Hacking (Region free) Game updates in .CIA (I want to make them)

[tjexp]

Normaly when installing stuff from eshop, it makes entries inside import.db/title.db located on your sd card, same as putting the icon on 3ds desktop.

Yeah I fixed it by editing the patch versions while making the cia
Had to find the original version number from eshop patch, in my case 3.5.0 and then I applied that to the cia
The 3DS seems to recognise it now and won't bug me anymore about notifications

 

[cearp]

Yeah I fixed it by editing the patch versions while making the cia
Had to find the original version number from eshop patch, in my case 3.5.0 and then I applied that to the cia
The 3DS seems to recognise it now and won't bug me anymore about notifications

making the pokemon game cia or the update cia? if the update - yep that sounds like exactly what you need to do
if the game, i don't know
i want a way to do this automatically, it must be possible to read the version from the file...

 

[liomajor]

Will the updates be safe not getting deleted like dlc when turning on wlan/internet?

 

[tjexp]

Will the updates be safe not getting deleted like dlc when turning on wlan/internet?

Yeah I just took the update cia online and wonder traded my starter off fine

 

[cearp]

Will the updates be safe not getting deleted like dlc when turning on wlan/internet?

not too sure... please let me know, it have seemed ok for me... so far at least

 

[liomajor]

Did getting the xorpads even generate thoose of the self installed game cia's ?

Mine is running, 159 entries ^^'''

EDIT: ok, its a yes to that... better use two sd cards for this hehe

 

[tjexp]

Did getting the xorpads even generate thoose of the self installed game cia's ?

Mine is running, 159 entries ^^'''

EDIT: ok, its a yes to that... better use two sd cards for this hehe

I got 578 entries and yes they generated those self installed cia's

 

[liomajor]

Last time i was online in Nintendo's eshop, i searched after "update" and installed all found updates for games i'm interested and buyed Fantasy Life's DLC

 

[tjexp]

Last time i was online in Nintendo's eshop, i searched after "update" and installed all found updates for games i'm interested and buyed Fantasy Life's DLC

I still need to try Fantasy Life, looks like a amazing game
Still trying to figure out if we can make patches region free

 

[liomajor]

I still need to try Fantasy Life, looks like a amazing game
Still trying to figure out if we can make patches region free

My xorpads just finished, now looking what to do next.

btw, its a great game.

 

[MaximusX800]

cearp, please enable private messaging.

Already posted but, MH4 and MH4G patch v1.1.

Willing to help in anyway from US region.

Sorry, just very excited!!!

 

[piratesephiroth]

Yeah I fixed it by editing the patch versions while making the cia
Had to find the original version number from eshop patch, in my case 3.5.0 and then I applied that to the cia
The 3DS seems to recognise it now and won't bug me anymore about notifications

I know Pokemon Y update data is v3.4.0. But I figured that by trial and error. I have no idea how to get the proper version since all we get is the major version in the update CFA.

 

[tjexp]

I know Pokemon Y update data is v3.4.0. But I figured that by trial and error. I have no idea how to get the proper version since all we get is the major version in the update CFA.

DevMenu lists 3.4.0 for Y and 3.5.0 for X if you have the patch installed from eShop
So that's where I get my versions from

 

[piratesephiroth]

DevMenu lists 3.4.0 for Y and 3.5.0 for X if you have the patch installed from eShop
So that's where I get my versions from

ah, nice to know that! thanks.

 

[liomajor]

After playing a little bit around with a decrypted game that was installed, i found this... interesting.

Mario Kart 7

(decrypted)

copy /b "14720bytesHeader+00000000.app+00000001.app+00000002.app+15040bytesEND" == Mario Kart 7.cia

 

[descac]

After playing a little bit around with a decrypted game that was installed, i found this... interesting.

What am I looking at here?

 

[Kibido]

Well it has to be a 3DZ rom. To play online you need the rom patched with an online header.
But yeah that's all you need.

If your rom is .3DS then im sorry dude you cant go online. Even worse, you cant transfer your save to a .3DZ rom patched to go online. You will have to start from scratch

IF you try booting a .3DZ of a game it will erase your .3DS save so backup your MH4G save before you do anything!

So in order to play online with Gateway and download patches n' event quests n' stuff I have to start from zero? No possible way of getting my save? After soloing up to Gogmazios HR70 with 140 hours that's some hard stuff to take... I guess I'll have to find a group who can farm me back up quickly because no way I'm doing that shit for the third time. I'm so happy and sad at the same time

 

[liomajor]

This is how you know what Version your Update is to build up a correct .cia

Folder SDCARD:\Nintendo 3DS\<your id1>\<your id2>\title\0004000E\00055D00\content

0004000E Updates
00055D00 Unique ID

http://3ds.essh.co/ for ID search & Gamename

XOR both tmd (contains the Version) & app (contains the Update).

.tmd.out @ Offset 1DC - 1DD will be two bytes

00 00

Major = 1 = 04 | Minor = 1 = 10 | Micro = 1 = 01

Example: v3.45 will be 0C 45

PokemonX .tmd.out v3.50

make_cia --major=3 --minor=5 --micro=0 --content0=00000002.app.out -o PokemonX_v3.5.0.cia

To name the Content Files correctly, look here:
http://gbatemp.net/threads/region-f...-want-to-make-them.373827/page-7#post-5157169

Have Fun.

 

[jimmsu66]

Got it to read as version 3 now I'll see if I can bump it up

Edit: too much bumping, it went to version 30... woops
on the bright side, the 3DS doesn't bug me about software notifications

Edit2: I think I got it this time, just gonna reload it

Edit3: Got it working

cearp seems I can't pm you

Can you tell how you did it .
Wich command you did use for getting all to work.

 

[tjexp]

Can you tell how you did it .
Wich command you did use for getting all to work.

Yeah sure thing:
To get the .out file (you need padxorer)

padxorer [originalupdatename].app [xorpadname].app.xorpad

To repack the .out file (you need a compiled make_cia)

make_cia --major=(1st number) --minor=(2nd number) --micro=(3rd number) --content0=*********.app.out -o anyname.cia

The 3 numbers can be found on DevMenu when the eShop patch is installed, just find your games unique ID and check the version number (programs list) It should say something like 3.5.0 / 2.4.0 / 1.0.0 etc
or follow what liomajor said