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The 3DS employs a wear leveling scheme on the savegame FLASH chips. This is done through the usage of blockmaps and a journal. The blockmap is located at offset 0 of the flash chip, and is immediately followed by the journal. The initial state is dictated by the blockmap, and the journal is then applied to that.
The 3DS employs a wear leveling scheme on the savegame FLASH chips. This is done through the usage of blockmaps and a journal. The blockmap is located at offset 0 of the flash chip, and is immediately followed by the journal. The initial state is dictated by the blockmap, and the journal is then applied to that.
−First, there are 8 bytes whose purposes are currently unknown. Then comes the blockmap.
+First, there are 8 bytes whose purposes are currently unknown. Then comes the actual blockmap.
The blockmap structure is simple:
The blockmap structure is simple:
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