Homebrew 3ds card corrupted

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My 8gb sd card corrupted on my n3ds xl 11.6 while playing project x zone 2 that i downloaded from free shop cia. I now have no homebrew channel to install anything over again. What do i do gbatemp gods?
 
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My 8gb sd card corrupted on my n3ds xl 11.6 while playing project x zone 2 that i downloaded from free shop cia. I now have no homebrew channel to install anything over again.
  • Try to recover whatever you can off your SD card with Recuva.
  • Reformat the card in Windows as FAT32 and 32 KB.
  • SUPER IMPORTANT: Check the card does not have bad sectors and is not FAKE using H2testw. Do a full Write + verify test.
  • If everything checks out, whatever you could recover back onto the card and add back/replace CFW files: https://3ds.hacks.guide/finalizing-setup
 

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open download play and go to the rosalina menu > misc > set current to hb.app, re download play

  • Try to recover whatever you can off your SD card with Recuva.
  • Reformat the card in Windows as FAT32 and 32 KB.
  • SUPER IMPORTANT: Check the card does not have bad sectors and is not FAKE using H2testw. Do a full Write + verify test.
  • If everything checks out, whatever you could recover back onto the card and add back/replace CFW files: https://3ds.hacks.guide/finalizing-setup

K well while waiting for a reply i ended up using god mode and transfered ctrnad to end up back at 11.2 sir. While in 11.2 i tried to go into download play and do what you said but it was just regular ol download play. What should i do sir continue to reinstall or......?
 
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K well while waiting for a reply i ended up using god mode and transfered ctrnad to end up back at 11.2 sir. While in 11.2 i tried to go into download play and do what you said but it was just regular ol download play. What should i do sir continue to reinstall or......?
Should've stayed on 11.6 b9s
Rosalina has an easily accessible menu, triggered by pressing L+Down+Select (Miscellaneous options > Switch the hb. title to the current app). Simply launch any title, use that option, close the title ; the next time you launch that title, it will run boot.3dsx.
you need boot.3dsx in sd root and hb fbi to install fbi cia.
 
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K well while waiting for a reply i ended up using god mode and transfered ctrnad to end up back at 11.2 sir. While in 11.2 i tried to go into download play and do what you said but it was just regular ol download play. What should i do sir continue to reinstall or......?

Back up everything from on your card.

What you want to do is restart from scratch with a clean slate SD card. The card has to be checked in H2testw to ensure it'll give you a trouble-free setup, or else you'll continually find your saves and games getting corrupted. If you got bunked hardware, you'll get garbled data.

Follow the 3ds.hack.guide in recreating a barebone custom firmware build. You'll have to inject Homebrew Launcher into Download Play using Rosalina Menu. Once you know you got CFW working again, try copying back everything from your previous setup except the CFW parts like luma / gm9 / boot.3dsx / boot.firm, etc.
 

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Should've stayed on 11.6 b9s
Rosalina has an easily accessible menu, triggered by pressing L+Down+Select (Miscellaneous options > Switch the hb. title to the current app). Simply launch any title, use that option, close the title ; the next time you launch that title, it will run boot.3dsx.
you need boot.3dsx in sd root and hb fbi to install fbi cia.
Wow this worked. Thanks alot @Nimrod-002 You too @TurdPooCharger
 
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@TurdPooCharger @Nimrod-002 i cant get the freeshop to load the title keys or the homebrew channel cia installed. Why not? homebrewchannel that i installed says i need payload but i have it already. Freeshop just doesnt want to load the keys even tho i have it already. Looks like from scratch is whats about to be done...man
 
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@TurdPooCharger @Nimrod-002 i cant get the freeshop to load the title keys or the homebrew channel cia installed. Why not? homebrewchannel that i installed says i need payload but i have it already. Freeshop just doesnt want to load the keys even tho i have it already. Looks like from scratch is whats about to be done...man
payload to run the homebrew launcher is a binary file specific to your firmware version
smealum.github.io/3ds/
 

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