NPDM

This is the Switch equivalent of 3DS exheader. This is the file with extension ".npdm" in {Switch ExeFS}. The size of this file varies.

Offset	Size	Description
0x0	0x80	META
0x80	<Varies>	ACID
<See META>	<See META>	ACI0

META

Offset	Size	Description
0x0	0x4	Magic "META".
0xE	1
0xF	1
0x1C	4
0x20	?	Title name
0x70	0x4	#ACI0 offset
0x74	0x4	#ACI0 size
0x78	0x4	#ACID offset
0x7C	0x4	#ACID size

ACID

Offset	Size	Description
0	0x100	RSA-2048 signature
0x100	0x100	RSA-2048 public key
0x200	0x4	Magic "ACID".
0x204	0x8	Zeroes
0x20C	0x4	Retail flag. Must be 1 on retail, on devunit 0 is also allowed.
0x210	0x8	Title id
0x218	0x8	Title id again
0x220	0x4	#FS Access Control offset
0x224	0x4	#FS Access Control size
0x228	0x4	#Service Access Control offset
0x22C	0x4	#Service Access Control size
0x230	4	#Kernel Access Control offset
0x234	4	#Kernel Access Control size
0x238	0x8	Padding

ACI0

Looks like an old crappy version of ACID. It has the guessed version field 0 instead of 1.

FS Access Control

Word	Bit	Description
0		Version? Always 1.
1	0	MountContent* is accessible when set.
1	2	Enables access to Bis partitionID 27 and 28?

Web-applets access control:

• "LibAppletWeb" and "LibAppletOff" have same access control: word0 bit0 set, word1 bit0 and bit3 set, and word2 bit30 set.
• Rest of the web-applets: Same as above except word1 bit0 isn't set.

Service Access Control

This is a list of service-name strings which the title has access to, with the following structure:

 +0: control_byte
 +1: {service-name without nul-terminator}

Bitmask 0x0F in control_byte is the {length of the service-name without nul-terminator} - 1.

Bitmask 0x80 in control_byte means service is allowed to be registered.

The service string can contain a wildcard * character.

Kernel Access Control

On Switch, descriptors are identified by pattern 01..11 in low bits.

Pattern of lower bits	Type	Fields
0bxxxxxxxxxxxx0111	Kernel flags	Bit31-24: ?, bit23-16: ?, bit15-10: ?, bit9-4: ?
0bxxxxxxxxxxx01111	Syscall mask	Bits 29-31: Syscall mask table index; Bits 5-28: mask
0bxxxxxxxxx0111111	Map IO page (RW)	Bits 7-31: page
0bxxxxxxxx01111111	Map IO range	Bits 7-30: alternating start page and number of pages, bit31: alternating read-only flag then MemoryAttribute 0x2001/0x42002 selector flag
0bxxxx011111111111	Interrupt pair	Bits 12-21: irq0, bits 20-31: irq1, 0x3FF means empty.
0xxxx0111111111111
0xxx01111111111111
0xx011111111111111
0x0111111111111111
All ones	Ignored