Corrupted Cartridge Fixer Release

[Erebos]

Dude, you are my hero!
A few days ago I found out that my cartridge of Code Name S.T.E.A.M. stopped working and I lost hope of ever fixing it. But then I tried your tool and it worked! I will check after a month if the cartridge stays uncorrupted, but for now you have my deepest thanks!

Welp, looks I forgot that
However I finished the game yesterday and I can at least confirm that your fix is long lasting. Many thanks!

 

[zKin]

Hello!

First, THANK YOU!!!!

My (day one) Smash Bros cartridge didn't boot, after several years staying unused.
Stuck on a black screen on my modded o3DS, stuck on the 3ds splashcreen on my not-modded n3DS.
Sometimes it even showed a message on my o3DS, that i can translate like "this cartridge can't be read" when I pressed A to launch it.

I ran your cartridge fixer (on my o3DS), and after ~2H, no bloc skip just letting it run, the "verify" was still "fail".
But the game is now playable again! Without any loss (data...) or side effect.

Note: 1st successfull launch, I was able to play Adventure Smash, Streetpass mini game, buy trophies in the shop... Then I tried to launch a Smash game 1V1 vs AI, I was stuck with a black screen after character select, when I was supposed to chose the map. I pressed Home, tried to exit the game, the message saying the game is quitting took forever so I decided to shutdown my o3DS by pressing the power button for 10sec.
Restarted the o3DS, re-launched the game, then was able to play a Smash game 1V1 vs AI with no problem. Then I was able to exit the game as normal, with that soft reboot of the console (old model...)

So, even if the 1st launch wasn't flawless, in the end everything looks good

Again, thank you!
Now I start to think about going full eShop for Switch 2 lol, cartridges are not 100% reliable i guess

Ok, for data, after testing the game several days, I can say the game was only partially back
For example, trying to be in a match playing as OR against Dr Mario result in an infinite loading lol. I need to figure every parameters that make the game crash
Tried to run the fixer several times, no more improvements noticed
The best thing I can do now is probably extract my save while I can and run an installed copy of Smash

The tool still did an amazing job - my cartridge went from 100% unreadable to "partially" playable

 

[YoshiCrystal]

This repaired my Alpha Sapphire cartridge, although not sure if my save data can be recovered. But still, thank you for making this tool!

 

[balemoc]

My Xenoblade Chronicles 3D cartridge looks to be a loss. L

Multiple attempts with the CartRefresh1.3 (24hr+ sessions each and they never even reached the 100% completion without manually skipping about 20+ hash checks)

Started CartRefresh1.3_100Times 10hrs ago, and upon checking mid-way, the refresh count had a (negative) million+ count, countring down to 0.
Now a few hours after, at 60%, it's back up to 19million+ refresh count and adding

I don't have high hopes for this, and a replacement looks to be 70$AUD

Data entry-wise (sorry but):
20 games I just straight away done a 'fix cartridge' and then 'verify' method and they all verified positively


(The Switch games now are a downer to attempt to check as I don't have a modded unit, nor do I even know if a Switch-CFW has a similar CartRefresh)

 

[quechl]

Lucky to have found this. Ordered a working in-box copy of Persona Q (the seller even had pictures of it working on the listing!) but when it arrived, it wouldn't even show up on the home screen. Interestingly, when i first opened flagship with the cart in, it did show up, which made me think it was still salvageable. I'm going to give this a shot and see if this can get my cartage up and running again. So far, its remained at 0% and is rapidly trying to refresh, but its trying to verify EXEFS, which gives me some hope that its not too far gone. I plan to leave it running for the night and check it again in the morning.

 

[yobowl]

So far it has repaired my Majora's Mask cart! Haven't been able to see if there is any other instability. But before I couldn't even get the game to load to the title screen.

Thank you!

 

[skawo]

Does it pass the verification?

 

[Rex_Mex225]

every time I try and do what was instructed, I keep hitting a wall, “The payload is invalid or corrupted”. I am on a 3ds, not xl or new, and I feel kinda dumb, help please?

 

[Kwyjor]

every time I try and do what was instructed, I keep hitting a wall, “The payload is invalid or corrupted”.

More details about exactly what you are doing would be helpful.

If I had to randomly guess, something went wrong with the file you downloaded or when you tried to copy it to your SD card.

 

[Gyndemia]

My copy of Mario and Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games wouldn't load the home menu icon unless I inserted it at a very specific angle, and even then the little animation wouldn't play- and it couldn't boot at all even if forced with FBI. But it did show up in this GM9! When running thru a fix there was a lot of "Hash mismatch" and "attempting refresh" with the occasional Chunk OK and Hash stuck. IDK what it all means, but my refresh count was about 600k at 5% and 6,500,000 by the end.. did it a few more times (3-4) which were much faster and even though it still says the "verification failed" IT'S WORKING!! Even my old save file is still there! You're a LIFESAVER I thought my cartridge was dead forever!

OK But it's infinitely loading now on the character select so I'll do the 100x thing overnight. Thank you so much!

 

[Rex_Mex225]

More details about exactly what you are doing would be helpful.

If I had to randomly guess, something went wrong with the file you downloaded or when you tried to copy it to your SD card.

I have luma on my 3ds, I download the file, move to luma/payloads, eject the sdcard, put it in my 3ds, press start and push the power button, luma loads up, I select the file, and it says “the payload is invalid or corrupted”, I’ve downloaded both versions of the file and it’s the same

 

[Kwyjor]

Even my old save file is still there!

At the risk of stating the obvious, you should back up your save data while you still can.

I have luma on my 3ds, I download the file, move to luma/payloads

To be clear, which file did you download?

In any case, if I wasn't clear, try doing it again.

 

[Rex_Mex225]

To be clear, which file did you download?

In any case, if I wasn't clear, try doing it again.

I downloaded gm_CartRefresh1.3.firm first, then the 100 one, deleted both after eace one not working and redownloaded the first, that didn’t work so then the 100, also didn’t work

 

[splaca]

I downloaded gm_CartRefresh1.3.firm first, then the 100 one, deleted both after eace one not working and redownloaded the first, that didn’t work so then the 100, also didn’t work

Are you able to launch any other payloads such as open_agb_firm or the original gm9?

 

[Rex_Mex225]

Are you able to launch any other payloads such as open_agb_firm or the original gm9?

gm9 loads fine

 

[splaca]

gm9 loads fine

Ok, that's quite puzzling to me...
I wonder if there's any reason the cartridge fixer firm has become incompatible with newer versions of Luma or something.

 

[skawo]

I have just updated luma on my own 3ds to 13.3.2 and the fixer still appears to work...

 

[SargeSmash]

Going to say thank you, had my own copy of Codename: S.T.E.A.M. go wonky, and after about 5-6 passes, it managed to pass verification. Appreciate the tool very much! (Also, it seems this game is quite problematic from what I see in other places, maybe it was a bad batch of carts?)

 

[Kwyjor]

(Also, it seems this game is quite problematic from what I see in other places, maybe it was a bad batch of carts?)

You should still be able to download the official update from the eShop, if you haven't already. Apparently it improves the game substantially.

 

[Hellblaz3r]

Does anyone know if this works on DS cartridges? Or just 3ds?