Hey all.
I'd like to introduce to you, Tesla: My answer to the growing need for proper ingame front ends for sysmodules.

What is this?

• Tesla consists of three individual parts. nx-ovlloader, the Tesla menu and libtesla.
  • nx-ovlloader is basically nx-hbloader ported to run as a sysmodule. It runs in the background and loads overlay NROs (.ovl files) given to it.
  • Tesla Menu is the equivalent to the hbmenu. It's the initial thing loaded by nx-ovlloader and acts as a hub for you to select all other overlays.
  • libtesla is where it becomes interesting for developers. It's an easy to use library that handles layer creation, UI drawing and all the overlay UX. It makes it very easy to create a new overlay for anything
• A frontend for sysmodules that before required either a homebrew or a config file to change settings or used sounds or the LED to give the user feedback.

What is this not?

• A tool that lets you create overlays that are always visible. Overlays can get unloaded way to easily for this.
• An excuse to port absolutely everything to a overlay. Nobody's going to need a title manager overlay. If you consider making a overlay, keep it simple. You don't have a whole lot of memory to work with.

How do I use this?

First of all, download the latest release of nx-ovlloader and the Tesla Menu from the GitHub Release page and extract it onto your SD card.
After a reboot, hold down L and DPad Down and push on the right joy stick to bring up Tesla at any time. Navigation works as you imagine it.
Similar to normal homebrews, you place your .ovl files in the /switch/.overlays folder on your SD card.


Screenshots

Spoiler: Screenshots

Notice

Make sure to use the latest Atmosphere release when trying this as older versions ( as the one SX OS uses too ) probably won't have enough memory available for this to run. Overlays do take a lot of space so nx-ovlloader reserves 6MB. 2MB for framebuffers and around 4MB for overlay developers to use in their overlays.


GitHub

nx-ovlloader: https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader
Tesla Menu: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu


For Developers

libtesla: https://github.com/WerWolv/libtesla
Tesla build template: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Template


Download

nx-ovlloader: https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader/releases/latest
Tesla-Menu: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu/releases/latest
EdiZon Overlay: http://werwolv.net/downloads/EdiZonOverlay.zip ( As a little preview for what this is capable of and what EdiZon 4.0.0 will have even more of soon )

Special thank especially to averne without him, this would not have been possible!


Obligatory Donation links

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Patreon https://www.patreon.com/werwolv


Thanks a lot and have fun using and extending it

 

[Nynrah]

Does the emuiibo overlay work for firmware 16.0.2 or is any version for 16.0.x modified from the official release? I tried some v0.6.5 'hotfix' that was dropped over here:
https://github.com/XorTroll/emuiibo/issues/229

It was supposed to work, but it causes a crash for me. Opening Tesla menu works, but the moment I press on emuiibo it's over.

 

[josete2k]

Does the emuiibo overlay work for firmware 16.0.2 or is any version for 16.0.x modified from the official release? I tried some v0.6.5 'hotfix' that was dropped over here:
https://github.com/XorTroll/emuiibo/issues/229

It was supposed to work, but it causes a crash for me. Opening Tesla menu works, but the moment I press on emuiibo it's over.

Yes...

 

[masagrator]

@WerWolv anyone knows how to display some Chinese characters properly in overlay?

Chinese and Japanese fonts iirc have separate entries in pl, so you would need to change called font inside source code.

 

[impeeza]

Is on the past pages

 

[felonius]

Chinese and Japanese fonts iirc have separate entries in pl, so you would need to change called font inside source code.

Is on the past pages

is there any premade files that i can use?
sorry but I'm not really good at compiling things and such.

 

[impeeza]

is there any premade files that i can use?
sorry but I'm not really good at compiling things and such.

yes they are.

 

[felonius]

yes they are.

can point to them?

 

[impeeza]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-the-nintendo-switch-overlay-menu.557362/post-10121629

 

[felonius]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-the-nintendo-switch-overlay-menu.557362/post-10121629

sorry which exactly is the one that will display Chinese characters properly?
i tried those that i need but still cannot display.

 

[dsrules]

sorry which exactly is the one that will display Chinese characters properly?
i tried those that i need but still cannot display.

try this if you could compile it yourself
https://github.com/zdm65477730/libtesla

 

[felonius]

try this if you could compile it yourself
https://github.com/zdm65477730/libtesla

thanks for the link but as i mentioned earlier i not good at this.

 

[Nynrah]

After some more attempts to get emuiibo running, I got a very odd result. I used Hyrule Warriors, Fire Emblem Warriors and Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes to try it out. I had no problems with the first two games; I could switch virtual amiibos while I was in-game and that worked. Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes was a different story. It did pick up the amiibo I had connected, but if I access the emuiibo overlay while the game is active I end up with a crash or if the menu was already open, it ends up crashing very quickly. I seem to be able to use emuiibo so far for this game if I go the home screen and do the amiibo swap there before returning to the game.

Does anyone know what's going on here?

 

[[Truth]]

@Nynrah, try the dev builds on xortrolls discord:
https://discord.gg/Pnt8Dp3T

Latest build from yesterday:
https://discord.com/channels/472179996857860096/771036774448496661/1099452407206907975

 

[gallubu]

the overlay dont work with the pro controller!!!!

 

[piek50]

I have update everything to latest it worked perfecly. Today i try to open Edizon overley to activate codes now i'm gettin this error report.

Atmosphère Crash Report (v1.7):
Result: 0x4A8 (2168-0002)

Process Info:
Process Name: ovlloader
Program ID: 420000000007e51a
Process ID: 0000000000000082
Process Flags: 00000133
User Exception Address: 0000000067339000
ect.......

After that reboot to Hekate remove the sd and i delete the folder and put the sd back in the switch now mine sd got corrupted so i have to start from scratch again.
I have follow this forum and i see many info sheared and i can't know witch to follow.
Can someone please point me to the right direction?

 

[dsrules]

I have update everything to latest it worked perfecly. Today i try to open Edizon overley to activate codes now i'm gettin this error report.

Atmosphère Crash Report (v1.7):
Result: 0x4A8 (2168-0002)

Process Info:
Process Name: ovlloader
Program ID: 420000000007e51a
Process ID: 0000000000000082
Process Flags: 00000133
User Exception Address: 0000000067339000
ect.......

After that reboot to Hekate remove the sd and i delete the folder and put the sd back in the switch now mine sd got corrupted so i have to start from scratch again.
I have follow this forum and i see many info sheared and i can't know witch to follow.
Can someone please point me to the right direction?

try download the overlays from the post, not from the url
https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-the-nintendo-switch-overlay-menu.557362/post-10121629

 

[piek50]

try download the overlays from the post, not from the url
https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-the-nintendo-switch-overlay-menu.557362/post-10121629

I have dowload and place everything in there folders and works perfecly. The problem is the tesla menu won't open after i press the buttons like always.

 

[dsrules]

I have dowload and place everything in there folders and works perfecly. The problem is the tesla menu won't open after i press the buttons like always.

ovlmenu, edizon overlay, ovlloader are the ones needed for cheats overlay menu

 

[piek50]

ovlmenu, edizon overlay, ovlloader are the ones needed for cheats overlay menu

I have everything in there respectively folder. ovlmenu, edizon overley and overloader. But the problem is to open the menu. Pressing the button combantion L, d-pad down and the right stick does not bring up tesla menu.

 

[dsrules]

I have everything in there respectively folder. ovlmenu, edizon overley and overloader. But the problem is to open the menu. Pressing the button combantion L, d-pad down and the right stick does not bring up tesla menu.

check your microsd and see if it has a different custom button combo setting or not /config/tesla/config.ini
or goto edizon se or breeze sysmodule setting to check if tesla is turned off or not
other than that then no idea