Hello guys, this is my first post here! I just got a MIG Switch card out of curiosity and I was tinkering with it. For those who don't know, it's used by placing XCI dumps as well as other game specific bin files in the sd card of the MIG Switch, and are obtained from the original cartridge by using an app like nxdumptool. Two of these bin files are mandatory to get the game to boot: Initial Data.bin and Certificate.bin. They stay the same for every cartridge of a specific game. Now, if you want to use an XCI dump from a shady website it's impossible to get it to work without those files. By using the Certificate.bin from another game it has no problem, but this does not count for the Initial Data.bin. So I looked for a way to obtain this Initial Data from an XCI file and read a bit of the XCI file documentation from switchbrew dot org. Here's what I understood so far: The Switch checks if the cartridge is valid by doing a challenge–response authentication on the Initial Data. The Package ID is contained both on the XCI and the Initial Data, on positions 0x110 and 0x0 respectively. The Initial Data hash is on the XCI at position 0x160. It is calculated by doing a SHA-256 hash on the full Initial Data content. So I was wondering, is there a way to to construct a functional Initial Data file starting from an XCI dump? I also tried a reverse approach by editing the Package ID in the Initial Data from another game, generating the Initial Data hash and putting it in the XCI file but is not enough to get the Switch believe it's a real game. Sorry if this may seem stupid but let me know what you think.

mig switch not working/updating??

stickybit · 2024-03-28T19:59:51+00:00

just got my mig switch and followed instructions to the T to update it and all im getting is a red light and then a message saying cart not recognised, all im trying to do is update it to the latest firmware, it says it should flash blue when...

Gaming The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV Patch fr, es, de if is possible to make it?

Thread starter Dohk
Start date Apr 14, 2021
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Dohk

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Apr 14, 2021

Just like for Story of Seasons would it be possible to make a patch in Fr, es, de and other languages, if so how should it be taken?

FAST6191

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Apr 14, 2021

Patch for what?

If it is a basic bug fix, gameplay tweak, cheat or something then yeah you usually just find where the code ended up instead and redo what was done in this new location. Sometimes the people doing localisation might have changed things (occasionally the European division and North American divisions of companies do entirely separate work and may or may not squash some bugs along the way) but usually not.

If you mean straight up translation then also possible. Just a normal translation which usually takes quite a bit of time to do as you have to figure out the formats, expand what needs expanding (characters in the font maybe if there are all accents and punctuation not available/used in English) and do it.