How do you start a game? I can only get to the difficulty select screen and no button will advance the game.
Are you sure you placed the .pak files from HL1 and its mods to the required folder ?
He might be confusing HL with Quake. HL did use pak files at some point in time, but I think Valve got rid of them. You have to copy your entire valve folder to sdmc:/xash3d (note that it's not in the switch folder, it's on the root) like it says in the OP.
Pressing "a" brings up a keyboard for me in console.And is there an onscreen keyboard to use with the console?
on its github its been updated for 9.0
Oh I didn't notice!on its github its been updated for 9.0