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In the past I've used the Tinfoil web site a lot to check what and how much DLC is available for a game. Lately I noticed tinfoil.io seems to be down more often than not. Sometimes it seems to be up and running for a day, but the next day it's a whole bunch of blank pages with 503 errors again. I checked out tinfoil.media after seeing someone on Reddit suggest that, but it's still a mess where some pages show and others still give 503 errors.

Does anyone know what's going on with tinfoil? And if it's end of the line for tinfoil, are there any alternatives for it? It's the only reasonable way I know how to check for metadata about patches and DLC...
 
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You have all Metadata except for US titles json that tinfoil.io uses here
https://github.com/blawar/titledb

You can try to find out how to parse data from here to find what you want.

503 error comes probably from the overworked server that must parse huge json (120+ MB) server side for every single connection.

So it depends on when you check site if it shows error or not
 
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masagrator said:
You have all Metadata except for US titles json that tinfoil.io uses here
https://github.com/blawar/titledb

You can try to find out how to parse data from here to find what you want.

503 error comes probably from the overworked server that must parse huge json (120+ MB) server side for every single connection.

So it depends on when you check site if it shows error or not
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Well, the thing that bothers me is that except for the last few months, I've never seen it being this bad. It's like the site spends more time being partially down than active while I never noticed that before. I'm sure it's had downtime in the past, but the site has been borderline unusable for over a month and as a result I can't maintain my Switch library the way I've done it the last few years. Surely this can't be business as usual?

I always give my DLC files meaningful names so I can recognize what they're for. Title IDs for names are a huge no-no for me. On the tinfoil.io site there's always the additional content (DLC) section where I can translate these title IDs to actual names. It lso helps me verify if my DLC collection is complete for my games. So if I got some Splatoon 3 DLC for example, I would want to call it something like "Wave 1 - Inkopolis" instead of some DLC title ID.

I can't tell from that github page at a glance how often this data is updated and whether and how I can use it to identify all the DLC files for my games. It's OK if I have to provide a game's title ID to retrieve a list of DLC, but it would also be insanely usefull if I can look up title IDs by name, since some games got different regional releases with different patches and DLC items.
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For checking whether there's a new update or DLC available for the games I have on my Switch, I use NX Update Checker from time to time. Note that you'll still have to find those update and DLC files on your own, though.
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Unfortunately that doesn't looks like something that suits my purposes. My bad for not saying so, but I want to do my DLC file checking offline on my PC, since I keep my Switch offline all the time and I don't got my full library installed at once due to limited space. I need to be able to maintain the DLC for my game library at all times and not just for games that I currently installed on my SD card.
 
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Nynrah said:
Unfortunately that doesn't looks like something that suits my purposes. My bad for not saying so, but I want to do my DLC file checking offline on my PC, since I keep my Switch offline all the time and I don't got my full library installed at once due to limited space. I need to be able to maintain the DLC for my game library at all times and not just for games that I currently installed on my SD card.
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try archiving instead of deleting, and see if the app will recognize the games?

archiving keeps a stub in the list instead of completely removing it, so it might be able to see the game as installed and look updates and dlc for it anyway

then just use the versions.txt file instead of doing it online

or actually just try this instead

https://github.com/trembon/switch-library-manager
 
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4d1xlaan said:
try archiving instead of deleting, and see if the app will recognize the games?

archiving keeps a stub in the list instead of completely removing it, so it might be able to see the game as installed and look updates and dlc for it anyway

then just use the versions.txt file instead of doing it online

or actually just try this instead

https://github.com/trembon/switch-library-manager
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I'm not sure what you mean by archiving instead of deleting.

This switch library manager looks like it could have some use, but unfortunately the GUI won't do much for me unless I hook up my HDD that contains my Switch library, which I normally do once every two months as I synchronize content to the HDD. Fortunately I can still open the titles.json file to manually look up info. It is not the most user-friendly way to do it, but at least it's something I can fall back on when the tinfoil website isn't available. So thanks for that.
 
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I'm not sure what you mean by archiving instead of deleting.
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https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22333/~/how-to-archive-software

you should probably try explaining up front your situation and your use case, because it seems every time someone suggests something that could do what you want, you come up with some reason or another why it's not actually good for your situation that you had never mentioned yet. so if you want help finding a solution that would actually work according to your setup you might want to tell us what other hidden constraints you have

anyway use https://titledblookup.stackblitz.io/

select a title db json for the region and language you need, search game title, it will list all updates under each game if you "click to see title updates"

to see the game with available dlc then copy the game's title id and remove the last 4 digits, paste that into the search box and search for that. it will show the game alongside each dlc, with each dlc's title id and the actual dlc name. the only thing is that dlc dont seem to be listed in alphabetical title id order, which might be less convenient than tinfoil website
 
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4d1xlaan said:
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22333/~/how-to-archive-software

you should probably try explaining up front your situation and your use case, because it seems every time someone suggests something that could do what you want, you come up with some reason or another why it's not actually good for your situation that you had never mentioned yet. so if you want help finding a solution that would actually work according to your setup you might want to tell us what other hidden constraints you have

anyway use https://titledblookup.stackblitz.io/

select a title db json for the region and language you need, search game title, it will list all updates under each game if you "click to see title updates"

to see the game with available dlc then copy the game's title id and remove the last 4 digits, paste that into the search box and search for that. it will show the game alongside each dlc, with each dlc's title id and the actual dlc name. the only thing is that dlc dont seem to be listed in alphabetical title id order, which might be less convenient than tinfoil website
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Just to be clear, I'm not holding back details just so I can shoot down everyone on purpose. To me it seemed like the most obvious thing that I was looking for an alternative means of manually checking for DLC when I posted the thread, considering the start situation mentioned is a website as that's got manual actions written all over it. I usually get faulted for explaining too much and tried to keep it simple for a change.

Anyway, just to prevent any misunderstandings, here's the use case:
- I work exclusively on my PC
- I manually obtain patch and DLC updates on my PC
- Whenever I am checking out a DLC update, I look at tinfoil.io to see what DLC is available and use their info to translate the title IDs to regular names
- Once every 1-2 months I synchronize all the new stuff to my HDD that contains my Switch library and at less regular intervals I synchronize with a back-up HDD.

TL;DR: I want to manually check DLC info from my PC to look up the available DLC per game and translate title IDs to real names and I want to do it without requiring the base game files to be present (ergo, without the HDD connected).

I gave that titledblookup site a try. From the look of it I can use this as a fallback option when the tinfoil site is down (which seems to be almost all the time anyway). It's better than going through a json file by hand and it seems to contain the same info that tinfoil displays, even if it is slightly less convenient (hence Plan B). Some games don't seem to be up to date, but that was also the case over at tinfoil. As long as this site's database updates with the same frequency as tinfoil, it looks good.
 
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I gave that titledblookup site a try. From the look of it I can use this as a fallback option when the tinfoil site is down (which seems to be almost all the time anyway). It's better than going through a json file by hand and it seems to contain the same info that tinfoil displays, even if it is slightly less convenient (hence Plan B). Some games don't seem to be up to date, but that was also the case over at tinfoil. As long as this site's database updates with the same frequency as tinfoil, it looks good.
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it might not be good for your use case, because the site doesnt show dlc updates and the author explicitly didnt care about adding that when someone pointed it out

what you could do is copy the title id for the dlc and ctrl+f to find it in title db, and compare version numbers, but you probably have a lot of dlc and it would take a long time to manually look them up one by one like this
 
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it might not be good for your use case, because the site doesnt show dlc updates and the author explicitly didnt care about adding that when someone pointed it out

what you could do is copy the title id for the dlc and ctrl+f to find it in title db, and compare version numbers, but you probably have a lot of dlc and it would take a long time to manually look them up one by one like this
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I hadn't paid attention to the DLC version too much. I haven't kept track of the versions for my DLC, both in their names as well as in the spreadsheet where I write down the title IDs per game, the update version and how many DLC items I got.

Sometimes when I get a new batch of DLC files and it has files that I already got, I checked over at tinfoil.io if there's a higher version number than v0 listed for those items. If it did, I would replace my file with that one. Usually it's manageable, unless you got a game with a huge amount of DLC like Monster Hunter Rise.

It can be laborious, but I think it should suffice as long as it is possible to check.
 
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For checking whether there's a new update or DLC available for the games I have on my Switch, I use NX Update Checker from time to time. Note that you'll still have to find those update and DLC files on your own, though.
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"Yep, an update for your game exists, but fuck you, get it on your own."
What a useless homebrew. The HorizonOS (OFW) could have told me that.
 
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That's why I use UpThemAll
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I just installed it, but apparently I can't get it to work. There are these three buttons, but pushing them doesn't seem to have any effect. Do I need anything else other than the NRO file? There is no README in the repository.
P.S. Sorry for the OT
 
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