Homebrew Suggestion XCI and NSP Icons on Windows ?

[soaresden]

Hi everyone,

Because i'm managing many files now, I would like to know if someone can work on a extension that read xci's and nsp to extract icons in it to show them on windows
like ApkShell for android apk's ?

Thanks !

Edit :
with XCI Explorer, it can read the icon, now I don't know if the image is in the xci/nsp or if it's a request on a server somewhere ...

 

[Deleted User]

Hi everyone,

Because i'm managing many files now, I would like to know if someone can work on a extension that read xci's and nsp to extract icons in it to show them on windows
like ApkShell for android apk's ?

Thanks !

Edit :
with XCI Explorer, it can read the icon, now I don't know if the image is in the xci/nsp or if it's a request on a server somewhere ...

well the icons are stored as png or jpeg or bitmap and not as .ico and then you must get permission to change this.

 

[soaresden]

I don't know if you understood well ..

What I mean was to see this on windows

instead of a "Unknown Extension" windows icon

If we push further :

Would be awesome !

 

[NANASHI89]

Would be nice if we got this for Windows 10, too.

 

[Deleted User]

I don't know if you understood well ..

What I mean was to see this on windows

View attachment 168540 instead of a "Unknown Extension" windows icon

If we push further :

View attachment 168541

Would be awesome !

well you must edit every icon for every rom.
and programs dont have permission (actually i dont know if thats possible for programs to change)

 

[soaresden]

well you must edit every icon for every rom.
and programs dont have permission (actually i dont know if thats possible for programs to change)

Maybe not ?

Apkshell do the thing for apk's on Windows, it take the icon and apply directly on explorer. exe
,(maybe Apkshell consider APK as zip, and take the icon in it and apply to explorer. Exe)

There must be a way !
(Xci explorer do the same I think, it read the file header and take the icon to show?)

 

[Garou]

with XCI Explorer, it can read the icon, now I don't know if the image is in the xci/nsp or if it's a request on a server somewhere ...

it's in the xci/nsp itself
we have similar app that works for 3ds files but I can't remember the app name. if it's open source then it should be simple to modify the logic to read xci/nsp icon instead

this looks like the one I mentioned earlier for the 3ds
https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/3ds-shell

 

[soaresden]

it's in the xci/nsp itself
we have similar app that works for 3ds files but I can't remember the app name. if it's open source then it should be simple to modify the logic to read xci/nsp icon instead

this looks like the one I mentioned earlier for the 3ds
https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/3ds-shell

Nice !

I'm not a dev, I can only do Office VBA ... Maybe one day I'll learn Visual Studio Net..

If I sum Up the thread fo a dev :

- Using 3ds shell github as source to replace CIA/3DS by XCI/NSP
(Don't forget XC0/NS0 extensions)

- In 3dsshell there must be a part where it look for a icon.

I just find that

https://switchbrew.org/w/index.php?title=NCA_Content_FS
NCA-type3
ContentControl

• "/control.nacp".
• "/icon_{Language}.dat", for every icon with an included language. Just a 256x256 JPEG, no MAC which Album screenshots use. EXIF info: "Camera Brand" = "Nintendo co., ltd", "Software" = "Nintendo AuthoringTool"

 

[masagrator]

- Using 3ds shell github as source to replace CIA/3DS by XCI/NSP
(Don't forget XC0/NS0 extensions)

- In 3dsshell there must be a part where it look for a icon.

it's not that easy. Only what you can take from there is how pictures are injected as thumbnails. You need first to implement tool for checking which file is Control NCA in NSP & XCI, then unpack it and prioritize which icon should be first (there are many icons based on system language). And you would need keys.txt to put there. It's not the same as 3DS.