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When should distribution type be set to download? Which benefits/drawbacks does that have? #160

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I'm in the process of backing up my gamecards and I had to update to the rewrite, afaik this option is new and idk if I should set it or not.

Also, what did the legacy build do?

The distribution type is a field from NCA headers that indicates whether the NCA is supposed to be read from a gamecard (set to 1) or not (set to 0).

Not changing the value for the distribution type field is the default action in rewrite builds, which is the right thing to do from a preservation standpoint.

Legacy builds always modify this field -- but this didn't really affect digital dumps because their distribution type already is set to 0.

All in all, rewrite builds give you more granular control over the du…

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