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You would think that Blawar would remove the license checks but since he is close to TX maybe he knows something about the future of SXOS that we do not, which may be the reason that the license checks have not been removed yet. I've lost count of how many times I have said this but until Gary Bowser's lawsuit is over we can't say with 100% certainty that TX is dead. Yes it looks that way but what would you do if a big corporation was trying to sue you for millions of dollars? Especially given that Gary was illegally extradited from the Dominican Republic. When shit hits the fan you shut the fuck up. Could they have already given up? Sure. But there's no way to know until the lawsuit is over.Humm now that SX OS seems to not be updated anymore I wonder if Tinfoil would consider removing the SX license requirements that atm we need to have in order to unlock all of it's potential. Even better would be if they implemented a XCI Loader, if anyone were to do it I guess Tinfoil would be my best bet.
Also regarding XCI Loader, and speaking from a perspective of someone who doesn't know anything about coding, would it be possible to salvage anything from any of the Switch emulators out there like yuzu or Ryujinx, as in learning how they load/play XCI files and try to import the method to the Switch itself? These emulators are open-source but I don't really know if it would be of any help for a potential XCI Loader project on the Switch itself.
As for XCI loading. All the knowledge needed to do it is public, it's just hard to do in a legal way. The reason emulators are able to do it is because they don't have to work around Nintendo's firmware. They can just mount the image and start executing the NSO. On physical hardware you have to patch system modules, emulate the game card reader, redirect file read operations, etc. Once Atmosphere reimplements the FS system module it should be a lot easier to do, but that isn't on the road map until next year iirc and even then it might get delayed.
Edit: To be clear, Atmosphere is not going to add XCI loading support, but when they reimplement the FS system module it will make it easier for a third party developer to add XCI loading.
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