I'm Not Sure How to Use This

[GravityUnown]

My apologies for the completely newish inquiry, I want to get some 3DS rom files decrypted on my Mac but I just don't know how to get this program running at all. I tried reading the instructions on the main page but it used a lot of language that I just don't follow as a beginner.

I'll understand if it's not doable, but are there simplified instructions on how to do this?

[blueambr]

@GravityUnown

Hey! A quick rundown:

1. Download the latest stable cia-unix script and dltools.sh from the Releases tab here on GitHub: https://github.com/shijimasoft/cia-unix/releases
2. Extract and put all the files in the same folder + the .cia/.3ds file you need to decrypt
3. Open a Terminal window in this folder you created
4. On Linux (e.g. Steam Deck) you might need to run chmod +x ./dltools.sh and chmod +x ./cia-unix. It tells the system that the scripts are safe to run by making them executable
5. Finally, you execute them. In the Terminal (the Terminal path should be inside this folder you created for all the steps), first run the ./dltools.sh command and then ./cia-unix
6. As a result, you'll have a new .cia/.3ds file in the folder with the appended word "decrypted" to the name, which you can use for your purposes

Let me know, if you have any troubles and I'll try to help.

[AlexanderGatesDev]

Its been a while but this may help others.
If you're on MacOS and run into the blocked app loop, like i did. You can run these commands in the working cia-unix dir

sudo /usr/bin/xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine makerom
sudo /usr/bin/xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine ctrtool
sudo /usr/bin/xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine ctrdecrypt