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Corrupted Cartridge Fixer Release

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skawo said:
Well, I did not add this since you're supposed to look at the chunks report at the end. I suppose I could do that, though, and just save the report to a file...
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Well, that’s what I mean: I could not see the result because the console turned itself off at some point well past after it finished verifying, several times, and I do not know what makes it turn off.
 
Curious if someone could help. When attempting repair it just gets stuck the first time it hits something it can’t fix. I have to hit y to skip. Does it not do that automatically so I can see the total number of errors? I didn’t want to sit for hours hitting y every time it gets stuck.

For reference this is a copy of Omega Ruby that will not boot.
 
glauberlima said:
Thanks a lot for testing this and for the detailed notes — this is genuinely useful.

The important detail is that the refresh counter stopped completely and B/Y did nothing. That's not the "it's just retrying" behavior — it means the tool is stuck waiting on the cartridge itself and can't even poll the buttons.

The 82M-refresh run was one failure mode; the frozen-at-277 (and 193/73/19) hangs are a different one, and the decreasing numbers across reseats suggest the cartridge is progressively failing to respond.

To answer your question directly: if the refresh count doesn't change for ~60 seconds, it is hung and waiting longer won't help. You can stop it.

We're working on a timeout for the cartridge read path so it can't sit there forever, and so it reports a bad cartridge instead of freezing.

Before that, a few things would really help us:
1. Can GodMode9 read this cartridge at all through other paths? E.g. browse the gamecart drive, or try dumping any file from it. Does it also hang, or does a dump complete?
2. Do you have a known-good cartridge (or another game) to test with? Does the fixer / verify complete normally on it? We want to be sure a timeout won't hurt normal reads.
3. When it's stuck, is the refresh counter completely frozen (unchanged for 60s+)? Does the screen still redraw anything, or is everything frozen? And does the POWER button still shut it down normally?
4. How fast does it hang now — seconds after starting? Is it always on the first file in the EXEFS step?

Thank you very much for your feedback!
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My cartridge also does the game thing. I thought the version shared here the other day worked fine, but that did crash after a couple hours.
1. It doesn't crash at a consistent refresh count, sometimes it will crash after 15 mins, sometimes only 1 min.
My cartridge also tends to do the game thing.
2. It doesn't crash at a consistent refresh count, sometimes it will crash after 15 mins, sometimes only 1 min.
It is fully stuck, nothing happens when holding B, pressing the power button. Nothing else is drawn on the screen.
3. Fixer and verify does work on the working cartridges I have with no issue.
4. It always crashes on the same file, at the first chunk.

I have checked the md5 checksum of the 3ds file after each run and the data has not changed.
I also kept the cartridge in the 3ds whilst in sleep mode and have checked the md5 checksum after a while. It does seem to change after a while.
 

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