NEWS UPDATED: Dec. 20th / TX and their [WAIN] friends are back with another update to the cartridge dumper app!

Another hard-working day at TX headquarters and yet another release, this time around just small update to their SX Dumper app.

Another day, another update from your Xecuter team.​

This time it is SX Dumper which goes to v1.0.3 with a new function to dump cert only.

1.0.3 Change log:

• Add option for cert only dumping output:
  Selected folder/certificates/gamename [cert crc32].cert
• Various stability fixes and lib upgrades

(As usual, please remember all our latest releases & apps, can be found on our sx.xecuter.com portal website)

(What follows below is the last few announcements regarding the SX Dumper from TX, click the 'Spoiler' to see the previous details in full.)​

Spoiler: SX Dumper v1.0.2 Update

SX Dumper continues to get feedback from our SX OS users!​

And [WAIN] continues to return the thanks for all the feedback we received, by releasing another small update.

Enjoy!

1.0.2

• fixed splitting no longer hang on after 2gb.

Spoiler: SX Dumper v1.0.1 Released

SX Dumper was a hit as soon as it was published and thanks to all the feedback we received, [WAIN] was still on fire and updated it right away.

Enjoy!

1.0.1

• Keep console awake no more button presses while dumping!
• fixed bug with detecting cart too quickly.
• folder selection ("Root" ,"/sxos/xci/" , "/sxos/games/")
• UI adjustments for left stick navigation instead of left up down right for options
• Changed to Titleid.xci for Japanese,Chinese,Korean,Taiwanese

Spoiler: SX Dumper v1.0.0 Announcement

Today, we are back with the help of our friends [WAIN] who developed a very useful app for SX OS: the SX Dumper!

As the name indicates it, this app will allow you to dump an original game to your microSD card or USB HDD and then play directly with your backup without the need of the original game anymore. This version 1.0.0 is already packed with features, and we are already working on the next update(s) to bring you an even smoother experience.

SX Dumper v1.0.0

• Dump to .XCI
• Automatically filenaming (full gamename.xci)
• USB HDD & microSD Card support
• Trimmed dumping (removed unused space from backup)
• Certificate wiping
• Splitting files for FAT32 filesystem
• CRC checking dumped image

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Source: MaxConsole

 

[SuperNintendho]

It has a UI.
Probably the same exact code found in WAIN but prettier looking, which is friggin awesome. Ripping carts straight to usb HDD is what i've been wanting ever since i modded my switch.

Good work TX!

 

[ElConsolero]

yeah, but what's wrong with loading the application from the SX OS menu? Not everyone needs a way to dump cards and I really do not see this as a job a CFW has to do. I'd say it's perfectly reasonable to have this available as a standalone tool, TX branded or not.

Do you run SX OS on your NSW? Do you like to have .nsp installation, homebrew loader, ftp-enable, sx os update function and cheat code engine in one system or would you prefer to load for each of these functions an separate app?

The only one function of this app is to backup your cartrige. AFAIR every hardware/software which enables a console running backups had a backup-function implented, too. (CD-based consoles excluded).

I guess, the only reason that backup-function is yet not included in boot.dat is bad coding and need of rush delivery. Why I say "bad coding"? Because they missed to add "sleepless" mode while backup a cartridge.

 

[Der_Blockbuster]

What... They support nsp installation also

Have I stated the opposite?

 

[nachuz]

>A youtuber called yakara with over 30K stolen things and pat his name in, getting money from links and ads
>People did nothing
>TX release a tool so noobs can easily use it, they don't even need SX to use it
>People wants them to die

 

[blawar]

WHAT'S THE STORY? did TX finally stop stealing/pillage open source projects, and now Tx pays/bribes some dev to make exclusive HB for them??

Do you "bribe" McDonald's workers to make you a sandwich? I have no idea if this guy was paid or not, but that is really none of your business and is irrelevant. The app was used with the author's explicit permission, and that is all that matters.

 

[Localhorst86]

Do you run SX OS on your NSW? Do you like to have .nsp installation, homebrew loader, ftp-enable, sx os update function and cheat code engine in one system or would you prefer to load for each of these functions an separate app?

I don't use SX OS anymore, no.

But since you're bringing up nsp installation in particular: In every SX OS thread you can find a lot of people who prefer .XCI and will condemn .NSP files as insecure and pretty much cause for instaban, and likewise we both know full well that the majority of "backups" on the switch (SX OS or any other CFW) are just a euphemism. Therefore I think that it's perfectly reasonable for things like nsp installation and card dumping to be seperate from SX OSes rommenu as these are not really integral to the CFW experience. I am not complaining about TX releasing their own branded apps for this, btw, even if their branded apps only work on their OS - that's entirely their decision.

Even an update function and possibly cheat code menu could possibly be facilitated as a standalone app, but these are an integral part of the CFW experience and/or heavily intertwined to justify being part of rommenu. Obviously, ftp-enable is a CFW setting and needs to be part of rommenu.

I just don't see what benefit one would have if the cart dumper was integrated into rommenu over what it is now.

AFAIR every hardware/software which enables a console running backups had a backup-function implented, too. (CD-based consoles excluded).

tbh, I can't think of a recent one, particularly hardware wise. Neither my Everdrive64 nor my EZFlash GBA Flashcards have any option to backup retail games.

As for software examples:
on Xbox most people used DVD2Xbox to copy a disc to the console and whatever dashboard (UnleashX, EvoX, XBMC etc.) they chose to run them
on the 360, I think it was a similar case when you were working with a JTAG/RGH console. You had a dashboard to launch your backups and a separate tool to create them.
on the PS3, I believe most people used multiman to back their games up but are also using other methods to load them (webman for example). Again, distinct tools.

But maybe I am somewhat biased in my observations because I prefer the "one tool - one job" approach, particularly when it comes to software so I can mix and match it to my desires.

I'd rather have a good knife, good flashlight, good screwdriver etc. than a swiss army knife that does everything okay-ish.

 

[Kubas_inko]

>A youtuber called yakara with over 30K stolen things and pat his name in, getting money from links and ads
>People did nothing
>TX release a tool so noobs can easily use it, they don't even need SX to use it
>People wants them to die

Show me where anyone said anything "anti-xecuter" in this particular thread...

 

[ElConsolero]

tbh, I can't think of a recent one, particularly hardware wise. Neither my Everdrive64 nor my EZFlash GBA Flashcards have any option to backup retail games.

Go back in time and get a look at Super ProFighter, Super Wildcard, etc (16 bit copier) or Doctor V64, Mr Z Backup (N64) and GB Copier from Bung Enterprise. All those hardware were created to make backups of your own cartridge.

As for software examples:
on Xbox most people used DVD2Xbox to copy a disc to the console and whatever dashboard (UnleashX, EvoX, XBMC etc.) they chose to run them
on the 360, I think it was a similar case when you were working with a JTAG/RGH console. You had a dashboard to launch your backups and a separate tool to create them.

I made my backups on X360 with the built-in copy function of Freestyle Dash/Aurora...

But maybe I am somewhat biased in my observations because I prefer the "one tool - one job" approach, particularly when it comes to software so I can mix and match it to my desires.

I'd rather have a good knife, good flashlight, good screwdriver etc. than a swiss army knife that does everything okay-ish.

I understand your point of view very well. But you can not really compare a simple "copy" function with specialised tools.

 

[defkyle]

I don't use SX OS anymore, no.

But since you're bringing up nsp installation in particular: In every SX OS thread you can find a lot of people who prefer .XCI and will condemn .NSP files as insecure and pretty much cause for instaban, and likewise we both know full well that the majority of "backups" on the switch (SX OS or any other CFW) are just a euphemism. Therefore I think that it's perfectly reasonable for things like nsp installation and card dumping to be seperate from SX OSes rommenu as these are not really integral to the CFW experience. I am not complaining about TX releasing their own branded apps for this, btw, even if their branded apps only work on their OS - that's entirely their decision.

Even an update function and possibly cheat code menu could possibly be facilitated as a standalone app, but these are an integral part of the CFW experience and/or heavily intertwined to justify being part of rommenu. Obviously, ftp-enable is a CFW setting and needs to be part of rommenu.

I just don't see what benefit one would have if the cart dumper was integrated into rommenu over what it is now.


tbh, I can't think of a recent one, particularly hardware wise. Neither my Everdrive64 nor my EZFlash GBA Flashcards have any option to backup retail games.

As for software examples:
on Xbox most people used DVD2Xbox to copy a disc to the console and whatever dashboard (UnleashX, EvoX, XBMC etc.) they chose to run them
on the 360, I think it was a similar case when you were working with a JTAG/RGH console. You had a dashboard to launch your backups and a separate tool to create them.
on the PS3, I believe most people used multiman to back their games up but are also using other methods to load them (webman for example). Again, distinct tools.

But maybe I am somewhat biased in my observations because I prefer the "one tool - one job" approach, particularly when it comes to software so I can mix and match it to my desires.

I'd rather have a good knife, good flashlight, good screwdriver etc. than a swiss army knife that does everything okay-ish.

I get the swiss army knife analogy, but I disagree that any feature of SX OS is only okay-ish. All features advertised work as intended, except maybe for the so called "Emunand".

 

[tinkle]

I get the swiss army knife analogy, but I disagree that any feature of SX OS is only okay-ish. All features advertised work as intended, except maybe for the so called "Emunand".

The EmuNAND works great, though? I think people are inflicted with a bunch of FUD from the people screeching about it in the first day - people who were proven wrong shortly thereafter. In short, the SXOS EmuNAND solution was proven to be a sane way of implementation.

 

[Ev1l0rd]

Assuming it's WAIN, it'd be a copyright violation without approval of the ReSwitched devs (dear god, WAIN is complicated to figure out what the source is, but I think this is the source code for it: https://github.com/MCMrARM/switch-game-card-dumper , which is ARR since there's no license, which goes under GitHubs policy, which is ARR with the exception that GitHub must be allowed to display your source code and anyone is allowed to press the fork button. Actually changing a fork is still governed under the licenses. Summary; Licenseless github projects are a goddamn PITA, please license your projects!)

Not outright saying it is, but if it happens to be (and I'll be frank, given their history I'd be not suprised at all), then we can put another pin in "shitty stuff done by TX".

On a sidenote: Why in the world is all news for TX linked to MaxConsole? Seems a tad um... weird to link to another homebrew forum on a homebrew forum. It seems like just another pointless gobetween from the news to the source where it can be obtained.

 

[Kubas_inko]

...but I think this is the source code for it: https://github.com/MCMrARM/switch-game-card-dumper.

That's what wain is apparently based on, but it's not the source code for wain directly.

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On a sidenote: Why in the world is all news for TX linked to MaxConsole? Seems a tad um... weird to link to another homebrew forum on a homebrew forum. It seems like just another pointless gobetween from the news to the source where it can be obtained.

@garyopa owns maxconsole (or something like that). Garyopa something funny was here promotes and love xecuter. Xecuter is directly connected to maxconsole.

 

[Ev1l0rd]

That's what wain is apparently based on, but it's not the source code for wain directly.

Then WAINs source code was either never released or is from leaks, which would mean WAIN is wholly owned by ReSwitched and this (both the github I found and what TX might have used) which is seemingly based on WAIN (as well as the other forks for it) are violating the copyright from the RS devs.

@garyopa owns maxconsole (or something like that). Garyopa something funny was here promotes and love xecuter. Xecuter is directly connected to maxconsole.

Doesn't really warrant much for posting about it here. I have a Twitter feed. If I'm submitting news, I'm not just linking to retweets with my comments on it as the source for the obvious reason.

 

[WiiUBricker]

Doesn't really warrant much for posting about it here. I have a Twitter feed. If I'm submitting news, I'm not just linking to retweets with my comments on it as the source for the obvious reason.

Garyopa gets the news first from TX and he posts it on his website before he posts it here. Since his website is always the first reporting a TX news, naturally his website IS the source. That’s how news reporting works, unless you’re afraid of competition and hide your actual source.

 

[Essasetic]

Whilst happy that they've paid and credited someone. I'm concerned. Are they that inexperienced that they can't program their own cart dumper?

 

[TheZander]

I looked at the features and from what i recall those features are in wain cart dumper, have they added anything to it? Or changed it in someway to make it simpler to use?

 

[Essasetic]

Expanding on my point, ScriesM and maybe Rei are (mostly) solo. With a few people helping them out with testing/fixes every once in a while (like with Hexkyz's DRAM optimisations that sped up initial setup by 200-400%.) TX is a whole entire team with coders dating back to the original xbox scene. With 17 years of experience under their belt shouldn't they be able to make their own dumper?

 

[wiiando]

We had wain cart dumper for quite some time now.

As if that matters to TX users, they'll still try and claim TX are the best

 

[Essasetic]

As if that matters to TX users, they'll still try and claim TX are the best

The reason they do this is to justify their purchase. If they can't do that then they can't defend them can they then?

 

[Kubas_inko]

I looked at the features and from what i recall those features are in wain cart dumper, have they added anything to it? Or changed it in someway to make it simpler to use?

GUI
and obviously TX brand (which makes it 1000% better) /s