Hacking SD keeps crashing/erroring out

[TurdPooCharger]

I have a copy of Zelda NES VC, I can't see the title but it plays fine. Some CIAs have region unknown, don't have covers, etc. This hasn't seemed to effect usage, as the ones that have messed up on my system, show proper cover title region and all. Not sure how relevant that might be.

This sounds like you got some *.3DS converted to *.CIA roms where their region codes were incorrectly set to region-free. Depending if that game was released in multiple regions, a game that works but is missing the HOME Menu banner is due to never having a unique banner for that wrong region.

See if dumping the game back into CIA and reinstalling corrects the game's real region and banner.

• GodMode9 Usage - Dumping a Title

Be warned that reinstalling a game CIA will permanently overwrite and delete its savedata. Make sure to backup all the saves + extdata with Checkpoint, JKSM, and/or GBAVCSM before trying the CIA dump & reinstall (or resort to the previously mentioned Path (B) that does that anyhow).

Alright I'm rebuilding my collection, unfortunately Rescuva is either a fake program or file recovery is much different than I had already experienced.

I find Recuva a hit or miss. It works well recovering deleted files from something like a RAW *.bin image mounted FAT/16/32 partition; not so much successful directly scanning an SD card or hard drive.

After rescuing my files I looked over what was recovered. I had some Wii HB icons, APK icons, etc. That I genuinely had on that HDD. I also found files like the default screensavers from Vista/7 on there, some intact PDFs about IP/MAC filtering, XSX and other office files, etc. None of that was mine, I know 100% I don't keep those types of files.

It literally gave me free files from somewhere other than My HDD. Idk about you guys, I don't keep office files on my HDD, I sure as hell don't keep default screensavers and wallpaper, especially from Vista/7.

Do you have Windows boot camp installed your Mac? That might explain these files coming up. Maybe the hard drive was previously used on a Windows laptop?

You'll have better luck using the paid versions of those software from that List of data recovery programs. Since it seems you're already familiar in how to go about looking for 3DS & CIA roms on your own, just apply those same skill sets when finding those other goodies. Good luck!

 

[moto4mods]

This sounds like you got some *.3DS converted to *.CIA roms where their region codes were incorrectly set to region-free. Depending if that game was released in multiple regions, a game that works but is missing the HOME Menu banner is due to never having a unique banner for that wrong region.

See if dumping the game back into CIA and reinstalling corrects the game's real region and banner.

• GodMode9 Usage - Dumping a Title

Be warned that reinstalling a game CIA will permanently overwrite and delete its savedata. Make sure to backup all the saves + extdata with Checkpoint, JKSM, and/or GBAVCSM before trying the CIA dump & reinstall (or resort to the previously mentioned Path (B) that does that anyhow).


I find Recuva a hit or miss. It works well recovering deleted files from something like a RAW *.bin image mounted FAT/16/32 partition; not so much successful directly scanning an SD card or hard drive.


Do you have Windows boot camp installed your Mac? That might explain these files coming up. Maybe the hard drive was previously used on a Windows laptop?

You'll have better luck using the paid versions of those software from that List of data recovery programs. Since it seems you're already familiar in how to go about looking for 3DS & CIA roms on your own, just apply those same skill sets when finding those other goodies. Good luck!

All the games I had legit copies of, were from friends that dumped the cart to CIA, the downloaded ROMs I don't know. The one missing the banner was downloaded directly from a new FREESHOP alternative I found in a subreddit, so it's legitimacy is questionable.

I don't personally own any carts, I haven't yet spent a dime on media to consume. Not a movie ticket disc download stream sub or cartridge. So there's 0 chance of using GM9 to help me, unless it's for already .3ds format files.

I don't use Mac hardware or software, only the HDD was Mac, the rest is HP Intel Microsoft and GNU.

I have used the drive exclusively for storing pirated content along with Homebrew for the systems who's content I pirated, I know with 100% certainty that the majority of the files "rescued" to my drive were generated somehow, as I haven't had a copy of Vista/7 for over 2 years, well before purchasing this drive directly out of a new Mac. My music and movies were gone, elf's for Wii were gone, only some pictures.

Once more, there were intact files on my drive, that never were on my drive to begin with. I know this because what was found in the HDD predates the purchase (and subsequent 7-pass wipe) of the HDD. I NEVER stored wallpapers, MS Office documents (I don't even use office one little bit), default screensavers, .TIF files which idk what those are, documentation for MAC/IP filtering, recycle bin and System Volume folders from windows ON EXT4 FORMATTED DRIVE.

edit: the EXT4 was a USB I tested to see what it would recover, I didn't think it should recover anything because it was EXT4 > FAT32 then rescue. Sure enough, more windows files from a newly formatted drive with a couple movies