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

 

[brollikk]

any incompatible games? or bugs? I know the layeredfs can cause some problems...

 

[wizball1973]

Install NSPs TO internal storage.

Does it also work if installed to SD card?

 

[thaikhoa]

Does it also work if installed to SD card?

I mean to SD and Nand.

 

[Halm]

Sorry, just wanted to ask:

What format should the external HDD be?
And what files in what folders? (XCI / NSP for tinfoil)

 

[thaikhoa]

Sorry, just wanted to ask:

What format should the external HDD be?
And what files in what folders? (XCI / NSP for tinfoil)

You should format them to exFat cluster 512K
/sxos/games
/sxos/xci
/sxos/nsp
/sxos
/switch/games
/switch/xci
/switch/nsp
/switch

 

[bostonBC]

Woot! I can confirm 2.2.1 correctly scans the subfolders on the USB hard disk so you don't have to put them all on the root folder.

Would still be nice if there was an explicit 'updates' folder but I put updates in hd:\switch\nsp and all xci in hd:\sxos\xci and all installable nsp games in hd:\sxos\nsp.

Adding additional scrolling commands down stick jumps a page at a time, up stick jumps back a page would make it easier going through large collections but this is a wonderfup update.

Kudos to TX!

 

[TheZander]

Really laid it on think with the Halloween jargon wtf was that about.

I found this part pretty funny:
"We can't thank the community enough for continuously identifying small issues and notifying us about them."

 

[larrypretty]

libusbfs is what?

 

[thaikhoa]

any incompatible games? or bugs? I know the layeredfs can cause some problems...

So far, NONE.

 

[Deleted User]

so like my 4tb drive works now and all i gotta test is if it works in portable mode (my 2tb did. ironically my 2tb is heavier so yeah im switching to the 4tbif it does). But as soon as my xci loaded up I started singing to myself. "My baby does the hanky panky..."

 

[lolboy]

Nice. To be honest I was expecting OC.

 

[Deleted User]

Oh my! Now we can use Petabyte Harddrive.

 

[wizball1973]

Can I confirm, this is just for .XCI files correct? You still cannot install eShop games to a hard drive?

 

[iMythD]

Best purchase ever!!

 

[scroeffie]

you are now able to use storage devices with a capacity of up to a PETABYTE < realy wont the switch lock up freeze !!
any one tested bigger hdd's beyond 2tb

 

[peiboltroxeno]

Woot! I can confirm 2.2.1 correctly scans the subfolders on the USB hard disk so you don't have to put them all on the root folder.

Would still be nice if there was an explicit 'updates' folder but I put updates in hd:\switch\nsp and all xci in hd:\sxos\xci and all installable nsp games in hd:\sxos\nsp.

Adding additional scrolling commands down stick jumps a page at a time, up stick jumps back a page would make it easier going through large collections but this is a wonderfup update.

Kudos to TX!

I do the same!

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

No range of thumbnail views for ROM menu?

Cycling one game at a time is annoying.

 

[Garou]

is this beta release stable enough?
still using 1.9 on my 4.1.0 switch here. is there any issue with old fw?

 

[OrGoN3]

It is a fair question. I would not call SX slightly ahead of the free options. I am not trying to be a cheerleader here, but there is no free option for stealth (huge), there is no free option for loading XCI (huge), and there is no free mass storage driver (HUGE). Anyone who knows me, knows what I think of the intelligence of anyone who installs hacked XCI -> NSP installations. They are all complete shit, and the lengths people will go to, to save $30 astounds me. Right now, no one even comes close to SX, and I do not expect that to change anytime soon in the future.

How is stealth different than disabling reports and using 90DNS? Will you still get banned for loading ofw after using only xci loading in stealth? But I assume I'd get banned for installing nsp updates or dlc? What you are saying is compelling me to try sx os.

I think xci to nsp conversion and xci installer are clever ways getting around the restriction. I still wonder why nobody else made an xci loader.

I wish their emunand implementation was better.

 

[bostonBC]

Ugh.. having problems with 2.2.1. Mario Kary 8 won't load along with a bunch of others that were working under 2.2.0.

Have to get to work but will check if there's a pattern.