My Acnl save gets corrupted whenever I enable the luma settings needed for pretendo to work?

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For pretendo to work, external FIRMs and modules as well as game patching need to be enabled and the save file I had on acnl was started without these two settings enabled (because I had no idea that they weren’t enabled). I assume that that’s why when I enable them, my acnl save file gets corrupted. When I disable them again, the save goes back to normal.

I’ve tried using checkpoint to backup the save data before enabling the 2 luma options and then restoring the save after the options had been enabled but the save was still corrupted. I’ve put in a lot of hours into that save and I really don’t want to reset it due to corruption.

Apparently this is unusual behaviour? So is there anything I can do to be able to use pretendo while keeping my acnl save file uncorrupted? Or do I just have to deal with deleting it and starting a new one? :,) Any advice will be really really appreciated cause I’m still a bit clueless when it comes to modding on the 3ds. Thank you!

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Yes, this is extremely unusual behavior.

Activating them should not be affecting the save file at all.

I am very confused by this, to be honest…

@support-helper Do any of you have any insight?

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It might help that this is a continuation of a Reddit thread. Some pictures can be found here https://www.reddit.com/r/PretendoHub/s/hMHPzAtv3l

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Ahh. Having any mods on the SD card could do that…

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Try running this; see if it helps: Release v1.2.0 · noirscape/dses · GitHub

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Unfortunately it didn’t work :confused: The save is still corrupted with the settings enabled

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I’m going to have to close this thread I’m afraid, I’ve just read your message and it sounds like you have illegitimately obtained ACNL and we don’t provide any support with illegitimately obtained software. Sorry!