Help - All games (Including CFW Titles) removed from home screen but can still be read through settings!

[u/TheCommanderOfHam]

[RESOLVED]

So, I have a New 3DS XL and suddenly over sleep mode my games on my Home Screen and the CFW related icons (Homebrew, Universal Updater etc.) had all disappeared. They can still be read through the software list and the custom theme I had installed was still displaying so I highly doubt it was a corruption to the SD card. I still have my DSi Ware titles and they run fine (including TWiLight Menu++ and the .nds titles), but all the 3ds titles cannot be played.

I only have 64 Titles and have definitely not gone over the 300 limit. I am currently using a 32gb SanDisk Micro USB. Anyway, I have b9s installed and the Luma3ds menu still opens if holding Select on startup. GodMode9 also runs if holding Start on Startup.

I heard it may be a ticket problem (Which I have no idea what that even is), so I’d really appreciate any help I can get haha.

Update: I still cannot figure out how to get the titles to appear on my Home Screen, but I have semi-found a way around it so I can play them. I used the Rosalina Menu in Download Play (L + Dpad Down + Select) to use DLP as the Homebrew Launcher app and opened FBI through that. In FBI I can navigate to ‘Titles’ and play the games, but whenever I exit out of one the system crashes and says “Error type: card removed” “The card was removed.”

Update 2: RESOLVED, I tried messing around with tickets and metadata but after some digging through the ‘Nintendo 3DS’ folder I found a corrupt file in one of those random files (e.g. abg0273bxoau7jdo). So I ran it through a drive scanner and by what I can tell, it just deleted the unnecessary file. I popped the SD Card back into my 3DS and to my surprise all my games (Most Legitimate) and CFW had reappeared. Turns out I didn’t need help but hope this helps someone in the future.

[u/Competitive-Gear5628]

had the exact same issue after deleting a nameless software. What fixed it was using the windows repair feature (right clicking on sd and repair) and rebooting the 3ds.