In the context of the Nintendo Switch, games and applications are typically packaged as (Nintendo Relocatable Object) or NSO (Nintendo Static Object) files. These are proprietary formats derived from ELF but optimized for the console's operating system, Horizon OS.
nx2elf main.nso main.elf
To achieve the goal of nx2elf (obtaining an ELF file for analysis) today, users require either an "unpatched" hardware unit (exploit-compatible) or a modchip, and should utilize modern dumping suites like nxDumpTool followed by PC-side extraction. nx2elf patched
: Documentation on GitHub Gist outlines a 5-step "patching" process: Extract the main NSO (Switch executable) from a game. In the context of the Nintendo Switch, games