ROM Hack Converting modified files to installable .cia format?

[sammielily2]

Hey all,

I'm working on getting a randomizer of Pokemon Omega Ruby going, but I'd like to have it as an installable .cia instead of a patch applied with layeredfs. I keep being told there is a way to do it, but I haven't had much luck so far.

I'm dumping my own copy of the game for use, and I found a program that is supposed to make them installable .CIAs, but I think I'm missing a couple things and don't know how to get them from my game.

The program is the .Net3DSToolkit, and it says I'm missing the ExHeader file. How do I go about getting that from my game?

I hope this all makes sense, I've been working through this for the past couple days. Thanks!

 

[sammielily2]

Bump (please tell me if it's not allowed to bump threads, I don't recall seeing any rules regarding threads but I may have missed it.)

I think I need the ExHeader file, but I am not sure how to get this from my game. Does anybody know how to and would be willing to help guide me through it?

 

[Foxi4]

Bumping is indeed not allowed. If someone has the answers you seek, they will no doubt find your thread eventually. In the meantime you can look for answers in similar topics, you might find what you're looking for yourself.

 

[sammielily2]

Thank you very much! My apologies. Figured I'd ask as I haven't found anything regarding what I'm looking for yet.

 

[Foxi4]

To be fair, extracting the header shouldn't be too hard, nor should the conversion. Our site has a list of utilities that might help.

https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/List_of_3DS_PC_utilities

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

Hey all,

I'm working on getting a randomizer of Pokemon Omega Ruby going, but I'd like to have it as an installable .cia instead of a patch applied with layeredfs. I keep being told there is a way to do it, but I haven't had much luck so far.

I'm dumping my own copy of the game for use, and I found a program that is supposed to make them installable .CIAs, but I think I'm missing a couple things and don't know how to get them from my game.

The program is the .Net3DSToolkit, and it says I'm missing the ExHeader file. How do I go about getting that from my game?

I hope this all makes sense, I've been working through this for the past couple days. Thanks!

you could extract the cia modify it and then re pack it

 

[Foxi4]

If I understand correctly, you have a retail copy that you're dumping to a *.3DS file which you then want to convert into an installable *.CIA, in which case this should help:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-3ds-simple-cia-converter.384559/

 

[sammielily2]

Right, but I'm modifying it first with the .Net3DSToolkit. This creates a patch I can apply with LayeredFS, but I'm interested in having the modified ROM available as an installable .CIA as well.

If that's considered piracy in any way, I'll just stick to patches. But I wanted to know how to do the above as it's what I'm used to, with NDS and GBA roms in the past.

I'll be taking a closer look at those links, and trying a couple different things soon. Thank you so much for your help, and I'm sorry for the trouble.

 

[Foxi4]

Once you patch the file the procedure should be exactly the same, but I'm no expert.