I originally asked this on r/3dspiracy but the post was removed a while ago and I only just now noticed, so I'm asking here. So, I'm new to 3DS hacking. After following all the steps up to the finalize script thing, i got to GodMode9. Unfortunately, when running the finalize script, i got Error #4 (not enough space), and promptly went to go empty my photos and audios to get space. Now, when doing the thing to enter GodMode9, its not working and simply just goes to the HOME menu. Can anyone help me?

Been working on a Nintendo 3DS port of Forsaken — the 1998 Probe/Acclaim 6-DOF space shooter that was Descent's prettier, fiercer cousin. The port builds on ForsakenX (the community source port) and targets the 3DS directly with a native citro3d renderer.

Current state: fully playable. Entire 15-level single-player campaign, runs at 60 fps in hardware stereoscopic 3D at 512×512 HD textures on both Old and New 3DS.

Repo (source + build instructions): https://github.com/colbyshores/forsaken-3ds

What's in it

• Hardware stereoscopic 3D (actual GFX_LEFT/GFX_RIGHT, not anaglyph). Uses single-pass display-list replay so the second eye doesn't redo BSP traversal or vertex transform — that's what leaves headroom for HD textures + stereo simultaneously.
• HD textures (optional) — ETC1 / ETC1A4, sourced from the Forsaken Remastered 4K upscale pack and downsampled to 512² to fit PICA200's budget. Skip the regen step and it falls back to the original PNGs cleanly.
• CD soundtrack — DSP-ADPCM streamed from romfs on a background thread, decoded by the 3DS DSP hardware at zero CPU cost. All 9 original 1998 Swarm tracks mapped to their authentic level assignments (extracted directly from the Windows .exe).
• Full 6-DOF controls — circle pad for pitch/yaw, X/Y for forward/back thrust, L/R strafe, D-pad to cycle cannons, ZR for mines, A/B fire primary/secondary.
• Bottom screen HUD — gameplay text (score, ammo, weapons) routed to the mono bottom screen so the stereo top stays clean.
• Runs well on Old 3DS — not just New. The original game targeted a Pentium 166 with D3D3; the budget is small.

Installing

Two options:

• .3dsx via Homebrew Launcher — drag into your 3ds/ folder. Bundles DSP firmware in its romfs so audio just works, including in emulators.
• .cia via FBI — permanent install on the HOME menu, banner audio plays on icon tap. CIA does not bundle Nintendo's DSP firmware; you need sdmc:/3ds/dspfirm.cdc (you already have this from the standard DSP1 dump during CFW setup).

Getting assets

Game data is not shipped (levels, models, sounds). Provide your own legitimate disc image — ISO or BIN/CUE — and the included extract_assets.py does the rest (needs p7zip-full, bchunk, ffmpeg). BIN/CUE gets you the CD soundtrack; ISO gets game data only.

Technical highlights (for the devs)

• Native citro3d renderer, not picaGL — bypasses the GL1 emulation tax. picaGL still ships as a fallback (make RENDERER=picagl) but stereo is citro3d-only.
• ARM11 strict-alignment sweep — ~50 sites patched. Modern GCC fuses constant-size memcpy(..., 12) into ldm which needs 4-byte alignment, and Forsaken's file parsers cast misaligned floats all over the place. Documented the patterns in the repo for anyone else porting 1990s Windows games to 3DS.
• HOME menu banner audio rebuilt from the 1998 TV commercial via yt-dlp + demucs vocal isolation + ffmpeg in a deterministic build script. "The future is Forsaken" plays when you tap the icon.
• picaGL patches (separate nested repo) — glClear respecting glColorMask, real GL_VIEWPORT query, GLU stubs, extension defines.

Known limitations

• Missile chase camera has reduced draw distance in some scenes (BSP portal visibility quirk).
• No multiplayer — Forsaken's netcode didn't map cleanly to the 3DS network stack. Single-player only.

License & credits

GPL v2 — same as upstream ForsakenX. Full source public.

• Original game: Probe Entertainment / Acclaim (1998)
• Source port: ForsakenX
• picaGL: masterfeizz
• HD texture source: Forsaken Remastered 4K pack
• 3DS port: me (Colby Shores)

Happy to answer questions about build issues, the renderer architecture, alignment fixes, whatever. If you hit something that's broken on your 3DS, open an issue on the repo or reply here.

Hello, I made a backup and then a digital version of my game. Then I restored the backup to the digital version, but when I start the game, my backup is not displayed. The Game is Fire Emblem Fates.

Anyone know Checkpoint very well? I have two versions of Animal Crossing New Leaf and I backed up my first one using Checkpoint with no issue but I've realised I think Checkpoint is registering my second one as extra data of my first version, hence why my second version has ended up in 'extdata' in Checkpoint. This seems to mean that the usual backup files just don't show up in the save I make when I open the save folder on my computer with my SD card in. Does anyone know how I can stop this happening? I was going to try just moving the files of my second version out of Checkpoint>extdata and into Checkpoint>saves to see if that worked but I'm worried that might end up with some weird merging of the two games. And obviously since I can't backup my second version I don't really have a safety net! I really want to use the backup of my second version in the online save editor to mod the game but I'm at a loss as to how to access the data. Please if anyone could educate me I'd be so so grateful. Thank you!! (Sorry if any of this is worded badly, pls ask me to clarify things if need be)

I have a save file for mario kart 7 and everytime I try to restore it, upon launching the game I get the “ this file is corrupt and will be deleted.”. I tried deleting updates, deleting extra save data, and no avail. I even updated checkpoint and tried using JKSV.

So i want to start making a simple game on the 3ds, but idk how to start. I've seen people doing it on godot, others directly in C++, but this one seems complicated, so do you have any tips, and if you use Godot what do you have to make sure you do to make it work on the 3ds?

Sorry if i made grammar mistakes i'm not from an english speaking country

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Would anyone be able to help me with this error code 005-5958 when trying to access Pokemon Bank?