Inside the folder of the hack version you chose, there should be a romfs folder. In my case I went for the full hack, but read up on the differences and choose whatever seems to best tickle your fancy since the process for both is the same. Now, extract the contents of the Neo XY hack and inside you should have a folder called installation hub with both a full and lite folders. bat file that you only have to paste where the romfs.bin and ctrtool are and run to extract what you need! Wait a few minutes for this to extract and when it is done you should have a romfs folder. Now you are going to open the windows command line and navigate to the folder where you put the romfs.bin/ctrtool file and type this “ ctrtool –intype=romfs –romfsdir=romfsdir romfs.bin”, if that is too much trouble for you, I put together this neat. Copy the romfs file to a folder on your computer and extract ctrtool there too. For the purposes of this tutorial we only need romfs.bin, but other games may require you also use exefs.bin (though I don’t foresee that happening unless you are on a 3DSCFW). But that just means it is easy and we’ll be done in no time! On the root of your SD Card there should now have be a folder with a huge name and two files inside: romfs.bin and exefs.bin.

Hey! Welcome back! How was your day while the cart dumped? I hope you had fun, because now we get to do some pretty standard stuff. I do not know the process behind that, so in that case you will have to figure that part on your own)ģ. (if you don’t want to wait you can try and get the dump from other places, or extract it from a ROM file. In the case of Pokémon Y, the game is about 1.8GB. I have a Class 10 SD Card so I guess that might have helped, but who knows.

For me the process took about 6h30m but I’ve heard people on GBATemp claiming as much as 12h. After that, plug your 3ds into the charger and go about your day as usual. Then, run braindump and choose your cart and confirm that it opened. Download and extract the “braindump” folder inside the zip into your 3ds folder. This is by far the most tedious part of the whole process because dumping, as it stands right now, isn’t very fast. Next, we are going to want to dump the game itself to the SD card. In the case of the game Pokémon Y (EU) the id is 00055E00 and HANS even has the courtesy of telling us where in the SD card we will have to place the final patch.Ģ. To figure out your gameid just choose yes in Romfs -> SD and the information will show up a few lines below. When it loads you will be presented with a screen like the picture above. I prefer to do this early to not have to go back and do it later, but I guess you could do it only when you need it. First off, we are going to want to know the gam eid of the game we’re modding for later reference.

Pokemon neo y on citra