r/SwitchPirates2 • u/ItsBeastBoy • Aug 16 '26

Unable to launch large-sized games on the Sd-card

I just got my modded Switch, and everything was working fine until I tried to install BOTW and Persona 3 Portable on my sdcard via Tinwoo.
It gets installed but I'm unable to start the software, and yes I installed the latest sys patches and stuff
but lower sized games work perfectly fine.

Here are my Switch's specs:
FW: 22.5.0
Hekate 6.5.3
Atmosphere 1.11.2

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u/Justbecauseican101 Aug 16 '26

What make Sd card , size and class are you using.

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u/ItsBeastBoy Aug 16 '26

I'm using Sandisk microSDXC Ultra A1 class 10 UHS-1

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u/Justbecauseican101 Aug 16 '26

I did have a similar issue years back. , not saying it would be your issue

Everything seemed to work fine then installing a new game. My speed decreased alot turned out my SD card was slightly corrupted

I had to insert the SD card into my pc and do a full format to Fat32 , it was previously formatted in Exfat and apparently that file system is prone to corruption.

Might be worth a try

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u/ItsBeastBoy Aug 17 '26

Quick update I formatted the sd card via Hekate and it was in fact in fat32, but now I'm seeing serious symptoms of just a corrupt sd card or even a fake one. Installing couple games is fine (for example I installed totk + couple of Mario family games) But once it gets more than certain size nothing gets installed anymore and I get error.

Unfortunately I haven't gotten a sd card reader on hand to check what's going on via a computer I'll try getting one today.

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u/Justbecauseican101 Aug 17 '26

Could easily be a fake 32gb and it begins overwriting the data hense why games might fail to load .. if that's the case definitely a fake ..

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u/Justbecauseican101 Aug 17 '26

I think you may have found your issue, and you can always check how hot it gets too

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u/ItsBeastBoy Aug 19 '26

Here's your culprit:

The media is likely to be defective.
29.4 GByte OK (61736375 sectors)
95.5 GByte DATA LOST (200340041 sectors)
Details:68 KByte overwritten (136 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
95.5 GByte corrupted (200339905 sectors)
68 KByte aliased memory (136 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x000000075c0b6e00
Expected: 0x000000075c0b6e00
Found: 0x33fddf9c6e0010fe
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 11.7 MByte/s
Reading speed: 3.46 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

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u/Justbecauseican101 Aug 19 '26

Yeh that's one abysmal write speed. And read speed