Hacking Neimod making progress, nothing released

[3DSGuy]

You know.... I wonder if Codejunkies has hit up neimod about this at all... Just a thought...

You forget, Neimod isn't doing this by himself, IIRC, it was yellows8 who did the final yards in creating a way to generate a proper save game MAC.

 

[Thorhian]

You forget, Neimod isn't doing this by himself, IIRC, it was yellows8 who did the final yards in creating a way to generate a proper save game MAC.

Oh, thanks for the info!

 

[McHaggis]

Well with game ROMs dumped, the NCSD header (or as you say 'cart header') isn't encrypted in ROM form. The *real* trick here is generating a new MAC for the edited save. I wouldn't expect a method to be revealed until a save hack is found, and even then I have my doubts the MAC generation method would become public.

But if those guys strongly believe an exploit cannot come from save game hacking, I don't see the harm in releasing the MAC generation method. It seems like something that would be more difficult to patch than simply increasing the length of the XOR key. Unless they want to prevent stuff like hacked items affecting online play (like in KI:Uprising).