Hardware Project XZZ's Switch Boardviews Cracked!

[slimeinacloak]

Shows fine for me, I have added my conf files if you want to try, config locations are:
C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\FlexBV5
/Users/user/Library/Application Support/FlexBV5/

 

[flash61000]

hi, congratulations for this crazy work, it's going to give a lot of us access to a lot of information, thank you.

 

[SylvINk]

Hello, would you have the files available for BoardViewer? (.fz, .bdv, .bv, .cad etc.) Thank you.

 

[slimeinacloak]

Hello, would you have the files available for BoardViewer? (.fz, .bdv, .bv, .cad etc.) Thank you.

FlexBV has a export feature to export as BVR3 files, it is available in the free version of the program

 

[Sir_Charles]

I came across some scans of the XZZ board layers as images, OLED additionally has mapped out components.

https://files.zzattack.org/index.php?dir=img/console/switch

 

[CMDreamer]

I'm definitely watching this thread.

@slimeinacloak, thanks a lot for this hard work! My respects!

 

[Dukenukemx]

Does this show Switch component values? Trying to see what components are next to the NAND connector. N14657 and N14658. Trying to fix my Switch and I think these maybe off in values.

 

[jkyoho]

Does this show Switch component values? Trying to see what components are next to the NAND connector. N14657 and N14658. Trying to fix my Switch and I think these maybe off in values.
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lmao, you bet Big N would give you a BOM list so that reverse engineer could put everything up on the boardview files.
They are just pcb mapping/connection files, not even closed to component values or traces in layer

 

[l7777]

lmao, you bet Big N would give you a BOM list so that reverse engineer could put everything up on the boardview files.
They are just pcb mapping/connection files, not even closed to component values or traces in layer

As noted upthread the trace data is in the files but isn't rendered by the existing board viewers. Currently diode values are the best we have thought it's possible that someone is working on a component list.

 

[Tinkerman]

Does this show Switch component values? Trying to see what components are next to the NAND connector. N14657 and N14658. Trying to fix my Switch and I think these maybe off in values.
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Mine is Nintendo old switch, should be v1. I measured these 2 resistors in circuit are both reading 4.7K ohm. Hopes this help

Post automatically merged: Mar 17, 2025

Over the past couple weeks myself and a few people have been able to crack XZZ's file format and encryption, of these files the switch boards that previously were locked behind a $40usd/month are now public and viewable to all (also all other XZZ pcb files but that is more of a badcaps post and I am personally invested in having the boardviews for the switch models so)

Full support in the main OBV repo soon once I cleanup the code and make a PR :3

Switch boardview files are in the example pcbs folder on the XZZPCB-ImHex repo (files dont need to be decrypted before opening with OBV fork)

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Thx so much for your hard work! Its really helpful for repairing work.

 

[Louiswitch]

You can have laptop boardview ??

 

[Dukenukemx]

Mine is Nintendo old switch, should be v1. I measured these 2 resistors in circuit are both reading 4.7K ohm. Hopes this help

Post automatically merged: Mar 17, 2025

Thx so much for your hard work! Its really helpful for repairing work.

Thanks, mine is also old. Trying to fix my Switch not booting and I think the NAND is corrupt. Before I attempt a level 3 fix, I think I'll double check their resistance.

 

[mstrVLT]

@slimeinacloak and gh/tlamy, thx! You OBV fork works on my old win pc
I've added instructions and fixes to the OBV fork for native win64 build
https://github.com/MstrVLT/OpenBoardViewXZZ/tree/xzz-pcb

 

[Harak]

@slimeinacloak and gh/tlamy, thx! You OBV fork works on my old win pc
I've added instructions and fixes to the OBV fork for native win64 build
https://github.com/MstrVLT/OpenBoardViewXZZ/tree/xzz-pcb


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Can't do the step with
CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 PYTHONUTF8=1 ./build.sh --recompile
it says
-bash: ./build.sh: No such file or directory

i dont have a clue what i am doing. just want to install openboardviewer with your instrcutions but i can't do it. please help me. thanks

 

[impeeza]

Can't do the step with
CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 PYTHONUTF8=1 ./build.sh --recompile
it says
-bash: ./build.sh: No such file or directory

i dont have a clue what i am doing. just want to install openboardviewer with your instrcutions but i can't do it. please help me. thanks

TRY ON MSYS OR LINUX.

 

[Harak]

Can't do the step with
CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 PYTHONUTF8=1 ./build.sh --recompile
it says
-bash: ./build.sh: No such file or directory

i dont have a clue what i am doing. just want to install openboardviewer with your instrcutions but i can't do it. please help me. thanks

TRY ON MSYS OR LINUX

Yeah i installed msys as described in the instruction. But i get the error message.

 

[CMDreamer]

Can't do the step with
CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 PYTHONUTF8=1 ./build.sh --recompile
it says
-bash: ./build.sh: No such file or directory

i dont have a clue what i am doing. just want to install openboardviewer with your instrcutions but i can't do it. please help me. thanks

TRY ON MSYS OR LINUX

Yeah i installed msys as described in the instruction. But i get the error message.

After installing all the packages from the second pacman command ( Windows instructions on the GitHub page), you must change directory to the one where the git command cloned the project to, and then, you can perform the command to start compiling.

BTW after the compilation finishes, I'm getting an Application Error for openboardview.exe, code (0xc000007b) and can't run it.

Any hint? Thanks in advance.

NVM, solved it by running the command from the GitHub page. Thanks a lot!

 

[Harak]

After installing all the packages from the second pacman command ( Windows instructions on the GitHub page), you must change directory to the one where the git command cloned the project to, and then, you can perform the command to start compiling.

BTW after the compilation finishes, I'm getting an Application Error for openboardview.exe, code (0xc000007b) and can't run it.

Any hint? Thanks in advance.

NVM, solved it by running the command from the GitHub page. Thanks a lot!

[ 24%] Generating build-generated/GenCADFileGrammar.h
C:/msys64/usr/bin/python3.12.exe: can't open file '/home/Harak-PC/OpenBoardView/release_build/src/openboardview/C:/msys64/home/Harak-PC/OpenBoardView/src/openboardview/../../utilities/generate_grammar_header.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [src/openboardview/CMakeFiles/openboardview.dir/build.make:75: src/openboardview/build-generated/GenCADFileGrammar.h] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:363: src/openboardview/CMakeFiles/openboardview.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2
MAKE INSTALL/STRIP FAILED

Now I get this error message. I am tired

Post automatically merged: Apr 6, 2025

[ 24%] Generating build-generated/GenCADFileGrammar.h
C:/msys64/usr/bin/python3.12.exe: can't open file '/home/Harak-PC/OpenBoardView/release_build/src/openboardview/C:/msys64/home/Harak-PC/OpenBoardView/src/openboardview/../../utilities/generate_grammar_header.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [src/openboardview/CMakeFiles/openboardview.dir/build.make:75: src/openboardview/build-generated/GenCADFileGrammar.h] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:363: src/openboardview/CMakeFiles/openboardview.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2
MAKE INSTALL/STRIP FAILED

Now I get this error message. I am tired

The file generate_grammar_header.py is saved at C:\msys64\home\Harak-PC\OpenBoardView\utilities

Post automatically merged: Apr 6, 2025

[ 24%] Generating build-generated/GenCADFileGrammar.h
C:/msys64/usr/bin/python3.12.exe: can't open file '/home/Harak-PC/OpenBoardView/release_build/src/openboardview/C:/msys64/home/Harak-PC/OpenBoardView/src/openboardview/../../utilities/generate_grammar_header.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [src/openboardview/CMakeFiles/openboardview.dir/build.make:75: src/openboardview/build-generated/GenCADFileGrammar.h] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:363: src/openboardview/CMakeFiles/openboardview.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2
MAKE INSTALL/STRIP FAILED

Now I get this error message. I am tired

Post automatically merged: Apr 6, 2025

The file generate_grammar_header.py is saved at C:\msys64\home\Harak-PC\OpenBoardView\utilities

I smoehow got it working. It was hard, but you have to do more than the instructions in github says. this is defnitely not a beginners guide.!

Post automatically merged: Apr 6, 2025

I have the problem now, that if i try do load a pcb file it is a unrecognized file format. i dont know why

 

[CMDreamer]

[...]

I smoehow got it working. It was hard, but you have to do more than the instructions in github says. this is defnitely not a beginners guide.!

[...]

I just and simply followed GitHub's instructions and got it compiled, after discovering that I must change the working directory before issuing the compilation command, but nothing complicated.

Haven't had the chance to load a PCB just yet, but will do it when I get the time.

 

[Harak]

I just and simply followed GitHub's instructions and got it compiled, after discovering that I must change the working directory before issuing the compilation command, but nothing complicated.

Haven't had the chance to load a PCB just yet, but will do it when I get the time.

perhaps you had already done some steps before. i had to install phyton and some other scripts. i dunno. it somehow worked. but i get the error with the unsupported file format.
tried it to install it on ubuntu too. i cant start the problem there, because the message occurs with "that operation is not supported" and a directory is not avaivlable something like /dev/dri

Got it working now, waiting for the diode values for obv