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Re: Contra
« Reply #90 on: January 01, 2011, 02:32:54 pm »
Bad news: I managed to corrupt my archive, and now all my groups are gone (Contra, XDE, PapiJump, Ultimate Falldown, AACalc II, and at least six others project groups). No backups. It's all gone :'(

And right after I added enemy AI and aiming. It's gonna take a while to build it all up again.

EDIT: First day of 2011. Bad, bad sign.
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Re: Contra
« Reply #91 on: January 01, 2011, 02:50:45 pm »
So you're continuing it, still right?

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Re: Contra
« Reply #92 on: January 01, 2011, 02:52:11 pm »
I'm putting everythhing off for a bit just in case someone knows a way to uncorrupt an archive...




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Re: Contra
« Reply #93 on: January 01, 2011, 02:52:17 pm »
That's terrible Deep, very bad to hear. Hope you can remember most of the code and rebuild it ;D

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Re: Contra
« Reply #94 on: January 01, 2011, 03:10:53 pm »
I'm putting everythhing off for a bit just in case someone knows a way to uncorrupt an archive...
* fb39ca4 bangs head against the wall because another person neglected to make backups
The only way I could think of is to use a nand programmer to get a dump of the archive, and save what you can.
Hope you can pick stuff up later.
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Re: Contra
« Reply #95 on: January 01, 2011, 04:36:27 pm »
Yeah, backups are very important.  I wonder if there's a way to auto-backup stuff on insertion into a computer or something.

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Re: Contra
« Reply #96 on: January 01, 2011, 05:51:31 pm »
Oh dear D: Thats horrible, no backups on the computer from when you made screenshots?

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Re: Contra
« Reply #97 on: January 01, 2011, 06:07:28 pm »
Oh dear D: Thats horrible, no backups on the computer from when you made screenshots?

Only the compiled program :( And that was before I rewrote the engine. The code was twice as large as the stuff I had after I rewrote everything.




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Re: Contra
« Reply #98 on: January 01, 2011, 06:09:51 pm »
Yikes D: Thats horrible, do you have calcsys on your calc right now?

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Re: Contra
« Reply #99 on: January 01, 2011, 06:11:58 pm »
Yeah. I've never used it to mess with flash, though. And there are at least 11 project groups I want to recover right now :( And worse, since I always delete old copies of groups, there are now dozens of copies of a group called CON in my flash...
« Last Edit: January 01, 2011, 06:12:40 pm by Deep Thought »




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Re: Contra
« Reply #100 on: January 01, 2011, 06:18:04 pm »
Yikes, i don't know how to help with this :( Maybe if there is some way to make a copy of your flash onto the computer we can manipulate it more easy, but i don't want to risk destroying anything, so don't archive anything O.O

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Re: Contra
« Reply #101 on: January 01, 2011, 06:22:02 pm »
Too late, Mirage already made two copies of the appvar MirageOS in my archive. Only 84 bytes total, though, so it shouldn't corrupt too much...

Some people suggested copying my flash to a file, though. I'll try that, but since I'm pretty new to flash stuff, can an advanced ASMer give me some explanation on how to do that? I don't want to mess up my calculator more :(




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Re: Contra
« Reply #102 on: January 01, 2011, 06:23:12 pm »
You might want to talk to brandon willson or ben ryves, they are both pretty experienced with unbricking calcs and otherwise restoring good things to order.

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Re: Contra
« Reply #103 on: January 01, 2011, 06:30:55 pm »
Okay, thanks, I'll email him. Hopefully I can get at least this project out all right :-\




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Re: Contra
« Reply #104 on: January 01, 2011, 08:01:35 pm »
This sucks :/, I wish you had an easy way to regularly transfer files on the computer. I wonder if the stuff can be recovered? Someone might know how

When you perform a ROM dump with TiLP, does it includes the archive content like Virtual TI? If so, maybe someone could analyze the ROM data and grab your files?

I hope you don't kill this project, though...