Hacking [Release] XCI Reader

[NicoAICP]

For the recent XCI game dumps i release a Information Reader/Extractor/Injector called XCI Reader.

Disclaimer: Windows Defender Smart Screen detects it as an unsafe app, cause its not signed yet, it has no virus or anything in it. It will be signed in version v0.0.2 - Beta
Disclaimer 2: you have to press update db after every update
Features:
- Get Game Serial, ID, needed Firmware, Region and Game Name from nswdb.com
- Get ROM Size and check if its trimmed or not
- Get Cartridge Size
- Get the SHA256 and CVC32 (CVC32 when you load the rom, programm will take a while to load)
- Extract or Inject a CERT

Spoiler: Screenshots

Download v0.0.1 rev4 - Beta
Source

Changelog:
v0.0.1 - Beta - Release
v0.0.1 rev2 - Beta - Fixed bug that only made 2gb roms work
v0.0.1 rev3 - Beta - Released Source and fixed download link
v0.0.1 rev4 - Beta - displays Game Name too, fixed the messed up code.

 

[xXPaulMCXx]

ayy, nice.

Gesendet von meinem SM-A310F mit Tapatalk

 

[peteruk]

very handy tool, thanks for this

 

[Greg956]

Sorry, but I don't understand, what for this tool. Again sorry, and if you can tell me about it.
I think that it is smth about Switch Roms that were dumped. But I think that it is unusable, because there are no switch roms in the Internet, and there is no way to launch them.

 

[NicoAICP]

Sorry, but I don't understand, what for this tool. Again sorry, and if you can tell me about it.
I think that it is smth about Switch Roms that were dumped. But I think that it is unusable, because there are no switch roms in the Internet, and there is no way to launch them.

It reads switch roms in the format XCI (Switch Cartridge Image) and gets the information. You can Extract, Inject or just display the rom informations.

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its like CTR for switch

 

[Deleted User]

Hey, this is pretty nifty. Good job

 

[Dudamax]

What about .istorage

 

[NicoAICP]

What about .istorage

only xci

 

[DSpider]

Would this allow changing the required firmware of a cartridge dump?

And what exactly does "CERT" mean?

 

[NicoAICP]

Would this allow changing the required firmware of a cartridge dump?

And what exactly does "CERT" mean?

No you wont be able to change the fw. CERT means certificate

 

[NicoAICP]

update v0.0.15 Beta released

 

[YTElias]

Good work even tho i don´t need it

 

[einstein95]

7/10 doesn't actually read the header, only gets the crc32 of the image and does a lookup on nswdb.com

 

[Zhongtiao1]

How are people able to dump switch cartridge images? (If that isn't allowed here mods, feel free to delete this post)

 

[Greg956]

How are people able to dump switch cartridge images? (If that isn't allowed here mods, feel free to delete this post)

The main question is where to find those dumps. I tried Google many times, but there is no any sites with uploaded games on it.

 

[Zhongtiao1]

The main question is where to find those dumps. I tried Google many times, but there is no any sites with uploaded games on it.

I can't tell you the site, but search "nsw bigbluebox" on google and you'll see it.

 

[GerbilSoft]

7/10 doesn't actually read the header, only gets the crc32 of the image and does a lookup on nswdb.com

I don't see any documentation on full Switch cartridge dumps on Switchbrew yet, but for NCA at least, everything except the Logo section is encrypted, and we obviously don't have the keys (yet). The Logo section has the Nintendo logo and Switch animation, plus a title (in a file similar to 3DS SMDH) and icons for every region. It doesn't seem to have title ID, which is part of the encrypted header.

 

[KiiWii]

More info on XCI format please?

 

[V-Temp]

I don't see any documentation on full Switch cartridge dumps on Switchbrew yet, but for NCA at least, everything except the Logo section is encrypted, and we obviously don't have the keys (yet). The Logo section has the Nintendo logo and Switch animation, plus a title (in a file similar to 3DS SMDH) and icons for every region. It doesn't seem to have title ID, which is part of the encrypted header.

Even when we do get them, it'd be only for a limited set of titles (like right now everything dumped is in 3.0.0-land) that could be decrypted before Nintendo changed it. Its going to be a pain in the ass to keep some of these tools updated with access, especially since dumping and decrypting are on completely different stratum of difficulty.

 

[DSpider]

I can't tell you the site, but search "nsw bigbluebox" on google and you'll see it.

Don't use Google... Use DuckDuckGo instead. Google blocks a lot of these search queries and returns DMCA crap messages. Also, Google always tracks whatever the fuck you're searching for, so be mindful of that.