No worries. Awesome. Hope you enjoy your newly modded 3DS. I recommend a Homebrew app called FTPD that lets you wireless transfer files to your computer, but if your on a New 3DS or New 2DS, it’s particularly handy because it reduces the amount of needing to screw open your entire 3DS each time you want to transfer files.
Sorry, what I heard about data sticking around after a factory reset unfortunately isn’t true. I’m sorry about that.
Super Mario Bros. 35 😂
But yeah, in all seriousness, I think this is way too soon considering the 3DS was officially discontinued less then 4 yrs ago.
Sorry, I was wrong about data sticking around after a factory reset, this is just something I was told. I’m editing my comment to clarify that.
Thanks a lot! It’s unfortunate this happened, I’m hoping there weren’t too many who tried uploading during this time.
Hey, even though I’m not officially part of this project, I’m sorry to say that at least for the period of April 6, at 12PM to 4PM PDT (Pacific Daylight Time), the maintainer of the server mistakenly didn’t see that the server had run out of storage space. This means that any dumps made by anyone within this time period didn’t actually get archived in the end. The exact amount of time is unknown. This 4 hr period is just the least amount of time the server was down for, so for all he knows, it could have been for the entire day of April 6th up until 4PM in the afternoon (PDT). Again, even though this wasn’t because of me, I’m sorry about this. If you can, could you please make the dump one last time if possible? As the archive servers are now working correctly again. Screenshot of the Discord announcement
Hey, thanks so much for dumping both of your consoles. Unfortunately, even though I’m not officially part of this project, I’m sorry to say that at least for the period of April 6, at 12PM to 4PM PDT (Pacific Daylight Time), the maintainer of the server mistakenly didn’t see that the server had run out of storage space. This means that any dumps made by anyone within this time period didn’t actually get archived in the end. The exact amount of time is unknown. This 4 hr period is just the least amount of time the server was down for, so for all he knows, it could have been for the entire day of April 6th up until 4PM in the afternoon (PDT). Again, even though this wasn’t because of me, I’m sorry about this. If you can, could you please make the dump one last time if possible?, as the archive servers are now working correctly again. Screenshot of the Discord announcement
Edit: Sorry, unlike what I said below, there is no data that sticks around after a factory reset, sorry to anyone who I may have wasted the time of.
Thanks a lot for dumping. There is also (apparently) data that sticks around in the background from the previous console-owner if you got the console pre-owned, even if it was factory reset.
Something you’re not understanding, or just shocked by the news?
“Long live preservation” Preserve preservation so that preserved preservation can continue to preserve what needs preserving.
Edit: Sorry, what I said below about SpotPass data sticking around after resetting the console was false information. I’m sorry to any readers if this inconvenienced you.
Since I last commented, I’ve learned that SpotPass data can still be stored in the background even after factory resetting (supposedly). So if you got your console pre-owned, there may be some SpotPass data to archive still hanging around.
Awesome, thank you so much for stickying the post so that more people will see this, and for dumping some data!
Ohh, I just found out that notifications can’t be saved into the archive which is sad. I thought they could but I know now that they can’t.
Edit: Scrap that. I just found out that notifications aren’t able to be archived :(
I heard that some stuff can still install via SpotPass in the background without your knowledge. I’m not sure how true that is, but I do know that since the notifications are sent through SpotPass, you might also have some news articles that need archiving too (and their are region-specific articles too). I have a 2DS too as a secondary console, so I dumped my data from it as well just because I have some Australia/New Zealand exclusive ones.
Thanks
No worries! Yes, the dump unfortunately won’t have any use after the 8th. This is because the useful part of the dump is a URL which the devs need in order to access the content from Nintendo’s servers before they shut down. Once the servers are down, the URL’s can technically still be dumped, but they will just now be useless.
Awesome. Thanks for helping out!
Follow the instructions on the main website for the project which I’ve linked in the post. https://spotpassarchive.github.io/
Ah, great! Glad I mentioned it.
Another cool one is an unofficial YouTube client app called ThirdTube which is pretty cool (and has 3D video playback if the video itself supports it). There’s an emulator for the Virtual Boy called Red Viper which just had a huge update recently, which made every game in the entire consoles library run accurately at full speed (and even the 3D from the original Virtual Boy works too!). You can add custom themes to your main menu with the app Anemone3DS and can make a backup of the save data for each of your games onto your SD card with an app called Checkpoint. They’re all my favourites; otherwise I haven’t explored a large amount of what is on offer still.