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!


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Thanks a lot and have fun using and extending it

 

[masagrator]

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

Well, he addressed to correct person as they have close relationship with TX.

 

[Asia81]

Am I the only one having hard time when navigating in the Edizon overlay?
I need to press my keys (Up, Down, A or B) many times to get them working.

@WerWolv

 

[LUCKASS]

Edit: It was just the .overlay folder that was disappearing when extracted, I extracted directly on the SD card and it worked fine!

Hey, anyone could help me to set up Tesla? I can't manage to make the Edizon addon to work,
Tesla is showing up properly but no "addons" are detected, only the stats are proposed

 

[wiitendo84]

Alright so where am I messing up on this? Where exactly on the switch sd card do I install these at

 

[wiitendo84]

Nevermind I was an idiot. Got it working. So much easier to pull up the cheats

 

[linuxares]

@WerWolv
So I guess Tesla at the same time is out of the question?
https://twitter.com/SciresM/status/1240461751956586497

 

[uzimakiuchiha]

@WerWolv, could you add a feature where text scrolls forward when highlighted? So I can see the whole name of cheats and modules

 

[MagnesG]

Edit: It was just the .overlay folder that was disappearing when extracted, I extracted directly on the SD card and it worked fine!

Hey, anyone could help me to set up Tesla? I can't manage to make the Edizon addon to work,
Tesla is showing up properly but no "addons" are detected, only the stats are proposed

It was a quick add and drop for me, so I'm sure you miss the OP instructions somewhere.

 

[Deleted User]

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

try just using a folder called sxos instead of atmosphere. Make sure you are using 2.9.4 not sure if it will work but noticed i got an atmosphere module to work that way i think it might have pathing issues which would mean editing the module but hey it might just work worth a try

 

[OccultCat]

Used Tesla for the first time and it works fine except for one issue - cheats are automatically ON as soon as I boot up a game. What's the configuration to have it set as OFF?

 

[Starhatred]

Used Tesla for the first time and it works fine except for one issue - cheats are automatically ON as soon as I boot up a game. What's the configuration to have it set as OFF?

You need to change the setting in config file. Go to atmosphere/config/system_settings.ini, then find the line dmnt_cheats_enabled_by_default = u8!0x1 and change it to dmnt_cheats_enabled_by_default = u8!0x0. Hope this helps!

 

[masagrator]

@WerWolv
So I guess Tesla at the same time is out of the question?
https://twitter.com/SciresM/status/1240461751956586497

Nope. This checks only games main. So Tesla on itself won't trigger ban - SaltyNX plugins, IPS patches and cheats overwriting main data will trigger ban.

 

[OccultCat]

You need to change the setting in config file. Go to atmosphere/config/system_settings.ini, then find the line dmnt_cheats_enabled_by_default = u8!0x1 and change it to dmnt_cheats_enabled_by_default = u8!0x0. Hope this helps!

Thanks for the suggestion! Sadly, it didn't work

 

[Starhatred]

Thanks for the suggestion! Sadly, it didn't work

Sorry to hear that. Hope you can find solution soon. From my experience, you can post your config file here, maybe someone will look into that and help.

 

[bad361]

Thanks for the suggestion! Sadly, it didn't work

except that it does work lol, this option is specifically for that and it works as expected

 

[MagnesG]

Thanks for the suggestion! Sadly, it didn't work

Did you reboot the system?

 

[gitbearded]

Does Tesla work with 9.2? I cant seem to get the overlay to pop up.

 

[1basti1]

Yes. No problems here.

 

[gitbearded]

Yes. No problems here.

Ive done everything the instructions said multiple times, still cant manage to load the overlay. Im so puzzled why this wont work.

 

[1basti1]

I dont know. Did it work before? Do you use atmosphere?