Hello guys, this is my first post here! I just got a MIG Switch card out of curiosity and I was tinkering with it. For those who don't know, it's used by placing XCI dumps as well as other game specific bin files in the sd card of the MIG Switch, and are obtained from the original cartridge by using an app like nxdumptool. Two of these bin files are mandatory to get the game to boot: Initial Data.bin and Certificate.bin. They stay the same for every cartridge of a specific game. Now, if you want to use an XCI dump from a shady website it's impossible to get it to work without those files. By using the Certificate.bin from another game it has no problem, but this does not count for the Initial Data.bin. So I looked for a way to obtain this Initial Data from an XCI file and read a bit of the XCI file documentation from switchbrew dot org. Here's what I understood so far: The Switch checks if the cartridge is valid by doing a challenge–response authentication on the Initial Data. The Package ID is contained both on the XCI and the Initial Data, on positions 0x110 and 0x0 respectively. The Initial Data hash is on the XCI at position 0x160. It is calculated by doing a SHA-256 hash on the full Initial Data content. So I was wondering, is there a way to to construct a functional Initial Data file starting from an XCI dump? I also tried a reverse approach by editing the Package ID in the Initial Data from another game, generating the Initial Data hash and putting it in the XCI file but is not enough to get the Switch believe it's a real game. Sorry if this may seem stupid but let me know what you think.

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Gaming Pokemon Let's Go Mystery Gift/90dns

Thread starter oorangesodaa
Start date Aug 12, 2019
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oorangesodaa

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Aug 12, 2019

Hey there! I have the 90dns settings employed on my switch but have run into an issue with attempting to retrieve a mystery gift on pokemon let's go. I'm assuming this is because the mystery gift needs to be connected to nintendo servers to recieve pokemon and the like.

Is there anyway around this? Or is it just unrealistic to expect to have my cake and eat it, as it were?

Many thanks,
Kel.

p3el05

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Aug 12, 2019

The mystery gift may well be a nice shiny new ban from ninty without 90dns..

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oorangesodaa

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Aug 13, 2019

p3el05 said:
The mystery gift may well be a nice shiny new ban from ninty without 90dns..

Right ok, so, no Mewtwo mystery gift event for me then?

Katie Tamouzian

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Aug 13, 2019

You could just use PKHEX and just import the mystery gift to your save data.

Pokemonfan6498

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Katie Tamouzian said:
You could just use PKHEX and just import the mystery gift to your save data.

well later games don't have ability to add wonder card data for that you have to use switch mystery gift magaer which is unavailible if you have no access to internet