Tesla - The Nintendo Switch Overlay Menu

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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

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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 :)
 
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Hi all
I am having a right stinker installing the tesla menu.

I have installed all the packages @impreeza has mentioned in his posts. But i am struggling to be able to access the telsa menu
Custom theme installed
I have copied all "what i think" are the files needed
My key combo is:

Code:
[tesla]
key_combo=L+DUP+R


Is anyone able to give me some tips or pointers where i have gone wrong?
Thanks
Normally is about too many SYSMODULES or wrong files.

First Download again (even if you think ya have it) the most recent tesla sysmodule:

https://gbatemp.net/attachments/nx-...-c42f5fa6-libnx-v4-7-0-1-c7698526-zip.442003/


Then download again (even if you think ya have it) the most recent tesla Overlay menú:
https://gbatemp.net/attachments/ovl...-f766e9b6_libnx-v4-7-0-1-c7698526-zip.442004/


Extract them to the root of your SD Card and OVERWRITE any file.

Be sure you have a SDMC:/config/tesla/config.ini and it have a content like:
Code:
[tesla]
key_combo=L+ZL+R+ZR

Here the return character between [tesla] and key_combo= is important.

The possible key combinations are:

A, B, X, Y, LS, RS, L, R, ZL, ZR, PLUS, MINUS, DLEFT, DUP, DRIGHT, DDOWN, SL, SR

Keep them on Uppercase.

THEN RESTART YOUR CONSOLE.

and test your keycombo.

Let us to know how is working for you.
 

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Hi all
I am having a right stinker installing the tesla menu.

I have installed all the packages @impreeza has mentioned in his posts. But i am struggling to be able to access the telsa menu
Custom theme installed
I have copied all "what i think" are the files needed
My key combo is:

Code:
[tesla]
key_combo=L+DUP+R


Is anyone able to give me some tips or pointers where i have gone wrong?
Thanks
or you can try out Ultrahand. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://github.com/ppkantorski/Ultrahand-Overlay
https://github.com/ppkantorski/nx-ovlloader
 
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