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.
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.
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 (its still encrypted as well).
At 0x4000, there will be a variable sized NCZ Header structure. This header contains a list of sections which tell the decompressor how to re-encrypt the NCA data after decompression.
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.
class NczHeader
{
public:
class Section
{
public:
u64 offset;
u64 size;
u8 cryptoType;
u8 padding1[7];
u64 padding2;
integer<128> cryptoKey;
integer<128> cryptoCounter;
} PACKED;
const bool isValid()
{
return m_magic == MAGIC && m_sectionCount < 0xFFFF;
}
const u64 size() const
{
return sizeof(m_magic) + sizeof(m_sectionCount) + sizeof(Section) * m_sectionCount;
}
const Section& section(u64 i) const
{
return m_sections[i];
}
protected:
u64 m_magic;
u64 m_sectionCount;
Section m_sections[1];
static const u64 MAGIC = 0x4E544345535A434E;
} PACKED;Requires hactool compatible keys.txt to be present with nsz.py. Only currently works on base titles (no patches or DLC), but can be updated to work on them later.
example usage: nsz.py --level 17 -C title1.nsp title2.nsp title3.nsp
will generate title1.nsz title2.nsz title3.nsz
py -3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
nsz.py --help
usage: nsz.py [-h] [-i INFO] [--depth DEPTH] [-N VERIFY_NCAS]
[-x EXTRACT [EXTRACT ...]] [-c CREATE] [-C] [-l LEVEL]
[-o OUTPUT]
[file [file ...]]
positional arguments:
file
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i INFO, --info INFO show info about title or file
--depth DEPTH max depth for file info and extraction
-N VERIFY_NCAS, --verify-ncas VERIFY_NCAS
Verify NCAs in container
-x EXTRACT [EXTRACT ...], --extract EXTRACT [EXTRACT ...]
extract / unpack a NSP
-c CREATE, --create CREATE
create / pack a NSP
-C Compress NSP
-l LEVEL, --level LEVEL
Compression Level
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
Directory to save the output NSZ files
-t THREADS, --threads THREADS
Number of threads to compress with. Negative
corresponds to the number of logical CPU cores.
nut exception: 0
SciresM for his hardware crypto functions; the blazing install speeds (50 MB/sec +) achieved here would not be possible without this.
Nicoboss for the original awesome idea. https://github.com/nicoboss/nsZip/