Talk:SD Filesystem

Are you sure that those offsets aren't exclusive to your SD card? Also, if an offset is hexadecimal, then you should put "0x" before the offset.--T3a 18:04, 8 April 2011 (CEST)

They're not offsets, they're filenames. Bushing 23:39, 8 April 2011 (CEST)

oh, my bad--T3a 04:37, 9 April 2011 (CEST)

Extra data downloaded from internet are able to download from PC. So we do MITM attack when download the data,we may find the server. data downloaded from PC are not encrypted not to use with other 3DS.Matyapiro

• It makes an encrypted connection to the update servers initially. Jl12

This probably won't matter to most people but if you interrupt the transfer of a eShop title before it completes downloading you're left with an extra 00000001.ctx file in the directory of the 0000000x.app and other files associated with it. The .app file is created filled with 0xFFFF padding ( at full size ) and chunks are sequentially over-written with the correct encrypted data as the title downloads onto the SD card. However if the download is interrupted before it finishes, the title can still be loaded/selected/launched, and it will appear in the 3DS home menu ( logo, sound, model, etc. ). It doesn't mind that most of the file is corrupt/junk. When opening or launching it of course you'll just get a generic error and forced to return to Home menu screen. If you erased or padded far enough into the header - or ended the download early enough - then the title/logo won't even appear in the home menu, but the tile *will still show there, but without the logo/model when selected. ( if you place your cursor over it, nothing appears where the game title should normally be. It will not be launchable.) Jl12

Save files

The article mentions

• The data dir contains 00000001.sav, this is the title's encrypted savegame. Although these saves look similar to FLASH savegames, these savegames use proper unique CTR for each AES block in the file, and the CTR properly changes for each savegame write.

Wouldn't this imply that the whole save file is modified for each save? When I diff two 00000001.sav from different (subsequent) writes, they only differ at certain portions (the first 0x10 bytes, certain blocks of subsequent 0x20 bytes and certain one-byte changes). FireFly 17:18, 18 December 2011 (CET)

IIRC when I first xored two different 00000001.sav files, the output was garbage therefore I assumed that meant they change the CTR for each save write. But when I did the same for a GBA VC save recently, I got zeros and garbage where the changed data is. So I'm not really sure what's with the CTR. --Yellows8 18:56, 18 December 2011 (CET)

From my experience, each saving takes a 0x1000 block and saves is somewhere else...when you xor 2 files it doesn't mean anything because the data maybe xored with other encrypted data so no clear text. For data to be discovered the first file needs to have an encrypted data at some offset and 2nd file will have encrypted 0xff at the same offset. this is rather rare for the 3ds to delete its backups... --Elisherer 07:28, 19 December 2011 (CET)