hactool
hactool is a tool to view information about, decrypt, and extract common file formats for the Nintendo Switch, especially Nintendo Content Archives. (by SciresM)
SARC-Tool
Tool for extracting and packing SARC files present in Nintendo EAD games. (by aboood40091)
| hactool | SARC-Tool | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1 | |
| 961 | 62 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.4 | 10.0 | |
| 6 months ago | over 4 years ago | |
| C | Python | |
| ISC License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
hactool
Posts with mentions or reviews of hactool.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.
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Friend is concerned about emulation damaging their laptop.
Can .nsp files contain malware? Yes, absolutely. Is it common? Not really. You can use tools to verify signatures and checksums for the files, I'd recommend hactool when in doubt. As long as good pirate ettiquette is done, it's generally not considered a high-risk area in terms of online risk.
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I extracted the fonts from Splatoon 3 (and you can download them)
Get hactool, SARC-Tool and NintyFont.
- Trying to dump BOTW files from NSP format. I don't own a Switch. How do I do this?
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How can I extract Age of Calamity?
https://github.com/SciresM/hactool this is the best tool for extracting data from the ncas (within the nsp) but youll have to read the github to properly use it
- File Documentation hit 30 letters now please
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Best way to extract NSP on computer?
On the github: https://github.com/SciresM/hactool
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How do I download hactool? (Windows)
https://github.com/SciresM/hactool/releases you need to download it from the releases page, no need to build it
- How do you open the files of a (legally) dumped game/NSP file on a PC?
- How do I unpack an NSP file on PC?
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Help Getting Assets From Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu
Get a rom online, extract the NCAs with hactool https://github.com/SciresM/hactool
SARC-Tool
Posts with mentions or reviews of SARC-Tool.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.
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I extracted the fonts from Splatoon 3 (and you can download them)
Get hactool, SARC-Tool and NintyFont.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing hactool and SARC-Tool you can also consider the following projects:
Lockpick_RCM - Nintendo Switch encryption key derivation bare metal RCM payload [UnavailableForLegalReasons - Repository access blocked]
nxdumptool - Generates XCI/NSP/HFS0/ExeFS/RomFS/Certificate/Ticket dumps from Nintendo Switch gamecards and installed SD/eMMC titles.
NSC_BUILDER - Nintendo Switch Cleaner and Builder. A batchfile, python and html script based in hacbuild and Nut's python libraries. Designed initially to erase titlerights encryption from nsp files and make multicontent nsp/xci files, nowadays is a multicontent tool specialized in batch processing and file information, someone called it a Switch's knife and he may be right.
splatoon3-fonts - Fonts ripped from Splatoon 3
NintyFont - Nintendo binary font editor