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Posted on 02-02-16 01:50:33 PM (last edited by Hiccup at 02-02-16 01:51:23 PM) Link | Quote
There was a thread about this in 2010, but it never came to definite conclusion.

Places you can find SRLs:
Some Wii games (like Animal Crossing: City Folk)
Wii U Virtual DS

I wanted to compare a Wii U Virtual DS ROM (they have the SRL extension) with the equivalent real DS version but I can't do that if they are in different formats.

Here is an xdelta patch that turns Mario Kart DS (USA) [decrypted] into the USA Virtual Console version:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_yBl-184usmUFRaLWt3d1czTm8/view?usp=sharing

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Posted on 02-02-16 01:55:01 PM Link | Quote
pretty sure they're the same thing considering that .srl is the image ready to be burned on a cart and .nds is dumped from a cart


there might be differences with SRL's that aren't meant to be burned on a cart


also, .srl might be partially encrypted (DS ROMs have partial encryption, but most dumps you can find are decrypted)

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Posted on 02-02-16 01:59:06 PM (last edited by Hiccup at 02-02-16 02:10:32 PM) Link | Quote
Know of any good decryption/encryption tools to try out? I don't think encryptds is up-to-date.

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Posted on 02-02-16 09:11:46 PM Link | Quote
The only time I have ever come across an SRL file is with the Metroid Fusion and Metroid Zero Mission prototypes.

Not sure what the acronym really stands for but I was able to run those ROMs with no$gba.

This could just be a weird case though. Renaming the extensions of those ROMs to GBA made them run in other emulators too like Visual Boy Advance.

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Posted on 02-02-16 09:21:48 PM Link | Quote
srl might mean 'serial', maybe the hardware Nintendo used to burn carts worked over a serial port? dunno

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Posted on 02-07-16 08:07:13 PM Link | Quote
Yeah, SRL is also used for GBA ROMs. I'm referring to the NDS variety.

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Posted on 12-10-16 10:20:17 AM (last edited by Rena at 12-10-16 10:20:49 AM) Link | Quote
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I believe .srl is the file extension Nintendo uses for DS executables, which may or may not be exact images of a cartridge. .nds is the extension everyone else uses, but again this can be either a raw cartridge dump, a decrypted dump, or a plain executable that's not meant to be burned to cartridge at all (eg most homebrew ROMs, that are loaded by some flash cart's launcher instead of the DS firmware). I have no idea what "srl" actually stands for.

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Posted on 12-10-16 10:29:41 AM (last edited by einstein95 at 12-10-16 10:31:07 AM) Link | Quote
To Hiccup:
If you bothered to open it up in a hex editor or did a binary comparison, you'd notice that the DS srl is essentially the same as an encrypted cart image, just including garbage data that is undumpable.

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Posted on 12-15-16 04:36:05 PM (last edited by Hiccup at 12-19-16 11:06:52 AM) Link | Quote
* What is different, other than the garbage data?
* Where is the garbage data?
* How can one properly encrypt and decrypt an NDS ROM?

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