Hacking How do I make system DSiWare appear in the Home Menu?

[lAkdaOpeKA]

I've dumped all the system DSiWare (and Flipnote & the DSi Browser which came preinstalled) from my DSi and converted them to CIA.
After installing them, as excepted, they don't appear on the home menu (except for Flipnote & the browser), however, searching online I've found a CIA of the DSi Pictochat which does appear in the home menu after installing. How is that done?

 

[zoogie]

If the titleID high is 00030004, it will show on the home menu, otherwise no.

The region has to be correct as well.
Not necessary if running luma.

You could make a "forwarder" cia than launches hidden app though.
Just launch the title using its full tid and 0 for mediatype using this function.
https://github.com/smealum/ctrulib/...eaaccdb/libctru/include/3ds/services/ns.h#L41

 

[lAkdaOpeKA]

If the titleID high is 00030004, it will show on the home menu, otherwise no.

The region has to be correct as well.

You could make a "forwarder" cia than launches hidden app though.
Just launch the title using its full tid and 0 for mediatype using this function.
https://github.com/smealum/ctrulib/...eaaccdb/libctru/include/3ds/services/ns.h#L41

Thanks! I'll try to figure out the TID route since I'd prefer that to forwarders

 

[TurdPooCharger]

I converted The Oregon Trail *.nds (DSiWare ?? ) into *.cia with this.

• [Scripts] DSiWare Conversion: Easily Convert To .NDS and .CIA Files!

Be aware your antivirus program may freak out on the make_cia.exe program.

 

[lAkdaOpeKA]

If the titleID high is 00030004, it will show on the home menu, otherwise no.

The region has to be correct as well.

You could make a "forwarder" cia than launches hidden app though.
Just launch the title using its full tid and 0 for mediatype using this function.
https://github.com/smealum/ctrulib/...eaaccdb/libctru/include/3ds/services/ns.h#L41

Alright! I did it!
The method I used was opening the original .app/.nds in HxD, searching for the low 4 bytes of the title ID in little-endian and then replacing the next 4 bytes with "04 00 03 00" (again little-endian of 00030004), then converting it again to a CIA with make_cia. And it worked!
Thank you, now I can... launch the DSi Camera directly from my home menu
The TID is found at 0x0230, and it looks like the only byte you really need to change is 0x0234

Also there's a small thing I noticed, comparing the TID stored in the .app and the one FBI shows (which I used to get the TID to search), it looks like the first 3 bytes are different, but I guess it makes sense since the title gets installed on a 3DS

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I converted The Oregon Trail *.nds (DSiWare ?? ) into *.cia with this.

• [Scripts] DSiWare Conversion: Easily Convert To .NDS and .CIA Files!

Be aware your antivirus program may freak out on the make_cia.exe program.

That script doesn't work properly for me
For some reason, it only properly detects the first NDS file, and then errors out for all subsequent one. But I did make another batch file so I can just drag and drop a file to convert it without much hassle

 

[TurdPooCharger]

That script doesn't work properly for me
For some reason, it only properly detects the first NDS file, and then errors out for all subsequent one. But I did make another batch file so I can just drag and drop a file to convert it without much hassle

In the output-nds folder where you put your DSiWare *.nds roms, the name of the files can't be complex. They have to be single word names with no spaces (yah, lame, I know).

After that's done, run the _NDS_To_CIA.bat script to mass convert them into installable DSiWare *.cia.

You can FBI install and then GodMode9 rebuild as CIA to get the Title ID and full name info.

Edit 1 - Here's another way to retain their names.

If you have the desktop program Advance Renamer, you can elect to select all the NDS roms and then Copy path in Windows File Explorer.

Copy and paste the paths in Notepad text editor. Press (Ctrl + H) to open the Replace window. Search and edit out the directory and extension info to get just the names of the roms.

Use Advance Renamer to rename them in numerical order (Ex: 1, 2, 3).

After you convert the roms into CIA, use Advance Renamer again to give back their original names.

Edit 2 - Look at @Nomelas comment below about keeping the name with a simple text correction to the script.

 

[lAkdaOpeKA]

In the output-nds folder where you put your DSiWare *.nds roms, the name of the files can't be complex. They have to be single word names with no spaces (yah, lame, I know).

After that's done, run the _NDS_To_CIA.bat script to mass convert them into installable DSiWare *.cia.

You can FBI install and then GodMode9 rebuild as CIA to get the Title ID and full name info.

Edit - Here's another way to retain their names.

If you have the desktop program Advance Renamer, you can elect to select all the NDS roms and then Copy path in Windows File Explorer.

Copy and paste the paths in Notepad text editor. Press (Ctrl + H) to open the Replace window. Search and edit out the directory and extension info to get just the names of the roms.

Use Advance Renamer to rename them in numerical order (Ex: 1, 2, 3).

After you convert the roms into CIA, use Advance Renamer again to give back their original names.

Ah, that's why it didn't work, my files all had spaces in them! The only one which worked properly was in fact Pictochat.nds

 

[Nomelas]

Change line 9 of _NDS_To_CIA.bat

from:
make_cia --srl=output-nds/%%G

to:
make_cia --srl="output-nds/%%G"


and it will accept spaces

 

[butfluffy]

an easy fix for dsiware games not showing in home menu after fbi install is this.
after installing and return to menu, if dsiware installed games don't show as gifts just enter download play and then exit.
for some reason after entering and exiting download play the dsiware games appear as gifts. open them and have fun.
this works for me everytime guys.

 

[lAkdaOpeKA]

an easy fix for dsiware games not showing in home menu after fbi install is this.
after installing and return to menu, if dsiware installed games don't show as gifts just enter download play and then exit.
for some reason after entering and exiting download play the dsiware games appear as gifts. open them and have fun.
this works for me everytime guys.

That was not the issue. I was asking how to make system DSiWare titles, which are intentionally hidden from the home menu, appear in the file menu

 

[butfluffy]

sorry i misunderstood.