It is October 31st, and Team-Xecuter Announces a 'Happy SX Halloween' update which is packed with treats and some new tricks for SX OS users to enjoy!

It may be trick or treat day in most places in world, but for Team-Xecuter it means being hard at work while eating candies and treating their loyal SX OS users with a nice new update to their CFW for Nintendo Switch consoles, and this one is packed with goodies to munch on as you answer the door to all the little goblins and witches looking for treats themselves, so enjoy and Happy SX Halloween!

Today, we are back with another release of SX OS beta! This update addresses some of the excellent feedback we've had following our v2.2 beta release. We can't thank the community enough for continuously identifying small issues and notifying us about them. Keep the feedback coming!

Now without further ado, lets have a look at the list of changes:

• Support for *big* USB drives
  In our last announcement we bragged that you were able to enjoy TERABYTES of content, which was technically correct.. but in practice you were still limited to USB drives with a capacity up to 2TB. This is now a limitation of the past, as you are now able to use storage devices with a capacity of up to a PETABYTE!
• Fix USB disk directory scanning
  Due to a small bug in 2.2 beta the subdirectories on your USB disk weren't being properly scanned for content. This has been fixed and you can now rely on the same subfolder structure as on your microSD card.
• Fix USB ethernet and keyboard support
  The introduction of our USB disk support apparently broke support for existing USB peripherals that were supported by Nintendo's firmware. Fixed!
• Add USB drive write support
  We have enabled write support for USB drives. In practice for SX OS this means that NSP files can now actually be deleted after installation. But this also serves a greater purpose.. keep reading!
• Eject gamecard on USB eject
  When you disconnect a USB disk while in the main menu the (emulated) Game Card will actually be ejected now. A small detail, but a nice addition nonetheless.
• Improved LayeredFS support
  LayeredFS suffered from incompatibilities with certain games, this has been addressed and fixed. If you find any more problem titles, let us know!
• Add support for temporarily disabling LayeredFS by pressing X while launching game/application
  If you want to skip loading your LayeredFS patches you can now hold the X key while launching a game/application. The game/app will start normally without any patches applied.
• Further improvements to overall system stability..

.. and other minor adjustments to enhance the user experience. You know the drill! ;-)

Last but not least, we have some cool news for homebrew devs. We are releasing a little library called `libusbfs` that allows your homebrew to interface with USB disks very easily. You can find the latest library code on our website in the downloads section! We are looking forward to popular homebrew apps adapting support for USB storage.

That's all we have today. We get many questions daily about supporting "patched" switch consoles. We are working hard on a solution. Stay tuned, friends!

--< Team-Xecuter - Rocking the Switch in 2018 and beyond! >--​

From everyone here at GBATemp, Team-Xecuter, MaxConsole, we wish you a safe and Happy Halloween, enjoy!

Source: MaxConsole

 

[WiiuGold]

Best Update so far ..

 

[Bimmel]

Just when I needed some salty water .. these threads are a good resource.

Happy as always. Thx TX!

 

[eliboa]

Last but not least, we have some cool news for homebrew devs. We are releasing a little library called `libusbfs` that allows your homebrew to interface with USB disks very easily. You can find the latest library code on our website in the downloads section! We are looking forward to popular homebrew apps adapting support for USB storage.

So from now on we're gonna have SX OS specific homebrews, is that it ?

 

[XerSec]

So from now on we're gonna have SX OS specific homebrews, is that it ?

Since it's a library, it'll probably work on all CFWs

 

[MachRc]

A sx os specific emulator of sort with usb storage access sounds very cool indeed

 

[jakkal]

best purchase for any Switch owner

 

[jacopastorius]

so nice. What do you suggest to use, 2.0.1 or 2.2.1 beta?

 

[sanderdsz]

So, the HD's that arent being recognized, now are fine?

 

[kumikochan]

So from now on we're gonna have SX OS specific homebrews, is that it ?

tutututuuuuuuuuu tutututuuuuuuu tututututuuuuuuuuuuuuuu tutututututututututut Sorry because of your picture i got that song back in my head. Thanks for that, will be days before it's gone again

 

[Yasars]

Wauw usbhdd scan very fast the games .... Nice

 

[Deleted User]

I've given TX shit in the past, but I'm man enough to admit when somethings really good, and giving out libusbfs for people to use FOR FREE is a really fucking good thing.

Well done TX. Seriously, well done.

 

[TunaKetchup]

TX once again showing to be a good investment

 

[wiewiec]

Sweet, but still waiting for info about 6.1 support

 

[garyopa]

Sweet, but still waiting for info about 6.1 support

There is no need. -- Reports are that everything works with 6.1 -- Nothing major was changed by big 'N', they should had called it '6.0.2' worse case if something does not work with 6.1 it would be with LayeredFS, but now you can 'disable' it temp when loading a troublesome app/game

 

[Dndsrac]

Sweet, but still waiting for info about 6.1 support

It has 6.1 support....

 

[TR_mahmutpek]

Wait, they released something really new? libnusbfs..?! WHAAAAT!?
(I know the usb support stuff.)

 

[wiewiec]

There is no need. -- Reports are that everything works with 6.1 -- Nothing major was changed by big 'N', they should had called it '6.0.2' worse case if something does not work with 6.1 it would be with LayeredFS, but now you can 'disable' it temp when loading a troublesome app/game

Gary, have question since I get PX Pro today, is it possible to have both worlds using TX Emunand - is it safe to have emunand online?

 

[jakkal]

Now @blawar can implement USB installs into DZ now that `libusbfs` is available

 

[garyopa]

Now @blawar can implement USB installs into DZ now that `libusbfs` is available

I am sure it will occur soon. -- He was one developer that infact reached out to TX a couple of weeks ago, requesting something be done to allow 'homebrew' to access the mounted USB HDD.

 

[garyopa]

Gary, have question since I get PX Pro today, is it possible to have both worlds using TX Emunand - is it safe to have emunand online?

Nothing can be 100% safe for online, but if you reset your factory nand, and you normally only use XCI's online you should be safe, not 100% but a while before big 'N' catches up to you. And use two microsd's one for emunand and one for original. -- and only have legit nsp's installed on your factory, and none of them legit or otherwise on your emunand, you should be safe, but its not perfect.