Hacking Cannot install TWiLight Menu ++; CIA installation fails; several ways tried

BaffleBlend · Feb 1, 2019

Hello. I hacked my 3DS a couple of days ago and installed FBI. Half of the reason I did this was to carry around my DS games. However, when trying to install TWiLight Menu ++ -- and ONLY TWiLight Menu ++; everything else works fine -- I get the following error:

Name: TWiLight Menu.cia
Attributes: None
Size: 350.75 KiB
Title ID: 0004800453524C41
Version: 0 (0.0.0)
Region: Unknown
Installed Size: 432.00 KiB

Error
Failed to install CIA file.
Result code: 0xC8A08035
Level: Status (25)
Summary: Invalid state (5)
Module: AM (32)
Desc: <unknown> (53)

Things I've tried:

Downloading multiple times
Downloading and transferring from different browsers, download managers, and even PCs
Replacing the MicroSD card with a brand new one
Working with an older version of TWiLight Menu
Reformatting my SD cards entirely, both before and after replacing

However, every attempt, no matter the method, always ends in that error. It's getting extremely frustrating because, as I said, it's the reason I hacked my 3DS in the first place.

I asked for help on the Nintendo Homebrew Discord, but they still insist it's the SD card.

TurdPooCharger · Feb 1, 2019

The instructions for installing TWiLight Menu++ can be found at its official page here.
There are two (2) cias to install.

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Edit -

If you're having issues installing those CIA files, check if your SD card is fake or faulty:

Copy everything off the card onto a computer.
Reformat in FAT32 + 32 KB cluster size with Windows File Explorer or guiformat (if bigger than 32 GB).
Full Write + Verify the empty card with H2testw. Do not skip this step.

BaffleBlend · Feb 1, 2019

With all due respect, this is the exact same advice that I already got several times, and I'm getting very tired of hearing it.

It can't possibly be my SD card because:
• Everything else works fine.
• It's not copying to a faulty sector because I've tried having more than one of the CIA on there at once for that exact reason.
• Most importantly, this is the second SD card I've tried with this extremely specific issue and ONLY this extremely specific issue. It's practically impossible for ONLY this CIA to be broken on completely unrelated devices - they're not even the same brand! - unless something is wrong with either the CIA itself or something else. But not the SD card.

I already burned my funds on one SD replacement, and I'm not going to waste the last of my money to get the exact same issue with a third SD card and then be told I need to buy a fourth.

TurdPooCharger · Feb 1, 2019

BaffleBlend said:
With all due respect, this is the exact same advice that I already got several times, and I'm getting very tired of hearing it.

It can't possibly be my SD card because:
• Everything else works fine.
• It's not copying to a faulty sector because I've tried having more than one of the CIA on there at once for that exact reason.
• Most importantly, this is the second SD card I've tried with this extremely specific issue and ONLY this extremely specific issue. It's practically impossible for ONLY this CIA to be broken on completely unrelated devices - they're not even the same brand! - unless something is wrong with either the CIA itself or something else. But not the SD card.

I already burned my funds on one SD replacement, and I'm not going to waste the last of my money to get the exact same issue with a third SD card.

But did you ever checked those SD cards with H2testw? That is the first suspect whenever the 3DS acts in a strange manner. If you tell us your card(s) is/are perfectly fine without testing them, and they happen to have some sort of hardware issue, no other offered ideas will matter. Test those (emptied) cards first before we can try something else.

Other than that, are you using the latest FBI v2.6.0 to install the two *.cia files for TWiLight Menu? If your 3DS firmware is up-to-date (11.9.0-42) and you're using the latest custom firmware core setup (Luma3DS v9.1, boot9strap v1.3, GodMode9 v1.7.1), the next suggestion is going to be ugly for the very fact that you must ensure your SD card must be fully functional or else it can lead to soft bricking the 3DS.

BaffleBlend · Feb 1, 2019

Never mind. A friend of mine messaged me with advice that surprisingly worked. All I had to do was delete a single DSiWare game, and then it installed successfully. I don't really understand why that worked, but it did.

TurdPooCharger · Feb 1, 2019

BaffleBlend said:
Never mind. A friend of mine messaged me with advice that surprisingly worked. All I had to do was delete a single DSiWare game, and then it installed successfully. I don't really understand why that worked, but it did.

I think I know what happened. You ran out of free space in the TWL NAND drive. Check how much MB is available in FBI:

Deleted-236924 · Feb 2, 2019

For future reference, you can often google the error code and find similar issues that may point you towards the right direction.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/dsiware-failed-to-install-cia-result-code-0xc8a08035.469545/
https://notabug.org/arc13/freeShop/src/master/src/DownloadQueue.cpp#L349

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