Homebrew [Release] freeShop - open source eShop alternative

[hacksn5s4]

probably wont since this is the almost like downloading from the eshop

but for free and thats piracy and nintedo hate that

 

[Alan Treecko]

but for free and thats piracy and nintedo hate that

yeah but i dont see them able to patch this as if you buy a game from the eshop your downloading from the same servers as downloading from freeshop

 

[hacksn5s4]

yeah but i dont see them able to patch this as if you buy a game from the eshop your downloading from the same servers as downloading from freeshop

they could add more server security so it will only let you download it if it knows the game was payed for or they could just sue the guy who made this

 

[Alan Treecko]

they could add more server security so it will only let you download it if it knows the game was payed for or they could just sue the guy who made this

they do have security on the eshop which near the end of your download, it checks if you actually bought the game, if you didnt, the download automatically fails. however it's not server controlled so how...?

 

[hacksn5s4]

they do have security on the eshop which near the end of your download, it checks if you actually bought the game, if you didnt, the download automatically fails. however it's not server controlled so how...?

nintedo have bad server security

 

[ihaveahax]

they do have security on the eshop which near the end of your download, it checks if you actually bought the game, if you didnt, the download automatically fails. however it's not server controlled so how...?

that's not actually how it works. also, if it was that, it wouldn't make sense(why not just check at the beginning??).

it's because usually when you install a CIA, you sometimes don't have the proper encrypted titlekey in the CIA, so it creates a bad ticket with the wrong titlekey. this titlekey is used to decrypt the contents while they download/install. with the wrong titlekey though, it decrypts to garbage, so at the end it fails hash checks due to it not decrypting properly, not because you didn't buy it.

 

[redbunnyer]

Don't do this, this breaks freeShop, and anything that downloads from Nintendo's CDN...

Yeah I know but I was just trying to help him

 

[Deleted User]

Can we all agree that he's a noob and he doesn't know what he's talking about and have us shut up about it

 

[kheldar]

Filtering should be a priority in the next version

 

[TheCruel]

I delayed updating the cache to figure out how to get DSiWare icons consistently. It seems I figured out the problem, so now we don't have to put up with any more missing icons from now on. Hooray!

I'll probably get it out tomorrow after a few tests, too late to do it now.

 

[TheCruel]

Okay. I stayed up late to push version 1.2.1 with latest cache.

Even went and added better cache extracting so it doesn't take forever now lol: https://github.com/Cruel/freeShop/releases/tag/1.2.1

No new features yet. But soon.

 

[Duo8]

So from what I understand this uses a custom cache for title info?
Why not download it from eshop? Is it too complicated?

 

[SomeGamer]

So from what I understand this uses a custom cache for title info?
Why not download it from eshop? Is it too complicated?

IDK, maybe parsing issues?

 

[TheCruel]

So from what I understand this uses a custom cache for title info?
Why not download it from eshop? Is it too complicated?

Well, people are commonly using a encTitleKeys.bin with over 1100 titles that need to have their icons/metadata fetched, taking about 3 seconds per title on the 3ds, which is nearly an hour. Plus it would take forever on the 3ds hardware to assemble a 1024x1024 texture like this and use ETC1 compression on it. So if I make changes again and everything needs to be fetched again in a different format, you'd have to wait over an hour on the loading screen. With the cache, you need to wait less than 10 seconds.

But I'll eventually be using both the cache and direct fetching of data (and I'll skip the texture compression on the remaining icons not in the cache). That way if you have some title keys that aren't in the cache, it will just fetch those. You likely won't have a ton, so it would likely be no longer than a minute of processing.

And now that cache extracting isn't as slow, I won't hesitate to update the cache more frequently. It's mostly an automated process, I just have to push a git tag and it will fetch, assemble, and package the new release.

 

[Duo8]

What about the reverse? Have it fetch data from eShop first, just like normal eShop. Then when the user enter the title page, check the database for title key.

 

[TheCruel]

What about the reverse? Have it fetch data from eShop first, just like normal eShop. Then when the user enter the title page, check the database for title key.

Then I would be fetching even more data of game that people may not even have the keys for... that would be slower.

And without cache I would have to get rid of the live searching and use eShop's search API so you have to wait for it to parse the results and fetch icons just like eShop. The whole point is to not be slow like eShop....

 

[smileyhead]

@TheCruel I have a suggestion.
Sometimes when I select a game, it loads for a really long time, and when that happens, I usually lose interest. Would it be possible for you to add a function that when a game loads for more than ~10 seconds, you can cancel by pressing B and continue browsing?

 

[Ryumaru]

@TheCruel I have a suggestion.
Sometimes when I select a game, it loads for a really long time, and when that happens, I usually lose interest. Would it be possible for you to add a function that when a game loads for more than ~10 seconds, you can cancel by pressing B and continue browsing?

You can cancel the download by clicking the X icon that appears in the list.

 

[smileyhead]

You can cancel the download by clicking the X icon that appears in the list.

Not the download. When I select a game to view it's description.

 

[Ryumaru]

@TheCruel
I think it would be quite useful to have a pause button that allows stop downloading the desired file and to continue to download it again at another time.

Not the download. When I select a game to view it's description.

That would be quite useful.