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

 

[Chrisssj2]

Well, then this is not Tesla issue...
For some reason there is "SaltyNX is not working"

Game i was testing with was DB xenoverse 2.
I tried Sword art hollow realisation and there ReverseNX does show like normal, it says it is in handheld profile which sounds right.
Then I try to change it, i press A on change mode, but nothing changes... Any idea why it won't change, and why it saltynx sometimes, but not other times?

 

[masagrator]

Game i was testing with was DB xenoverse 2.
I tried Sword art hollow realisation and there ReverseNX does show like normal, it says it is in handheld profile which sounds right.
Then I try to change it, i press A on change mode, but nothing changes... Any idea why it won't change, and why it saltynx sometimes, but not other times?

You are trying to change settings while in gameplay or main menu? It may be just that game doesn't check for changed mode when in main menu or just there is no difference in handheld and docked mode (f.e. they are using one profile that scales with GPU)
And I don't understand last question.

 

[Chrisssj2]

You are trying to change settings while in gameplay or main menu? It may be just that game doesn't check for changed mode when in main menu or just there is no difference in handheld and docked mode (f.e. they are using one profile that scales with GPU)
And I don't understand last question.

While in gameplay. No difference in handheld and docked mode.. hmmm.. so you are saying some games have no 2 modes? and thus won't allow to be switched?

For my last question, as to my earlier post saying how I get the message: reverse NX-RT. says SaltyNX is not working sometimes, while other times it is working. And I did not change any files on the sd or mess with any configs.

 

[masagrator]

While in gameplay. No difference in handheld and docked mode.. hmmm.. so you are saying some games have no 2 modes? and thus won't allow to be switched?

For my last question, as to my earlier post saying how I get the message: reverse NX-RT. says SaltyNX is not working sometimes, while other times it is working. And I did not change any files on the sd or mess with any configs.

Some games yes - I know for sure Goat Simulator doesn't have get functions to check for modes.

Something makes SaltyNX crash and rebooting fixes that.
For example by opening ReverseNX-RT, Edizon overlay or Status monitor while game didn't finish booting you can crash SaltyNX.
I'm still trying to figure out how to get info if game finished booting to prevent this issue in ReverseNX-RT and Status Monitor. For now I'm using svcSleepThread.

 

[Chrisssj2]

Some games yes - I know for sure Goat Simulator doesn't have get functions to check for modes.

Something makes SaltyNX crash and rebooting fixes that.
For example by opening ReverseNX-RT, Edizon overlay or Status monitor while game didn't finish booting you can crash SaltyNX.
I'm still trying to figure out how to get info if game finished booting to prevent this issue in ReverseNX-RT and Status Monitor. For now I'm using svcSleepThread.

That must be it probably I think yes. I'll test with more games and see how it goes.

 

[Spider_Man]

can this be used to access sx os cheats to turn on/off, would be nice rather than going into album all the time.

 

[kickmeh]

can this be used to access sx os cheats to turn on/off, would be nice rather than going into album all the time.

not yo cant

 

[Ryft]

When I try to open Tesla in Pokemon Shield, it acts like it's open because the controller doesn't respond but I can't actually see the Tesla menu. It works fine on the home screen though.

 

[masagrator]

When I try to open Tesla in Pokemon Shield, it acts like it's open because the controller doesn't respond but I can't actually see the Tesla menu. It works fine on the home screen though.

My guess is that you're playing on TV (which you should inform from the beginning). So you have solution for your issue in this topic.

 

[BlackBloodGC]

do you know if sys-tune works with sxcore?

 

[Queen of SoS]

So Ik this has probably been ask several times but can someone explain to me why some cheat files crashes Tesla and others don’t? I have a lot of cheats for fire emblem and it doesn’t crash but for the 10 cheats I have in nexomon it crashes the game. Same thing happens with Story of Seasons Fomt as well.

 

[Goginha]

Why can't I open tesla menu in game while on dock? It seems like I need to adjust screen size to 100%, but then i can't see the things in the corner of my screen, does someone knows how to fix it?

 

[Bahamut2]

I have read somewhere that you can change the Tesla hotkey with a ini file, but i lost the page, any info?

 

[burhansalih]

I have read somewhere that you can change the Tesla hotkey with a ini file, but i lost the page, any info?

I have read the same thing but I can't remember where I have seen it...Would be good to change keys.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

Anyone experience their switch crashing if they open a module, close Tesla, open a module again and it crashes?

 

[ChokingVictim87]

For some reason I cant download the Edizon overlay at the start of the thread. Anyone got a link?

 

[1basti1]

Link works for me. But here you go.

 

[ChokingVictim87]

Legend!

 

[BillyBob123]

This isn’t working for me. If anyone has a pic/vid of what it should look like plz tell me

 

[masagrator]

This isn’t working for me. If anyone has a pic/vid of what it should look like plz tell me

Screenshots are literally in first post.