"NSP Forwarder Generator" - An online tool to create NRO/RetroArch forwarders

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Is it possible to make direct nro forwarders to a rom inside the standalone melonds nro?

I haven't tried it, but it depends on if that standalone melonds supports specifying the ROM path as a parameter. Give it a try and let us know!

If it does work, we should add a preset for it to the dropdown.
 

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Hi, thanks for this awesome tool! Greatly Appreciated
I just wanted to know if the NRO that I am forwarding to will start with Full Ram access (comparable to starting homebrew when holding R on a title) or not? Thanks!
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Hi, thanks for this awesome tool, greatly appreciated!
I did have a question - does the NRO I am forwarding to start with Full Ram Access (akin to starting homebrew while pressing R on a title) or not? Thanks!
 

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Hi, thanks for this awesome tool! Greatly Appreciated
I just wanted to know if the NRO that I am forwarding to will start with Full Ram access (comparable to starting homebrew when holding R on a title) or not? Thanks!
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Hi, thanks for this awesome tool, greatly appreciated!
I did have a question - does the NRO I am forwarding to start with Full Ram Access (akin to starting homebrew while pressing R on a title) or not? Thanks!
All (If not all, most) forwarders open with full ram
 

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Hi, thanks for this awesome tool! Greatly Appreciated
I just wanted to know if the NRO that I am forwarding to will start with Full Ram access (comparable to starting homebrew when holding R on a title) or not? Thanks!
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Hi, thanks for this awesome tool, greatly appreciated!
I did have a question - does the NRO I am forwarding to start with Full Ram Access (akin to starting homebrew while pressing R on a title) or not? Thanks!

It does indeed have full RAM access.
 
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Hi I was wondering can it also do .ZIP instead of NRO? because I want to forward killer instinct.zip, thanks in advance.
 

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This don't work for me. I tried to create a retroarch NSP forwarder but it crashed when try to run it.
i'm on the latest FW17.00 16.2AMS.
 

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I haven't tried it, but it depends on if that standalone melonds supports specifying the ROM path as a parameter. Give it a try and let us know!

If it does work, we should add a preset for it to the dropdown.

It's still there in the source code, I checked! but no matter what I try you can't directly load an nds rom in melonDS.
 
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Trying to make a RA forwarder
Is the site having issues?
I add the image (also tried the nro)
Set path to /switch/retroarch_switch.nro
And add my prod.keys
But when i hit generate it does nothing
Ive tried 3 devices (win/mac/android) as well as different browsers and cant get any to generate. Anyone have any ideas?
 
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Trying to make a RA forwarder
Is the site having issues?
I add the image (also tried the nro)
Set path to /switch/retroarch_switch.nro
And add my prod.keys
But when i hit generate it does nothing
Ive tried 3 devices (win/mac/android) as well as different browsers and cant get any to generate. Anyone have any ideas?

Open up the browser's Inspector and see if there's anything being logged to the Console. My guess is an invalid prod.keys file though.
 

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Open up the browser's Inspector and see if there's anything being logged to the Console. My guess is an invalid prod.keys file though.

Error: key_area_key_application for keygeneration 1 is not present in keyset file.

I used an old prod.keys from when i first did this switch at like fw 2.0. I then tried to grab another new one after i updated to the latest firmware.

Will try to re-dump the keys and try again. Thanks
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Open up the browser's Inspector and see if there's anything being logged to the Console. My guess is an invalid prod.keys file though.
Started all over and redumped a fresh key using a new sd card and that winded up working. Thanks again!
 
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hi i've been trying the website and it works great but the image doesn't load in the app icon, when installed the icon is a ? on grey background. i used a transparent png 256x256 maybe i'm using the wrong format but i've used a jpg too and still no image
 
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hi i've been trying the website and it works great but the image doesn't load in the app icon, when installed the icon is a ? on grey background. i used a transparent png 256x256 maybe i'm using the wrong format but i've used a jpg too and still no image
Which browser and operating system?
 
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It does not work after the 17.0.0 update, currently at 17.0.1

Forwarders no longer work, they always boot an error, I really liked the icons, hoping for an update:cry:
 

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Edge latest version and Windows 10 latest version available

Can you share the image that you are trying to use? IIRC there's a max file size limit that the Switch will accept (128kb?) and if the image is larger than that then it will just show the question mark. Maybe I can tweak the quality setting to ensure the size is within the allowed range.

It does not work after the 17.0.0 update, currently at 17.0.1

Forwarders no longer work, they always boot an error, I really liked the icons, hoping for an update:cry:

I haven't updated to 17.0.0 yet to confirm this. Is anyone else having any issues with v17? If other people say it's working, then check you sigpatches.
 
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I haven't updated to 17.0.0 yet to confirm this. Is anyone else having any issues with v17? If other people say it's working, then check you sigpatches.
Definitely a sigpatch issue for them; I have multiple retroarch forwarders working on 17.0.1 using your tool on Windows 10 in the Brave browser.
 
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Can you share the image that you are trying to use? IIRC there's a max file size limit that the Switch will accept (128kb?) and if the image is larger than that then it will just show the question mark. Maybe I can tweak the quality setting to ensure the size is within the allowed range.



I haven't updated to 17.0.0 yet to confirm this. Is anyone else having any issues with v17? If other people say it's working, then check you sigpatches.
Hi i'll try with a smaller size image and let you know if anything changes. Also i'm at 17.0.0 and apart for the image problem the forwarder works flawlessly so i don't think that user's problem is the OS version
 
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