Hacking differences between nsp and xci files?

symish · Jul 18, 2018

Hi

what are the concrete differences between these 2 formats? I already have 25 games in xci nad was wondering if replacing them in .nsp is worthy.

I'd also lik to play pokemon quest but I did not understand how, also following the tutorial. Is a game downloadable for free from the eshop?

Can anyone help me? thank you

M7L7NK7 · Jul 18, 2018

Xci is a cartridge dump and nsp are eshop files

V-Temp · Jul 18, 2018

NSP will get you banned.

XCI might get you banned.

Deleted-442439 · Jul 18, 2018

XCI = Cart image

NSP = Nintendo Submission Package. It is what devs use to submit games to the Eshop and also what is downloaded from the Eshop. Think of it has a .apk on Switch.

As for Pokemon Quest: Are you not capable of searching the Eshop yourself?

Glisern · Jul 18, 2018

If you've done CFW on a 3DS, then XCI can be compared to .3ds files, and NSP to .cia

TicinoLX · Jul 18, 2018

V-Temp said:
NSP will get you banned.

XCI might get you banned.

And yet this has to be proven first

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V-Temp · Jul 18, 2018

KuroTheBang said:
And yet this has to be proven first

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NSPs have to be bought to be on a system. If your account doesn't own it, a pile of NSPs shouldn't be on the system. XCIs are cart, there's no way to differentiate them unless a bunch of headers repeat and try to access online services simultaneously.

symish · Jul 18, 2018

Ok thanks to all.

I imagined that xci could be safer

I dont understand why it’s not possible to get pokemon quest on xci like resident evil

symish · Jul 18, 2018

jjbredesen said:
XCI = Cart image

NSP = Nintendo Submission Package. It is what devs use to submit games to the Eshop and also what is downloaded from the Eshop. Think of it has a .apk on Switch.

As for Pokemon Quest: Are you not capable of searching the Eshop yourself?

Of course Im able, I simply dont know if it’s risky to download The game with sx os inside

SirUseless · Jul 18, 2018

symish said:
Ok thanks to all.

I imagined that xci could be safer

I dont understand why it’s not possible to get pokemon quest on xci like resident evil

If you have a real (hardware) game - a switch game card, then you can dump the files to an xci file and start it with SX OS Backup loader.
But pokemon quest is a download only game. There is no physical version averiable, so you can't create an xci file. You need to use the same format like the devs on the switch do.

symish · Jul 18, 2018

SirUseless said:
If you have a real (hardware) game - a switch game card, then you can dump the files to an xci file and start it with SX OS Backup loader.
But pokemon quest is a download only game. There is no physical version averiable, so you can't create an xci file. You need to use the same format like the devs on the switch do.

I knew that.

Resident evil is only downloadable, but The xci is present

slaphappygamer · Jul 18, 2018

symish said:
I knew that.

Resident evil is only downloadable, but The xci is present

There may be converted games out there. I saw an xci to nps converter. I’m using cdnsp for everything and staying offline. Lol I guess you can say I’m prebanning myself.

Falo · Jul 18, 2018

symish said:
Resident evil is only downloadable, but The xci is present

In EUR & USA the game was released as eShop only, but in japan it was released as game cart.

The Main difference between NSP and XCI is, NSP's have a different encryption and nca settings.
XCI's only use firmware specific masterkeys.
NSP's use masterkeys + rightsId keys.

To fully convert an NSP to XCI, you need to decrypt, modify and re-encrypt all nca files and there is currently no public tool to do this.

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