Corrupted Cartridge Fixer Release

[H0thTr0n]

So has their been a consesus yet on running this utility vs just putting the game in the 3DS and letting it sit hibernated for a day or two?

 

[skawo]

Nope, not really. Not enough data points.

 

[Ruiji]

Not sure if this is a useful datapoint:
Without having read the recent updates about sleep mode, I inserted my Persona Q cart on Friday and left my 3DS on the home screen in sleep mode up till about late Sunday. When finally I went to play it, it crashed and subsequently failed verification afterward. I did take it out of sleep mode without launching anything once or twice though. It's been a couple of tries through the corruption fixer and I'm still getting unfixable chunks, so I might leave it in sleep mode again and see if anything changes tomorrow.

Also, the results screen text appears to be flipped? On the first run through, the result right before it completed was shown as
Unfixable chunks: 177
Fixed chunks: 571

But the results screen gave
Unfixable chunks: 571
Fixed chunks: 177

 

[skawo]

Ah, yeah, whoops. Will fix that.

 

[Ruiji]

As a follow up, I was getting about ~50 unfixable chunks in the same areas in the last few runs of fixing I did, so I was gonna give up for the night. However, I did notice for some of the stuck hashes the expected and current hash were the same, and so I decided to try verifying again just in case something did change. The cart successfully verified with both regular GM9 and the fork several times after that.

This was on 1.91, so not sure if the expected/current hash mismatch bug is still around or if it's something else.

 

[Lictor000]

Useless update with a follow up question.
I verified all my collection succesfully, including games on the notorious list unused for many years.

Does this problem affects differently games from different regions? I'm from Europe.

 

[Phillipo]

I recently bought a second hand copy of Pokemon Omega Ruby that turned out to have this cartridge corruption issue.
I downloaded your tool to see if I can resolve it but it was never able to get past the first chunk. I thought the game was completely gone tbh. When using your tool, the icon for the 3ds files were very corrupt, and when dumped the game icon was just a black square with no text. Opening it would just crash the 3DS.
However, I decided to leave the game on the home screen and on standby. Now the icon for the 3ds files are looking normal, and the game appears on the home screen like normal. Currently it cannot be launched, but I would imagine another week or two on standby may actually fix it.

One thing I also noticed after leaving it on standby is that your tool now hangs after the first refresh. Not exactly sure why, and it never did that before, but now it just hangs. I will have to keep and eye on it to see what is going on with that