take away from my 2ds personality
To clarify I never spent any money but I worked so hard to get my favorite pokemon to display and I have soo many badges that become the icons such as my Isabelle shop icon it's super cute!
your badges should still be on the nintendo server. if you switch back to the nintendo server and run gytb, it will convert all your official badges to pngs. running gytb on pretendo's server afterwards, should let you use all your badges there too.
Too late for me, I haven't heard of Nintendo Badge Arcade until your video appeared on the feed. I wish I could go back in time to start collecting badges and such a shame when 3Ds online closes completely next month. I suppose those icons on Switch are similar to badges but need active NOS. I knew something was up when there no more themes for 3Ds. End of another era.
There's a program called "Allbadge Tool" you can use to download your own copies of all the official badges from Nintendo's servers from now until April 8th.
@@classicpctinker5070 Theres plenty of things HB can be used for outside pirate. Streaming ur new 3ds to ur PC for example without a capture card Installing ur physical catridges of both 3ds and nds and even gba titles onto the home screen so you dont have to take your cartridges with you on the go and way more.
@@Mabayu Anotherr legit reason is for freeing your data backups from the shackles of encryption (i.e. the only problem with the method in this video).
i missed out on this entire thing wtf i got my cosmo blue 3ds on launch and was an ambassador but missed the chance to save all my purchases as i only got back to my home town last month after like 10 years :((
According to their Discord, this is what Pretendo Network eventually plans to do, only with custom badges, but I don't think there's an ETA yet on when (or if) that'll be ready.
Correct, whatever is on your HOME Menu is locally saved to your 3DS. I'd still recommend backing up the folder since it's simple to do and keeps the badges safe
Also, if you want to keep them even safer, either back up your system's essential.exefs in GodMode9 or copy out all contents of "Ext Save Data -> 000014d1 -> User Save Data" to anywhere on your SD card using FBI. (CFW required)
The app never worked well in my experience. Every time I’d open it, it would say the data is corrupt and it will restore the data. Which would set me up for a super long “restore” sequence every single time I opened this thing. I never had any issues before opening it, and after it restored, nothing seemed to change either. When I’d look up a solution, most people were saying the app would just do that and I’m experiencing normalcy. Nintendo never fixed it. Once this app released and the initial excitement faded, and the fix never came, I assumed Nintendo semi-abandoned it. It worked but not entirely and since it was “fine”, they didn’t arse with it. The 1000 badge limit makes absolutely no sense. Like… just let me download all the badges what’s the problem??? If they were concerned about the data file becoming too large, it clearly wasn’t…
Get another 3ds real quick and call up nintendo support to move your nnid to it. You can then redownload all your badges, or at least 1000 of them at a time.
@@doommasterz If the blue one is the one with your NNID on it, you should be able to put another SD card into it, redownload Badge Arcade, go into the game and re-access your badges via the Help Desk.
@@JamesMoneySo in order to not lose my badges, all of them are to be saved in the home page and none in the Badge box, am I understanding that right? Or is it reversed?
@@alphadragonwolfwarrior6373 The Badge Box is the data that's saved locally, while the other badges remain at the arcade/on the server. Make sure you back up all of your badges while they're in the locally stored Badge Box
@@AnaIsmySegal Unfortunately, yes - while Allbadge Tool is a program for PC rather than 3DS, the easiest way I know of putting it onto your 3DS is by using a homebrew app, since you need to know an internal value in your 3DS. That said, you could theoretically use a combination of seedminer, ninfs, save3ds-fuse and hex editing... but then you'd need to fix the CMAC, and the only tool I know of that can achieve that is GodMode9, so it'd all be for nothing unless you've got an NTRboot-compatible flashcard you could run GM9 on (at which point you wouldn't need to use seedminer or ninfs any more, but I digress). Long story short, you would need to hack that 3DS in order to use them, but it's probably a good idea to have a copy of all of them anyway on top of backing up your own badges as per the method in this video (although I'd use seedminer to get my movable.sed so I could decrypt the SD contents with ninfs in case the 3DS malfunctions).
@@AnaIsmySegal I did respond to this in detail, but you may have to sort comments by newest first and then scroll down to this thread to see it - seems like YT likes to hide comments that go into any sort of technical detail for anything ever, lmao tl;dr version: Yeah, AT is more for CFW 3DSes than stock ones, but it's still a good idea to have a full backup anyway.
The first time you start up GYTB, it will back up your current badge collection and create PNGs for them. After swapping to Pretendo, you can run that same application, it will see the PNGs, and then will add the badges back in
I wonder if you could use this sort of thing to "trade" badge sets with other people (I mean, it probably wouldn't work with me since my systems are from different regions, but I wonder if it's possible otherwise)
In order to do that, you'd have to go into "Ext Save Data" in FBI, navigate to "000014d1" and copy all contents of its user extdata to somewhere on your SD card. You'd then have to put this data onto your PC, send it to your friend and have them use Advanced Badge Editor + Simple Badge Injector to put that set onto their system. (More info on these tools online.)
I have a question: When the game shuts down, can I delete all of the data relating to it on the System Settings (game, updates, and extra data) without losing the badges?
Okay I need help understanding this. So basically you back up all your badges on your computer?? And then whenever you want to swap out badges you just plug your SD card in and replace the old file with the one you want??
Will i still lose my badges if i mod my 3ds after the internet shutdown? My 3ds version is on the update right before the latest one, so it is currently unable to use most internet functions. The badges still appear though.
If you have all of your badges in the Badge Box you should be good. Just note that swapping over to Pretendo will delete the badges so it's highly advised to make a backup before using it.
There's a section on the files' structure on the 3dbrew wiki's HOME Menu page, but you'd first need to use ninfs and 3ds-save-tool to decrypt and extract your data respectively in order to look at it yourself.
@@centdemeern1 Forgot to mention that there are also tools to edit those files and put them back onto your 3DS ("Get ANY OFFICIAL badges without other users' data" for more info on those). Also, you can bypass having to use ninfs or 3ds-save-tool by going to "Ext Save Data" in FBI, navigating to "000014d1" and copying all contents of its user extdata to somewhere on your SD card.
It isn't strictly necessary in your case because they will all stay on your HOME Menu, but if you ever lose your SD card's data, you will be unable to get it back again within the app after April 8th, so it's a good idea to make a backup just in case. The same goes for StreetPass Mii Plaza; if you ever lose the extdata for that game, most of your Puzzle Swap puzzles will disappear until you put a backup of the data back onto your SD card again.
I played without paying too, and I THINK I amassed 10000+ badges!! When I get home, I'll check how many hours I've played the game and edit this comment. Edit: I played the game for 128:45 hours, 587 times, which is 3rd place. So I opened the game today to check on my 10000+ plus badges, but... I'm back down to 1776... That... that effing HURTS!!! I think my SD card got corrupted or something... I played for YEARS!! I'm actually crying... I remember that my badge arcade post made it TO THE GAME!!! The bunny guy even called it "Wiiterloo", because I aligned some badges in some kind of army formation, fighting over some Wii Badges I placed in the middle. Miiverse was just my era of the golden days... My fame peaked... I miss the good old days...
That's odd - the data _should_ be on Nintendo's servers, so either they've messed up on their end somehow, or you may have remembered incorrectly. Come to think of it, I'm not sure if they ever released more than 10,000 badges anyway, so I doubt you've lost anything. Edit: Japan had 8572 badges, and I'm pretty sure there aren't any that are exclusive to to US or EUR, so that's probably the max amount.
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For anyone who just wants the path to your badge data (including the badge box and placement of badges on the HOME Menu), here it is: *SD Card:\Nintendo 3DS\[ID0]\[ID1]\extdata\00000000\000014d1*. ID0 and ID1 are unique to your system, so you might have to dig around a little bit. If you're using a file explorer, you can also search for '000014d1'.
For those who are thinking about using _Pretendo_ Network, swapping over will delete your badge box. Normally, you would be able to restore your badges by swapping back over to Nintendo Network and going to the Arcade, but that option is going away soon. Backing up your badges using the method in this video will preserve them though! After backing up badge data, there shouldn't be any worries swapping to Pretendo Network! The folder with badge data can be restored manually with a backup, even after shutdown, if you return to Nintendo Network.
I made a backup of my folder 000014d1
to i need to make another backup of my ID folder to
where would I get that in SD Card
where would I find the folder that unique to my system
do I need that back up to
wait..... is the blue section the badges that saved to the cloud? or is the white part the badges save to the cloud?
Additionally, the badges are encrypted for your console's use only and will require CFW+effbee-eye (3DS) or Seedminer+ninfs (PC) to ensure they continue to work on another system if your current one breaks.
More info elsewhere (can't go into detail or my comment will get the Cillit Bang treatment again), but the latter way can work even if you lose your 3DS as long as you've ever friended another system or saved a Mii QR.
Here's hoping the next gen console has as much customization as 3DS had and the badge arcade returns in some form. I love the little rabbit guy he's too iconic to just throw away
Aww, yeah, I agree ^^ I loveee the music and charm and stuff of things like this on the 3ds and Wii U! I really, _really_ hope we get themes and (maybe optional, but I don't mind if it's not, personally) menu and shop music
At least they remembered him for Smash Ultimate!
Yes, and hopefully Streetpass also makes a return!
We need more customization and home music
4:09 "The boss cares about customers, so I'll be working here a while longer." yeah that could never be a line uttered by anyone ever
Tbf, it *is* a fantasy business. It doesn't necessarily have to be realistic. Lol.
Between themes, Badge Arcade, and the ability to freely sort games, 3DS has the best game system home screen ever. My most played 3DS game is sorting my games and badges. Nobody seems willing to make a home menu that’s fun to navigate anymore.
You mean you're _not satisfied_ with the Switch's HOME Menu???? But it has such incredible, awe-inspiring music for every menu (eShop music is my personal fav btw), and it has such great variety in all two of its themes!
@@MineCrapSteveyeah I know right who needs those really iconic theme songs that only Nintendo seem to really pull off the best we don’t need no stinky shop music we got the khezu fight theme as the shop menu and I blew my car speakers out with it
Hopefully Pretendo is able to revive Badge Arcade soon!
They confirmed a revival of this with custom badges is something they're considering in their Discord, but I don't think there's any ETA on that yet, so it might be a while yet before they do.
@@MineCrapSteveI hope so. My stupid ahh tried booting badge arcade after making a pretendo account and now all my save data is gone! Yay!
The Nintendo Switch UI and Eshop feel lifeless and cold compared to the 3ds and Wii U which felt alive and cheerful.
Badge dumps exist online and you can ever even get custom ones as long you use custom firmware
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You can also download your own from now until the shutdown using "Allbadge Tool".
@@chimaeraartsWELCOME TO ELFS WORLD
Pretty sure I said this before, but it seems to have been deleted, so I'm crossing my fingers this time:
You can also use Allbadge Tool to obtain your own complete set of official ones from now until the shutdown date in April.
You can also use PKHex to make literally any Pokémon, but that’s not the point.
I didn't know there was a limit to the number of badges saved to the system since I never got to 1000, so for me the backup of the entire system works, regardless of that I'm commenting so more people can see this and know what to do while they still can, thank you for the insight!
And soon this will be known as a retro console.
Not "retro", "vintage".
@@spearmintpony7105 I've always considered that consoles 15 years or older should be classified as retro, so for me, the 3DS will be retro in 2026.
I've seen it considered "retro" just like the DS and Wii.
I'm glad RUclips's algorithm recommended me this video. I also feel dumb for actually having spent money in the badge arcade - I figured that all the badges I won were stored on my SD Card rather than on a server (I have a little over 2000 badges). I'm incredibly disappointed with Nintendo for not keeping the Help Desk available in the future.
I feel you, I'm in a similar boat.
Luckily I found this video in time, but I'm still upset that Nintendo didn't go through with keeping the Help Desk around for at least a bit (in spite of literally having all the necessary text thought out and already in the code of the game) and just shut the whole thing down with no fanfare.
I sunk so much time and money into badge acarde. even though I kept telling myself I'd only use the free plays there were times when I just really wanted to complete sets.
I absolutely hate this age of digital where things are only around for as long as the company decide to keep support going. especially with buying digital games. many now require online to work properly, so as soon as support is gone so is your expensive purchases. all my well looked after games from consoles of the past like my NES and master system still work perfectly. I don't think kids of today will be able to say the same in 30 years.
Thank you very much for this. Because of this video, I was able to save over 5000 badges that I earned with this software and during the eshop shutdown period. And now I can still decorate my home screen with backups. Strange how with this happening, it won't let you even view the software of what you've gotten anymore. Here's hoping future Nintendo consoles will have something like this to design your home screen.
3ds stans rise up
I love getting my free daily Mario Kart item box
The one that occasionally freaks out with gravity? Lol.
i actually get two every day because i ask the bunny to reset the badges after getting the first one
@@mixprgm Wait what you can do that?!
@@wooper2654 yeah, i filled every vacant spot on my home menu with them lol
@@wooper2654yeah lol. You can even get a free peach if you’re lucky because she sometimes falls after the box hits her
forgot how much i loved the badge arcade... something about the music and environment, and of course the ufo catcher, makes me yearn for days of childhood arcades
Thanks for this man. I only have a little over 1,000 badges so thankfully my backup only consists of two occurrences of that folder.
In the meantime I'm thinking about looking for a complete or near complete archive
You can get your own complete archive using something called "Allbadge Tool".
loot egdablla backwards can help you!
(fr though, can whoever or whatever is messing with my comments whenever I try and help people please stop? Thank you.)
The advantage of the above is that you don't have to use anybody else's badges, meaning the Ninty Ninjas are less likely to strike!
Thank you very much for uploading this beautifully done video! I’m very relieved to find out that I won’t have to buy any more expensive MicroSD cards to make my badge backups!
Thank you!! Your solution looks fantastic. I have about 3750 unsorted badges and haven't been able to get to this yet. There's just so much to do before nintendo network shuts down on April 8th. :(
Thanks for the PSA. You deserve constant cold pillows every night :]
Oh damn, knowing I put money on the game, this was much needed. Thank you. Now if only this got something similar for the Nintendo Switch.
I'm hoping someone just makes a homebrew program that solve this problem.
It is literally just a bunch of images saved in a special format.
Allbadge Tool + Advanced Badge Editor + Simple Badge Injector: "Hold our beers!"
Someone needs to make a badge arcade replacement that is free, I would love that
I believe Pretendo Network eventually plans to revive this game with custom badges, but I don't think there's an ETA yet on when (or if) that'll be ready.
It’s not fair damnit. 3DS NEVER DIES
thanks for the video
in combination with cfw u can make ur own badges, which is really nice
i remember downloading as many free demos and games as my SD card could hold just an hour before the eShop shutdown. one of those was the badge arcade. and now almost exactly 1 year later, as of yesterday, i began collecting badges. I didn't start earlier because my SD card couldnt make the data, but after deleting the 0 uses-left demo of nintendogs + cats, I finally was able to start my badge collection just yesterday. its going to be a small collection since the online is shutting down in 2 weeks, but I'm not gonna stop for one day. i will get as many badges as i possibly can
I made about 5 combinations before the shutdown, and do backups on my phone, PC and Drive, thanks a lot for making this video
thank you!! i wasn't actually aware of this. i spent a lil money on this game but was also a free player usually, but i have always loved the badge arcade.
This is why someone needs to make the badge arcade revival i’ve been waiti g for forever.
I saw this video in my recommended, even sent it to a few friends, but I didn’t actually do the backup. Now my badges are gone 🙌 slightly upsetting but as long as there’s a homebrew method of adding badges I’ll just re-create it all again.
Thank you so much! I've spent $50 on badge arcade so Im glad that wont go to waste now 😊
I remember when the Badge Arcade came out, and bought it the same year. I can't believe its been almost ten years since its US release.
Going to back up everything now as I paid actual money for many of my badges. I have 636 badges and I'd hate to lose them.
I always looked forward to the daily free plays. I legit feel like a happy part of my past is dying. Not only have I lost the Badge Arcade, but will also lose the online feature for Pokemon X, meaning no more trading, GTS, or live battles. I'm rushing to complete the National Dex and battling with my friends for the final few days left...
I've been playing this game every single day since it came out and I'm still playing it everyday even if the badges are the same everyday!! I knew I couldn't be the only one!!!!
I'm fairly confident I have gotten less than 1000 badges over the years (Since I've never seen the Badge Arcade storage box until now), so I should just need to backup one folder, but this is good to keep in mind. Especially since I spent some money close to the end to get a bunch of Zigzagoon and Linoone badges for my home screen set-up and I'd rather not lose them. Lol.
this is such a well made video. thank u for your time and effort in figuring this out 💗
If we all back them up, we will preserve them
Discovered this video by accident last night, thank you so much!
So many games, programs and internet supports for games that Nintendo just ends.
Happened with the Wii and although me and my brother barely had any games on it, we still enjoyed the ones we bought; same with the 3ds and especially with pokemon on the gts.
Granted the switch is the latest hot thing but, it feels upsetting that we're just supposed to accept that Nintendo will one day just turn off or delete everything we loved and if we're lucky, sell it back to you as either a rerelease on a new console or a new version of the same spirit. They have the rights to do that but, after you buy super mario for the 5th time; you don't really want to buy it again, even on the latest console.
I'm glad fans are reviving or recreating past events and services but, it's something I wish Nintendo was doing. Instead of just ending it; I'd love if your purchases stayed on your account and carried over to the next console. There's so many games out there already, so they'd still get so much money. Maybe i'm not the best to speak but, I do miss playing some games; games I cannoy play anymore since nintendo closed downloads for it and they don't sell it any more. (Well without sus means). I still love pokémon pinball and Pokemon TCG on GBC!
Bruh the 3ds is ancient now nobody uses them anymore
@@slapshotjack9806 If you think that's old, wait until you see my gameboy and master system 2 XD
@@slapshotjack9806 hence why they said they wished purchases carried over to the next console.
4:12 "The boss cares about customers, so I'll be working here a while longer."
I guess he got a new boss, or his boss stopped caring about the customers, then
honestly with how many badges there are and how many are just meh.
i'd rather just use custom badges. there's homebrew out there to mass generate badges from pngs/jpgs, and another one to create entire sets.
and it'll be the only way you can change out the combinations you have.
custom badges are a bit more creative imo, but there's also archives of the official badges if anyone is looking for them
This is one of the best things Nintendo ever created, and it is so sad it is going away. I only ended up with 897 badges, but I wanted so much more. Best of luck to ya'll getting your badges safe in hand before the servers go down. ❤❤
I hope the Pretendo Servers will make so you can still play this game with Homebrewed 3DS with, who knows? Maybe more badges that you can put on your modded 3DS, but... That might be a bit of a pipe dream.
They actually do plan to do this according to their Discord, but the badges will be custom ones to avoid copyright. I assume it will also no longer have any paid features (unless they want to get the Yuzu treatment).
I remember playing this gane loads. I need to get more badges before it shuts down
I had to stop playing Badge Arcade after a few months because it developed a bug where it would tell me my SD card had insufficient space every time I started it up (the card had plenty of space). I considered uninstalling and reinstalling, but I was worried that I'd lose my existing badges if I did that. So I've just been stuck with the same bunch of badges ever since.
Orrr you got a FAKE SD CARD. Might want to check it.
@@asra-5180Nah, I've only ever had the problem with this game specifically. Everything else on the 3DS downloads without any issues.
You can actually safely uninstall the app and update if you want to without losing the badges.
Thank you so much for the heads up! Im checking tomorrow to make sure mine are safe and ill try and copy the file to a computer if i can, would hate to lose all my pokemon and animal crossing icons! It would take away from my 2ds personality
To clarify I never spent any money but I worked so hard to get my favorite pokemon to display and I have soo many badges that become the icons such as my Isabelle shop icon it's super cute!
@@randomliz.mi think i have that one too, i also like to put the super mario bros. ones on my homescreen with a mario background like its a level
watching this video even though i dont know what badges are:
Just get all the badges using cfw with a hacked 3ds (which is what i have done for my 3ds)
You can even get any custom one you'd like
I unfortunately didn’t see this video before signing into pretendo. I’m assuming there’s no way to get my badges back, correct?
your badges should still be on the nintendo server. if you switch back to the nintendo server and run gytb, it will convert all your official badges to pngs. running gytb on pretendo's server afterwards, should let you use all your badges there too.
(you can probably do this with anenome now too, but im not sure how you'd do it.)
Too late for me, I haven't heard of Nintendo Badge Arcade until your video appeared on the feed. I wish I could go back in time to start collecting badges and such a shame when 3Ds online closes completely next month. I suppose those icons on Switch are similar to badges but need active NOS. I knew something was up when there no more themes for 3Ds. End of another era.
There's a program called "Allbadge Tool" you can use to download your own copies of all the official badges from Nintendo's servers from now until April 8th.
As much as I wish I could’ve racked up enough badges to turn my menu into an entire SMB level, I’m never going to get the chance, I suppose.
Allbadge Tool:
Advanced Badge Editor:
Simple Badge Injector:
GYTB:
Thanks for the heads up
you don’t gotta be a pirate, but PLEASE mod your 3ds.
Why? Non-pirates don't have much need to run anything but their 3ds games on a 3ds. Real handheld homebrew can be run on an anbernic or steam deck.
@@classicpctinker5070 no i mean getting nes snes and other games on 3ds. not just emulation, but injection
@@classicpctinker5070 Theres plenty of things HB can be used for outside pirate.
Streaming ur new 3ds to ur PC for example without a capture card
Installing ur physical catridges of both 3ds and nds and even gba titles onto the home screen so you dont have to take your cartridges with you on the go
and way more.
@@Mabayu Anotherr legit reason is for freeing your data backups from the shackles of encryption (i.e. the only problem with the method in this video).
god damnit why didn't youtube recommend this to me before i tried going to the badge arcade on pretendo
I may have to do that since i invested alot of time for my badges
i missed out on this entire thing wtf i got my cosmo blue 3ds on launch and was an ambassador but missed the chance to save all my purchases as i only got back to my home town last month after like 10 years :((
Thank you for the info.
Now when you make a copy of badges just gone on your system
is there no homebrew method/patch to get badge arcade to work again? even give out "unlimited" free plays?
According to their Discord, this is what Pretendo Network eventually plans to do, only with custom badges, but I don't think there's an ETA yet on when (or if) that'll be ready.
im gonna cry
Sadly, I didn't back up anything, and my 3DS is modded so a homebrew app deleted my badges forever :(
I’ll just mod all of them
Ok so hopefully theres no other 000014d1 folders ....
Do i need to do anything if all my badges already fit in the badge box?
8:01 No, but you probably should back up your SD card contents every now and then anyway in case it malfunctions.
The ones in my HOME menu are fine though, right?
Correct, whatever is on your HOME Menu is locally saved to your 3DS. I'd still recommend backing up the folder since it's simple to do and keeps the badges safe
Also, if you want to keep them even safer, either back up your system's essential.exefs in GodMode9 or copy out all contents of "Ext Save Data -> 000014d1 -> User Save Data" to anywhere on your SD card using FBI. (CFW required)
God i loved badge arcade. I get stupid nastolgic for this. Need to get a 3DS to mod
badge arcade is so great, too bad the switch is totally lifeless
Switch is still better
As much as I love the Switch... *yeah.*
The app never worked well in my experience. Every time I’d open it, it would say the data is corrupt and it will restore the data. Which would set me up for a super long “restore” sequence every single time I opened this thing. I never had any issues before opening it, and after it restored, nothing seemed to change either. When I’d look up a solution, most people were saying the app would just do that and I’m experiencing normalcy. Nintendo never fixed it.
Once this app released and the initial excitement faded, and the fix never came, I assumed Nintendo semi-abandoned it. It worked but not entirely and since it was “fine”, they didn’t arse with it.
The 1000 badge limit makes absolutely no sense. Like… just let me download all the badges what’s the problem??? If they were concerned about the data file becoming too large, it clearly wasn’t…
Or just get GYTB and make yourself some nice custom badges.........
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i remember having mine in 2017, but i dont have any of my other software anymore. i dont even have my badges! i also lost my sd card..
Get another 3ds real quick and call up nintendo support to move your nnid to it. You can then redownload all your badges, or at least 1000 of them at a time.
thats the thing i dont have another 3ds, the only one i have is the blue one @@classicpctinker5070
@@doommasterz If the blue one is the one with your NNID on it, you should be able to put another SD card into it, redownload Badge Arcade, go into the game and re-access your badges via the Help Desk.
i have backed up every file on my SD card several times.. will my badges be safe??
Yep! If you have all your sets/combinations of categories saved to your badge box, you should be good
@@JamesMoneySo in order to not lose my badges, all of them are to be saved in the home page and none in the Badge box, am I understanding that right? Or is it reversed?
@@alphadragonwolfwarrior6373 The Badge Box is the data that's saved locally, while the other badges remain at the arcade/on the server. Make sure you back up all of your badges while they're in the locally stored Badge Box
@@JamesMoney I thought I saved it to the right box and apparently I didn't 😫
I lost all of my badges.
What music is at 0:25
It's the Japanese reveal trailer theme for the new 3DS
Could you please upload all of your badge data and give us the link to download the data? Thank you!
...Alternatively, you can legally download your own using "Allbadge Tool" (tutorial online).
5:57 how do you redownload badge arcade on a new sd card if you have had it on another sd card???
i think i got it nvm
what if, after switching to a new sd card, the statue says you only have 99 badges BUT when you click on it, it actually shows your whole collection??
Oh it updated to 999 rn, I think it’ll update yet again if I restart the game
Okay so I have one badge box of 1000 badges and copied that 4 times but what do I have to do now??
Noooooo....i won't be able to back em up
can I get new ones from Pretendo?
would this affect custom badges?
Nah, custom ones are fine
No, they are already on your system. There is nothing Nintendo can do about them.
Opening Badge Arcade will delete them, but you can re-add them afterwards at any time the same way you did originally.
Any idea is Pretendo will fix the badge arcade?
The pinned comment goes over it, but long story short: "Yes, but it overwrites your badge box, so you should still back them up anyway."
@@Cuprite1024just backing them up by saving them to my computer, right??
Can someone please make a badge crane game!!!!
didnt the badge arcade already shut down tho? im very confused
i thought it shut down YEARS ago like what
Not yet! It's been open since launch and will be finally closing down April 8th, 2024
@@JamesMoney but you haven't been able to access it for years I can promise you it's been closed for me for years
The bunny is going homeless @@JamesMoney
@@JamesMoneywhaaaattt?! i thought it shut down when the eshop shut down and now i'm actually pretty disappointed in myself for not playing it since 🥲
Is it not possible to use someone else's badge data after the servers go down since it can't check it you actually own them?
Yes, but it's probably better to use Allbadge Tool than someone else's badges.
@@MineCrapSteve I want to get badges on both my modded and unmodded 3DS. I assume allbadge tool is great for modded 3ds's, but not unmodded
@@AnaIsmySegal Unfortunately, yes - while Allbadge Tool is a program for PC rather than 3DS, the easiest way I know of putting it onto your 3DS is by using a homebrew app, since you need to know an internal value in your 3DS.
That said, you could theoretically use a combination of seedminer, ninfs, save3ds-fuse and hex editing... but then you'd need to fix the CMAC, and the only tool I know of that can achieve that is GodMode9, so it'd all be for nothing unless you've got an NTRboot-compatible flashcard you could run GM9 on (at which point you wouldn't need to use seedminer or ninfs any more, but I digress).
Long story short, you would need to hack that 3DS in order to use them, but it's probably a good idea to have a copy of all of them anyway on top of backing up your own badges as per the method in this video (although I'd use seedminer to get my movable.sed so I could decrypt the SD contents with ninfs in case the 3DS malfunctions).
@@AnaIsmySegal I did respond to this in detail, but you may have to sort comments by newest first and then scroll down to this thread to see it - seems like YT likes to hide comments that go into any sort of technical detail for anything ever, lmao
tl;dr version: Yeah, AT is more for CFW 3DSes than stock ones, but it's still a good idea to have a full backup anyway.
Question, how do I transfer badges from my badge box to a custom badge application, so that I can carry them through the Nimbus switch to Pretendo?
The first time you start up GYTB, it will back up your current badge collection and create PNGs for them. After swapping to Pretendo, you can run that same application, it will see the PNGs, and then will add the badges back in
how do I actually upload and use the backup on the 3ds?
i thought the game already shut down
I wonder if you could use this sort of thing to "trade" badge sets with other people (I mean, it probably wouldn't work with me since my systems are from different regions, but I wonder if it's possible otherwise)
In order to do that, you'd have to go into "Ext Save Data" in FBI, navigate to "000014d1" and copy all contents of its user extdata to somewhere on your SD card.
You'd then have to put this data onto your PC, send it to your friend and have them use Advanced Badge Editor + Simple Badge Injector to put that set onto their system. (More info on these tools online.)
Wait, are badges literally going to vanish at shutdown?!
Only the ones outside your badge box, so this only affects you if if you have over 1,000.
Is it possible to swap the files from one 3ds to another 3ds? When I tried it said "files corrupted"
I don't think so
I want to make sure I did it Back up it correctly I put everything I want in the back up box And then a copy to my computer Is that right
Yeah, keep creating new backups for every badge box customization you'd like to keep
@@JamesMoney Did I do it right I only have 357
@@RodriThunder If your complete collection is 357 badges, then yes
I have a question: When the game shuts down, can I delete all of the data relating to it on the System Settings (game, updates, and extra data) without losing the badges?
You can delete the game and update if you want, but I wouldn't delete extdata without making a backup first, since that may delete the badges.
kid named GYTB:
It's almost like Nintendo doesn't care.
Okay I need help understanding this. So basically you back up all your badges on your computer?? And then whenever you want to swap out badges you just plug your SD card in and replace the old file with the one you want??
Yep, you got it!
Will i still lose my badges if i mod my 3ds after the internet shutdown? My 3ds version is on the update right before the latest one, so it is currently unable to use most internet functions. The badges still appear though.
If you have all of your badges in the Badge Box you should be good. Just note that swapping over to Pretendo will delete the badges so it's highly advised to make a backup before using it.
@@JamesMoney alright, I'll keep that in mind. Thank you!
@@JamesMoneyI deleted mine but didn’t back them up. I’m assuming they’re gone forever correct?
Have you tried investigating the badge folder and its format at all?
There's a section on the files' structure on the 3dbrew wiki's HOME Menu page, but you'd first need to use ninfs and 3ds-save-tool to decrypt and extract your data respectively in order to look at it yourself.
@@MineCrapSteve I see, thank you for letting me know
@@centdemeern1 Forgot to mention that there are also tools to edit those files and put them back onto your 3DS ("Get ANY OFFICIAL badges without other users' data" for more info on those).
Also, you can bypass having to use ninfs or 3ds-save-tool by going to "Ext Save Data" in FBI, navigating to "000014d1" and copying all contents of its user extdata to somewhere on your SD card.
Do I still have to back up my stuff if I only have around 300 badges and only around 40 categories or else the badges no longer work
It isn't strictly necessary in your case because they will all stay on your HOME Menu, but if you ever lose your SD card's data, you will be unable to get it back again within the app after April 8th, so it's a good idea to make a backup just in case. The same goes for StreetPass Mii Plaza; if you ever lose the extdata for that game, most of your Puzzle Swap puzzles will disappear until you put a backup of the data back onto your SD card again.
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Thank u so much
Wait, didn't the Badge Arcade shut down already?
2:16
If I delete bages Arcade Will the save data delete too
Uninstalling a game will leave extdata untouched, so you can safely uninstall the game after organising your backups.
I made a backup of my folder 000014d1
to i need to make another backup of my ID folder to
where would I get that in SD Card@@MineCrapSteve
@@MineCrapSteve where would I find the folder that unique to my system
do I need that back up to
@@RodriThunder The path to the extdata folder where your badges are is onscreen at 0:00.
"[ID0]" and "[ID1]" will be a bunch of letters and numbers.
@@MineCrapSteve what I mean is James-Money made a comment
about folder that unique to you system
I played without paying too, and I THINK I amassed 10000+ badges!! When I get home, I'll check how many hours I've played the game and edit this comment.
Edit: I played the game for 128:45 hours, 587 times, which is 3rd place.
So I opened the game today to check on my 10000+ plus badges, but... I'm back down to 1776... That... that effing HURTS!!! I think my SD card got corrupted or something... I played for YEARS!! I'm actually crying...
I remember that my badge arcade post made it TO THE GAME!!! The bunny guy even called it "Wiiterloo", because I aligned some badges in some kind of army formation, fighting over some Wii Badges I placed in the middle. Miiverse was just my era of the golden days... My fame peaked... I miss the good old days...
That's odd - the data _should_ be on Nintendo's servers, so either they've messed up on their end somehow, or you may have remembered incorrectly. Come to think of it, I'm not sure if they ever released more than 10,000 badges anyway, so I doubt you've lost anything.
Edit: Japan had 8572 badges, and I'm pretty sure there aren't any that are exclusive to to US or EUR, so that's probably the max amount.
@@MineCrapSteve That's impossible... Maybe the game had a bug for me... I swear...
welp rip 3ds its completely dead soon
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