Hacking NUSPacker not giving results

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I have my NUSPacker .bat file going and everything seems to run fine with no errors, however the out put im given is blank. all i get is an empty tmp and output folder, am i doing something wrong? this my first time trying this so i just want some help with it
 
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Here's a tip: Don't run a .bat file and run the actual .jar file so you get full cmd output.

Also, make sure you're referring to the usage guide.

How do I use it?​


Setup​

To use this, you'll a folder which contains a "code", "content" and "meta" folder. Make sure that the content folder is not empty.

Optional:
To save you some typing you can also create a text file "encryptKeyWith" which contains the common key as hexstring (32 characters). This will be used to encrypt the encryption key.

Pack files​

To pack files, you can use these arguments:

-in ; is the dir where you have your decrypted data. Make this pointing to the root folder with the folder code,content and meta.
-out ; Where the installable package will be saves

(optional! will be parsed from app.xml if missing)
-tID ; titleId of this package. Will be saved in the TMD and provided as 00050000XXXXXXXX
-OSVersion ; target OS version
-appType ; app type
-skipXMLParsing ; disables the app.xml parsing

(optional! defaults values will be used if missing (or loaded from external file))
-encryptionKey ; the key that is used to encrypt the package
-encryptKeyWith ; the key that is used to encrypt the encryption key

In most cases the following command will be totally fine. (make sure to have a valid app.xml)

java -jar NUSPacker.jar -in "inputDir" -out "outputDir"

Without common key stored in file.

java -jar NUSPacker.jar -in "inputDir" -out "outputDir" -encryptKeyWith 12345678123456781234567812345678

and the GitHub page can be found here.
 

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Here's a tip: Don't run a .bat file and run the actual .jar file so you get full cmd output.

Also, make sure you're referring to the usage guide.

How do I use it?​


Setup​

To use this, you'll a folder which contains a "code", "content" and "meta" folder. Make sure that the content folder is not empty.

Optional:
To save you some typing you can also create a text file "encryptKeyWith" which contains the common key as hexstring (32 characters). This will be used to encrypt the encryption key.

Pack files​

To pack files, you can use these arguments:



In most cases the following command will be totally fine. (make sure to have a valid app.xml)



Without common key stored in file.

and the GitHub page can be found here
The thing is, my .bat file runs the .jar program and i can see what its doing in cmd. it just wont give me any results, it says its compressing every file aswell, but once im finished, its just a blank file
 

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Indeed. Only other thing I can think of is the output directory has a space in it without quotes? I do not know if it would error about arguments if so.
 

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I know that it says invalid, but another thread i read said that the filled in key with the 1337 repeating is fine and it should be working
 

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Lets try something then. ZIP your Content, Common, and Meta folders and upload them here. Then I'll run it myself to see if the same thing happens. (If that's allowed anyways)

If so, then that means something's wrong with the files you're using.
Alright i can do that, though it will take a while for the zip to upload to my google drive
 

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Before you actually try to send it I have to ask- What are you trying to pack? If it's something like a game, then you can't upload it here as that'd be considered Warez.
Oh, duh. Im trying to pack a copy of Mario 3D world because i made a bad call and bought a japanese wii u over a NA one. so im trying to make a copy that will still boot on my wii u, but with english text.
 
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Oh, duh. Im trying to pack a copy of Mario 3D world because i made a bad call and bought a japanese wii u over a NA one. so im trying to make a copy that will still boot on my wii u, but with english text.

Oh, just use Tiramisu or Aroma for region free and download the game over NUSspli or WiiUDownloader instead of trying to pack it. You've been doing this the overcomplicated way.
 

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