Hacking (Region free) Game updates in .CIA (I want to make them)

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I did xD I downloaded all the japanese updates a while back
Does some people plan to do the same for US/EU updates? It might also be interesting to have them, for the same reason as the japanese ones.
a while back? well more come out every week or so, and that 3ds has gw? good :)
not just the space the updates take up, but also space for making the xorpads, sure it could be done it parts, but it would just be nicest to do it all at once (if sd decrypt can handle that much)
i think someone did the eur updates, thankfully
it might be a week before i can get all the updates made since i don't have the big sd card yet, if you want to do it all then feel free :)
i need to make a program/script to do it for me, because i really don't want to do 120+ updates one by one.
maybe the person who did the eur updates did it 'manually', since there are only like 20 updates or something.
if you want to do it one by one (or if you can make a script to automate it yourself) then sure dump them when you get your 3ds back, but let me know if you plan on doing it so i don't waste my time :) (i hope someone out there on a different forum hasn't done this already)
 

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you don't, the x64 were made later. are you able to compile it yourself, i take it you are on windows?
you just need to find it (i agree it was a bit tricky to find)
Yes. I finished outputting xorpads on Win7 32bit.
Thanks for the information. I'm trying to find it myself for a while.
 

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i can confirm that the flipnote update doesn't work... it's something weird... i should be getting some help with it though :)
if you have installed it, simply delete the folder in title/5000e/00056c00 in the mean time. (delete 5000e if it is now empty). no problem if you don't delete it though really, but it's nice to be clean
 
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a while back? well more come out every week or so, and that 3ds has gw? good :)
not just the space the updates take up, but also space for making the xorpads, sure it could be done it parts, but it would just be nicest to do it all at once (if sd decrypt can handle that much)
i think someone did the eur updates, thankfully
it might be a week before i can get all the updates made since i don't have the big sd card yet, if you want to do it all then feel free :)
i need to make a program/script to do it for me, because i really don't want to do 120+ updates one by one.
maybe the person who did the eur updates did it 'manually', since there are only like 20 updates or something.
if you want to do it one by one (or if you can make a script to automate it yourself) then sure dump them when you get your 3ds back, but let me know if you plan on doing it so i don't waste my time :) (i hope someone out there on a different forum hasn't done this already)

It was when the last pokemon update got released. I don't mind doing some of them manually, so once I get my 3DS back, I can help you if all the updates aren't ripped yet. If you find a way to do it automatically, that's not a problem, it's better but if not, I'm open to help then we can divide the work.
 

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I was about to say that I'm surprised the links weren't removed yet, but they are now.
I would upload them to a different 3DS site. You know, the one in the ISO network of forums.

*wink wink, nudge nudge*
 

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It was when the last pokemon update got released. I don't mind doing some of them manually, so once I get my 3DS back, I can help you if all the updates aren't ripped yet. If you find a way to do it automatically, that's not a problem, it's better but if not, I'm open to help then we can divide the work.

i'm making a way to do it automatically :) thanks for the offer though :)

- specifically, i have finished a command line tool to extract the version of the update from the tmd, so it can be used when building in makerom. i just need to automate the xoring and makerom, which shouldn't too hard
 
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Title id is things like "00040000000AE000".

Content id is probably things like "CTR-JA2E".

I was about to say that I'm surprised the links weren't removed yet, but they are now.
I would upload them to a different 3DS site. You know, the one in the ISO network of forums.

*wink wink, nudge nudge*

As updates are pretty small, the best is probably to gather all of them in an archive (like a rar file) and just share the link (and some mirrors) in private, rather than share individual files/links.

And then, you update the archive each once a while, when new releases are updated.

Except if someone have access to scene sites and in that case, you could even release them individually like BigBlueBox do :D
 

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Title id is things like "00040000000AE000".

Content id is probably things like "CTR-JA2E".



As updates are pretty small, the best is probably to gather all of them in an archive (like a rar file) and just share the link (and some mirrors) in private, rather than share individual files/links.

And then, you update the archive each once a while, when new releases are updated.

Except if someone have access to scene sites and in that case, you could even release them individually like BigBlueBox do :D

yeah they are fine, i guess if they weren't it wouldn't work, right? i'm not sure.

some updates are quite big, like 140mb, maybe some are more, but yes some are quite small.

yes that is what i will do, i just shared 4/5 now so that people can get them and to make sure they work for other people :)
 

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i can confirm that the flipnote update doesn't work... it's something weird... i should be getting some help with it though :)
if you have installed it, simply delete the folder in title/5000e/00056c00 in the mean time. (delete 5000e if it is now empty). no problem if you don't delete it though really, but it's nice to be clean
I'm not sure if this or reinstalling app to someones dump caused my actual problem, but now I cannot load any version of Flipnote - my own cia or original bbb release in .3ds format... Ouch.. Okay I got it to work, also someone on other forum where you can find.. 3ds iso posted a region locked update and it works with my cia
 

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no you need to decrypt it using sd decryptor, xor it, and then you can use extdata_tool.
well that's what i did, i don't think it woudl have worked if i didn't decrypt it first.

I see

With someone kind help, I got my xor now

I got my dbs.title.db.xorpad and dbs.import.db.xorpad .

Any walkthrough of what you did with extdata_tool ?, hint's may help ;)

Cheers bud .
 

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what do you want to do with those db files?


Find command that works .

just run it, it will tell you what to do, nothing special :)


I did but no go.

tried
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extdata_tool -t --listdb dbs.title.db.xorpad

just keep no matter what I try [!] No mode was specified - I'm I commanding it wrongly ?

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