ReStory Chill Electronics Repairs Firmware Update Guide

If a firmware update keeps failing, check your game version first. There was a genuine firmware bug affecting the Guitar Legend and the MyPod, and the developers fixed it in patch v1.0.009r on 11 August 2026. On anything older than that build, the failure was not your mistake.

The confirmed bug timeline

This is drawn from the official Steam announcements, which give the clearest record of what was broken and when.

• 7 August 2026 — a Known Issues post acknowledged problems reported after launch.
• 11 August 2026 — patch v1.0.009r shipped and explicitly listed a fix for the firmware update bug affecting the Guitar Legend and the MyPod.
• 13 August 2026 — patch v1.0.010r made no further mention of firmware.

That last point is useful negative evidence: if the fix had not held, firmware would very likely have reappeared in the next patch notes. Players on current builds who still fail should look at the checks below rather than assume the bug is back.

Check your build number first

Before troubleshooting anything in-game, confirm which version you are running. If you are below v1.0.009r, update the game — that single step resolves the most widely reported firmware failure.

This matters because a large amount of community advice was written during the window when the bug was live. Guidance from that period may describe workarounds for a problem that no longer exists.

The basic update sequence

Firmware work sits inside the normal repair loop rather than beside it. You cannot update a device that is not yet in a serviceable state.

1. Complete the physical repair so the device powers on reliably.
2. Connect the device for servicing.
3. Run the update.
4. Re-run the device test to confirm the update actually applied.

Running the test before the update, or not at all, is a common source of confusion — you end up reading a stale result and concluding the update failed when it did not.

The unlock you may be missing

Community 100% guides describe a toolkit unlock as the prerequisite for the firmware-related work. If the firmware option is not appearing at all, the question is usually whether you have obtained that unlock yet, rather than whether the update itself is broken.

This is a different failure mode from an update that starts and then fails, and it is worth distinguishing before you troubleshoot further.

When an update still fails

Work through these in order rather than jumping to the last one:

• Confirm the build number. Anything before v1.0.009r predates the fix.
• Confirm the physical repair is genuinely finished. A device with an unresolved hardware fault is not in a state to accept an update.
• Confirm the device is properly connected. A partial connection tends to present as an update failure rather than a clear connection error.
• Re-run the test after updating, so you are reading current state.

What the community fix mods reveal

Two mods on Nexus address firmware failures, built on different loaders — one on BepInEx, the other on MelonLoader. Their descriptions attribute the original failure to missing data combined with the device not being recognised, which matches the error behaviour players reported.

That explanation is useful for understanding what went wrong even if you never install them. On a current game build you should not need either, and mods carry the standing risk of breaking with any patch. See the mods guide for installation basics.

Which devices were affected

The two devices named in the official patch notes are the Guitar Legend and the MyPod. Community reports during the bug window centred on the same pair.

Whether other devices were affected by the same underlying issue is not established in the sources gathered. If you are hitting failures on a different device on a current build, that is worth reporting rather than assuming it is the same bug.

Firmware versus hacking

There is an in-game hacking or reprogramming activity that involves a minigame, and it is frequently discussed alongside firmware updates. Community descriptions mention a key-tapping minigame in this context.

待确认: Whether firmware updating and the hacking/reprogramming system are the same underlying mechanic or two separate systems is genuinely unclear from the sources gathered. Treat any guide that states this confidently with caution — the two get conflated constantly.

Still stuck on a current build

If you are on v1.0.009r or later, the repair is complete, the device is connected, and the update still fails, you are outside what the collected sources explain. The official Discord and the Steam discussions are the places where this kind of report gets picked up, and both have active firmware threads.

Reddit's ReStory community also carries threads on firmware problems persisting after the update, which are worth reading before concluding your case is unique.

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待确认: The exact connection step for each device type is not clearly documented in any source we have been able to verify. The relationship between firmware updates and the hacking minigame is likewise unresolved, as is whether devices beyond the Guitar Legend and MyPod were affected by the original bug.