Yes cakes uses Encrypted firmwares straight from nintendos servers and cakes decrypts them on start upHi columbo. thanks for the reply, i get it now
I just checked again the cakes dir in my sd, and it does have now a config.dat, which I see contains the path to the patches directory within cakes dir.
there is also another file firmware_patched.bin, which I guess is probably the default firmware with the selected patch applied.