Hacking Manually updating romfs.bin for backups

[huma_dawii]

your update is 1 file only?

the updates i got from online are like this;
update 1 = 71.6 MB
update 2 = 74.4 MB
update 3 = 75.8 MB
update 4 = 105 MB
update 5 = 110 MB
update 6 = 143 MB

Hmm.. not that i think about it... the update file size keeps increasing... let me test something out
im goign to use the last update (biggest file size) and run the game with that update only

(this will take an hour or so .. transfer takes forever)

Yes only one file! 146mb

 

[HoTsHoTz79]

Yes only one file! 146mb

awesome, thanks for confirming... be back in 40 min~ish

 

[huma_dawii]

awesome, thanks for confirming... be back in 40 min~ish

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That's very slow D:

 

[HoTsHoTz79]

That's very slow D:

i tried USB - SD Card Adapter, its almost the same speed... and too much hassle (remove sd, plug, copy, paste)

 

[Assasin1990]

i tried USB - SD Card Adapter, its almost the same speed... and too much hassle (remove sd, plug, copy, paste)

i just wrote an updater.bat for our pain lel , to make it easyer

 

[huma_dawii]

i just wrote an updater.bat for our pain lel , to make it easyer

where is it?

 

[HoTsHoTz79]

While the file was being transfered, i decided to try and update Splatoon 2 to Ver 2.3.3 and was successful
So copying over that to test that out incase Xenoblade fails...

Also side note:
Xenoblade Chronocles 2 DLCs
There are 5 DLCs (+ Voice Pack DLC) all with following data:
Section 0

Partition Type: RomFS​

Expected: Section 1 with partition type of RomFS
So cannot hactool and merge them together

Unless hactool has command for copy "section0 from DLC .nca" and apply onto "section1 of base .nca"
Currently hactool is only working with "Update" patches since both Section 1 of Update .nca and base .nca matches

 

[Assasin1990]

here is it . so you need hactool and keys.ini in the same folder. it will merge romfs and exefs from base.nca with update.nca

--USAGE drag and drop your files

 

[HoTsHoTz79]

Xenoblade update works

 

[huma_dawii]

Xenoblade update works

My layeredFS game doesn boot up in V4 of the SDfiles.

 

[Assasin1990]

so , layeredFS updated Zelda works fine ) v1.3.1

 

[HoTsHoTz79]

My layeredFS game doesn boot up in V4 of the SDfiles.

V4 doesn't work... it started working since V4.1

Also, can confirm it works on my 5.1.0 Switch; SDFiles Ver 5, CTCaer 3.0, Donor Octopath demo 010096000B3EA000

so , layeredFS updated Zelda works fine ) v1.3.1

Nice and interesting that it updates the Ver number... mine doesn't display the Ver being updated but i see a new option 'Event Theatre'

Also, Splatoon 2 failed to load... i tried Dragon Quest Builder (worked before update) and Pokemon Quest as Donor
gives me error "The Software was closed because an error occured."

 

[Assasin1990]

V4 doesn't work... it started working since V4.1

Also, can confirm it works on my 5.1.0 Switch; SDFiles Ver 5, CTCaer 3.0, Donor Octopath demo 010096000B3EA000



Nice and interesting that it updates the Ver number... mine doesn't display the Ver being updated but i see a new option 'Event Theatre'

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Also, Splatoon 2 failed to load... i tried Dragon Quest Builder (worked before update) and Pokemon Quest as Donor
gives me error "The Software was closed because an error occured."

use my .bat you should update exefs files also , not only romfs.bin ... that's why it don't display the game ver

 

[huma_dawii]

so , layeredFS updated Zelda works fine ) v1.3.1

Isnt latest version of Zelda 1.5.0?

 

[Assasin1990]

Isnt latest version of Zelda 1.5.0?

i got the update from the .xci file it self

 

[huma_dawii]

i got the update from the cartridge it self

I thought that is a System update, not a game update.

 

[SG911]

here is it . so you need hactool and keys.ini in the same folder. it will merge romfs and exefs from base.nca with update.nca

--USAGE drag and drop your files

So i know how to get the biggest nca file from other tutorials. How do you find the update nca tho? The correct one that i would be needing. Say for Kirby star allies.

 

[Assasin1990]

I thought that is a System update, not a game update.

 

[HoTsHoTz79]

i got the update from the .xci file it self

>>i was not aware of this... any specific way of doing this?
edit - nevermind you just provided that

OFFTOPIC:

LayeredFS doesn't crash anymore when switching games (SDFiles v5, CTCaer 3.0)
just closed xenoblade (donor octo) and ran fire emblem (donor dragon quest builder) and no crash / or reboot required ... yay!

 

[huma_dawii]

i was not aware of this... any specific way of doing this?

OFFTOPIC:

LayeredFS doesn't crash anymore when switching games
just closed xenoblade (donor octo) and ran fire emblem (donor dragon quest builder) and no crash / or reboot required ... yay!

Yeah that was fixed on V4 xD