Hello guys, this is my first post here! I just got a MIG Switch card out of curiosity and I was tinkering with it. For those who don't know, it's used by placing XCI dumps as well as other game specific bin files in the sd card of the MIG Switch, and are obtained from the original cartridge by using an app like nxdumptool. Two of these bin files are mandatory to get the game to boot: Initial Data.bin and Certificate.bin. They stay the same for every cartridge of a specific game. Now, if you want to use an XCI dump from a shady website it's impossible to get it to work without those files. By using the Certificate.bin from another game it has no problem, but this does not count for the Initial Data.bin. So I looked for a way to obtain this Initial Data from an XCI file and read a bit of the XCI file documentation from switchbrew dot org. Here's what I understood so far: The Switch checks if the cartridge is valid by doing a challenge–response authentication on the Initial Data. The Package ID is contained both on the XCI and the Initial Data, on positions 0x110 and 0x0 respectively. The Initial Data hash is on the XCI at position 0x160. It is calculated by doing a SHA-256 hash on the full Initial Data content. So I was wondering, is there a way to to construct a functional Initial Data file starting from an XCI dump? I also tried a reverse approach by editing the Package ID in the Initial Data from another game, generating the Initial Data hash and putting it in the XCI file but is not enough to get the Switch believe it's a real game. Sorry if this may seem stupid but let me know what you think.

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Hacking I'm on 4.0, should i lose all hope for homebrews?

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Title :\

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Stercate79 said:
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for some time, yes. And next time, use the search function. Thank you.

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Kubas_inko said:
for some time, yes. And next time, use the search function. Thank you.

what

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Stercate79 said:
what

just read what I wrote, ok?

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Stercate79 said:
what

lol

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answer me

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Let's simplify this. Don't lose hope. Just don't expect anything in the near future.

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answer me

I answered. Go troll some 2 year old.

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Kubas_inko said:
Go troll some 2 year old.

whato do you mean

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Yes. Lose all hope. There's no hope for you.

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Can we get 7 more of these threads please?

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Kubas_inko

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Stercate79 said:
whato do you mean

just read my first post dude.

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Uumas said:
Yes. Lose all hope. There's no hope for you.

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It simply takes time, currently they're messing with big exploits they discovered, so it'll take time before they look at 3.0>. This is hope, simply wait, how long to wait though? We don't know.

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