Hacking hactool release by SciresM

[Quantumcat]

hactool is a tool to view information about, decrypt, and extract common file formats for the Nintendo Switch, especially Nintendo Content Archives.

After much work, I'm finally satisfied enough to release a 1.0 build of hactool! The tool currently supports most Switch formats (NCA, XCI, HFS0, PFS0, RomFS, NPDM, Package1, Package2, INI1, KIP1): https://t.co/Ule8e0qwVB

— Michael (@SciresM) February 7, 2018

Github repo: https://github.com/SciresM/hactool/releases/tag/1.2.0

 

[zoogie]

I think this is basically ctrtool for switch.

 

[Someone]

"hactool is a tool to view information about, decrypt, and extract common file formats for the Nintendo Switch, especially Nintendo Content Archives."

 

[theMille]

Noiiiice

 

[BlastedGuy9905]

THEY FINALLY USED THE "HAC" CODE IN A HOMEBREW NAME YES!!!!

 

[TheGreek Boy]

THEY FINALLY USED THE "HAC" CODE IN A HOMEBREW NAME YES!!!!

hactool isn't a homebrew is a tool

 

[AzizR]

Sooo can i decrypt a XCI file ?
and if so, can someone please provide a "howto" tutorial.

 

[GerbilSoft]

Sooo can i decrypt a XCI file ?
and if so, can someone please provide a "howto" tutorial.

Looks like you can, but you need the appropriate keyset. I don't know where to get this, and it probably wouldn't be allowed to be posted here, either.

 

[AzizR]

Looks like you can, but you need the appropriate keyset. I don't know where to get this, and it probably wouldn't be allowed to be posted here, either.

I do have the keyset , and a bunch of XCI files i want to decrypt ... the problem is, i could not figure out how to decrypt them using "hactool"

The keys that i have are :
Package1 Key, Masterkey0, XCI header key and NCA header encrypting key.

But as far as i know , you only need Masterkey0 to decrypt games that run on Firmware 1.0.0 to 2.3.0 .

 

[_n3o_]

I do have the keyset , and a bunch of XCI files i want to decrypt ... the problem is, i could not figure out how to decrypt them using "hactool"

The keys that i have are :
Package1 Key, Masterkey0, XCI header key and NCA header encrypting key.

But as far as i know , you only need Masterkey0 to decrypt games that run on Firmware 1.0.0 to 2.3.0 .

External keys can be provided by the -k/--keyset argument to the a keyset filename. Keyset files are text files containing one key per line, in the form "key_name = HEXADECIMALKEY". Case shouldn't matter, nor should whitespace.

In addition, if -k/--keyset is not set, hactool will check for the presence of a keyset file in $HOME/.switch/prod.keys (or $HOME/.switch/dev.keys if -d/--dev is set). If present, this file will automatically be loaded.

 

[TiMeBoMb4u2]

hactool isn't a homebrew is a tool

Forgive my ignorance, but is "hac" an acronym for something?
I've seen someone guess that it means "Handheld and Console", but I haven't seen anything definitive from any devs.

 

[BlastedGuy9905]

Forgive my ignorance, but is "hac" an acronym for something?
I've seen someone guess that it means "Handheld and Console", but I haven't seen anything definitive from any devs.

You know how for DS it's NTR, DSi is TWL, 3DS is CTR? The Switch is HAC.

 

[TiMeBoMb4u2]

You know how for DS it's NTR, DSi is TWL, 3DS is CTR? The Switch is HAC.

Unfortunately, that does not explain the origin of terms. WHY is it "HAC"?

 

[WiiUBricker]

hactool isn't a homebrew is a tool

Technically speaking it is a tool that was brewed at home.

 

[BlastedGuy9905]

Unfortunately, that does not explain the origin of terms. WHY is it "HAC"?

You could ask the same for all the other consoles. I don't know.

 

[Spectral Blizzard]

Daaaaaaaamn, already?

 

[smileyhead]

Let the games... BEGIN!

 

[WiiUBricker]

Unfortunately, that does not explain the origin of terms. WHY is it "HAC"?

I tried to look it up but there doesn’t seem to be any public information about what “HAC” possibly stands for. Maybe it’s worth a giggle to ask Nintendo Customer Support about it

 

[smileyhead]

Unfortunately, that does not explain the origin of terms. WHY is it "HAC"?

Maybe they misspelled HACC.

 

[bendevnull]

You know how for DS it's NTR, DSi is TWL, 3DS is CTR? The Switch is HAC.

The Switch is NX, not HAC iirc