ROM Hack RELEASE NSC_Builder. Nintendo Switch Cleaner and Builder. (Game+updates+dlc in a single xci)

[WiiUAre]

is there a difference between update mode (option 4) and multipack mode I you want to convert and update a game.nsp + update.nsp to game .xci

 

[JRoad]

is there a difference between update mode (option 4) and multipack mode I you want to convert and update a game.nsp + update.nsp to game .xci

If you use the beta the multipack mode there can do both things create and update and it'll give it a better naming. Also update mode was updated so it can create the files the first time.

 

[18Phoenix]

I probably forgot. I thought I edited that in the stable but apparently I forgot to do. I'll correct it later in the afternoon.

Hi
Is it already corrected ?

 

[KhenemetHeru]

Did a clean installation after using 0.79 for the longest time, and when I run 0.82 beta I get this error right away (and after every operation):

File "c:\NSCB\ztools\squirrel.exe", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\x90' in file C:\NSCB\ztools\squirrel.exe on line 1, but no encoding declared; see hxxx://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details
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and then it quits. But if I use STABLE it works fine...

also, can I convert an update NSP to standard crypto using this?

 

[JRoad]

Did a clean installation after using 0.79 for the longest time, and when I run 0.82 beta I get this error right away (and after every operation):

File "c:\NSCB\ztools\squirrel.exe", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\x90' in file C:\NSCB\ztools\squirrel.exe on line 1, but no encoding declared; see hxxx://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details
​

and then it quits. But if I use STABLE it works fine...

also, can I convert an update NSP to standard crypto using this?

Did you use the one in releases or the one in the master? I'm asking because i saw that error before and it came down to github corrupting the exe files when downloading from the master, that's the reason i started zipping those in the master but i've got reports of people still getting corrupted files.
The error only happened with the exes not the python version if you don't mind installing the dependencies. Still if you got it downloading from the master it should fix itself if you download from releases.

Hi
Is it already corrected ?

No, i took a little break being eastern and all and didn't have time to touch things.

 

[KhenemetHeru]

Did you use the one in releases or the one in the master? I'm asking because i saw that error before and it came down to github corrupting the exe files when downloading from the master, that's the reason i started zipping those in the master but i've got reports of people still getting corrupted files.
The error only happened with the exes not the python version if you don't mind installing the dependencies. Still if you got it downloading from the master it should fix itself if you download from releases.

I got it from the zip file in releases. The python one didn't work for me the first time either, was looking for some old files, but a fresh download and clean install again fixed that apparently as the python beta is working smooth now.

 

[JRoad]

I got it from the zip file in releases. The python one didn't work for me the first time either, was looking for some old files, but a fresh download and clean install again fixed that apparently as the python beta is working smooth now.

Hmm weird it happened that to you. Everytime i saw that error was a corrupt download from github. Maybe i'll start doing mediafire mirrors too just in case from next release, i don't know why it corrupt sometimes the exes.

 

[mathew77]

.del.

 

[KhenemetHeru]

Also can't seem to build a combined xci+update for MK11, it goes through the process successfully but the xci is bad, no info or icon.

 

[Tere Valentin]

First time using NSC Builder.

Wanted to fused an xci MK11 with its update.

Originally, the xci and nsp update separately was a total of 22.8gb.
But when NSC finished, the new xci is 6.53gb in size.
Is this normal?

Edit: Noticed that during the fusing process, an error appears saying "failed to execute script squirrel" and stopped the process halfway.
Is there a solution?

 

[JRoad]

Also can't seem to build a combined xci+update for MK11, it goes through the process successfully but the xci is bad, no info or icon.

Works fine for me, just tried.

First time using NSC Builder.

Wanted to fused an xci MK11 with its update.

Originally, the xci and nsp update separately was a total of 22.8gb.
But when NSC finished, the new xci is 6.53gb in size.
Is this normal?

Edit: Noticed that during the fusing process, an error appears saying "failed to execute script squirrel" and stopped the process halfway.
Is there a solution?

Pretty sure is because the update needs master_key_07 to rebuild the header and you don't have it in your keys.txt
If i'm wrong and you have it check your keys file with this function (number 3):

 

[KhenemetHeru]

Works fine for me, just tried.

Pretty sure is because the update needs master_key_07 to rebuild the header and you don't have it in your keys.txt
If i'm wrong and you have it check your keys file with this function (number 3):

View attachment 164291

It's in there, and it verified all ok.

 

[JRoad]

It's in there, and it verified all ok.

That was actually my answer to the other user. Yours doesn't seem the same error, i don't know if it can be due to your files or other thing but in my case i was able to build a working xci.

 

[huma_dawii]

Is there a way to know If a XCI has any kind of tickets inside?

 

[masagrator]

Is it possible to write some documentation about squirrel.exe? Because I see it handles well last updates in contrast to hactool and I would like to use it to unpack NCAs.

 

[JRoad]

Is there a way to know If a XCI has any kind of tickets inside?

5- FILE-INFO mode -> 1.-FILE LIST of the xci\nsp is the cleanest way to see the files though nut info also gives you that.

Is it possible to write some documentation about squirrel.exe? Because I see it handles well last updates in contrast to hactool and I would like to use it to unpack NCAs.

The main reason of squirrel not having it's own repo is that it's code is still dirty, since it has many methods ta¡hat do mostly the same.
I can give you the functions either way, depending on what you need. What you want to do is just to extract the ncas from the nsp? because you'll still need hactool to merge the update nca + basegame nca, didn't add nca extraction to squirrel yet.

 

[masagrator]

Only what I want is extracting NCAs from NSP. Hactool shows PFS0 is broken, but it still handles unpacking NCA.

 

[markmcrobie]

@JRoad here's an error I've not had before:

Calculating final content:
Filename: Sports Party [0100DE9005170000] [v262144] (1G+1U)[nscb].xci
Exception: local variable 'docheck' referenced before assignment
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "squirrel.py", line 3103, in <module>
  File "lib\sq_tools.py", line 908, in get_xciheader
  File "Fs\Hfs0.py", line 525, in gen_rhfs0_head
IndexError: list index out of range
[216] Failed to execute script squirrel

 

[JRoad]

@JRoad here's an error I've not had before:

Calculating final content:
Filename: Sports Party [0100DE9005170000] [v262144] (1G+1U)[nscb].xci
Exception: local variable 'docheck' referenced before assignment
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "squirrel.py", line 3103, in <module>
  File "lib\sq_tools.py", line 908, in get_xciheader
  File "Fs\Hfs0.py", line 525, in gen_rhfs0_head
IndexError: list index out of range
[216] Failed to execute script squirrel

Seems i'm using that variable before declaration (docheck), that seems like a bug on my part. Yeah I see where the issue is, my virtualbox machine got messed up and is what i use for the exe builds but i'll try to reinstall and issue a fix later.

 

[JRoad]

Only what I want is extracting NCAs from NSP. Hactool shows PFS0 is broken, but it still handles unpacking NCA.

squirrel.exe --NSP_copy_nca "nsp file" for nca files
squirrel.exe --NSP_copy_ticket "nsp file" for ticket
squirrel.exe --NSP_other "nsp file" for other files (cert, xmls, jpgs,...)
squirrel.exe --XCI_copy_nca_secure "xci file" for nca files in secure partition for xci

Then if you need a specific output folder:
squirrel.exe -o "output folder" --NSP_copy_nca "nsp file"