Suggest adding a function that let many files to be converted at the same time,
showing all the progress of each file on the window.
and we can add the further files in the progress.

At the moment launching multiple SAK for converting simultaneous may kill each other's progress.

I know many people will try and store their files in compressed formats but will keep the updates/dlc's separate for backups.

Having it where it can combine the compressed files straight into a merged final product would be a nice way to save some steps for many who do.

Thank you for your work, much appreciated.

When I create NSP Forwarders using SAK, I enable screen recording, and the recordings work just fine but with no sound. Any work around on this?

I waited for 1 hour and it didnt completed fast compression. Its a 10GB file, Overcooked All you can eat. Is that normal and i have to wait even more or its having some issue? Sorry for bad grammar (i think)

Hi I just download Switch Army Knife (SAK) v0.7.8 release and try to generate a NSP forwarder for a NRO and get errors about msys-2.0.dll & msys-gcc_s-seh-1.dll missing files.

The hacBrewPack version 3.05 downloaded from github works fine without the dll files. I did found the missing files on my c:\msys64\usr\bin\ folder, I think the compiled version of SAK is not linking external includes references.

I did see other posts relating to this but I'm new and they are old so I'm bringing this up again. When I download any version of this and try to extract or open the 7,zip folder, Windows pops up with a message saying its a virus or potential unwanted program. and then it disappears. tried downloading it 3 times same issue.

Hello,
I'm not in anyway knowledgeable about the switch game/DLC/update formats (.xci & .nsp & .xcz & .nsz). I just found it to be strange that compressing a game from .xci-->.xcz then decompressing it back .xcz-->.xci results in an MD5 different from the original. The same thing happens with .nsp & .nsz files.

My understanding is that .xcz files are just compressed .xci files and .nsz files are just compressed .nsp files.

What has changed in the files? Can the original state with the correct MD5 be retrieved in any way?

I ask this because I try to preserve my game collection matching No-intro dat with the smallest size possible.

Thanks

After creating a Forward for a NRO, and install it on the Swtich. running the App works fine, but a blank Save Data of 64MB is created which is a space waste. when the application is running pressing the capture button a picture is taken, but holding it a message «Unable to take a video capture now» is displayed.

I am using Atmosphère 0.19.3 and firmware 12.0.1

I think these are controlled by the file "nro_fw_control.nacp" but really do not know how to edit it.

thanks.

Hi,

Could you please let know what are the option used for each level of NSZ compression in SAK?

I am compressing my nsp on another machine manually with the original nsz tool (https://github.com/nicoboss/nsz) but can't achieve the same file sizes as with SAK set on hard.

Thanks!

A game "Cat Quest + Cat Quest II Pawsome Pack" (https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/cat-quest-plus-cat-quest-ii-pawsome-pack-switch/) has two games. When I insert the cartridge to Switch, two game icons appear to Launcher menu.

I dumped the cartridge with nxdumptool v1.1.10 as a XCI (dumping as a NSP only dumps the first game of two).
Dump filename is "Cat Quest v131072 (0100A2F006FBE000) + Cat Quest II v262144 (01008BE00E968000).xci"

When I use SAK v0.7.5 to convert this XCI (including 2 games) to NSP(s), the output is only the first game as NSP.
I expected both games would be handled and converted to separate NSPs.

I could provide the dumped XCI if needed for testing/fixing the issue.

Hey,

Making a .nsp with SAK, lastest x64 Version, once installed onto the switch, the Icon appears as a grey question mark square, without the logo, I tried remaking it and making sure i selected the logo (256x256 .jpg) - https://gbatemp.net/attachments/icon-jpg.265394/

But still unfortunately no dice, don't know if I'm missing a dependency but as none are listed I'm assuming I'm fine.

Thanks :)

roms updated with SAK don't work on Skyline and I don't know how to update my roms with willfaust's nsp_update_patcher.sh please make the roms work on Skyline emulator

If you press the "Return main menu" button multiple times while the file explorer window is open it will cause the program to close and open the main menu window multiple times after closing the file explorer window

Video: https://imgur.com/a/IkR85cT

This project uses GPL-2 licensed programs and appears to be proprietary itself. This is illegal.

Is it possible? How?

Hactool and Hactoolnet contained in the 32 bit version are actually 64 bit.

It seems that I can select the base game in "Open NSP" button and then select multiple NSP files in "Open NSP/NSZ" button inside the "Update NSP" menu of SAK.

But I am wondering if it actually updates the base game with all the NSPs I have selected. Is there a way to see what are the updates inside the output NSP file?

Have you seen any other reports of this noted in title.

I did see a comment about false positive but seen as malware, not virus.

Is this still safe? Bitdefender appeared to notice after one it's definitions updates...

Wanna perhaps have a look at your released builds? Any instance of Chrome blocks the download, and if you still manage to download it, 7Zip itself does not allow to open it.

The hell is in there?! 🤣

If i attempt to run SAK from UNC path then i have noticed SAK is unable to convert from NSZ to NSP (there could be other conversions too).

If i do the same operation but run SAK from local disk then it converts the ROM correctly, any chance you could take a look at this and see how easy it is to permit SAK to run from UNC path?.

First of all thank you for your work. I never had a problem in the past with your program. I'm on sx os. New games on 13.2.0 like Asterix and record of Lodos war seem to start but stay on an infinite loop in the first loading screen before entering the game. Any ideas how to fix this?

hi,

ist es möglich das tool auch im Docker laufen zu lassen?
Dann bräuchte man nicht immer ein PC zur hand um mal files zu wandeln!
Vielleicht mit AtmoXL-Titel-Installer zusammen.

Grüße

Tested out on HOS 12.0.3

Hi,

I'm trying to create a forwarder for ScummVM.
Everything works fine, forwarder is generated and working when installed on Switch, but the forwarder icon is never properly displayed.
Source file is JPG, 256x256, less than 50kb.

Could we get a progress bar with time stated progress etc.

Would be good to see how long a conversion or NSP+NSP update would take.

Can you add this feature to SAK?
I want to avoid manual job of creating repacked NSP (I'm using hacpack.exe, hacPack-GUI.exe and hactool.exe for that, but it's very complicated and don't handy (searching titlekey in .tik, generating new .tik, synchronizing game resources, etc...All manually).
Is it possible to make "one button" (with options) where we must select:

1. base v0.NSP
2. update vXXX.NSP
3. [optional] LFS with custom patch (localization files, for example).

In result, we should get NSP with UPDATED resources inside (NOT BASE + UPDATE, but PATCHED\UPDATED to vXXX BASE).

And optional - separation of some resources to LFS from NSP (movies and some other resources, which i want to have in LFS for handy modifications or removing at all anytime in the future).

Such updated repacks (with most of resources in LFS) helps me to save a space and easy game modifications.

could it be possible to add in as you can update nsp, to be able to update nsz for any already converted that require updates
rather than converting back to nsp updating and re converting to nsz

app works perfect for me but if possible this would save so much time :)

thank you for your hard work !

Updating failed F:\Path\To\NSP
Something failed!?
Is the selected NSP file a game and the NSP the update?

Needed time 4 seconds.

I get this error message for every ROM and update/DLC combination I try. I was able to load these ROMs and install the updates in Yuzu just fine.

Version: 64 bit
OS: Windows 11

With firmware 15 the created forwarders not gonna work.

New prod.keys with a compatible lockpik.rcm where taken

Hello, I've been trying to use SAK to make NRO forwarders for Retroarch. When I do this and install the resultant NSP to my Switch, they will do one of either things:

1. Appear as a loading wheel and unable to be played or open options. I have to go into Data Management in Settings to delete them, this happens typically after having created at least one NSP prior (at least in my case, refer to 2nd case below)

2. The NSP is successfully created, but using a special character (in my case Pokémon, with the special character é) will cause the special character and anything after it to be cut from the title (resulting in "Pok" instead of "Pokémon - Red Version.") The forwarder will successfully install and be able to be played aside from this minor issue.

Any help would be appreciated to fix these issues!

What is "State: nothing to do" on nsp - nsz conversion?

at the moment, when i create nsz file from nsp SAK create it under SAK\squirrel\ and move it than under the SAK\.
why not creating it direct or on finished move to same folder where nsp file is?

it would be great if there was an android version

when using the nro forwarder the image appears as a "?" on the homescreen

Dear dezem,

I made a nsp with SAK because I wanted to have a NSP version of: NX Theme Installer!
If I use the reboot button in the NSP version of it I will always be booted into OFW :(
Something gets messed up on the way from NRO to NSP!
If I use override of gametitle and do the same in the NRO version it uses "reboot to payload" (that I set up in atmosphere "system_settings.ini") correctly and boots into atmosphere!

I'm not a coder so I just have a maybe idea?!

Would it be possible to catch a "reboot _call" from the NRO and somehow inject it into the NSP when it is forwarded with SAK?
Or would it be possible to code a function that recognize any reboot and will then use the "reboot to payload" function and injects that into the created NSP (something like a hook_up)?

Yeah, I know sounds stupid and crazy! Like I said: I'm definitely NOT a coder!
Would be more than awesome to get something like that!

Greetings from Germany and thank you so much for your precious time!
Have a nice weekend!

Hi,

Sory to open an issue for that but I've difficulties to find what I want on this subject.

I want to do my own modification on Squirrel but I have some problems to freeze the package, if you have some informations on how to make this work I'm intrested in them.

Paper Mario v0 + V65536 NSP Fail update

Read only select off good rom and update no patch.

System data 14.1.2 prod key, data key

After unzipping the compressed folder, Webroot SecureAnywhere, a computer protection program gave me the following message I included in this image file. It then proceeded to delete 4nxci.exe.

Why?

When I try to convert NSZ to NSP the thing gets stuck on please wait and the progress bar does not move at all, I waited for over an hour with a fast pc for 2gb file so I don't think it's a problem with my computer.

Hello, Thank you. The tool is very useful. Haven't had any broken resulting files. But I noticed that when I'm trying to compress an XCI to XCZ there is no option to make the compressor use more than 1 thread. I know it's possible to do that with Squirrel, so I was hoping to use at least what I can there.

I get this error coming up when clicking on the check for updates button.

I've moved from SX os to Atmo. All patched games that were playing fine with SX now give me a ''could not start the software please try again from the home menu'' message. I tried uninstalling them and install ''clean'' unpatched versions and nothing works. I get the same message.
Patched versions left something that prevents them from starting. Any ideas on what to do?

a lot of people would prefer that.

I have downloaded a nsp from 3 or 4 different locations but each time it says that the nsp failed bc it was not seen as a game file, how can I fix this?

Paper Mario The Origami King,
ID: [0100A3900C3E2000] Base Game
ID: [0100A3900C3E2800] Update

Tried it multiple times in both formats and from 2 different sources. It seems to fail within the first 10 seconds of attempting. Only game to have that issue, everything else has worked just fine though. Thank you for your work.

Is it possible to select multipul nsz and have them extract to individual nsp files

Launching two different forwarders that use different cores causes the launch banner to display the wrong core (not a big bug since it still uses the correct core)

I believe the forwarder is also messing with core info files which causes save states to not work until core info files are downloaded again which is kinda annoying.

Hi, any chance you are making a mac os supported SAK. I desperately need nsp to nsz compression. Running out of HD space. Thank you.

Ruined King nsp can't be converted to nsz for some reason. Attempting gives an error that it is not an nsp file. Same is true for ruined king update files. I have tried redownloading multiple times from different sources just to ensure I was not getting a bad file and they installed onto my switch no problem.