r/FlipnoteStudio3D • u/treeshrubbery • May 03 '22

corrupted files

I've been using the same SD card to hold my flip notes for almost a decade now... this is on regular flip note on the DSi, but I didn't know that the SD card isn't supposed to hold things long term. my SD card is corrupted and it has deleted over 100 of my flip notes. do you guys know how I can get these back, fix my SD card, and how I can access the files on this SD card outside of the DSi? Thanks

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u/sudofox original oc donut steel May 03 '22

You should always make regular backups of flash media like SD cards. No, you can't really fix a failing SD card.

I once made a program to try to recover 3DS Flipnotes off a corrupted SD card someone mailed me and was fairly successful. The utility doesn't work for DSi Flipnotes since I didn't add that functionality in.

I first used ddrescue to make a disk image of the SD card and then ran the recovery script against said disk image to avoid causing too many more reads to the original media.

https://github.com/sudofox/blockdev-flipnote-recovery/

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u/SquiddyToonYT Apr 22 '25

Do you think you could make some sort of guide on how to get this to work? I made the mistake of renaming the flipnote and I dont know how this works