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Dumping games with Godmode9

Dumping games is the act of taking a game from your system or gamecart and copying it into a readable format onto your SD card. Dumping is perfectly legal if you keep the dumps to yourself, however sharing these dumps is piracy and is illegal.

This guide will tell you how to dump games from various formats and for various purposes. Dumping 3DS cartriges as .cia files is good if you want to install them to your system. Dumping them as .3ds files is good for emulators. Installed titles cannot be dumped as .3ds files. NDS cartiges can only be dumped as .nds files and cannot be installed (however, you can play them with emulators or flashcarts).

Dumping the RomFS of a game is primarily for romhacking purposess.

This is being hosted here, until the reddit post I made gets approved.

I saw, in the recent reddit thread about sighax, a lot of information being posted that's factually incorrect. I'd like to go ahead and clarify how sighax works, and how it's different from arm9loaderhax, while also clearing up some misconceptions I'm seeing (I really dislike misinformation).

What is sighax?

Sighax is an exploit taking advantage of a flaw in the arm9 bootrom, causing the signatures (which those of you less technically oriented may think of as "proofs of authenticity" that normally only Nintendo can generate) for arbitrary firmwares to be read as valid. On a normal boot, if one modifies the header for the firmware partition stored in NAND, the signatur

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
	<Patch>
	<TitleID>
	<ID>PPSA01650</ID>
	</TitleID>
	<Metadata Title="Youtube"
	Name="Disable PSN signin popup"
	Author="Gezine"
	PatchVer="1.00"
	AppVer="01.000.003"

	# 0. Use `crtl+h` and replace `{{HOST}}` with the IP address of a server you
	# control and want to direct the traffic to. Or Just use `0.0.0.0` to block it.
	#
	# 1. Log into your Pi-hole device and move this file into the `/etc/dnsmasq.d/`
	# directory. Feel free to rename it.
	#
	# 2. Run the command `pihole restartdns`

	# Redirects Nintendo Landing Page Domains
	address=/ctest.cdn.nintendo.net/{{HOST}}

	###############################################
	# TX SX OS unpacker - by hexkyz and naehrwert #
	###############################################

	from Crypto.Cipher import AES
	from Crypto.Util import Counter
	import os
	import struct

	"""

	###############################
	# Action Replay #
	# Code Types supported by #
	# CTRPluginFramework #
	# v0.5.0 #
	###############################

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	INFO
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