A modern and supercharged NUS downloader built with Python and Qt6. Powered by libWiiPy and libTWLPy.
The name is a play on NuGet, the .NET package manager. Thank you @Janni9009 for the name idea!
NUSGet allows you to download any content from the Nintendo Update Servers. Free content (content with a Ticket freely available on the servers) can be decrypted or packed directly into an installable archive (WAD/TAD).
NUSGet also offers the ability to create vWii WADs that can be installed from within vWii mode, since the content directly from the update servers is only designed to be installed from Wii U mode.
The following features are available for all supported consoles:
- Downloading encrypted contents (files like
00000000,00000001, etc.) directly from the update servers for any title. - Creating decrypted contents (*.app files) from the encrypted contents on the servers. Only supported for free titles.
For Wii and vWii titles only:
- "Pack installable archive (WAD/TAD)": Pack the encrypted contents, TMD, and Ticket into a WAD file that can be installed on a Wii or in Dolphin Emulator. Only supported for free titles.
For vWii titles only:
- "Re-encrypt title using the Wii Common Key": Re-encrypt the Title Key in a vWii title's Ticket before packing the WAD, so that the WAD can be installed via a normal WAD manager on the vWii, and can be extracted with legacy tools. This also creates WADs that can be installed directly in Dolphin, allowing for running the vWii System Menu in Dolphin without a vWii NAND dump!
For DSi titles only:
- "Pack installable archive (WAD/TAD)": Pack the encrypted contents, TMD, and Ticket into a TAD file that can be installed on a TAD or in a DSi-capable emulator. Only supported for free titles. For real hardware, these titles can be installed using @rvtr's handy TAD Delivery Tool.
For basic usage on all platforms, you can download the latest release for your operating system from here, and then run the executable.
Platform-Specific Notes:
- macOS: To use NUSGet on macOS, you'll need to either open NUSGet.app using right-click -> Open, or by using the terminal command
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine NUSGet.app. After doing either of those things once, you'll be able to double-click NUSGet to open it like you normally would for an app. Note that changes in macOS Sequoia require using the latter method. - Windows: On Windows, you'll likely need to allow NUSGet.exe in your antivirus program. This includes Windows Defender, which is almost guaranteed to prevent the app from being run. This is not because NUSGet is malicious in any way, it's just that NUSGet isn't popular enough to be "known" to Windows, and I don't have the expensive signing certificate necessary to work around this. If you're in doubt, you can look at all of NUSGet's code in this repository.
- Linux: No special information applies on Linux, however you can build NUSGet yourself if you'd like to have it as an installed application with an icon that will appear in your favorite application launcher. See here for more information.
- Windows: Python 3.11 (Requires Windows 8.1 or later)
- Linux: Python 3.11
- macOS: Python 3.11 (Requires macOS 10.9 or later, however macOS 11.0 or later may be required for library support)
Python 3.12 may be supported now, however it is not tested at this time.
First, install the required dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Then, use the command for your platform to build an executable with Nuitka:
Windows
python -m nuitka --show-progress --include-data-dir=data=data --include-data-dir=resources=resources --assume-yes-for-downloads --onefile --windows-icon-from-ico=resources/icon.png --plugin-enable=pyside6 NUSGet.py --windows-console-mode=disableLinux
python -m nuitka --show-progress --include-data-dir=data=data --include-data-dir=resources=resources --assume-yes-for-downloads --onefile --plugin-enable=pyside6 NUSGet.py -o NUSGetmacOS
python -m nuitka --show-progress --include-data-dir=data=data --include-data-dir=resources=resources --assume-yes-for-downloads --onefile --plugin-enable=pyside6 NUSGet.py --macos-create-app-bundle --macos-app-icon=resources/icon.pngThe result will be a single binary named NUSGet that contains everything required to run NUSGet. No dependencies are needed on the target system. On Windows and macOS, this will also embed the icon in the program.
A Makefile has been included to both build and install NUSGet on Linux. This will automatically set up NUSGet under /opt/ and install a .desktop file to /usr/share/applications/ so you can use it like any other application.
First, use make to build NUSGet (this automates the step above):
make linuxThen, run the install command with sudo (or your favorite alternative):
sudo make linux-installNUS Downloader (Nintendo Update Server Downloader), is an old tool for downloading titles from the Nintendo Update Servers for the Wii and DSi. Originally released in 2009, and effectively last updated in 2011, it stills works today, however it definitely shows its age, and is in need of a refresh. One of the major shortcomings of NUSD is that it only supports Windows, as most of the tools for the Wii from that era are written in C# and use the .NET Framework, especially since they tend to rely on the C# library libWiiSharp. NUSD also has far more limited support for DSi titles, and no support whatsoever for vWii titles.
With my introduction of libWiiPy, there's now a work-in-progress Python library designed to eventually have feature parity with libWiiSharp. At this point in time, the library is featured enough that every piece of libWiiSharp that NUSD relied on is now available in libWiiPy, so I decided to put that to use and create a replacement for it. NUSGet offers nearly all the same features as NUSD (currently there is no support for the DSi servers or for scripting), but is built on top of a modern library with a modern graphical framework, that being Qt6. A major benefit of this rewrite is that its fully cross-platform, and is natively compiled for Windows, Linux, and macOS.