FILLED Donkey_Kong_Country_Returns_HD_NSW-HR

formeruser · 15 Jan 2025

As a bonus, here are all four international releases of the same

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Redump-verified ISOs of all three regions, converted to the

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using the recommended default 128 KiB block size without compression for best compatibility and archived with 7-Zip to save a large amount of space (17.5 GiB ISO vs. 13.7 GiB RVZ vs. 7.8 GiB RVZ+7z):

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Dolphin version 5.0-12188 (2020-06-21) or later (just get the newest

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) can run these RVZs directly (see

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for fixes), but to play on hardware they need to be converted back to the original format. This can be done by right-clicking the entry in Dolphin's game list and selecting "Convert File..." or using DolphinTool bundled with the emulator.

No-Intro-verified cartridge ROMs of all four regions, decrypted with

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and archived with 7-Zip to save a significant amount of space (16.0 GiB 3DS vs. 8.7 GiB ENC+7z vs. 4.5 GiB DEC+7z):

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The following major yet completely reversible changes were made to the No-Intro-verified CDN dumps linked below to prepare them for installation on hardware or emulator:
- Renamed the

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from tmd.VERSION to tmd
- Generated a fake

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(cetk) as explained here but with the

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instead
- Appended the

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to the ticket
- Converted files to the
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with

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- Added title version tag to European CIA name to distinguish between v0 and v32

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There were no updates or DLCs and the Taiwanese version is digital-only while the other four regions also received a physical release. Though the versioning is inconsistent across regions (USA v48, Europe/Japan v32, Korea/Taiwan v0), within each the Cartridge and CDN files have identical title versions as well as

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,

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and

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contents. The only exception is the

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that at offset 0xD has 0 for 3DS and 2 for CIA, with the latter signifying "SDApplication", which results in a completely different RSA-2048 signature and key at 0x400-0x5FF, but this makes no difference to the end user.
A partially written up deep dive into the changes between the European v0 and v32 CIAs was scrapped due to a lack of ~~interest~~ time.

Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, Citra supports encrypted formats too so there is no need to first decrypt them on hardware or with a crappy batch file wrapper around a Python script distributed as executable. You just have to provide the

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and

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(for digital titles released since 2015). Either download them from

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or dump the keys from your device and get the seeds from the CDN.
This game's

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does not mention any emulation issues.

While the Wii game runs at 60 FPS, the 3DS version was crippled to "30". There is a

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that sets the frame rate to 60 and is compatible with all five regions but unfortunately also increases the in-game speed, though the music still plays normally. On Citra the game runs way too fast now but on hardware the speed increase is much less pronounced. This actually makes for a significantly less nauseating experience than the default, especially on the

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model after enabling the higher clock speed and extra L2 cache.
To try it out extract the archive below and copy luma to the root of your SD card for use with

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or cheats to Citra's

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.
Doing so will overwrite any existing cheat files for this game. To avoid that add the codes manually:

Code:

[60 FPS (game runs faster)]
2044F5C8 00000000

[30 FPS]
2044F5C8 00000001

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This is neither a native port nor emulation (

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) but rather a

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. It consists of the Wii ISO, minus the system update partition, converted to split NFS files and a loader that reboots into the backwards compatible

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(specifically

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) which then automatically launches the game.

Dolphin version 5.0-17132 (2022-08-04)

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. Just move the decrypted code (for htk.bin) and content directories to your game folder, then (re)start Dolphin to make the title show up in the game list.

Cemu supports directly loading NUS content since

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(2024-08-26), but for some reason installation continues to require decrypting such files to the "

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format" with

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first. If you still use the ancient CDecrypt_v2.0b.exe (from 2015) now is a good time to update to the linked fork because the old version corrupts both TMD and IMG of the included firmware (

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v5918).

The following minor, reversible changes were made to the No-Intro-verified CDN dumps linked below to prepare them for installation on hardware:
- Renamed the

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from tmd.0 to title.tmd
- Generated a fake ticket (title.tik) as explained here
- Added the universal certificate chain
- Suffixed all contents with .app

Note: Wii "VC" titles do not work in Cemu because it does not emulate the Wii hardware required for backwards compatibility, hence the black screen hang after the splash image.

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It is possible to play more than the very limited selection of Wii games on Wii U by injecting a different ISO into the "VC" title, though

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. You can do so either with

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or preferably by following

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. If you decide to go the manual route, instead of the outdated attached builds use these tools:

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(

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),

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and

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.

No-Intro-verified CDN dumps of the most common base title used for injection with the same changes as the Donkey Kong game linked above to prepare them for use with

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:

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Since all three contain the exact same firmware you can alternatively use this tiny template (3 MiB) made by decrypting the USA version, removing the useless NFS files, rvlt.tik and rvlt.tmd; blanking htk.bin with zeros, preparing the XML for setting a custom name or ID, and including a bash script for easy automated injection:

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In case you still need these:
- "Wii common key" (EB...F7)
Get it straight from

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,

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(

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) and, famously,

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; alternatively see 0x114-0x123 (0x10) in keys.bin created on your device by BootMii.
- "Wii U common key" (D7...56)
You can find it

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(

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), in CDecrypt's

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or at 0xE0-0xEF in otp.bin dumped from your console.

Donkey_Kong_Country_Returns_HD_NSW-HR

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Note: Works on

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You can easily convert in both directions between Redump/No-Intro-verified files and the more useful formats shared above using these bash scripts that also check against SHA-1 hashes from the official DATs:

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Make sure to follow the instructions in readme.txt.

Password: kMJOPyjiZht4QJFlfpyU

Sequel

formeruser · 21 Jan 2026

[2025-01-15] Donkey_Kong_Country_Returns_HD_NSW-HR
[2026-01-21] Donkey_Kong_Country_Returns_HD_Update_v1.1.0_NSW-SUXXORS

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Password: kMJOPyjiZht4QJFlfpyU

Note: Missing from the main site

Edit: New link

tucows · 2026-07-14T13:48:38+0000

formeruser said:
[2025-01-15] Donkey_Kong_Country_Returns_HD_NSW-HR

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[2026-01-21] Donkey_Kong_Country_Returns_HD_Update_v1.1.0_NSW-SUXXORS

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Password: kMJOPyjiZht4QJFlfpyU

Note: Missing from the main site

re-up plz, particularly hr-bdlwa.r48

rappunzel · 2026-07-14T16:37:02+0000

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formeruser · 2026-07-14T17:04:27+0000

Fixed above. Or get only your missing volume:

hr-bdlwa.r48

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FILLED Donkey_Kong_Country_Returns_HD_NSW-HR

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