Hacking Homebrew Misc New games don't work now, apparently...

[Bidoof_Pegs]

Sorry about posting this issue again, but I haven't been able to strike any real reason or issue as to why this keeps happening.
I posted earlier that games like Mario Party Jamboree and Echoes of Wisdom either don't start up, or start up with notable glitches and issues respectively. I thought this was just an issue with newer games, but now I'm realizing that not a single game is working on my switch when downloaded on Tinfoil or DBI Installer.
At least, any new game I download isn't working.
Games already installed on my switch work fine. It's anything freshly downloaded, old or new, that aren't able to start up and I have no clue what I'm supposed to do.
If anyone can help that'd be great. I updated my Switch, Hekate, Atmosphere, and the newest sigpatches. My SD Card has been formatted to FAT32 and I am completely lost as to the reason or problem.

 

[thesjaakspoiler]

We need some more information.
- are you using a partition based emummc or a file based emummc?
- how big is your sd card?
- how much free space do you have?
- does installing a game on your internal memory (either sysnand or emummc) work?
- do you use overlays, cheat modules or something additional besides Hekate/Atmosphere?

If you have a 1TB card that was a bargain on Amazon/eBay or it had even a fairly good price, then maybe it's a fake one.
Such card work fine until you put too much on them.

 

[Bidoof_Pegs]

We need some more information.
- are you using a partition based emummc or a file based emummc?
- how big is your sd card?
- how much free space do you have?
- does installing a game on your internal memory (either sysnand or emummc) work?
- do you use overlays, cheat modules or something additional besides Hekate/Atmosphere?

If you have a 1TB card that was a bargain on Amazon/eBay or it had even a fairly good price, then maybe it's a fake one.
Such card work fine until you put too much on them.

Sorry for the wait lemme try to answer these...
- I’m not sure what you mean by that. I have android partioned on my Switch but have no idea how to take it off. (Another problem I want to solve.)
- It’s a Samsung 256 GB SD Card (I made sure it wasn’t a fake.
- I have around 8 GB free on my internal storage and I think 48 GB of space on my SD Card, though I don’t think space is the issue. I’ve filled ny card to the brim and it’s never affected game downloads.
- I usually install games through fussee.bin because Tinfoil only works on there. Though I get the same results no matter the CFW I load.
- I’m again nto sure what you mean by overlays, if you mean themes then no I uninstalled them again because FSS0 SYS fails to load if you don’t delete them.

That’s everything to my knowledge tbh. I think I’m going to try and remake the prod.keys using Lockpick. I think they might be outdated, but it’s a hail mary really. Let me know if this helps!

 

[notsu]

I have my Echoes cart installed and it works just fine.

 

[Bidoof_Pegs]

I have my Echoes cart installed and it works just fine.

Yeah, well this isn’t working for me for some reason. I just need help figuring it out.

 

[Hestia-sama]

Why dont you update the firmware and the sig patches.

 

[thesjaakspoiler]

Ok, so I think we can exclude the SD card as the cause of the problems.

Sometimes copying the latest Hekate, Atmosphere folders over the existing folders does give problems because of older files that remain.
Sometimes this just solves the problem.

Note that there are sigpatches for Atmosphere and sigpatches Hekate.
The sigpatches for Hekate are in a single file that needs to go to the bootloader folder.
Atmosphere sigpatches are in 2 different folders that you need to copy into the Atmosphere folder.

- I’m not sure what you mean by that. I have android partioned on my Switch but have no idea how to take it off. (Another problem I want to solve.)

There are 3 ways to run a CFW :
1. use the internal memory (usually called sysnand)
2. use a file that contains a copy of the internal memory (this is called a file-based emuMMC).
3. use a partition on the SD card that contains a copy of he internal memory (this is called a partition-based emuMMC).
If you have a big 32GB file somewhere on your SD card, then likely you are using option 2.
If you have a 32GB parition besides your Android and 'normal' user partition, then likely you're using option 3.
If you boot Hekate and only have a boot SysNand option (besides a Stock SysNand), then you likely are using option 1.

I would deal with the Android partition later because that should have no effect on you Switch games not working.
You need to remove the Android partition and extend the 'normal' user partition.
There are utils for the PC that can do that but do make abfull backup of the SD card.
It's easy to break things.

 

[Lumince]

Did you try running fix archive bit in hekate?

 

[Bidoof_Pegs]

Did you try running fix archive bit in hekate?

No I haven't actually! Kemme see if that helps.

Post automatically merged: Oct 29, 2024

Why dont you update the firmware and the sig patches.

I have, though I think I have the latest version of both CFW and the Sig patches

Post automatically merged: Oct 29, 2024

This is what the problem looks like btw, happening with Sonic X Shadow Generations now