Gaming My AC:NL copy doesn't work anymore. What should i do??

[LNLenost]

hey there!
yesterday i took my 3ds and tried to play Animal Crossing New Leaf, but when the message "Preparing your town" appears, it loads or like one second and then my 3ds crashes. I aslo tried to use the other villager in my island but same thing. What should i do? i tried literally everything i could found on this website and on Reddit.
tysm!


(i attach my save files)

 

[Kwyjor]

i tried literally everything i could found on this website and on Reddit.

Why don't you actually say exactly what you tried? Because if you "tried everything" there's absolutely no point in suggesting anything, now is there?

 

[CoolMe]

So it was working before and it just stopped? What makes you think it's the cartridge's at fault here? And you didn't mess around with the save, use plugins or cheats in the game?
You're not having any issues with other games?
Iirc AC uses the extdata, so if it's damaged (due to a corrupted sd card) it wouldn't let you load the save. This is just a probable scenario, not saying that's exactly what happened in your case.
Also, what error? an Arm11 error?

 

[LNLenost]

i tried making a new game file and put the secure value in the old gamefile but it doesnt work. ()
then i tried to find the secure value with an old backup that i had via marc robledo and put it in the old file, but nothing. ()

 

[CoolMe]

You're not answering any of our questions..

 

[LNLenost]

So it was working before and it just stopped? What makes you think it's the cartridge's at fault here? And you didn't mess around with the save, use plugins or cheats in the game?
You're not having any issues with other games?
Iirc AC uses the extdata, so if it's damaged (due to a corrupted sd card) it wouldn't let you load the save. This is just a probable scenario, not saying that's exactly what happened in your case.
Also, what error? an Arm11 error?

yup i used Vapecord plugin and LeafEdit long time ago. the matter it is that, when i saved, everything went fine. i didnt turned off the 3ds while saving, i turned it off when the title screen appeared and the battery as at about 80 percent.

other times when i used vapecord and saved nothing happened, when loading it all want fine.

its a transaltion error btw

Post automatically merged: Jun 12, 2023

You're not answering any of our questions..

i was typing

i tried again, in this case it didnt crashed but the screen is stuck and the music is looped in the background.
i have digital and cardrige version btw, in this case the digital one.

 

[CoolMe]

its a transaltion error btw

Is that what it says in the error message?
Anyway, does the save editing tool have a option to verify the integrity of the save?
Was the digital version made from your cartridge or did you download it?
Also, not sure if the save is dependent on the plugin now that you edited it, but it's something to keep in mind.

 

[LNLenost]

It says only "Translation"
I downloaded it from hShop
No option to verify, but before it worked perfectly fine with LeafEdit.

 

[CoolMe]

It says only "Translation"
I downloaded it from hShop
No option to verify, but before it worked perfectly fine with LeafEdit.

There's nothing to do if your save is damaged. If you want to erase the save and start from scratch it's easy to do so, or if you want to restore a non edited save.

 

[LNLenost]

I have some recent backups. Do u think i can do something to restore the save file? I also contacted Nintendo Support

 

[Kwyjor]

I also contacted Nintendo Support

They're not going to have the foggiest idea what to do.

Does ACNL still work correctly if you start a new game? It's not clear from your posts.

 

[LNLenost]

Yup, i copied the old gamefiles on my pc then started a new game to get the secure value on the og files. It all worked fine.

Post automatically merged: Jun 13, 2023

I just saw this thread of a guy who has my same problem. He said uninstalling and reinstalling version 1.5 of AC:NL:WA worked for him. Do you think it will be the same 4 me?

P.S the weird fact is that the last 3 or 4 times that i played i didnt use any cheats such as Vapecord or LeafEdit

 

[Kwyjor]

So: the game still works fine, and there are no problems loading up your save data in the map editor, but you just get a crash when you try to load it, is that right?

One obvious solution is to start deleting things in the map editor and see if the crashes stop happening when something in particular is deleted.

 

[LNLenost]

nope, in the marc robledo editor it says its invalid.

 

[Kwyjor]

I thought you said it worked perfectly fine with LeafEdit?

 

[LNLenost]

Nope

 

[LNLenost]

I dont need a ChatGPT answer, i need a real answer.

 

[Kwyjor]

Nope

But before you said:

No option to verify, but before it worked perfectly fine with LeafEdit.

I don't know what you're expecting at this point? If none of the save game editors can open it, the file might not contain valid data at all. Is it even approximately the same size as other save data?

You could conceivably download the source code for the save game editors and determine exactly how far they get before determining that the data is not valid, but you'll have to know something about programming in that case.

 

[LNLenost]

Before the crash, i was clear.

btw, yep it keeps the same size.

Post automatically merged: Jun 14, 2023

Here its a photo of the crash

Post automatically merged: Jun 15, 2023

I tried ur suggestion, LeafEdit logs say that cant load the rail crossing because (somehow) its missing, so imma open a new thread where i ask for some garden_plus files, i confront them, and then replace the corrupted line on the old file with the other users' one.

What do u think?

 

[lone_wolf323]

So. what exactly did you modify using the plugins before the game started showing those errors?