List of problematic (and non problematic) games

Games known to be problematic

Games in bold are personally tested.

Lets svdt start up to emergency mode, but not main UI

These games seem to glitch svdt out while it tries to gfxInitDefault().

• Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
• FIFA 13.
• Super Smash Bros. for 3DS.

Won't let svdt start at all

These games are a whole other problem, it seems. Possibly a problem in the ninjhax2 backend.

• Kirby: Triple Deluxe. svdt startup consistently hangs on a white lower screen during the bootloader stage.
• Mario and Luigi: Dream Team. Same issue as Kirby 3DX.
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity. Ditto.
• Virtue's Last Reward. Ditto.

Unspecified problems

• RE Mercenaries.

Other notes

• Any problems that affect save_manager will affect svdt to some extent. They use the same ninjhax2 backend.
• Anti-anti savegame restore measures are not implemented in svdt, and likely won't ever be, since every game has slight variations on the exact mechanism.
• It is possible that for some games (released after 2015/06?), svdt (i.e. the ninjhax2 backend) does not access decrypted save data.

On the plus side ... games personally tested to work

... by which I mean that svdt can access the games. No guarantee of being able to restore save games in a usable way.

exploited (*hax) games

• Cubic Ninja
• Ironfall: Invasion
• Ocarina of Time 3D

unexploited games

• Gyakuten Saiban [Ace Attorney] 123
• Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
• Mario Kart 7
• New Super Mario Bros. 2
• Paper Mario Sticker Star
• Pilotwings Resort
• Pokémon X
• Pokémon Alpha Sapphire
• Pokémon Shuffle
• Pokémon Rumble World
• Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask
• Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy
• Yo-Kai Watch