theawesomecoder61 / xci-tool

A Windows program that can view and extract the contents of a Nintendo Switch Cartridge Image (XCI)

XCI-Tool

A Windows program that can view and extract the contents of a Nintendo Switch Cartridge Image (XCI)

What this does

This tool can view information and the files within a Nintendo Switch Cartridge Image (XCI). The files are displayed in a tree view and each file can be exported. The first 10 MB of the selected file is shown in a hex viewer.

Building

You will need:

• Visual Studio 2015 or later
• .NET Framework 4.5 or later

1. Clone the repo
2. Open the .sln file in Visual Studio
3. Build > Build Solution

Unfortunately...

XCI Tool can not decrypt anything. You will need the decryption key to do so.

A New Tool

XCI Tool will become deprecated in favor for a new tool called UltiSwitch. This will include an updated and more organized XCI Tool that will not come until I finish Blacksmith, another project of mine.

Note

Some files in the XCI files can be gigabytes in size. I implemented this hacky solution (hey, it works) for exporting them.

Thanks to

• Falo (on GBATemp)
• SwitchBrew