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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Patreon https://www.patreon.com/werwolv


Thanks a lot and have fun using and extending it

 

[Asia81]

How can I take screenshot of sysmodule?
I took a screenshot of Fairy Tail while running the Statut Monitor (full), but it wasn't recorded on the screen.

 

[masagrator]

How can I take screenshot of sysmodule?
I took a screenshot of Fairy Tail while running the Statut Monitor (full), but it wasn't recorded on the screen.

Add to system_settings.ini

[capsrv]
screenshot_layerstack=str!physical

Restart Switch.

And it should work in almost all games (only for Paper Mario it doesn't work from what we know).
It's not working with SX OS.

 

[awdrifter]

It's not about spoofing, its about lacking certain features that atmosphere has. Ask SX team to implement these features and this will work, in the meantime only using atmos is an option for this and some other stuff. But iirc some people said they had it working on SX OS (but not all features).

Ok, I guess I'll wait for SX OS to implement similar functionalities.

 

[Latyana]

Uh it's says in instructions above...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.

Reboot what exactly do you mean by it?

 

[1basti1]

Reboot the console. (what else should this mean?)

 

[simsimsim]

I'm on SX OS and for some reason I cannot bring the overlay menu up. I have installed everything correctly, and rebooted the switch several times. But the menus just aren't coming up. Any idea why this could be happening?

 

[NoobNeedHelp]

I'm on SX OS and for some reason I cannot bring the overlay menu up. I have installed everything correctly, and rebooted the switch several times. But the menus just aren't coming up. Any idea why this could be happening?

From the OP

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.

 

[1basti1]

It works on SXOS... Put the ovlloader in SXOS/titles...

 

[simsimsim]

It works on SXOS... Put the ovlloader in SXOS/titles...

yeah I have done that, I've used plenty of homebrew apps and installing this one really isn't complicated. It's just that I think it might be an issue with my SX OS in regards to any non-SXOS functions that require button press to enter. For example I'm unable to enter the normal album by holding down R. This might also be affected by this issue.

 

[kidkat210]

yeah I have done that, I've used plenty of homebrew apps and installing this one really isn't complicated. It's just that I think it might be an issue with my SX OS in regards to any non-SXOS functions that require button press to enter. For example I'm unable to enter the normal album by holding down R. This might also be affected by this issue.

I can't say for sx (since I haven't used sx in a year) but awhile back ams made it so you don't hold R when going to albums. Now if your talking about title override/full ram. Then thats a different issue then I was thinking

 

[1basti1]

yeah I have done that, I've used plenty of homebrew apps and installing this one really isn't complicated. It's just that I think it might be an issue with my SX OS in regards to any non-SXOS functions that require button press to enter. For example I'm unable to enter the normal album by holding down R. This might also be affected by this issue.

Afair that never worked. Enter Album = SXOS Menu. Enter Album by holding R = Homebrew Launcher. Enter Album by holding L = Normal Album.

I don't use SXOS anymore, but this was how it was.

 

[ElTuberias]

Is it compatible with the lastest atmosphere?

 

[burhansalih]

Is it compatible with the lastest atmosphere?

Not at the moment it seems that most sys-modules have to be updated as they seem to stop some games booting most notable being Animal Crossing and Zelda BOTW

 

[WerWolv]

Every time someone tries to install Tesla on sxos, somewhere, alone, hungry, shivering and in a lot of pain, a puppy dies.

 

[kickmeh]

Not at the moment it seems that most sys-modules have to be updated as they seem to stop some games booting most notable being Animal Crossing and Zelda BOTW

for me is work well on atmosphere 0.14.1

 

[burhansalih]

for me is work well on atmosphere 0.14.1

yes the problem lies with Sys-Clk and Emibo remove these and your fine

 

[kickmeh]

yes the problem lies with Sys-Clk and Emibo remove these and your fine

its working well for sure just now i try

did you use latest sigpatches?

 

[burhansalih]

Hi,

How strange for me BOTW and ACNH would not boot until i removed both.

I had a clean build or AMS and Horizon.

 

[cucholix]

Hi,

How strange for me BOTW and ACNH would not boot until i removed both.

I had a clean build or AMS and Horizon.

Both games (physical) are working for me with 0.14.1 atmosphere and sys-clk enabled, I don't have emuiibo, maybe you have too much sys modules enabled?
I have sys-clk, reversenx-rt, sys-ftp-light (lite), tesla, sys-tune, and sys-screenuploader enabled btw

 

[burhansalih]

Both games (physical) are working for me with 0.14.1 atmosphere and sys-clk enabled, I don't have emuiibo, maybe you have too much sys modules enabled?
I have sys-clk, reversenx-rt, sys-ftp-light (lite), tesla, sys-tune, and sys-screenuploader enabled btw

Thanks at the time I only had edizon overlay , sys-clk and emiboo...odd eh.