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: https://download.werwolv.net/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!


Obligatory Donation links

GitHub Sponsors https://github.com/sponsors/WerWolv
PayPal https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KP7XRJAND9KWU&source=url
Patreon https://www.patreon.com/werwolv


Thanks a lot and have fun using and extending it

 

[WerWolv]

I messed with my website a bunch yesterday and managed to break a lot of links lol. Should be good again now, sorry for that ^^

 

[Starhatred]

@1basti1 @WerWolv Thank you very much.

 

[MUDD_BR]

What a wonderful work! Thanks!!

 

[falcorr]

I notice a config file can specify the button combo. Could I get an example of this file?

 

[Toyskyline]

Loving tesla, would be stellar to have horizontally scrolling text for some of the larger names if possible!

 

[0xNULL]

I notice a config file can specify the button combo. Could I get an example of this file?

[tesla]
key_combo=L+DDOWN+RS

file: sdmc:/config/tesla/config.ini
keys: A, B, X, Y, LS, RS, L, R, ZL, ZR, PLUS, MINUS, DLEFT, DUP, DRIGHT, DDOWN, SL, SR

 

[Muxi]

Does anyone know a title that requires the action L+Y? Because I would like to use this combination to call up the Tesla menu for my CFW compilation that is available to the public. But this would only make sense if it wouldn't lead to complications with possible game/app actions.

 

[JonJaded]

Does anyone know a title that requires the action L+Y? Because I would like to use this combination to call up the Tesla menu for my CFW compilation that is available to the public. But this would only make sense if it wouldn't lead to complications with possible game/app actions.

Jump Out of sheild in smash.

 

[Muxi]

Jump Out of sheild in smash.

Shit! Thanks for that info... then it doesn't make sense. So far I have set up L+R+Y and hope that this will not lead to any discrepancies.

 

[KARASVCXA666]

Hi! I am currently trying some cheats and actually trying to change/update the ones I already have (/atmosphere/titles/titleID/cheats - specifically for Snack Wold), but no matter what I do the cheats I entered first are the one showing up in the Edizon overlay; I've tried both replacing them with the new codes and deleting them and it still shows the first cheat list I used. Any help is appreciated

 

[Raugo]

Hi! I am currently trying some cheats and actually trying to change/update the ones I already have (/atmosphere/titles/titleID/cheats - specifically for Snack Wold), but no matter what I do the cheats I entered first are the one showing up in the Edizon overlay; I've tried both replacing them with the new codes and deleting them and it still shows the first cheat list I used. Any help is appreciated

I think this message shouldn't go here but well, the titles folder has been renamed to contents in the latests atmosphere releases. You need to put your cheat in /atmosphere/contents/titleID/cheats

 

[KARASVCXA666]

I think this message shouldn't go here but well, the titles folder has been renamed to contents in the latests atmosphere releases. You need to put your cheat in /atmosphere/contents/titleID/cheats

Thank you so much! I was apparently using the wrong location (the one you mentioned that changed), everything works properly now!

 

[taggen86]

Does this work on atmos 9.1.0 or do I need to upgrade cfw and ofw?

 

[masagrator]

Does this work on atmos 9.1.0 or do I need to upgrade cfw and ofw?

There is no Atmosphere 9.1.0.

 

[Taorn]

@masagrator @WerWolv
The work of both of you got featured on the newest digital foundry video. Congratulations on that!

 

[taggen86]

Does this work on atmos 9.1.0 or do I need to upgrade cfw and ofw?

Srry I mean 0.9.4

 

[masagrator]

Srry I mean 0.9.4

You must upgrade to at least 0.10.1

 

[Drakkone]

Great work

 

[BlackOmegaTM]

@garyopa We absolutely need this working on SX OS. Is it possible?

 

[bad361]

@garyopa We absolutely need this working on SX OS. Is it possible?

You have to address this to SX OS team, it's not dev's fault that it doesn't work in SX.