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Tesla - The Nintendo Switch Overlay Menu

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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

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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: https://download.werwolv.net/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

GitHub Sponsors https://github.com/sponsors/WerWolv
PayPal https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KP7XRJAND9KWU&source=url
Patreon https://www.patreon.com/werwolv


Thanks a lot and have fun using and extending it :)
 
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Can someone explain if the latest homebrews linked (sys-clk, tesla, ediZon etc) which mention support for 19.XX, will work on fw 18.1 (atmosphere 1.8.0-pre-release) or should I use older releases?
 
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Shrubber said:
Can someone explain if the latest homebrews linked (sys-clk, tesla, ediZon etc) which mention support for 19.XX, will work on fw 18.1 (atmosphere 1.8.0-pre-release) or should I use older releases?
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The fastest way is to try it yourself, but I think newer versions work on old firmware too (as long as the README doesn't state otherwise).
 
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SNES-Fan said:
After a FW + Atmo update I always have to update/overwrite the "optional" TESLA NX OvlLoader SYSMODULE.
So why optional ?
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because it isn't required AT. All. It's something that you chose to use, or you chose to use a sysmodule that requires it. It is certainly a "nice to have", but it isn't required to run CFW or homebrew.
 
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urherenow said:
because it isn't required AT. All. It's something that you chose to use, or you chose to use a sysmodule that requires it. It is certainly a "nice to have", but it isn't required to run CFW or homebrew.
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Ah, ok, thanks for the info. I use EdizonSE + Zing, so it seems to be needed therefor.
Works fine on 19.0.1. :)
 
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SNES-Fan said:
Ah, ok, thanks for the info. I use EdizonSE + Zing, so it seems to be needed therefor.
Works fine on 19.0.1. :)
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Still not true. You are meant to press the home button (from within a game), open HBL, and launch Edizon through that. The Tesla menu for it was an afterthought.
 
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urherenow said:
Still not true. You are meant to press the home button (from within a game), open HBL, and launch Edizon through that. The Tesla menu for it was an afterthought.
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I don't use normal "cheats", I use special ones that make wanted memory changes for N64 emulation visible on the fly via overlay while gaming.
 
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impeeza said:
you need to upgrade with latest versions, tesla and tesla overlay or if you like use UltraHand
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Thank you. The issue wasn't with Tesla but with EdiZon overlay. The download in this guide is outdated. I have a feeling that's the issue with SimpleModManager as well. There isn't an overlay on github for the most resent version of SimepleModManager (v2.1.2). I had to go a couple of revs back to find an overlay (v2.0.4).
 
Krafter said:
Thank you. The issue wasn't with Tesla but with EdiZon overlay. The download in this guide is outdated. I have a feeling that's the issue with SimpleModManager as well. There isn't an overlay on github for the most resent version of SimepleModManager (v2.1.2). I had to go a couple of revs back to find an overlay (v2.0.4).
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yes the post https://gbatemp.net/posts/10121629/ stated what you should look in to the github of each download for a more recent version. because the ones on that post may get outdated.
 
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Yes, you need ta SD:/config/tesla/config.ini file configured with the set of button(s) to pop up it, if no correct file is found NO tesla is loaded.

by example mine is:

Code: 
[tesla]
key_combo=L+ZL+R+ZR

;file: sdmc:/config/tesla/config.ini
;keys: A, B, X, Y, LS, RS, L, R, ZL, ZR, PLUS, MINUS, DLEFT, DUP, DRIGHT, DDOWN, SL, SR

so I do have to press ZL+ZR+L+R to popup Overlays

On the commented lines I have a reminder of the possible buttons to assign
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now i am confused the switch that tesla works has no config file at all. The one that doesn't work has one...
 
razovya said:
now i am confused the switch that tesla works has no config file at all. The one that doesn't work has one...
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My button combo is L button + R3 + Dpad Down. if that doesn't work, try deleting the Tesla config.ini file on the one that doesn't work and rebooting your switch after, then try that key combo.
 
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Anyone know how to fix distorted menu? I got this problem after update my atmosphere to 1.9.5 and fw to 20.4
 

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