Homebrew How do I flag a CIA file as homebrew?

Searinox · Feb 25, 2018

I have some offline out of region titles I'd like to flag to behave like Homebrew in the sense that they show a Homebrew splash on launch and Luma would make them show up as Download Play when online. I have the CIAs. What do I have to do to flag them as homebrew?

ThoD · Feb 25, 2018

Nothing, you can't "flag" as homebrew. Homebrew is .3dsx files and the like, not games. Just play them normally.

Searinox · Feb 25, 2018

What? Homebrew exists in CIA format just as in 3DSX format.

ThoD · Feb 25, 2018

Searinox said:
What? Homebrew exists in CIA format just as in 3DSX format.

So? You can't make a game into homebrew just like that. Just because you can turn .3dsx into .CIA, doesn't mean you can just simply do the reverse.

Searinox · Feb 25, 2018

So I don't have anything I can modify in a CIA header to make Luma apply the usual Homebrew safeguards? Bummer.

ThoD · Feb 25, 2018

The most you can do is change the headers and banners to make it appear like a different game or from a different region, pretty good for hiding that it's out-of-region, since you seem to be looking to hide that (afraid of ban or something?:/). Extract CIA, find the HeaderFS, edit it accordingly, then change the banners too and repackage.

ihaveahax · Feb 25, 2018

if you want it to appear as "download play" or anything else instead, use it as 3dsx instead. there is no "homebrew" flag for a CIA, and the startup "Homebrew" splash is just a different logo that has no other effect.

Searinox · Feb 25, 2018

ihaveamac said:
if you want it to appear as "download play" or anything else instead, use it as 3dsx instead. there is no "homebrew" flag for a CIA, and the startup "Homebrew" splash is just a different logo that has no other effect.

Sadly there's no way to convert games to 3dsx or everybody'd be doing it.

ihaveahax · Feb 25, 2018

Searinox said:
Sadly there's no way to convert games to 3dsx or everybody'd be doing it.

then you have no choice.

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