I was playing yesterday and had to force reset the wii, cause it just freezed when snes9xRX was loading that huge ass MSU-1 Mario game. After that folders started to disappear. And i ended with a few '''''.'''' files on the HDD. The HDD still holds all the data as it says its only has 7 GB free. It's a FAT32 formatted drive, I'm wondering if there is a way to recover it. Crystal says the driver is healthy so i don't think its a hardware problem.
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You could try " get data back" software or something similar but I'm not sure how successful you'll be. I had something similar happen to me a long time ago, I ended up losing my data. Thankfully I had a recent backup I was able to restore
Apologies for the thread necro, but I had a very similar incident yesterday.
I was using Snes9x*GX* and it froze on its pause menu. After rebooting the Wii, the (FAT32 32k) hard drive had been overwritten. There was a (new) single file with a non-roman single-character filename in the root of the drive. There was also still a nands folder, but not the one the drive started with - this one had almost nothing in it. Everything else that used to be on the drive was missing. The used/free space as read by Windows indicated the original files were still there/not deleted properly.
After putting the drive through Windows' built in repair, it found a malformed volume called StarOcean-something (the game that was running in Snes9xGX during the freeze). Basically, it looks like a problem with SNES9xGX can lead to catastrophic drive overwrites. I've found other threads hinting at the issue, they appear to blame libogc and/or power loss to the drive during Wii reboots (for drives like mine that are powered from the Wii).
I'm looking very askance at using these emulators anymore, I may switch to Retroarch plugins in Wiiflow for SNES and NES. FCEUGX and SNES9XGX both use the "standard" pause menu (does this come from libogc?) and both freeze on that pause menu fairly frequently. The chance they're also going to wipe my hard drive again is just not acceptable.
I was using Snes9x*GX* and it froze on its pause menu. After rebooting the Wii, the (FAT32 32k) hard drive had been overwritten. There was a (new) single file with a non-roman single-character filename in the root of the drive. There was also still a nands folder, but not the one the drive started with - this one had almost nothing in it. Everything else that used to be on the drive was missing. The used/free space as read by Windows indicated the original files were still there/not deleted properly.
After putting the drive through Windows' built in repair, it found a malformed volume called StarOcean-something (the game that was running in Snes9xGX during the freeze). Basically, it looks like a problem with SNES9xGX can lead to catastrophic drive overwrites. I've found other threads hinting at the issue, they appear to blame libogc and/or power loss to the drive during Wii reboots (for drives like mine that are powered from the Wii).
I'm looking very askance at using these emulators anymore, I may switch to Retroarch plugins in Wiiflow for SNES and NES. FCEUGX and SNES9XGX both use the "standard" pause menu (does this come from libogc?) and both freeze on that pause menu fairly frequently. The chance they're also going to wipe my hard drive again is just not acceptable.
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Thanks for sharing and sorry this happened to you. What version of the emulator(s) were u using? Recent? Old? Somewhere in between?
Fairly recent, the offending software was Snes9xGX 4.4.8 from last June. I boot SNES via Wiiflow plugin so that may be using a different version of the emulator (?) but the plugin pack I'm using is also at least that recent.
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yall im torn... ive been hacking away at tales of phantasia GBA (the USA version) and have so many documents of reverse engineering i've done -
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I just found out that the EU version is better in literally every way, better sound quality, better lighting, and there's even a patch someone made to make the text look nicer
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Do I restart now using what i've learned on the EU version since it's a better overall experience? or do I continue with the US version since that is what ive been using, and if someone decides to play my hack, it would most likely be that version?
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@TwoSpikedHands, I'll preface this with the fact that I know nothing about the game, but, I think it depends on what your goals are. Are you trying to make a definitive version of the game? You may want to refocus your efforts on the EU version then. Or, are you trying to make a better US version? In which case, the only way to make a better US version is to keep on plugging away at that one
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I'm not familiar with the technicalities of the differences between the two versions, but I'm wondering if at least some of those differences are things that you could port over to the US version in your patch without having to include copyrighted assets from the EU version
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@Sicklyboy I am wanting to fully change the game and bend it to my will lol. I would like to eventually have the ability to add more characters, enemies, even have a completely different story if i wanted. I already have the ability to change the tilemaps in the US version, so I can basically make my own map and warp to it in game - so I'm pretty far into it!
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I really would like to make a hack that I would enjoy playing, and maybe other people would too. swapping to the EU version would also mean my US friends could not legally play it
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I am definitely considering porting over some of the EU features without using the actual ROM itself, tbh that would probably be the best way to go about it... but i'm sad that the voice acting is so.... not good on the US version. May not be a way around that though
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do y'all think having an sd card that has a write speed of 700kb/s is a bad idea?
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@The Real Jdbye it hasn't given me any error trying to write things on it so I don't really think it's faulty (pasted 40/50gb+ folders and no write errors)
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when SD cards/microSD write speeds drop below a meg a sec, they're usually on the verge of dying
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when SD cards/microSD write speeds drop below a meg a sec, they're usually on the verge of dying