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Ever since I updated to FW 8.0 and began using Atmosphere 0.8.8, Retroarch has been giving me nothing but trouble. My card(s) have been Fat32 formatted. I have not tried any other homebrew.
RA would simply lock to a black screen after loading a game, and when they randomly would run a game, if I closed the game and tried running them again, they'd lock again. The home button would allow me to at least return back to the Home Menu, but closing the title would take a bit only to result in an error. I have been using clean installs of both Atmosphere (via SDSetup) and the latest RA nightly builds. Upon first starting RA after a clean install a couple of times (via title redirection into HBL), I couldn't even restart the homebrew normally as it would just kick me to the HBL. Sometimes upon loading RA, the joycons attached to the system in portable mode wouldn't even do anything (beyond the Home button), though no other controller was used since cold boot. Now the last time I tried using a clean RA install, I wasn't given the Drivers category, so I couldn't even change the audio driver (to switch_thread), or change the menu driver. I even tried using different microSD cards (Fat32-formatted), but nothing is working correctly.
I feel I'm about out of options. Been wondering that since this all happened with FW 8.0, if I could downgrade back to 7.0.1 (I have a backup), maybe I can see what's going on. Others seem to be having no issues with FW 8.0 beyond what was already problematic in previous FW versions. Switchbrew says 7.0.1 and 8.0 share the same fuse count. The idea is that if 7.0.1 works, and that perhaps something happened during my 8.0 update, maybe trying to update it back to 8.0 (rather than restore) could fix whatever was going on. I do have an uncertainty with that though, as updating again to 8.0 rather than restoring might send a hint to Nintendo that I've been using CFW (by updating twice to 8.0 on different days). Just FYI, I don't update my FW while running CFWs.
Before I go restoring my NAND, what else can I do? Am I doing something wrong with installations to my card? What would be the best method? If the suggestion is to restore 7.0.1, then what must I take into account before doing so?
RA would simply lock to a black screen after loading a game, and when they randomly would run a game, if I closed the game and tried running them again, they'd lock again. The home button would allow me to at least return back to the Home Menu, but closing the title would take a bit only to result in an error. I have been using clean installs of both Atmosphere (via SDSetup) and the latest RA nightly builds. Upon first starting RA after a clean install a couple of times (via title redirection into HBL), I couldn't even restart the homebrew normally as it would just kick me to the HBL. Sometimes upon loading RA, the joycons attached to the system in portable mode wouldn't even do anything (beyond the Home button), though no other controller was used since cold boot. Now the last time I tried using a clean RA install, I wasn't given the Drivers category, so I couldn't even change the audio driver (to switch_thread), or change the menu driver. I even tried using different microSD cards (Fat32-formatted), but nothing is working correctly.
I feel I'm about out of options. Been wondering that since this all happened with FW 8.0, if I could downgrade back to 7.0.1 (I have a backup), maybe I can see what's going on. Others seem to be having no issues with FW 8.0 beyond what was already problematic in previous FW versions. Switchbrew says 7.0.1 and 8.0 share the same fuse count. The idea is that if 7.0.1 works, and that perhaps something happened during my 8.0 update, maybe trying to update it back to 8.0 (rather than restore) could fix whatever was going on. I do have an uncertainty with that though, as updating again to 8.0 rather than restoring might send a hint to Nintendo that I've been using CFW (by updating twice to 8.0 on different days). Just FYI, I don't update my FW while running CFWs.
Before I go restoring my NAND, what else can I do? Am I doing something wrong with installations to my card? What would be the best method? If the suggestion is to restore 7.0.1, then what must I take into account before doing so?
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