Hey there!
I recently installed Luma through ntrboot and boot9strap following the 3DS hack guide. For this purpose I bought a 32gb SanDisk, which I'm pretty sure is not exactly class 10, but I didn't pay attention to this at first.
After the process was complete, all homebrew CIAs installed, I went for DS, SNES and GBA CIAs which were my main purpose in hacking the console in the first place. These ones were easily installed with no complications whatsoever and play normally. But then I decided to install a bigger CIA for Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology and FBI just won't install it. I keep getting the same error 0xD8E0806A constantly, which is described as "Cert signature or hash check failed", and is further specified with other data that has been varying according to the title I try to install. Yes, it did fail even other titles like Ever Oasis and Kirby Triple Deluxe, both of them getting the same error code and description (image below).
https://imgur.com/kLaDv05
After these attempts I read about the possibility of converting the CIAs myself from a .3DS file. So I downloaded a Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology .3DS file and converted it through GM9. And I was able to install this CIA just fine, unlike the ones I downloaded directly in the CIA format. Although, this attempt has led me to another error during the gameplay, after a certain time playing it, it got to a point in which the game crashed and resulted in the error 0xd900458b. The error happened all the times I loaded the game back and played to this point. I don't have a picture of this screen, but it was exactly like this (also posted in this forum):
https://gbatemp.b-cdn.net/attachments/20180413_160013-jpg.120421/
Through this whole thing I read over and over and over about the possibility of a faulty SD card, but here is the thing: I have no clue about how I can tell it even from data. Before hacking my 3DS, I ran the H2testw tool on my SD Card after formatting it through windows (32kb cluster size). The results looked kinda ok to me, just something like 150kb lost, BUT through quite some sectors, write speed 5mbps average. But I'm a total noob and I don't even know why I thought this was ok tbh lol
I tried formatting with guiformat but H2testw tells me the SD Card has an occupied 1mb, so the test might not be accurate. When I format with windows tool though, H2testw begins the process without this warning. So I figured it would be better to format through Windows (please correct me if I'm wrong). Hence why I bring here new tests results I just ran after another Windows FAT32 32kb cluster size quick formatting:
The media is likely to be defective.
29.7 GByte OK (62308012 sectors)
170 KByte DATA LOST (340 sectors)
Details:0 KByte overwritten (0 sectors)
107 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 214 sectors)
63 KByte corrupted (126 sectors)
0 KByte aliased memory (0 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000004666e00
Expected: 0x0000000004666e00
Found: 0x0000000f04666e30
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 7.95 MByte/s
Reading speed: 14.8 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
My questions are:
- Is my SD Card the problem here?
- Can it be salvaged as a fully functional 16gb one isolating the faulty sectors?
- Is there a possibility I messed up the hacking part with the faulty SD Card? (even though it plays NDS, SNES and GBA games normally)
- If the SD Card is not the problem, which way is the most effective to get functional CIAs? Maybe another installer is the case?
- Which software should I use to format the SD card for use?
Thanks a lot in advance =)
I recently installed Luma through ntrboot and boot9strap following the 3DS hack guide. For this purpose I bought a 32gb SanDisk, which I'm pretty sure is not exactly class 10, but I didn't pay attention to this at first.
After the process was complete, all homebrew CIAs installed, I went for DS, SNES and GBA CIAs which were my main purpose in hacking the console in the first place. These ones were easily installed with no complications whatsoever and play normally. But then I decided to install a bigger CIA for Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology and FBI just won't install it. I keep getting the same error 0xD8E0806A constantly, which is described as "Cert signature or hash check failed", and is further specified with other data that has been varying according to the title I try to install. Yes, it did fail even other titles like Ever Oasis and Kirby Triple Deluxe, both of them getting the same error code and description (image below).
https://imgur.com/kLaDv05
After these attempts I read about the possibility of converting the CIAs myself from a .3DS file. So I downloaded a Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology .3DS file and converted it through GM9. And I was able to install this CIA just fine, unlike the ones I downloaded directly in the CIA format. Although, this attempt has led me to another error during the gameplay, after a certain time playing it, it got to a point in which the game crashed and resulted in the error 0xd900458b. The error happened all the times I loaded the game back and played to this point. I don't have a picture of this screen, but it was exactly like this (also posted in this forum):
https://gbatemp.b-cdn.net/attachments/20180413_160013-jpg.120421/
Through this whole thing I read over and over and over about the possibility of a faulty SD card, but here is the thing: I have no clue about how I can tell it even from data. Before hacking my 3DS, I ran the H2testw tool on my SD Card after formatting it through windows (32kb cluster size). The results looked kinda ok to me, just something like 150kb lost, BUT through quite some sectors, write speed 5mbps average. But I'm a total noob and I don't even know why I thought this was ok tbh lol
I tried formatting with guiformat but H2testw tells me the SD Card has an occupied 1mb, so the test might not be accurate. When I format with windows tool though, H2testw begins the process without this warning. So I figured it would be better to format through Windows (please correct me if I'm wrong). Hence why I bring here new tests results I just ran after another Windows FAT32 32kb cluster size quick formatting:
The media is likely to be defective.
29.7 GByte OK (62308012 sectors)
170 KByte DATA LOST (340 sectors)
Details:0 KByte overwritten (0 sectors)
107 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 214 sectors)
63 KByte corrupted (126 sectors)
0 KByte aliased memory (0 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000004666e00
Expected: 0x0000000004666e00
Found: 0x0000000f04666e30
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 7.95 MByte/s
Reading speed: 14.8 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
My questions are:
- Is my SD Card the problem here?
- Can it be salvaged as a fully functional 16gb one isolating the faulty sectors?
- Is there a possibility I messed up the hacking part with the faulty SD Card? (even though it plays NDS, SNES and GBA games normally)
- If the SD Card is not the problem, which way is the most effective to get functional CIAs? Maybe another installer is the case?
- Which software should I use to format the SD card for use?
Thanks a lot in advance =)
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