Hacking Best way to download game updates?

[Drak0rex]

I've been trying to download updates for all my disc games and I'm getting nowhere. There seems to be multiple ways of going about this: Uwizard, NUSgrabber command line, and NEW-NUSgrabber GUI. Right now I'm trying the latter.

I'm trying to download an update for Splatoon. It downloads the files, 71 that I've noticed, but it seems to add data to the files little by little, not downloading each file entirely before going on to the next one. After a while, I get a message saying the title isn't on Nintendo's servers. The total file count then goes back to 69 for some reason.

Is there something else I should try that works better?

 

[Cyan]

Sometime, NUS are in maintenance and files are not on the server (or temporarily not available) anymore.
Try again another day.

I'm using NUSGrabber command line to get the encrypted .app and .h3 files.
I think JNustTool has been updated to download app files too instead of decrypted content. you could try it as a 4th alternative tool.

 

[Drak0rex]

Sometime, NUS are in maintenance and files are not on the server (or temporarily not available) anymore.
Try again another day.

I'm using NUSGrabber command line to get the encrypted .app and .h3 files.
I think JNustTool has been updated to download app files too instead of decrypted content. you could try it as a 4th alternative tool.

Just tell me what I need to type in command because I suck at it. (See the Wiiu Hacking and Homebrew thread)

 

[Cyan]

nusgrabber TitleID_here
that's all.

Splatoon USA latest update :

nusgrabber.exe 0005000E10176900

 

[Drak0rex]

nusgrabber TitleID_here
that's all.

Splatoon USA latest update :

I keep getting garbage like this.

 

[Cyan]

You are missing files in your nusgrabber folder.
you miss wget.exe

Maybe the "definitive package" is not complete. or you extracted only part of that folder.
You can find complete nusgrabber here :
http://wupinstaller.com

 

[Cyan]

You can also try JNUSTool :
https://gbatemp.net/threads/jnustool-nusgrabber-and-cdecrypt-combined.413179/

you need to set the common key in the config file.
Then run the jar (double click on it).
select the game you want the update and select "download encrypted files"
You can select the version you want to download, set to "latest" if the version you want is not listed

 

[Drak0rex]

@Cyan, When I used NEW NUSgrabber gui it downloaded a total of 71 files and gave me an error message, after which there were only 69 files for the Splatoon update. After using the command line, it has 69 files and weighs 580 MB (609,005,392 bytes)
Size on disk: 580 MB (609,136,640 bytes) Is there any way to verify how many files and how large the update should be?

it has nothing to do with intelligence to solve some problems, it has to do with the way you walk

try something you read -> if it doesnt work read the description/post/followup again exactly to the end

and try again if it doesnt works search for alternatives and start over

and dont post the same question in 3 Threads

ENOUGH. LEAVE ME ALONE.

 

[FunThomas]

i got the same size if you are getting the US-Version176 using nusgrabber or jnustool

 

[Cyan]

Don't fight here please.
We are all trying to help and get help.
If it's the 54th times something is asked, what's the problem ? just answered it for the 54th times or pass your way if you don't want to help anymore. someone else will help (or not) but it's not worth fighting for that.


Thank you for answering him about the update size.
There's another way to check if you have all the files, it's by opening the tmd file in a tmd parser and check how many content it has.
but it's not useful to know if the downloaded app file is complete or broken.

Another good way to check if your download is complete is to look at NUSgrabber log !
check each downloaded file, if they are 100% or not (you have the "downloaded size/full size" info for each download)
1254/1254 <-- good
1230/1254 <-- bad

 

[FunThomas]

There's another way to check if you have all the files, it's by opening the tmd file in a tmd parser and check how many content it has.

Hi Cyan,

can you advise some good tmd parser ?

I tried the one from trap15-3dshax for 3ds but the shown information is maybe not right/complete for the wiiu.

 

[Cyan]

I made my own with HexWorkshop structure feature, but I guess it's not a "good" one.
it's only useful to check some values, but it doesn't extract or output nice names (like list of .app, list or .h3, etc.)

https://gbatemp.net/attachments/wii_tmd-zip.36518/

Add to the struct folder, then load the file in hexworkshop.
To parse the file, click on "{+}" button in the structure window, and select "_tmd_wiiu" with locked offset starting at address 0x00
There are maybe length mistakes or wrongly named elements, sorry about that. it's not official, I just did it for my own use.

 

[FunThomas]

i installed hexworkshop and put your *.hsl file under structures subdir

then i open the title.tmd from the update dir of jnustool and stelected the structure Wii_TMD.hsl and refreshed the structure

should it show something in the structure view ?

 

[Cyan]

once your tmd file is loaded, and you have the wii_tmd.hsl loaded, you have to apply the structure to the file to "highlight" the file offset.
on the structure windows, select "TMD Structure (wii_tmd.hsl)" in the dropdown menu, then click on {+} button.
Select "_tmd_wiiU" on the left, and "locked document/offset" on the right, with starting offset 0

now you should see in the structure window a list of data.
at the bottom, you have "content info" you can open, and each content are divided in sub-inf like :
cid
index
type
size
hash
etc.

number of content in the last node is dependent of the "num_contents" value found in the tmd header.

 

[FunThomas]

thanx for your answer but now i'm not sure how to check if all is complete ;-)

under contents are 35 items [0..34]
under conetntinfos are 64 items [0..63]
but the update directory has 69 files inside, if i dont count the 3 title*-files there are still 66 and not 64

is the size somewhere displayed ?

 

[Cyan]

content_info is always 64 in size, even though only one data is available. I don't know its purpose.

the contents (you have 35 items) means that you should have 35 .app files.
it lists their filename (cid), type and size so you can check if they are complete.
the "type" lets you know if there's a .h3 associated to the .app (I forgot which type it is, sorry. I can check it)
edit:
content type 0x2003 has .h3 file.

content type 0x2003:
[cid].app
[cid].h3

other type:
[cid].app


so, with this information you can verify that you downloaded all the needed files and their size:
tmd, cert, .app and .h3

Usually, the first 3 contents (type 0x2001) contains the rpx, app.xml and cos.xml files.
they don't comes with .h3 files.


Like I said, it's only a way to parse the tmd and not a way to use the data. But it would be easy to make a tool to check if the download is complete by checking if all .app and .h3 are present and their size.
unfortunately, the hash value present in the content info is for the decrypted content, so the checksum can't be used to verify if the downloaded file is correct without de-encrypting all the files. But the file size is already good enough to check if the download was fine or ended with error.

 

[Kakkoii]

I keep getting garbage like this.

Don't put a V before the version number. Only put the number...

 

[Drak0rex]

Don't put a V before the version number. Only put the number...

I didn't. Thanks though.

 

[Drak0rex]

Is there any rule of thumb on how long to wait when installing updates?

 

[FunThomas]

it depends on the speed of your sd-card, i read long time ago a rule of 15min per 400MB and it worked well for me