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

 

[matias3ds]

Working in my 4tb HDD !!!

 

[brollikk]

amazing!!!!!

 

[eliboa]

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

It doesn't look like it. I compiled an homebrew with this "libusbfs" but I'm always getting USBFS_UNMOUNTED when I'm running it on Atmosphere. Looks like IPC comands sent to a SX specific process.
Anyone can confirm this ?

 

[ihaveahax]

libusbfs is just some IPC bindings. It still depends on SX OS-specific components. You should probably wait for libnx to support usb drives instead.

 

[Wrathcaster]

Very nice update! Finally use my 4tb now! Cheers TX!!

Glad to see the mods were quick to get rid of the same old spam and useless messages that always comes on these tx threads, it makes reading these comments alot easier.

 

[mrdude]

Man, I love these updates - I can only imagine tasting the tears of all the TX haters out there. Haha - enjoy Halloween, I'll enjoy mine :-), hahahahahaaaaaa

 

[wiewiec]

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.

Hmm on 3DS was option to unlink nand from emunand - so emunand as part of SD card shares only "Nintendo" folder - but difference was sub folder - is this possible to have such oh thing? I am telling you true - that I will be more than a happy having option to unlink and option to have emunand as part of SD card <- TX should cosider that.
Cheers!

 

[MasterJ360]

Hopefully my 8TB External will work now , inb4 offtopic bickering ensues.

EDIT: Can confirm that my 8TB Seagate Expansion does indeed work!

Thanx for the confirm I have the exact same 8TB, welp time to grab more loot

 

[evilone]

Awesome update again, now to make it perferct there would be something missing to disable firmware updates to Play everything between 5-6.00 or something. =)

 

[Deleted User]

i cant believe 8tb works now

 

[wizball1973]

I assume drives with their own power supply are best used?

 

[mrdude]

I love the update now we can have folder scanning from hdd. I'd like to also see this folder being scanned:

/switch/updates

That way I can separate xci/nsp games and updates easier as I know what folder would contain what. I know I can put these updates in another folder such as /sxos/nsp - but it's would be nice to have:

/sxos/nsp
/sxos/xci
/sxos/updates
/sxos/dlc

or

/switch/nsp
/switch/xci
/switch/updates
/switch/dlc

Hopefully someone from TX will see this :-)

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I assume drives with their own power supply are best used?

2.5" usb drives don't need their own power supply, usb can supply more than enough. On the other hand 3.5" drives work on 5v + 12v and draw more current than 2.5" drives - so these need their own power supplies. The best drives to use SSD, these use much less power and are totally silent, also there is far less chance of corrupting data if you remove the drive when powered as there are no moving parts.

 

[gizmomelb]

It doesn't look like it. I compiled an homebrew with this "libusbfs" but I'm always getting USBFS_UNMOUNTED when I'm running it on Atmosphere. Looks like IPC comands sent to a SX specific process.
Anyone can confirm this ?

if it requires SX OS hooks then you can still use the FREE downloable version which supports homebrew to utilise it.

standalone may be better, but then every app needs to compile the lib into the released executable, having it at OS level makes for smaller homebrew files and ultimately more compatible - iie: you dont end up with old homebrew using old usbfs libs.. if its in the OS then the old homebrew ends up using the newer OS routines.

not well explained, I need coffee.

 

[johnsnow]

if it requires SX OS hooks then you can still use the FREE downloable version which supports homebrew to utilise it.

standalone may be better, but then every app needs to compile the lib into the released executable, having it at OS level makes for smaller homebrew files and ultimately more compatible - iie: you dont end up with old homebrew using old usbfs libs.. if its in the OS then the old homebrew ends up using the newer OS routines.

not well explained, I need coffee.

It makes perfect sense, I understood it.

Also I have old switch homebrew released a few months ago back when 4.1.0 was released, and these homebrew does not work on 5.1.0. After libnx was updated it worked again for 5.1.0 so it is very much the same here. But like you said, the homebrew must be recompiled to fix it and this can sometimes take a long while.

So I agree having it on OS side is better

 

[DKB]

Just waiting for that NSP from USB and everything shall be perfect.

MORE LIKE PERFECTLY STOLEN ECKS DEE MAMA MIA /s

 

[aos10]

Great, but i am still waiting for tinfoil to install from external drive, sxos installer doesn't support install games that requires new update on low FW.

 

[SoCALCat]

I'm sure it will be a matter of time before all the TX heaters start bashing away on this new update. That being said!

I think I'll stay home for the night and not go out trick or treating since TX treated us with this awesome treat...

 

[lufeig]

while haters hate it, this update makes me know that I did the right thing FOR ME when I bought an sx license when it launched

thanks team tx

 

[Ty_]

Just waiting for that NSP from USB and everything shall be perfect.

MORE LIKE PERFECTLY STOLEN ECKS DEE MAMA MIA /s

Installing NSP's from USB? It already does

 

[blawar]

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

Already started it. Unfortunately I had plans tonight. Should release support tomorrow assuming I do not run into any hiccups