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Revision as of 13:25, 11 December 2017

Joy-Con Firmware File

The length of the firmware must be 524288 bytes.

Offset Endianness Size Description
0x00 B 0x14 Magic number??
0x15 L 0x06 Unique MAC Address of controller
0x3B3 L 0x04 Offset to Factory Firmware
0x1FF4 B 0x08 OTA Magic, if the controller is Over-The-Air updated.
0x1FFC L 0x04 Offset to OTA Firmware, if OTA Magic is valid.
0x6000 Mixed 0x1000 Factory configuration (see Factory Configuration Sector)
0x8000 Mixed 0x1000 User calibration (see User Calibration Sector)

Factory Configuration Sector

Offset Endianness Size Description
0x00 B 0x10 Serial number
0x10 ? 0x02 Unknown
0x12 B 0x01 Type descriptor (see Type Descriptor)
0x13 ? 0x3D Unknown
0x50 B 0x03 Body color of Controller in RGB Hex (see Joy-Con Colors)
0x53 B 0x03 Button color of Controller in RGB Hex (see Joy-Con Colors)
0x56 ? 0xFAA Unknown

Type Descriptor

Value Type Name
0x01 Joy-Con Left
0x02 Joy-Con Right
0x03 Pro Controller

User Calibration Sector

Offset Endianness Size Description
0x00 ? 0x11 Unknown
0x10 B 0x0B Left Stick Calibration (Factory 0xFF?)
0x1B B 0x0B Right Stick Calibration (Factory 0xFF?)
0x26 B 0x1A Sensor Calibration (Factory 0xFF?)
0x40 ? 0xFBF Unknown

Firmware Chunks

The firmware itself is stored in PatchRAM chunks, located at the Factory Offset or the OTA Offset. Each chunk has a Record Type, Size and Data.

Offset Endianness Size Description
0x00 L 0x01 Record type (see Record Types)
0x01 L 0x02 Size of data (size)
0x03 Mixed (size) Data

Record Types

Value Record name Description
0x08 REC8 ROM1 Patches (See Record 0x08 and Memory Regions)
0x0A RECA RAM (Ram Low and Ram High) Patches (See Record 0x0A and Memory Regions)
0x0B RECB Unknown
0xFE END End of chunk stream

Record 0x08

Offset Endianness Size Description
0x00 L 0x01 Index
0x01 L 0x04 Address
0x05 B 0x04 Data
0x09 L 0x02 Unk1?
0x0B L 0x02 Unk2?
0x0D L 0x02 Body size???

Record 0x0A

Offset Endianness Size Description Note
0x00 L 0x04 Address -
0x04 B (Note) Data To calculate the size do: chunk_datasize (See Firmware Chunks)-4

Record 0x0B

Offset Endianness Size Description
0x00 L 0x04 Address

Memory Regions

Offsets Description
0x00-0xC8000 ROM 1
0x260000-0x26C000 ROM 2
0xD0000-0x0x0DFFFF RAM Low
0x200000-0x247FFF RAM High