This system module handles the system notifications.
The maximum number of notifications that can be stored/handled is 100,
hence the intended range for notificationIDs is 0-99.
News service “news:u”
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This service only has one command.
News service “news:s”
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- “news.db”: This is the main save-file, the filesize is fixed to
0x2BD0-bytes.
- “newsXXX.txt” This is the
message
data for this notification, where XXX is the decimal
notification-index in the below headers-array. The filesize should be
<= <size listed
here>,
since that’s the max size read by the notifications applet.
- “newsXXX.mpo” This is the
MPO data
for this notification if any, where XXX is the decimal
notification-index in the below headers-array. The filesize should be
<= <size listed
here>,
since that’s the max size read by the notifications applet.
news.db
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| Offset | Size | Description |
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| 0x0 | 0x10 | Header, see below. |
| 0x10 | 0x2BC0 (100 * 0x70) | Array of
headers for each notification. |
| Offset | Size | Description |
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| 0x0 | 0x1 | Must be 0x1 “is valid”. |
| 0x1 | 0x1 | Flags |
| 0x2 | 0xE | Normally zero? |
Flags
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| Bit | Description |
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| 0 | Set by news module when handling BOSS notifications and the AddNotification commands. This indicates that there’s “unread” notifications, the notifications applet clears this once all notifications have been “read”. |
| 1 | Set by news module when handling CECD notifications. |
News module startup
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The actual main function called by main() does the following:
- srv_init()
- Registers services “news:u” and “news:s”.
- Initializes the service session handle for “ptm:sysm”.
- Loads 4 handles from somewhere, which gets used with
svcReplyAndReceive later.
- Does notificationID state init, uses
SRV:GetNotificationSemaphore,
then subscribes to srv notifications 0x104 and 0x106.
- Here
PTMSYSM:SetInfoLEDPattern
is used.
- Some state init is done, then the usual svcReplyAndReceive loop
begins.
Errors
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| Error code | Description |
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| 0xC8A12805 | The news.db or notification header data for the specified notificationID is not set(the specified notification doesn’t exist). |
Title Versions
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| v7168 | 9.7.0-X | All of the changes are the following:- See here regarding the
updated CTRSDK function code.
- This function is eventually called by newss_cmdf, newss_cmd10, and
. When calling a certain function fails in here, this
code now calls before returning.
- Mutex enter/leave function calls were added to a certain
function.
- More state init was added to the start of an initialization function
called during news module startup(crt0?).
- 0x14 new bytes were added to .rodata.
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