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Welcome to the NKit user guide

This guide aims to cover NKit's features and options from a user point of view. Please refer to the Glossary and FAQ if something isn't clear. Feel free to ask anything else in the GBA Temp NKit App thread. Thanks for reading.

Key Uses

There are two key used of NKit:

• Recovery: Rebuild and repair images to match Redump verified images. This is aided by use of Recovery files that can be extracted from good sources. Recovery uses these files to rebuild the iso and repair modified disc headers, unscrub blocks, reinsert missing Wii partitions, move and reorder GameCube filesystems
• Convert: Converts anything to the NKit Format and preserves the data so that it can be restored back to the source iso

NKit Apps

There are 2 types of apps command line and GUI. All apps use the NKit.dll. This dll is a library that contains all the logic. It can be used by others to include in other apps if required.

Command Line Apps

• ConvertToISO.exe - converts a source file to iso. This can be wbfs (scrubbing is preserved), iso.dec (junk is recreated) or NKit [iso/gcz] (source data is restored back to iso)
• ConvertToNKit.exe - preserves the source image data as nkit [iso/gcz]. Scrubbing, hacks etc are preserved. For WBFS and iso.dec when restoring back to iso with ConvertToIso.exe the iso will contain all data that was in the original WBFS / iso.dec.
• RecoverToISO.exe - attempts to recover GameCube and Wii images to .iso
• RecoverToNKit.exe - attempts to recover GameCube and Wii images and convert to nkit.iso or nkit.gcz
• RecoveryExtract.exe - saves recovery files from images. CRC's in The NKit.dll.config are used to save extracted files in to a 'Redump' or 'Other' folder.

GUI Apps

• NKitExtractionApp.exe
• NKitProcessingApp.exe