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, seems to verify the data starting at 0x100 with the size field from 0x204.
0x100	0x100	RSA-2048 public key, seems to be used for the second NCA signature.
0x200	0x4	Magic "ACID".
0x204	0x4	s32 Size field used with the above signature(?).
0x208	0x4	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	Lowest clear bitmask/bit	Type	Fields
0bxxxxxxxxxxxx0111		Kernel flags	Bit31-24: Highest allowed cpu id, bit23-16: Lowest allowed cpu id, bit15-10: Highest allowed thread prio, bit9-4: Lowest allowed thread prio
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	bit14	Kernel release version	Bits 15-X: Version. The raw descriptor is compared with 0x80000, when less than an error is returned. This is equivalent to comparing the bits starting at bit15 with 0x10. The raw descriptor is also stored into {state}. This enforces a minimum required version, not a maximum.
0x0111111111111111	bit15
All ones		Ignored

Only certain memory ranges are allowed to be mapped via these descriptors.