Hi everyone!

I've made a gamecard installer, which as the name suggets, installs your gamecards directly to your switch!

The app is quite simple, with only 3 options.

1. Install to the nand.
2. Install to the sd card.
3. Exit.

However I spent some time polishing the UI and added some cool features as well.

• Support for multi gamecards (gamecards with multiple games inside, press L / R to cycle through them).
• Full touchscreen support.
• Music support. Simply drop any .mp3's into the app folder /switch/gamecard_installer/ and the app will play these songs at random! (sub folders are supported).
• Displays gamecard info such as total size, key generation and app ID.
• Displays free nand / sd card memory. This is updated after installing a game.
• Cleans up all placeholders on startup. This means if you used an app that failed to install a game and it didn't delete the placeholder after, my app does it for you.
• Should anything go wrong, a error code for that specific error will be displayed. This will save time when reporting issues.

A guide for installing this app, as well as a guide on how to compile app can be found on my repo (linked below).

Link to the release: https://github.com/ITotalJustice/Gamecard-Installer-NX/releases
Link to the repo: https://github.com/ITotalJustice/Gamecard-Installer-NX
Link to screenshots from the app: https://github.com/ITotalJustice/Gamecard-Installer-NX/tree/master/images

v1.0.1:

• Fixed incorrectly returned the sys version number (fw 8.1.0 would be returned as 8.0.1).
• Fixed bug that would cause the installed game to sometimes still as a gamecard.
• Fixed bug that would make it so that it would sometimes not push the correct application record which caused game updates that was previously installed to say that it was not.

v1.0.0:

• Initial release.

 

[whateverg1012]

• Cleans up all placeholders on startup. This means if you used an app that failed to install a game and it didn't delete the placeholder after, my app does it for you.

Why are all your apps so perfect? Thank you for this amazing first release.

 

[YunoGasaiStan]

cool homebrew total !

 

[MasterJ360]

Never have, which is why I don't know the difference between xci and nsp .
I've just heard of people getting banned for installing the wrong type of file using homebrew, so that's what sparked my question.

Not really true installing converted games is totally fine. The whole point in playing with piracy is to be offline anyway and if your on emunand then it really doesn't matter what you install. People get banned for obvious reasons installing a game is not one of them

 

[Chrisssj2]

I would love for a way to install XCI to my switch via harddrive

 

[Stealphie]

Never have, which is why I don't know the difference between xci and nsp .
I've just heard of people getting banned for installing the wrong type of file using homebrew, so that's what sparked my question.

XCI is a game card dump
NSP is a eShop dump/used for homebrer forwarders

 

[MrFlooD]

Once installed, do you need to use CFW to run the games? I am hoping for a way to dump my legit carts but run games without CFW and maintain online features.... I know, probably asking for a lot.

 

[TotalJustice]

Once installed, do you need to use CFW to run the games? I am hoping for a way to dump my legit carts but run games without CFW and maintain online features.... I know, probably asking for a lot.

Sadly you will still need the fs to be patched, so you will need cfw and fs patches still.

 

[linuxares]

You fucking legend! One less step to do :3

 

[gnmmarechal]

Now this is pretty cool to see. Thank you!

 

[Beerus]

this my be a very stupid question but if i am running emunand can i install the game directly to my sysnand and play the installed game online without ban?

 

[Clydefrosch]

this my be a very stupid question but if i am running emunand can i install the game directly to my sysnand and play the installed game online without ban?

Nope.

 

[Stwert]

Great stuff, finally I can dump my games onto my homebrew Switch. Thank you for your hard work, always appreciate things like this.

 

[TotalJustice]

Thank you all for such kind responses, it does mean a lot to me.

Also, the app is now avaliable on the homebrew app store!

 

[NoIdeaofAnything]

So,...
this is an legal way to install your legally owned Games onto your SD card, so that you don´t always have to change them?

 

[OldGnashburg]

Can I use this app on an offline EmuNAND and play the physical carts on my SysNAND without getting banned?

 

[DocKlokMan]

Hi, no this doesn't require keys.

It derives the nca header key in the app. This is needed to decrypt the nca headers, change the distribution value to 0 (which allows gamecard nca to be installed) and thats it.

So the only thing changed is the distribution type? The SHA256 isn't recalculated, NCA renamed, CNMT updated, recalculated and renamed prior to install?

 

[TotalJustice]

So the only thing changed is the distribution type? The SHA256 isn't recalculated, NCA renamed, CNMT updated, recalculated and renamed prior to install?

That's correct.

 

[Silent_Gunner]

Never have, which is why I don't know the difference between xci and nsp .
I've just heard of people getting banned for installing the wrong type of file using homebrew, so that's what sparked my question.

Which is why you have a second Switch to take the ban for you!

 

[H1B1Esquire]

Thank you much.
I really like the .mp3 add-on.

Crazy, but any chance you'll add music/video ripping? Maybe .mp4 (with audio) playback support?

 

[xskibbles]

So,...
this is an legal way to install your legally owned Games onto your SD card, so that you don´t always have to change them?

If you have a CFW yes . If you mean a stock console no . You still need the patches to play them which requieres Cfw.