ROM Hack custom-install - Install CIAs to a Nintendo 3DS SD card entirely on PC

[noducksgiven]

Run in terminal: chmod +x bin/darwin/save3ds_fuse

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It works! Wow! This is awesome! Thank you for this tool and for the quick replies!

Is there a wildcard term you can supply so that it can automatically do it for every cia file in the folder?

 

[ihaveahax]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It works! Wow! This is awesome! Thank you for this tool and for the quick replies!

Is there a wildcard term you can supply so that it can automatically do it for every cia file in the folder?

Most UNIX terminals (like macOS) support wildcards themselves so you can do that right now (e.g. *.cia will send every file ending in .cia to the program).

 

[noducksgiven]

Most UNIX terminals (like macOS) support wildcards themselves so you can do that right now (e.g. *.cia will send every file ending in .cia to the program).

Very awesome! I'm installing ~45GB of .cia files currently, I could cry...



Edit: Just wanted to update my 2 cents. It took less than 30 min to install those files, which is amazing. For a few titles (2-3 out of 30+) it didn't show up on my home screen. I fiddled with trying to use custom-install-finalize again (running it again after running it once didn't do anything), redoing custom-install for those CIAs (it could take 2-3 tries), or using FBI to grab the seed (worked for one title). I think someone else a few pages back also reported that they had to try to re-install the CIA a few times before it showed up. Overall, the tool works great, I have no complains and don't care about these minor fiddling I had to do, and I'm again grateful for the support on this forum. Cheers and stay safe all.

 

[felixsrg]

Hello, just discovered this project and wanted to say, thank you very much! was able to make the GUI version work perfectly with my Mac.

 

[wrsg]

Is it a known problem with the script that once the cia is copied to the sd card and it asks you to run custom-install-finalize that it says

Reading /cifinish.bin...
Couldn't find TITLE magic for entry, skipping.

And then nothing happens and the game still doesn't appear in the launcher?

 

[Drflash55]

Is this supposed to be faster than how FBI handles installation of .CIA's on the SD card itself?

Chances are, people move the .CIA file to the SD card itself and then FBI installs it from there, so I'm not sure if this is meant to be any faster.

 

[MarioKartFan]

Is this supposed to be faster than how FBI handles installation of .CIA's on the SD card itself?

Yes, much, much faster. The SD card read and write speeds on the 3DS are abysmal.

 

[Retrospectre]

I'm trying to install Pokemon Ultra Moon, but I get this error:

PS F:\CIA\custom-install-master> py -3 custom-install.py -b boot9.bin -m movable.sed --sd H:\ PokemonUltraMoon.cia
Finding path to install to...
Reading CIA...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "custom-install.py", line 92, in <module>
    cia = CIAReader(c)
  File "F:\CIA\custom-install-master\pyctr\types\cia.py", line 83, in __init__
    raise InvalidCIAError('Archive Header Size is not 0x2020')
pyctr.types.cia.InvalidCIAError: Archive Header Size is not 0x2020

The custom-install Github page says I should use a seeddb.bin file somehow, I downloaded it from the link in that page but how do I actually use it? Do I need to add an extra argument to the python command? A different game did work though, Apollo Justice; Ace Attorney, which is in the Seed DB list but didn't give any errors.
I've never used custom-install or Python before, so I might be missing something. Can anyone help out?

 

[Plasmaster09]

If you only ever install signed games that the system already has a ticket for from the eShop, you could do that, if you somehow obtain the title contents without having a system to get them from. This is not really worth it though.

theoretically, you could make the ticket a la faketik without ever having to fully hack the 3ds

 

[ihaveahax]

theoretically, you could make the ticket a la faketik without ever having to fully hack the 3ds

Only Nintendo can create valid signed tickets accepted by the unmodified firmware, anything else would require signature checks to be patched out.

 

[Plasmaster09]

Only Nintendo can create valid signed tickets accepted by the unmodified firmware, anything else would require signature checks to be patched out.

ah right
wonder if there's a way to use the firmware dump and other info gained from the standard seedminer cfw process to unencrypt or reencrypt valid tickets

 

[Plasmaster09]

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Spencer\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1705, in __call__
return self.func(*args)
File "C:\Users\Spencer\Downloads\custom-install-module-new-gui\gui.py", line 54, in on_click
self.callback()
File "C:\Users\Spencer\Downloads\custom-install-module-new-gui\gui.py", line 376, in run
print(f"Running custom-install.py with args {args}\n")
NameError: name 'args' is not defined
Um... what do I do??

 

[basuo]

wow speed increase is impressive, i'll give it a try.

 

[0xabad1dea]

can anyone give me the link for gui. i cant find it

 

[masenko]

can anyone give me the link for gui. i cant find it

https://github.com/ihaveamac/custom-install/archive/module-new-gui.zip

 

[I''S]

Using CMD I don't have problems, but with gui version I get this after that I click run. Can you help me to fix this? Thanks!

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python38\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1883, in __call__
return self.func(*args)
File "C:\Users\tsuhi\Documents\CIA INSTALL\gui.py", line 54, in on_click
self.callback()
File "C:\Users\tsuhi\Documents\CIA INSTALL\gui.py", line 376, in run
print(f"Running custom-install.py with args {args}\n")
NameError: name 'args' is not defined

 

[Plasmaster09]

Using CMD I don't have problems, but with gui version I get this after that I click run. Can you help me to fix this? Thanks!

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python38\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1883, in __call__
return self.func(*args)
File "C:\Users\tsuhi\Documents\CIA INSTALL\gui.py", line 54, in on_click
self.callback()
File "C:\Users\tsuhi\Documents\CIA INSTALL\gui.py", line 376, in run
print(f"Running custom-install.py with args {args}\n")
NameError: name 'args' is not defined

I had the same problem. If you edit the code for gui.py and search for "args", you'll eventually find the "Running custom-install.py with args {args}" line. Simply edit that to remove the call to args and it works fine!

 

[ihaveahax]

Here is a new version of custom-install-finalize. This supports all 3 versions of cifinish.bin, so this should be an end to all the issues related to "TITLE magic not found" and such.

https://github.com/ihaveamac/custom-install/releases/tag/finalize-1.3

I also started up a new server on Discord for help and announcements. Feel free to stop by. https://discord.gg/YVuFUrs (Please do not come here asking how to obtain games.)

 

[ihaveahax]

This issue of "args" not being defined was fixed in the latest commit on module-new-gui.

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Spencer\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1705, in __call__
return self.func(*args)
File "C:\Users\Spencer\Downloads\custom-install-module-new-gui\gui.py", line 54, in on_click
self.callback()
File "C:\Users\Spencer\Downloads\custom-install-module-new-gui\gui.py", line 376, in run
print(f"Running custom-install.py with args {args}\n")
NameError: name 'args' is not defined
Um... what do I do??

Using CMD I don't have problems, but with gui version I get this after that I click run. Can you help me to fix this? Thanks!

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python38\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1883, in __call__
return self.func(*args)
File "C:\Users\tsuhi\Documents\CIA INSTALL\gui.py", line 54, in on_click
self.callback()
File "C:\Users\tsuhi\Documents\CIA INSTALL\gui.py", line 376, in run
print(f"Running custom-install.py with args {args}\n")
NameError: name 'args' is not defined

I had the same problem. If you edit the code for gui.py and search for "args", you'll eventually find the "Running custom-install.py with args {args}" line. Simply edit that to remove the call to args and it works fine!

 

[chronoss]

I have the solution on Discord