Hey all.
I'd like to introduce to you, Tesla: My answer to the growing need for proper ingame front ends for sysmodules.

What is this?

• Tesla consists of three individual parts. nx-ovlloader, the Tesla menu and libtesla.
  • nx-ovlloader is basically nx-hbloader ported to run as a sysmodule. It runs in the background and loads overlay NROs (.ovl files) given to it.
  • Tesla Menu is the equivalent to the hbmenu. It's the initial thing loaded by nx-ovlloader and acts as a hub for you to select all other overlays.
  • libtesla is where it becomes interesting for developers. It's an easy to use library that handles layer creation, UI drawing and all the overlay UX. It makes it very easy to create a new overlay for anything
• A frontend for sysmodules that before required either a homebrew or a config file to change settings or used sounds or the LED to give the user feedback.

What is this not?

• A tool that lets you create overlays that are always visible. Overlays can get unloaded way to easily for this.
• An excuse to port absolutely everything to a overlay. Nobody's going to need a title manager overlay. If you consider making a overlay, keep it simple. You don't have a whole lot of memory to work with.

How do I use this?

First of all, download the latest release of nx-ovlloader and the Tesla Menu from the GitHub Release page and extract it onto your SD card.
After a reboot, hold down L and DPad Down and push on the right joy stick to bring up Tesla at any time. Navigation works as you imagine it.
Similar to normal homebrews, you place your .ovl files in the /switch/.overlays folder on your SD card.


Screenshots

Spoiler: Screenshots

Notice

Make sure to use the latest Atmosphere release when trying this as older versions ( as the one SX OS uses too ) probably won't have enough memory available for this to run. Overlays do take a lot of space so nx-ovlloader reserves 6MB. 2MB for framebuffers and around 4MB for overlay developers to use in their overlays.


GitHub

nx-ovlloader: https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader
Tesla Menu: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu


For Developers

libtesla: https://github.com/WerWolv/libtesla
Tesla build template: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Template


Download

nx-ovlloader: https://github.com/WerWolv/nx-ovlloader/releases/latest
Tesla-Menu: https://github.com/WerWolv/Tesla-Menu/releases/latest
EdiZon Overlay: http://werwolv.net/downloads/EdiZonOverlay.zip ( As a little preview for what this is capable of and what EdiZon 4.0.0 will have even more of soon )

Special thank especially to averne without him, this would not have been possible!


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Thanks a lot and have fun using and extending it

 

[PatrickD85]

Very very nice
I see a lot of potential use for this really.
Quick acces never gets old!

 

[Deleted User]

Great stuff! All we need is a cheat engine to work within the overlay

 

[Gamerjin]

OMG! this made turn the cheats on and off in resident 6 so easy!!!
it wouldnt fully pause when trying to get to the album to turn on the cheats....
But now....
Now i turn the cheats on and off without leaving the game! THANK YOU!!!!!!!

 

[XorTroll]

Amazing, I guess this could be specially helpful for emuiibo...

 

[JonJaded]

Wow, this is quite stellar. Looking from the memory side of things, it's footprint seems to be well managed as well. Excited to see where this can be used!

Edit: spelling

 

[RadsammyT2]

Woooooooow.
Although the memory is small, the overlay has enough room for a cheat engine, sweet!
I expect more Tesla Overlays to come in the near future.

 

[felonius]

OMG! this made turn the cheats on and off in resident 6 so easy!!!
it wouldnt fully pause when trying to get to the album to turn on the cheats....
But now....
Now i turn the cheats on and off without leaving the game! THANK YOU!!!!!!!

How exactly do you do this?

 

[RadsammyT2]

How exactly do you do this?

Read the main thread carefully.

 

[masagrator]

How exactly do you do this?

Overlay cheat engine is not ready. This is a base for future overlay homebrews. So for now average user has nothing to use here.

 

[WerWolv]

Overlay cheat engine is not ready. This is a base for future overlay homebrews. So for now average user has nothing to use here.

That's not quite true. I attached the overlay I made for EdiZon so people have something to try out It allows you to toggle cheats and view some system stats for now. More to come with the full release of EdiZon 4.0.0

 

[lordelan]

Amazing, I guess this could be specially helpful for emuiibo...

This was my first thought. Please make that happen.

 

[masagrator]

That's not quite true. I attached the overlay I made for EdiZon so people have something to try out It allows you to toggle cheats and view some system stats for now. More to come with the full release of EdiZon 4.0.0

Ah, I was thinking this is just to show how it will look without anything working yet.

 

[raxadian]

This is great, I can see this being quite useful.

 

[H1B1Esquire]

I thank you much.

 

[LightBeam]

Dude that's so huge, great job, there's so much potential and I can't wait to see what's coming with Edizon next

 

[gudenau]

If only this replaced the quick setting menu, might even be able to squeeze out a little more memory from it!

 

[Deleted User]

If only this replaced the quick setting menu, might even be able to squeeze out a little more memory from it!

I would be more than okay with this replacing the quick settings menu

 

[wiitendo84]

I like it. Really nice

 

[darkangel84]

Wonderful work!!
I add an idea.. if it's possibile to change the hotkeys to L + Screenshot button. I think it's more simple for end users.