Hacking differences between nsp and xci files?

[symish]

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]

Xci is a cartridge dump and nsp are eshop files

 

[V-Temp]

NSP will get you banned.

XCI might get you banned.

 

[Deleted-442439]

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]

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

 

[TicinoLX]

NSP will get you banned.

XCI might get you banned.

And yet this has to be proven first


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[V-Temp]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.