NSTool v1.9.2

About

NSTool is a general purpose reading/extraction tool for Nintendo Switch file formats.

Supported File Formats

• PartitionFs (PFS0) (.pfs0)
• Sha256PartitionFs (HFS0) (.hfs0)
• RomFs (.romfs)
• Nintendo Content Archive (.nca)
• Nintendo Submission Package (.nsp)
• NX GameCard Image (.xci)
• Meta (META) (.npdm)
• Nintendo Application Control Property (.nacp)
• Content Metadata (.cnmt)
• ES Certificate (.cert)
• ES Ticket (v2 only) (.tik)
• Nintendo Shared Object (NSO0) (.nso)
• Nintendo Relocatable Object (NRO0) (.nro)
• Initial Program Bundle (INI1) (.ini)
• Initial Program (KIP1) (.kip)

Changes

• [BugFix] Fixed NCA issue where Key Area Keys, if not explicitly specified, were not derived from source keys

Nerd details

• [Dependency] libtoolchain to v0.8.0
  • This includes a fix to the VS project files that prevent users from opening this project in Visual Studio jakcron/libtoolchain#37

Full Changelog: v1.9.1...v1.9.2

NSTool v1.9.1

About

NSTool is a general purpose reading/extraction tool for Nintendo Switch file formats.

Supported File Formats

• PartitionFs (PFS0) (.pfs0)
• Sha256PartitionFs (HFS0) (.hfs0)
• RomFs (.romfs)
• Nintendo Content Archive (.nca)
• Nintendo Submission Package (.nsp)
• NX GameCard Image (.xci)
• Meta (META) (.npdm)
• Nintendo Application Control Property (.nacp)
• Content Metadata (.cnmt)
• ES Certificate (.cert)
• ES Ticket (v2 only) (.tik)
• Nintendo Shared Object (NSO0) (.nso)
• Nintendo Relocatable Object (NRO0) (.nro)
• Initial Program Bundle (INI1) (.ini)
• Initial Program (KIP1) (.kip)

Change Log since v1.9.0

• [BugFix] Fixed NCA patch issue "Indirect storage not ascending ordered" (#98 #99 #104). Thanks to @sagumamugas / @sagum4mugas

Nerd details

• [Dependency] libpietendo to v0.8.0
  • This includes bugfix jakcron/libpietendo#22

Full Changelog: v1.9.0...v1.9.1

NSTool v1.9.0

About

NSTool is a general purpose reading/extraction tool for Nintendo Switch file formats.

Supported File Formats

• PartitionFs (PFS0) (.pfs0)
• Sha256PartitionFs (HFS0) (.hfs0)
• RomFs (.romfs)
• Nintendo Content Archive (.nca)
• Nintendo Submission Package (.nsp)
• NX GameCard Image (.xci)
• Meta (META) (.npdm)
• Nintendo Application Control Property (.nacp)
• Content Metadata (.cnmt)
• ES Certificate (.cert)
• ES Ticket (v2 only) (.tik)
• Nintendo Shared Object (NSO0) (.nso)
• Nintendo Relocatable Object (NRO0) (.nro)
• Initial Program Bundle (INI1) (.ini)
• Initial Program (KIP1) (.kip)

Change Log since v1.8.1

• [Change] CLI argument --tik can now be used multiple times to import multiple tickets (#106)
• [Added] hactool title.keys format is now supported. Long standing issue that improves the usability of NSTool as this is a popular format for dumping title keys from a console, and supplying them to other tools. (#106)

Full Changelog: v1.8.1...v1.9.0

NSTool v1.8.1

About

NSTool is a general purpose reading/extraction tool for Nintendo Switch file formats.

Supported File Formats

• PartitionFs (PFS0) (.pfs0)
• Sha256PartitionFs (HFS0) (.hfs0)
• RomFs (.romfs)
• Nintendo Content Archive (.nca)
• Nintendo Submission Package (.nsp)
• NX GameCard Image (.xci)
• Meta (META) (.npdm)
• Nintendo Application Control Property (.nacp)
• Content Metadata (.cnmt)
• ES Certificate (.cert)
• ES Ticket (v2 only) (.tik)
• Nintendo Shared Object (NSO0) (.nso)
• Nintendo Relocatable Object (NRO0) (.nro)
• Initial Program Bundle (INI1) (.ini)
• Initial Program (KIP1) (.kip)

Change Log since v1.8.0

• [BugFix] Fixed issue where ACI0 SaveDataOwnerIdList was incorrectly validated against ACID. However ACID never has SaveDataOwnerIdList (#92)
• [BuildSystem] Add instructions for using git submodules (#96)
• [BuildSystem] Update Recursive Makefile v9 (#107)

Nerd details

• [Dependency] libfmt to v10.1.1
• [Dependency] liblz4 to v1.9.4
• [Dependency] libmbedtls to v2.16.12
• [Dependency] libtoolchain to v0.7.0
• [Dependency] libpietendo to v0.7.2

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.8.1

NSTool v1.8.0

About

NSTool is a general purpose reading/extraction tool for Nintendo Switch file formats.

Supported File Formats

• PartitionFs (PFS0) (.pfs0)
• Sha256PartitionFs (HFS0) (.hfs0)
• RomFs (.romfs)
• Nintendo Content Archive (.nca)
• Nintendo Submission Package (.nsp)
• NX GameCard Image (.xci)
• Meta (META) (.npdm)
• Nintendo Application Control Property (.nacp)
• Content Metadata (.cnmt)
• ES Certificate (.cert)
• ES Ticket (v2 only) (.tik)
• Nintendo Shared Object (NSO0) (.nso)
• Nintendo Relocatable Object (NRO0) (.nro)
• Initial Program Bundle (INI1) (.ini)
• Initial Program (KIP1) (.kip)

Change Log since v1.7.0

• [BugFix] Fixed issue where NCA ContentType was not correctly reported (#95)
• [BugFix] Fixed issue NSO Data Segment was not processed correctly because state for Data Segment incorrectly tested RO Segment flags
• [BugFix] Fixed issue where Brazilian Portuguese languages in NACP where not identified as Brazilian Portuguese
• [BugFix] Fixed issue where debug logging was left in for when empty RomFs files were processed.
• [BugFix] Fixed issue where NCA key area was not formatted correctly (#91)

Full Changelog: v1.7.0-r2...v1.8.0

NSTool v1.7.0

About

NSTool is a general purpose reading/extraction tool for Nintendo Switch file formats.

Supported File Formats

• PartitionFs (PFS0) (.pfs0)
• Sha256PartitionFs (HFS0) (.hfs0)
• RomFs (.romfs)
• Nintendo Content Archive (.nca)
• Nintendo Submission Package (.nsp)
• NX GameCard Image (.xci)
• Meta (META) (.npdm)
• Nintendo Application Control Property (.nacp)
• Content Metadata (.cnmt)
• ES Certificate (.cert)
• ES Ticket (v2 only) (.tik)
• Nintendo Shared Object (NSO0) (.nso)
• Nintendo Relocatable Object (NRO0) (.nro)
• Initial Program Bundle (INI1) (.ini)
• Initial Program (KIP1) (.kip)

Change Log since v1.6.6

• [NEW] NCA Patch Support! Thanks to @sagumamugas for implementing this. (Addresses #64)
  • CLI option --basenca was added, a required option when trying to extract/view Patch NCA.
• [BugFix] Fixes bug where partial block reads at the end of a file could cause verification/extraction to fail (#85). Thanks @sagumamugas
• [BugFix] Fixes regression where empty RomFs files halted extraction (#83)

Full Changelog: v1.6.6...v1.7.0-r2

NSTool v1.6.6

About

NSTool is a general purpose reading/extraction tool for Nintendo Switch file formats.

Supported File Formats

• PartitionFs (PFS0) (.pfs0)
• Sha256PartitionFs (HFS0) (.hfs0)
• RomFs (.romfs)
• Nintendo Content Archive (.nca)
• Nintendo Submission Package (.nsp)
• NX GameCard Image (.xci)
• Meta (META) (.npdm)
• Nintendo Application Control Property (.nacp)
• Content Metadata (.cnmt)
• ES Certificate (.cert)
• ES Ticket (v2 only) (.tik)
• Nintendo Shared Object (NSO0) (.nso)
• Nintendo Relocatable Object (NRO0) (.nro)
• Initial Program Bundle (INI1) (.ini)
• Initial Program (KIP1) (.kip)

Change Log since v1.6.5

• [Fixed] XCI Header Key selection was not correct for values >7
• [Fixed] RomFs with no files cannot be processed #86

Full Changelog: v1.6.5...v1.6.6

NSTool v1.6.5

About

NSTool is a general purpose reading/extraction tool for Nintendo Switch file formats.

Supported File Formats

• PartitionFs (PFS0) (.pfs0)
• Sha256PartitionFs (HFS0) (.hfs0)
• RomFs (.romfs)
• Nintendo Content Archive (.nca)
• Nintendo Submission Package (.nsp)
• NX GameCard Image (.xci)
• Meta (META) (.npdm)
• Nintendo Application Control Property (.nacp)
• Content Metadata (.cnmt)
• ES Certificate (.cert)
• ES Ticket (v2 only) (.tik)
• Nintendo Shared Object (NSO0) (.nso)
• Nintendo Relocatable Object (NRO0) (.nro)
• Initial Program Bundle (INI1) (.ini)
• Initial Program (KIP1) (.kip)

Change Log since v1.6.4

• Misc changes to dependencies.
  • Now uses libtoolchain v0.5 stable.
  • libnintendo-[pki|es|hac|hac-hb] have been rolled into libpietendo for simplicity

NSTool v1.6.4

About

NSTool is a general purpose reading/extraction tool for Nintendo Switch file formats.

Supported File Formats

• PartitionFs (PFS0) (.pfs0)
• Sha256PartitionFs (HFS0) (.hfs0)
• RomFs (.romfs)
• Nintendo Content Archive (.nca)
• Nintendo Submission Package (.nsp)
• NX GameCard Image (.xci)
• Meta (META) (.npdm)
• Nintendo Application Control Property (.nacp)
• Content Metadata (.cnmt)
• ES Certificate (.cert)
• ES Ticket (v2 only) (.tik)
• Nintendo Shared Object (NSO0) (.nso)
• Nintendo Relocatable Object (NRO0) (.nro)
• Initial Program Bundle (INI1) (.ini)
• Initial Program (KIP1) (.kip)

Change Log since v1.6.3

• Fix bug where NSTool was too strict when parsing PFS0 file entries . ( #80 )

NSTool v1.6.3

About

NSTool is a general purpose reading/extraction tool for Nintendo Switch file formats.

Supported File Formats

• PartitionFs (PFS0) (.pfs0)
• Sha256PartitionFs (HFS0) (.hfs0)
• RomFs (.romfs)
• Nintendo Content Archive (.nca)
• Nintendo Submission Package (.nsp)
• NX GameCard Image (.xci)
• Meta (META) (.npdm)
• Nintendo Application Control Property (.nacp)
• Content Metadata (.cnmt)
• ES Certificate (.cert)
• ES Ticket (v2 only) (.tik)
• Nintendo Shared Object (NSO0) (.nso)
• Nintendo Relocatable Object (NRO0) (.nro)
• Initial Program Bundle (INI1) (.ini)
• Initial Program (KIP1) (.kip)

Change Log since v1.6.2

• Fix bug where empty files would halt RomFs extraction. ( #78 )