Just chill dude, there's things going on that you don't know about that are not public. It's more difficult to make an auto patcher because of patch 3 and the amount changes between firmware versions. However I am sure if you wait a little while something will be released. It's better for everyone if ALL the bugs are ironed out and we all fully understand the patches, before anything gets released. There's more than enough info now on this thread now so that quite a few people will know how to make patches, and things have been simplified greatly already. Patience is a virtue!
Hacking Discussion Info on SHA-256 hashes on FS patches
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Ok thought of a good workaround to fix the patches :-)
In the batch file you created you can also search for this: SDK Version: xxx, then create a text file with the sdk version, that can then be read by the makeips file.
Example:
Firmware 11.0.1
SDK Version: 11.4.0.0
Version: 11.0.0-1280 (738198784)
Firmware 10.2
SDK Version: 10.4.0.0
Version: 10.1.0-256 (672137472)
Then in your makeips file, use 2 sets of patches - 1 set for firmware with SDK version 10 or less use patch set 1, if the SDK version is greater than 10 - use patch set 2. That way if the patches change again on higher sdk, that patch set could also be added to the script easily. That would be an easy way to solve our problem.
This was added to the end of the python file to check sdk version & create a txt file containing that info:
Output:
Next - read data in makeips file and check if greater than: xxx - example:
Ok thought of a good workaround to fix the patches :-)
In the batch file you created you can also search for this: SDK Version: xxx, then create a text file with the sdk version, that can then be read by the makeips file.
Example:
Firmware 11.0.1
SDK Version: 11.4.0.0
Version: 11.0.0-1280 (738198784)
Firmware 10.2
SDK Version: 10.4.0.0
Version: 10.1.0-256 (672137472)
Then in your makeips file, use 2 sets of patches - 1 set for firmware with SDK version 10 or less use patch set 1, if the SDK version is greater than 10 - use patch set 2. That way if the patches change again on higher sdk, that patch set could also be added to the script easily. That would be an easy way to solve our problem.
This was added to the end of the python file to check sdk version & create a txt file containing that info:
Code:
outlines = subprocess.check_output(['hactool','--keyset=' + keyset,'--disablekeywarns', FIRMWARE_DIR + '/' + ES_NCA])
for line in outlines.splitlines():
line = line.decode('ascii').replace(" ","")
if line.startswith("SDKVersion:"):
f = open("sdk.txt", "w")
f.write((line).replace("SDKVersion:", "").replace(".", ""))
f.close()
#read back file to make sure our file got created properly...
f = open("sdk.txt", "r")
data = f.read()
f.close()
print("SDK:" + data)
breakOutput:
Next - read data in makeips file and check if greater than: xxx - example:
Code:
f = open("sdk.txt", "r")
data = f.read()
f.close()
value = int(data)
if value < 11400:
patterns = patterns2
else:
patterns = patterns1
Last edited by mrdude,
Done! Got the ES patches bit finished. Don't know If I can share or not as it uses some code that was not made by me + plus it's a bit "hacky", but generates all the right patches for now. If I get the OK from the person that gave me the code, I'll post, but maybe they want to change some stuff first or keep it private. I expect you'll find out soon. But at least that's me done with this now :-)
fingers crossed that he/she/non binary allows the use of it then, because this will be a real game changer
Agree 100%.
With these scripts and proper documentation, we won't have to worry as much about sigpatches or Nintendo going after repositories that host them.
With this, users can easily generate their own patches.
Mate, I love these kind of threads... where adults work together in harmony to create great software for the benefit of everyone
It really brings me back to the days just before a9lh with Dark Samus and all the guys working on it on freenode (i think), those were really good days
Test version for 9.2.0 to 11.0.1
Here you go (for testing), edit run.bat to point to the key file, python location, firmware you want to generate es patches for. Then click on run.bat. Or you can just put keys.dat and a folder called firmware (containing firmware files), into the same folder as you extract these files.
*Remember though, patches can and do change from time to time so maybe this won't work in the next firmware version...tested from 9.20 - to 11.0.1 and generates proper patches.
I tried to mod this as best I could with my limited python knowledge, so there's lots of room for improvement, so feel free to update and post as necessary. Thanks to crckd/darkmattercore and all the others that helped on this thread + to unknown for the juicy patches and code....
*Remember though, patches can and do change from time to time so maybe this won't work in the next firmware version...tested from 9.20 - to 11.0.1 and generates proper patches.
I tried to mod this as best I could with my limited python knowledge, so there's lots of room for improvement, so feel free to update and post as necessary. Thanks to crckd/darkmattercore and all the others that helped on this thread + to unknown for the juicy patches and code....
Awesome work you all.
I put a "Important post" on it, so people that don't wanna scurry through the whole thread can find it easier.
Thanks, you should also put important on this one for the FS patches.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/info-on-sha-256-hashes-on-fs-patches.581550/page-4#post-9344375
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1: Clean up/mod/improve scripts and write a batch/bash menu to incorporate loader/fw/es patches into 1 tool.
2: Create a windows standalone GUI program so we use without python.
3: Maybe some dev with good c++ coding knowledge can make this work directly from the switch?
Now that we know the basics, I think this will be next.
1: Clean up/mod/improve scripts and write a batch/bash menu to incorporate loader/fw/es patches into 1 tool.
2: Create a windows standalone GUI program so we use without python.
3: Maybe some dev with good c++ coding knowledge can make this work directly from the switch?
yes 1 es file for 1 firmware version 2 FS = 1 FS for Fat32 and 1 for ExFat and 1 for loader
Thanks, is it possible to know which is for fat32 and which for exfat? Not really that important but interesting to know.
the script first makes for ExFat and then for Fat32 you can see which is which in the command window
for 11.0.1 ExFat is
0BA15BB304B505633B6DA6B2C6E991B6A06EBAFB3378DF02BF6B494075976F06
and 11.0.1 Fat32 is
E399156E844EB0AA3CC5152979961C879F5E90696C1224A1BBE0FF1BCDBFD7DC
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