Homebrew Discussion [POLL] FAT32 vs. exFAT | issue discussion
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Ok, I have reformatted to fat32, copied all my files back over.
I had to split some of my XCI files to fit onto onto the card now, which is fine.
The issue I have now is, the split files now show a white box in the SX menu instead of the normal picture of the game.
Anyone else have this/know how to fix please?
This was all done on windows 10.
I had to split some of my XCI files to fit onto onto the card now, which is fine.
The issue I have now is, the split files now show a white box in the SX menu instead of the normal picture of the game.
Anyone else have this/know how to fix please?
This was all done on windows 10.
This is a known issue of SX OS and as far as I can tell they are already working on it.
I've been on multiple versions using exFAT and I've had my shit corrupt about 5 times already. Finally stopped being lazy and converted to FAT32, no issues since.
So is it safe to assume if you don't use HOMEBREW at all that using exfat on the sdcard is relatively safe? I understand with homebrew apps they are highly likely to cause corruption. Just wondering about if you ONLY use XCI's and installed NSP games. I assume the games are written in a manner to fully support pressing home and not corrupt things.
What is the internal storage formatted? Fat32?
What is the internal storage formatted? Fat32?
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You actually get a bit of a performance boost with 64K cluster, but I can't guarantee that it plays nicely with all homebrew.
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You shouldn't quote him and waste his precious time although I agree on the fact that someone should write a very good explanation which should be featured on gbatemp's frontpage for a few days and stickied to the Switch forum.
However: No it's Ninty's driver that is causing the sh*t to happen. Unless someone (SciresM?) writes a whole new filesystem driver for exFAT (and why in the world would he even think about wasting his time for that if FAT32 works perfectly and has no real downside) this won't change.
Just stick to FAT32. Install games via USB (Goldleaf 0.5+) and if you need SX OS and XCI loading that much, use XCI splitting or an external drive (which ironically is recommended to be on exFAT, because the SD problems are not existent there as it turns out).
So if I want to format my exfat card, what do I have to do with my currently installed games on the SD card? Do I need to install them all again since I won't be able to paste back the Nintendo folder cause it is bigger than 4 GB?
Create a folder on your PC desktop called "temp".
Copy everything from your SD root into that folder.
Format to FAT32.
Copy everything from "temp" back to your SD root.
Simple as that.
Edit: Installed games are always automatically separated into chunks smaller than 4 GB, even on exFAT so don't worry.
Create a folder on your PC desktop called "temp".
Copy everything from your SD root into that folder.
Format to FAT32.
Copy everything from "temp" back to your SD root.
Simple as that.
Edit: Installed games are always automatically separated into chunks smaller than 4 GB, even on exFAT so don't worry.
Great. I'll be doing the formatting today then. Thanks!
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From what I understand (from knowing the filesystems and this), it's equal parts exFAT being terrible and Nintendo's driver being buggy.
Nintendo's driver has two things wrong with it:
- It writes metadata on reads. This is not sane for obvious reasons.
- It doesn't synchronize data to disk on application close/poweroff, and there's no way to manually trigger this.
As for the reason this doesn't affect official software: official software does something similar to a mount operation with romfs, and after that uses a specialized method of reading data inside the romfs. It doesn't go through the relevant code path aside from when software is first opened, unlike homebrew.
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Only thing that was corrupted on my card was Pinball from Zen Studio after upgrade from 6.1 to 7.0.1 after game update it refuses to launch - now I do not know what should I do wait for DJV to be ported to 7.X or update to 8.X...
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well we dont have a splitter for the Switch OS directly so you need a PC and not everybody want to be split NSPs or XCIs
btw SD Cards can be restored with CHKDSK
btw SD Cards can be restored with CHKDSK
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Explain to me how a splitter would be useful on the switch itself. What is it supposed to split? If you're on exFAT, it's pointless. On FAT32, the files are already split.
Before you say "game dumps" - gcdumptool can output split XCIs and NSPs which can be renamed and archive bit'd in NXShell, so that's only an issue if you're a filthy pirate.
Best case, you end up with missing files or corrupted files in LOST.DIR. Worst case, chkdisk fails and moves corrupted entries to LOST.DIR. Sometimes exfat-fuse's fsck can save it when chkdisk can't but I've had the switch irreparably corrupt exFAT before such that a format was required.
As a former exFAT user I must say avoid it, it not only can corrupt some files but you will have issues with some apps write/over write, I lost my stuff once using exFAT and ftp, I wanted to delete a specific folder but it ended deleting other folders in root, no idea why it took paths that weren’t intended to be deleted.
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oh really but not everybody dumps his games self...
at worked everytime with my one...
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