Revision as of 20:19, 24 May 2025

3DS Titles disappeared from Home Menu

Note: This issue does not affect anything installed as DSiWare, including TwilightMenu++ and games forwarded via nds-forwarder.

On the 3DS, Go to `System Settings → Data Management` results in...

Titles with gray X's on them: install and run Faketik
Titles appear listed normally, but still missing from Home Menu: use Chalanged's gm9 title fixer per their guide or go to the Nintendo Homebrew Discord and use the `.tag missingtitles` command. Follow along as instructed.
Note: When the 3DS finds missing or corrupted data in the titles folder, it refuses to load the whole folder. the easy solution is to remove said missing or corrupted data. the hard part is finding the data. The gm9 script and the discord command do just that. The file the bot asks you to upload, 'title.txt', is a list of all the files and folders in the titles folder. this allows the bot to look for any folders that are missing files so you may delete them, which usually brings everything back. However, the title in question is presumably inaccessible and needs to be reinstalled.
Error Message asking to reset: rebuild your Title Database.
A bunch of question marks or black boxes, or data management is empty and your theme is gone: Your SD Card is likely corrupted. Backup the contents of your SD Card to a computer or phone, reformat the SD Card, then test its integrity.

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 <blockquote>Note: This issue does not affect anything installed as DSiWare, including TwilightMenu++ and games forwarded via nds-forwarder.</blockquote>
 ==On the 3DS, Go to `System Settings → Data Management` results in...==
-*Titles with gray X's on them, install and run [[3DS:Faketik|Faketik]]
+*'''Titles with gray X's on them:''' install and run [[3DS:Faketik|Faketik]]
-*Titles appear listed normally, but still missing from Home Menu: use [https://github.com/chalenged/gm9-title-fixer Chalanged's gm9 title fixer] or go to the [https://discord.gg/MWxPgEp Official Nintendo Homebrew Discord] and use the `.tag missingtitles` command. Follow along as instructed.<blockquote>Note: When the 3DS finds missing or corrupted data in the titles folder, it refuses to load the whole folder. the easy solution is to remove said missing or corrupted data. the hard part is finding the data. The gm9 script and the discord command do just that. The `title.txt` looks for any folders that are missing files and tells the user to delete them, which usually brings everything back. However, the title in question is presumably inaccessible and needs to be reinstalled.</blockquote>
+*'''Titles appear listed normally, but still missing from Home Menu''': use [https://github.com/chalenged/gm9-title-fixer Chalanged's gm9 title fixer] per [[User:Chalenged/sandbox|their guide]] or go to the [https://discord.gg/MWxPgEp Nintendo Homebrew Discord] and use the `.tag missingtitles` command. Follow along as instructed.<blockquote>Note: When the 3DS finds missing or corrupted data in the titles folder, it refuses to load the whole folder. the easy solution is to remove said missing or corrupted data. the hard part is finding the data. The gm9 script and the discord command do just that.  The file the bot asks you to upload, 'title.txt', is a list of all the files and folders in the titles folder. this allows the bot to  look for any folders that are missing files so you may delete them, which usually brings everything back. However, the title in question is presumably inaccessible and needs to be reinstalled.</blockquote>
-*Error Message asking to reset: [[3DS:Rebuild title database|rebuild your Title Database]].
+*'''Error Message asking to reset''': [[3DS:Rebuild title database|rebuild your Title Database]].
-*A bunch of question marks or black boxes, or data management is empty and your theme is gone: Your SD Card is likely corrupted. Backup the contents of your SD Card to a computer or phone, [https://3ds.hacks.guide/formatting-sd-(windows) reformat the SD Card], then [https://3ds.hacks.guide/h2testw-(windows).html test its integrity].
+*'''A bunch of question marks or black boxes, or data management is empty and your theme is gone''': Your SD Card is likely corrupted. Backup the contents of your SD Card to a computer or phone, [https://3ds.hacks.guide/formatting-sd-(windows) reformat the SD Card], then [https://3ds.hacks.guide/h2testw-(windows).html test its integrity].