same thing happened to me with yoki watch making me think it was defective, im most suprised it booted on a nonhacked 3ds due to the sigchecksFrom my tested games, only Smash Bros. had these problems, the game card alone would boot to black and with the updates installed it would boot but crash on the tutorial video and load infinitely on various of the game modes.
Using the tool fixed it and seems to be working fine again as is or with the updates installed, had quite a few of mismatched blocks, but also a lot of good ones.
The game card is the first version from the launch of the game (1.0 without updates on the game card) with the 8.1.0 update.
I backed the save file up but I'm not sure if it would be corrupted or not.
ive been running this off and on, yeah this cartridge might be to far gone (got this around 2017 to 2018, sealed and it was like this, idfk how it booted far enough that i have a save, i just brute forced to the point where i could get to the part that you get the yoki watch, now all i get is a cartridge can not be read error trying to boot it), though im still curious about how the sigcheck passedsame thing happened to me with yoki watch making me think it was defective, im most suprised it booted on a nonhacked 3ds due to the sigchecks
yeah that might be worth it, the manual folder is just gone, ill look into getting someone else to do it as i don't have a steady handHuh, interesting.
I guess it just gets stuck on the EXEFS section forever?
It'd be worth checking if there isn't a physical defect in this case and reflowing the chip pins if you're able to.
Update: I entered an online race and it seems that a few issues still exist but the bug I mentioned is goneMario Kart 7 as doing a thing where it was crashing by highlighting Banana Cup in the course selector. I wanted to play CTGP-7 but it kept crashing. The CTGP-7 staff recommended this tool. Here is what I would like to say:
It fixed the issue! Thanks.
It hasnt crashed a second time yet. If it does crash again, then maybe I will run the proceedures again and try again for fixingTry running it again, this time maybe while holding SELECT when selecting the option - it sometimes takes a couple runs for all the fixes to actually stick.
You can run the "Verify..." option from the same menu to check if everything has been fixed.
Almost all flash cards uses their own storage for bootloader and then uses external SD card for firmware so no affected by the decay of original carts memory type. So no. They aren't affected.Do you think this would be necessary to use on a Sky3DS+ (and other 3DS flashcarts)? My assumption is no since they're loading from SD cards, but I think the firmware for these carts requires an internal NAND. Don't know if this tool accesses that.
Continued update: Just came back from a break, played for 10-20 minutes, and crashed again. Should I run the thing again? (It crashes every hour or so is my guess)It hasnt crashed a second time yet. If it does crash again, then maybe I will run the proceedures again and try again for fixing