Hacking Using a diffrent SD Card.

XPG Darkside · Sep 23, 2017

Hello there currrently I have a 4GB SD card in my 2ds with custom fw installed and a few games,

I was just wondering if I was to purchase a bigger SD card say 16 or 32gb, could I just copy all my folders and stuff from my current SD card to the new one and everything would still work the same as before?

Thanks

Quantumcat · Sep 23, 2017

Just copy and paste

proflayton123 · Sep 23, 2017

Quantumcat said:
Just copy and paste

Don't forget to mention, format to FAT32 before hand

XPG Darkside · Sep 23, 2017

Quantumcat said:
Just copy and paste

proflayton123 said:
Don't forget to mention, format to FAT32 before hand

Brilliant thanks for the help

Majickhat55 · Sep 23, 2017

So how are SD cards formatted OOB? Because I'll be honest, I've NEVER formatted an SD card before using it and never had any problems with them in my console Lol.

The Catboy · Sep 23, 2017

Majickhat55 said:
So how are SD cards formatted OOB? Because I'll be honest, I've NEVER formatted an SD card before using it and never had any problems with them in my console Lol.

Allocation can have an effect on boot speed and some homebrews require a specific allocation size. Examples being nds-bootstrap, which requires 32kb cluster/allocation size to work properly.
For speed, I've found some microSD cards worked perfectly out of the box and just happened to have the right allocation and others not so much. This resulted in a few added seconds to my boot time which were easily trimmed off by properly formatting the SD card.
So basically I just find it better to just format your microSD card with GodMode9 before doing anything. It doesn't take very long and it's the best way to ensure your SD card is properly setup before you get too comfortable with it.

Majickhat55 · Sep 23, 2017

Lilith Valentine said:
Allocation can have an effect on boot speed and some homebrews require a specific allocation size. Examples being nds-bootstrap, which requires 32kb cluster/allocation size to work properly.
For speed, I've found some microSD cards worked perfectly out of the box and just happened to have the right allocation and others not so much. This resulted in a few added seconds to my boot time which were easily trimmed off by properly formatting the SD card.
So basically I just find it better to just format your microSD card with GodMode9 before doing anything. It doesn't take very long and it's the best way to ensure your SD card is properly setup before you get too comfortable with it.

Oh I agree, it just never really occurred to me. I guess I just got lucky and got a properly formatted one, because I've 100% been yelled at by other devices forcing me to format it before usage. Thanks for the explanation.

XPG Darkside · Sep 23, 2017

Quick update got a new 16gb card copied and pasted as recommend and all is working fine, thanks for the help

Xathya · Sep 23, 2017

i would recommand doing an sd check scan because of the failure promtness of the sd memory nand flash chips it may still not be working very well, so please do that before using it so you dont lost all of your savedata files!!

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