News Services
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This system module handles the system notifications.
The maximum number of notifications that can be stored/handled is 100, hence the intended range for notificationIDs is 0-99.
News service "news:u"
| Command Header | Description |
|---|---|
| 0x000100C8 | AddNotification |
This service only has one command.
News service "news:s"
| Command Header | Description |
|---|---|
| 0x000100C6 | AddNotification |
| 0x0002.... | Stubbed, only returns 0. |
| 0x0003.... | Stubbed, only returns 0. |
| 0x00040000 | ? |
| 0x00050000 | GetTotalNotifications |
| 0x00060042 | SetNewsDBHeader |
| 0x00070082 | SetNotificationHeader |
| 0x00080082 | SetNotificationMessage |
| 0x00090082 | SetNotificationImage |
| 0x000A0042 | GetNewsDBHeader |
| 0x000B0082 | GetNotificationHeader |
| 0x000C0082 | GetNotificationMessage |
| 0x000D0082 | GetNotificationImage |
| 0x000E0040 | SetInfoLEDPattern |
| 0x000F0000 | SpotPass notifications related? |
| 0x00100040 | (u8 flag) ? |
| 0x00110000 | This writes the input u8 to a state field. |
| 0x00120082 | GetNotificationHeaderOther |
| 0x00130000 | WriteNewsDBSavedata |
| 0x00140000 | This writes an unknown u32 value to cmdreply[2]. |
News module savedata
- "news.db": This is the main save-file, the filesize is fixed to 0x2BD0-bytes.
- "newsXXX.txt" This is the message data for this notification, where XXX is the decimal notification-index in the below headers-array. The filesize should be <= <size listed here>, since that's the max size read by the notifications applet.
- "newsXXX.mpo" This is the MPO data for this notification if any, where XXX is the decimal notification-index in the below headers-array. The filesize should be <= <size listed here>, since that's the max size read by the notifications applet.
news.db
| Offset | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0x0 | 0x10 | Header, see below. |
| 0x10 | 0x2BC0 (100 * 0x70) | Array of headers for each notification. |
Header
| Offset | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0x0 | 0x1 | Must be 0x1. |
| 0x1 | 0x1 | Flags: bit0 is set by news-module when handling the AddNotification commands. This indicates that there's "unread" notifications, the notifications applet clears this once all notifications have been "read". |
| 0x2 | 0xE | Normally zero? |
Errors
| Error code | Description |
|---|---|
| 0xC8A12805 | The notification header data for the specified notificationID is not set(the specified notification doesn't exist). |
Title Versions
| Title version | System version | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| v7168 | 9.7.0-X | Unknown. No new service commands / services. |