NSZ - Homebrew compatible NSP/XCI compressor/decompressor.
How to install:
Put dumped prod.keys to %userprofile%/.switch, install python, execute "pip install nsz" and use "nsz" like every other cmd command.
or just use the windows portable build.
To manually install dependencies use:
pip install -r requirements.txt
How to Update
pip install nsz --upgrade
or download the latest windows portable build.
NSZ
NSZ files are not a real format, they are functionally identical to NSP files. Their sole purpose to alert the user that it contains compressed NCZ files. NCZ files can be mixed with NCA files in the same container.
NSC_Builder supports compressing NSP to NSZ, and decompressing NSZ to NSP. The sample scripts located here are just examples of how the format works.
XCZ
XCZ files are not a real format, they are functionally identical to XCI files. Their sole purpose to alert the user that it contains compressed NCZ files. NCZ files can be mixed with NCA files in the same container.
NCZ
These are compressed NCA files. The NCA's are decrypted, and then compressed using zStandard. Only NCA's with a 0x4000 byte header are supported (CNMT nca's are not supported).
The first 0x4000 bytes of a NCZ file is exactly the same as the original NCA (and still encrypted).
At 0x4000, there is the variable sized NCZ Header. It contains a list of sections which tell the decompressor how to re-encrypt the NCA data after decompression. It can also contain an optional block compression header allowing random read access.
All of the information in the header can be derived from the original NCA + Ticket, however it is provided preparsed to make decompression as easy as possible for third parties.
Directly after the NCZ header, the zStandard stream begins and ends at EOF. The stream is decompressed to offset 0x4000. If block compression is used the stream is splatted into independent blocks and can be decompressed as shown in https://github.com/nicoboss/nsz/blob/master/nsz/BlockDecompressorReader.py
class Section:
def __init__(self, f):
self.magic = f.read(8) # b'NCZSECTN'
self.offset = f.readInt64()
self.size = f.readInt64()
self.cryptoType = f.readInt64()
f.readInt64() # padding
self.cryptoKey = f.read(16)
self.cryptoCounter = f.read(16)
class Block:
def __init__(self, f):
self.magic = f.read(8) # b'NCZBLOCK'
self.version = f.readInt8()
self.type = f.readInt8()
self.unused = f.readInt8()
self.blockSizeExponent = f.readInt8()
self.numberOfBlocks = f.readInt32()
self.decompressedSize = f.readInt64()
self.compressedBlockSizeList = []
for i in range(self.numberOfBlocks):
self.compressedBlockSizeList.append(f.readInt32())
nspf.seek(0x4000)
sectionCount = nspf.readInt64()
for i in range(sectionCount):
sections.append(Section(nspf))
if blockCompression:
BlockHeader = Block(nspf)
Compressor script
Requires latest hactool compatible prod.keys at
Windows: %userprofile%.switch\ (enter .switch. as foldername to get a folder named .switch)
Linux: $HOME/.switch/
or keys.txt at the location of nsz.py/nsz.exe
Please dump your keys using Lockpick_RCM
Always keep your keys up to date as otherwise newer games can't be decrypted anymore.
Example usage:
nsz --level 18 -C title1.nsp title2.nsp title3.nsp
will generate title1.nsz title2.nsz title3.nsz
This tool was only tested with base games, updates and DLCs.
Usage
nsz.py --help
usage: nsz.py [-h] [-C] [-D] [-l LEVEL] [-B] [-s BS] [-V] [-p] [-t THREADS]
[-o OUTPUT] [-w] [-r] [-i INFO] [--depth DEPTH]
[-x EXTRACT [EXTRACT ...]] [-c CREATE] [--rm-source]
[file [file ...]]
positional arguments:
file
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-C Compress NSP
-D Decompress NSZ
-l LEVEL, --level LEVEL
Compression Level
-B, --block Uses highly multithreaded block compression with
random read access allowing compressed games to be
played without decompression in the future however
this comes with a low compression ratio cost. Current
title installers do not support this yet.
-s BS, --bs BS Block Size for random read access 2^x while x between
14 and 32. Default is 20 => 1 MB. Current title
installers do not support this yet.
-V, --verify Verifies files after compression raising an unhandled
exception on hash mismatch and verify existing NSP and
NSZ files when given as parameter
-p, --parseCnmt Extract TitleId/Version from Cnmt if this information
cannot be obtained from the filename. Required for
skipping/overwriting existing files and --rm-old-
version to work properly if some not every file is
named properly. Supported filenames:
*TitleID*[vVersion]*
-t THREADS, --threads THREADS
Number of threads to compress with. Numbers < 1
corresponds to the number of logical CPU cores.
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
Directory to save the output NSZ files
-w, --overwrite Continues even if there already is a file with the
same name or title id inside the output directory
-r, --rm-old-version Removes older version if found
-i INFO, --info INFO Show info about title or file
--depth DEPTH Max depth for file info and extraction
-x EXTRACT [EXTRACT ...], --extract EXTRACT [EXTRACT ...]
extract / unpack a NSP
-c CREATE, --create CREATE
create / pack a NSP
--rm-source Deletes source file/s after compressing/decompressing.
It's recommended to only use this in combination with
--verify
Credits
SciresM for his hardware crypto functions; the blazing install speeds (50 MB/sec +) achieved here would not be possible without this.
by Nicoboss.
