okay, so…
i kinda messed up
basically, while trying to get badges to work, i signed out of my pretendo acc and made an actual nintendo id bc i was not paying attention
however…
i never switched out of pretendo services
so, i have softlocked my NINTENDO (not pretendo) id, as it is now BANNED, but it wont let me sign out of this account so i can get back to pretendo.
what should i do?
specific edit to make it more clear: my nnid is not the problem, idrc if it gets banned. its that, since its bamned, i cant sign out of it, since i dint remember the password, and sincw its banned, i cant get a recovery email.
use godmode9 to delete the NNID off your 3DS, and then switch to Pretendo, and delete that PNID off of your 3DS using the same method on gm9. Then enter your Pretendo credentials while still on Pretendo Network so you just have that now. I wouldn’t try that again.
[moderator note: for future reference, we generally recommend other methods to delete your PNID but this looks to be a unique situation]
it worked, thank you! i assume this is probably why after opening up ctgp-7 all my custom badges went missing 
Did your save data get lost in the process?
thankfully no. other than my smash save data, which is really odd 
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Sorry for the long reply wait, but your account poofing out of existence [its not actually deleted it gm9 just force signs you out] shouldnt be a cause for your smash 4 save data poofing out of existence, might as well be extra data.