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

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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

 

[MagnesG]

After I updated everything it didnt work anymore.
I press left and dpad down and right stick but nothing shows up:
Everything were fine before the update to 10.0.0

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After I updated everything it isnt working anymore.
Updated to 10.0.0 and load all new ovl files, deleted the old files.
When I press L and dpad down and right stick it wont show up

Everybody else had it working perfectly so maybe the problem is on your side? Maybe crosscheck all the files yourself one by one? Did you delete 010000000007E51A folder before or after?

 

[awankelam]

Can I change config button? If can, how? Because my 3rd party controller don't have analog button & my joycon are broken already

 

[s099064146]

Same here, let me know if you're able to fix this.

Actually, after I leave only six rows of code like the attachment, everything works fine and like a charm.

 

[s099064146]

I'ts because you have too much cheats files on the game folder id in "contents" (it's one of the problem i see)
atmosphere/contents/01006F8002326000/cheats/

You should try it, can't really confirm for now.

Maybe try using nx mtp for direct usb transfer? Use the one with purple icon.

Thank you for both of you to give me such a great advice.
I really appreciate that since I am able to share cute furniture with my favorite girl.
I just cannot imagine that I will put too many codes in the cheat file.

 

[enguyen]

i keep on getting error code:2168-0002 (0x4a8) in animal crossing
Program: 420000000007E51A
can anybody help?

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I keep on getting error code: 2168-0002 (0x4a8), Program: 420000000007E51A In Animal crosssing
can anybody please help me?

Figured what is going on and it is because all the cheat is on at once but i dont know how to turn if off. Can anybody help me?

 

[s099064146]

i keep on getting error code:2168-0002 (0x4a8) in animal crossing
Program: 420000000007E51A
can anybody help?

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I keep on getting error code: 2168-0002 (0x4a8), Program: 420000000007E51A In Animal crosssing
can anybody please help me?

Figured what is going on and it is because all the cheat is on at once but i dont know how to turn if off. Can anybody help me?

1. Delete the codes or merge them together to reduce the specific rows.

Please take a reference as mine in the attachment.
(It is very interesting, if you separate the inventory item, like clay, Iron Ore, Gold Ore, ...etc. You will definitely get the error. However, if you merge them together, they will work like a charm.)

2. To set the default for turning cheats off, please open the file
/atmosphere/system_settings.ini
and change the setting
from
dmnt_cheats_enabled_by_default = u8!0x1
to
dmnt_cheats_enabled_by_default = u8!0x0

Then, the cheat will be turned off in advance.
And then, enjoy your journey.

 

[Solotato]

The menu no longer shows up for me in-apps, but it still takes inputs. Works totally fine in the main menu though. Any advice?

 

[WishyTheStar]

I donated! Thank you for this smooth update~

 

[Solotato]

Everybody else had it working perfectly so maybe the problem is on your side? Maybe crosscheck all the files yourself one by one? Did you delete 010000000007E51A folder before or after?

It works fine in handheld for me, but it doesn't display in docked mode anymore. It still takes inputs, but there are no visuals. Updated everything and deleted the 01-T351A folder as asked.

 

[KingRaijun]

After I updated everything it didnt work anymore.
I press left and dpad down and right stick but nothing shows up:
Everything were fine before the update to 10.0.0

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After I updated everything it isnt working anymore.
Updated to 10.0.0 and load all new ovl files, deleted the old files.
When I press L and dpad down and right stick it wont show up

same here..Overlay doesn't show up

 

[Devrim]

I just installed Tesla for the first time ever and both handheld and docked works fine running fw 10.0

 

[putti]

Has anyone found a solution to Ovelay crashing?

 

[aostang]

Can confirm the same with all 3 updated to latest. Worked fine before on 9.2, now on 10.0 crashes for Animal Crossing and Pokemon Shield (bunch of cheats), works fine for Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (only a few cheats). I don't want to mess around with my cheat files and don't need them for those games at the moment, so I'll just wait for a fix from where ever the problem is. This is just to confirm I see the same crash as others when a bunch of codes are entered for a game (not a problem previously).

 

[KingRaijun]

Everybody else had it working perfectly so maybe the problem is on your side? Maybe crosscheck all the files yourself one by one? Did you delete 010000000007E51A folder before or after?

Thank you for this! I made the Overlay work..it is now showing for ACNH..

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1. Delete the codes or merge them together to reduce the specific rows.

Please take a reference as mine in the attachment.
(It is very interesting, if you separate the inventory item, like clay, Iron Ore, Gold Ore, ...etc. You will definitely get the error. However, if you merge them together, they will work like a charm.)

2. To set the default for turning cheats off, please open the file
/atmosphere/system_settings.ini
and change the setting
from
dmnt_cheats_enabled_by_default = u8!0x1
to
dmnt_cheats_enabled_by_default = u8!0x0

Then, the cheat will be turned off in advance.
And then, enjoy your journey.

I think it should be in /atmosphere/config/system_settings.ini

 

[garco]

Sorry guys Tesla works for SXos?

 

[masagrator]

Sorry guys Tesla works for SXos?

No.

 

[aostang]

I can confirm that the 1.0.5 hotfix for nx-ovlloader posted a few hours ago fixes the crash when there are a lot of cheats for a particular game.

 

[Orochi996]

I can confirm that the 1.0.5 hotfix for nx-ovlloader posted a few hours ago fixes the crash when there are a lot of cheats for a particular game.

Still hasn't fixed the crashes for me with ACNH

 

[GODDUKEMONEXA]

Has anyone found a solution to Ovelay crashing?

it happens docked mode, when using portable mode works fine

 

[s099064146]

I think it should be in /atmosphere/config/system_settings.ini

Thank you for pointing this out.

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Has anyone found a solution to Ovelay crashing?

For mine, just delete some of the cheat codes in the text file.
Or you can merge several items under one title (I mean like Clay, Gold Ore, Iron Ore become just item_1 something like that.).