diff --git a/fuzzgen/src/main/kotlin/software/amazon/smithy/rust/codegen/fuzz/FuzzHarnessBuildPlugin.kt b/fuzzgen/src/main/kotlin/software/amazon/smithy/rust/codegen/fuzz/FuzzHarnessBuildPlugin.kt
index fd804e811e..d098e30dcf 100644
--- a/fuzzgen/src/main/kotlin/software/amazon/smithy/rust/codegen/fuzz/FuzzHarnessBuildPlugin.kt
+++ b/fuzzgen/src/main/kotlin/software/amazon/smithy/rust/codegen/fuzz/FuzzHarnessBuildPlugin.kt
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ class FuzzHarnessBuildPlugin : SmithyBuildPlugin {
                 target
             }
 
+        println("creating the driver...")
         createDriver(model, context.fileManifest, fuzzSettings)
 
         targets.forEach {
@@ -133,11 +134,12 @@ fun corpus(
     val protocolTests = operations.flatMap { it.getTrait<HttpRequestTestsTrait>()?.testCases ?: listOf() }
     val out = ArrayNode.builder()
     protocolTests.forEach { testCase ->
+        println(testCase.bodyMediaType)
         val body: List<NumberNode> =
             when (testCase.bodyMediaType.orNull()) {
                 "application/cbor" -> {
-                    println("base64 decoding first")
-                    Base64.getDecoder().decode(testCase.body.orNull())?.map { NumberNode.from(it) }
+                    println("base64 decoding first (v2)")
+                    Base64.getDecoder().decode(testCase.body.orNull())?.map { NumberNode.from(it.toUByte().toInt()) }
                 }
                 else -> testCase.body.orNull()?.chars()?.toList()?.map { c -> NumberNode.from(c) }
             } ?: listOf()
diff --git a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/README.md b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/README.md
index aba273d17f..46dbc7970c 100644
--- a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/README.md
+++ b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/README.md
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ AWS Smithy fuzz contains a set of utilities for writing fuzz tests against smith
 2. Install the AFL runtime: `cargo afl config --build`
 2. Install the smithy CLI:
 2. Install aws-smithy-fuzz:
-   3. Locally: `cargo afl install --path .`
-   4. From crates.io: cargo afl install aws-smithy-fuzz
+    - Locally: `cargo afl install --path .`
+    - From crates.io: cargo afl install aws-smithy-fuzz
 
 ## Usage
 This contains a library + a CLI tool to fuzz smithy servers. The library allows setting up a given Smithy server implementation as a `cdylib`. This allows two different versions two by dynamically linked at runtime and executed by the fuzzer.
diff --git a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/src/lib.rs b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/src/lib.rs
index 4f8458b494..e23864fc2c 100644
--- a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/src/lib.rs
+++ b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/src/lib.rs
@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@ fn assert_ready<F: Future>(mut future: F) -> F::Output {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
-    use crate::types::FuzzResult;
     use crate::{make_target, Body};
     use http::Request;
     use std::error::Error;
diff --git a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/src/main.rs b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/src/main.rs
index eebcc98ce0..7e9c14a1d2 100644
--- a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/src/main.rs
+++ b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/src/main.rs
@@ -643,6 +643,21 @@ fn replay(
             FuzzResult { result: String },
         }
 
+        impl Display for CrashResult {
+            fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+                match self {
+                    CrashResult::Panic { message } => {
+                        f.pad("The process paniced!\n")?;
+                        for line in message.lines() {
+                            write!(f, " {}\n", line)?;
+                        }
+                        Ok(())
+                    }
+                    CrashResult::FuzzResult { result } => f.pad(result),
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
         for library in &config.targets {
             let result = Command::new(env::current_exe().unwrap())
                 .arg("invoke-test-case")
@@ -667,17 +682,24 @@ fn replay(
             test_case: String,
             results: HashMap<String, CrashResult>,
         }
+        impl Display for Results {
+            fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+                let test_case = &self.test_case;
+                write!(f, "Test case: {test_case}\n")?;
+                for (target, result) in &self.results {
+                    write!(f, " target: {target}\n{:>2}", result)?;
+                }
+                Ok(())
+            }
+        }
+        let results = Results {
+            test_case: format!("{:#?}", http_request.unwrap()),
+            results,
+        };
         if json {
-            println!(
-                "{}",
-                serde_json::to_string(&Results {
-                    test_case: format!("{:#?}", http_request.unwrap()),
-                    results
-                })
-                .unwrap()
-            );
+            println!("{}", serde_json::to_string(&results).unwrap());
         } else {
-            println!("{:#?}\n----", results);
+            println!("{}\n----", results);
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/src/types.rs b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/src/types.rs
index fe25638ebb..64b4dfcec8 100644
--- a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/src/types.rs
+++ b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-fuzz/src/types.rs
@@ -101,7 +101,10 @@ impl Debug for TryString<'_> {
         let try_cbor = cbor_diag::parse_bytes(self.0);
         let str_rep = match try_cbor {
             Ok(repr) => repr.to_diag_pretty(),
-            Err(e) => String::from_utf8_lossy(self.0).to_string(),
+            Err(e) => {
+                eprintln!("not cbor: {}", e);
+                String::from_utf8_lossy(self.0).to_string()
+            }
         };
         write!(f, "\"{}\"", str_rep)
     }