TX Announces SX OS v2.2 BETA with Docked USB Drive Support

It's only been a week since Team-Xecuter made the big announcement of SX OS v2.1 with their 'cheat engine'

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And now they are back and on a roll with them adding 'Docked USB Drive Support' and many other nice improvements to their 'cheat engine' and a few bug fixes! :)
How do you do, dear SX OS users?

Today we are back once again with a much anticipated new feature as well as various improvements to existing functionality for SX OS. While this is still labelled as BETA we've had some good success with it internally, we're looking forward to your feedback.

Lets jump into the list of changes!
  • Docked USB drive support!
Yes. You read it right. You can now plug a USB mass storage device into your switch' dock and load XCI or install NSP content from there directly. No longer are you limited by the size of your microSD card when playing the switch from the comfort of your couch, but you can now enjoy TERABYTES of content by using external harddisks and such! The filesystem on the drive needs to be either FAT32 or exFAT, and the directories that are being scanned for content are equal to the ones you'd use on the microSD card.
  • Updates to the cheat system
    • More accurate progress indication during cheat search
      People were reporting "freezes" during cheat searches, often times these were just due to impatience and a suboptimal UI from our end. The progress bars are more honest and update more frequently now!
    • Cheat search for exact value requires no initial dump anymore
      For 'exact value' searches a big initial dump file on your microSD is not needed, and since this is often the way people start a cheat search we decided to streamline the cheat finder process a bit. You are now prompted with a question whether you want to start an exact value search or arbitrary value search, in case of the former the process will be much faster.
    • Automatically apply/disable cheats upon toggle
      The interface for "applying" the cheats was a bit counterintuitive, you now no longer have to press the plus (+) button in order to apply cheats. They are automatically applied/disabled once you toggle them. Disabling cheats now properly works as well, so there's no need for having a dummy cheat any more to work around that limitation.
    • Ability to add cheats using the UI
      Identifying memory locations for cheats using just the console is nice, but previously there was no way of adding an actual cheat-code for a location you found to the cheat code library. This has been addressed, and there is now an interface for doing this directly from our menu.
  • Show homebrew NSP icons in TX menu
    Some homebrew NSP titles were not displaying their icons properly. This has been investigated and fixed.
  • Fix error 2345-0021 when in docked mode opening TX menu
    People who play/cheat in docked mode will like this fix. The frequent crashes that happened when opening the TX menu in docked mode are now a thing of the past!
That's it folks. Enjoy this BETA and let us know what you think. We have more tricks up our sleeves, more rabbits in our tophats. And we only have one gear: FORWARD.

--< Team-Xecuter - Rocking the Switch in 2018 and beyond! >--
Enjoy! :)

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I dont think switch can power up a hdd even a 2.5 one
Better use a Y cable in dock mode
Not true. I used WD My Passport Ultra Metal 2TB with a single USB cable, and it works without a hitch. I'm planning to get Seagate 5TB Backup Plus on Amazon now.
 

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Not true. I used WD My Passport Ultra Metal 2TB with a single USB cable, and it works without a hitch. I'm planning to get Seagate 5TB Backup Plus on Amazon now.
I got this one
Seagate Backup Plus 5TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0, Silver + 2mo Adobe CC Photography (STDR5000101) $119
 
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Testing it right now with my external WD 4TB 2.5" HDD = no .xci files get listed

I tried on both USB-ports; power LED of HDD is lightning.

I miss the possibility to switch between sd-card and usb-port.

Did you read the readme - it needs to be formatted as exfat or fat32 - you probably have your drive formatted as ntfs.
 

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128GB USB-Stick works (more or less). Reading speed is very slow...

They forgot to implement custom choice between sd-card and usb-port... in my view this is mandatory.

My WD 4TB is exFat formatted, not fat32 nor ntfs. Seems to be an issue of the hdd which need more power supply (docking station does not support usb powerage of usb 3.0) and not based on loader.
 
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Anyone know if it’s possible to remove the drive, add files, then plug back into the dock and install? (Hotswap is what I’m getting at I guess) Would be fantastic to not have to remove my SD card and add files, then reboot with RCM everytime I want to add something new.

This is a good question.

Not interested so much in HDD as quickly being able to transfer xcis/nsps from my computer to the switch as fast as possible. Aside from possible speed gains this also allows me to load up a pen drive and do it on the go without worrying about ftp.

The big question though is if it's hot swappable. Definitely curious about this
 
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Wow this is great news. Can't wait to test it out later.
Hopefully they will bring us Network XCI loader in 2.3 Beta :) so i can use my Synology NAS and some kind of File Manager so we can copy XCI files from USB to the SD.
 
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