"NSP Forwarder Generator" - An online tool to create NRO/RetroArch forwarders

Tuner357 · Nov 2, 2024

lightninjay said:
For me, this is usually resolved by using a different browser to make the forwarder.

sounds good ill try that out, thanks!

What browser do you use?

impeeza · Nov 2, 2024

Tuner357 said:
sounds good ill try that out, thanks!

What browser do you use?

I do use Firefox on windows.

Tuner357 · Nov 2, 2024

impeeza said:
I do use Firefox on windows.

thanks, this worked. i tried 3 other browsers before i tried Firefox of course haha

Nephiel · Nov 4, 2024

Trying nsp-forwarder.n8.io to generate an up-to-date forwarder for DevilutionX with which to update this.
The forwarder works, but the homescreen icon looks like this:

The same result either selecting the JPG icon, or selecting the .nro and letting it autofill the details.

impeeza · Nov 4, 2024

Nephiel said:
Trying nsp-forwarder.n8.io to generate an up-to-date forwarder for DevilutionX with which to update this.
The forwarder works, but the homescreen icon looks like this:

View attachment 469305

The same result either selecting the JPG icon, or selecting the .nro and letting it autofill the details.

Use another browser, so far Firefox is the recommended one.

The JPG processing of the forwarder creator is made on the browser side.

Nephiel · Nov 4, 2024

impeeza said:
Use another browser, so far Firefox is the recommended one.

The JPG processing of the forwarder creator is made on the browser side.

Tried both Librewolf and Firefox. Same result.

impeeza · Nov 4, 2024

Nephiel said:
Tried both Librewolf and Firefox. Same result.

Try this working fine on my console, created using Firefox 132 on windows 11:

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Nephiel · Nov 11, 2024

Finally got it to work with Chrome. Something to do with canvas implementation in browser?
An option to disable scaling/resizing would be handy, if the images are already in a valid format and size.

Muxi · Monday at 6:55 AM

@tootallnate
First of all, I would like to thank you for this excellent NSP forwarder generator and for making it available to the public. However, I have one request. Could you please update the nx-hbloader in your online generator? It is still on version 2.4.1, but the current and official version is 2.4.4. @borntohonk has also released a fork with an even more recent version 2.4.5. Perhaps you could include this in your tool? Everything works, but it would be desirable if everything is up to date. Many thanks in advance.

You can find the fork here:
https://github.com/borntohonk/nx-hbloader/releases

impeeza · Monday at 1:21 PM

Muxi said:
@tootallnate
First of all, I would like to thank you for this excellent NSP forwarder generator and for making it available to the public. However, I have one request. Could you please update the nx-hbloader in your online generator? It is still on version 2.4.1, but the current and official version is 2.4.4. @borntohonk has also released a fork with an even more recent version 2.4.5. Perhaps you could include this in your tool? Everything works, but it would be desirable if everything is up to date. Many thanks in advance.

You can find the fork here:
https://github.com/borntohonk/nx-hbloader/releases

hi , what do yo mean by NX-HBloader on the online generator?

tootallnate · Monday at 5:25 PM

Muxi said:
@tootallnate
First of all, I would like to thank you for this excellent NSP forwarder generator and for making it available to the public. However, I have one request. Could you please update the nx-hbloader in your online generator? It is still on version 2.4.1, but the current and official version is 2.4.4. @borntohonk has also released a fork with an even more recent version 2.4.5. Perhaps you could include this in your tool? Everything works, but it would be desirable if everything is up to date. Many thanks in advance.

You can find the fork here:
https://github.com/borntohonk/nx-hbloader/releases

I could look into updating, but unless there's an actual bug fix or other reason to do so, I'm not sure it's worth the effort.

I took a look at the borntohonk fork and it seems like the forwarder ROM patches were not applied correctly (I don't see the "romfs" code in the forked source/main.c file).

FYI, the code which my forwarder uses is based on this repository: https://github.com/Skywalker25/Forwarder-Mod

But that code actually contains a bug where homebrew do not exit properly, so I am currently using the exefs linked in this GitHub issue, which contains a fix for that. Unfortunately the author didn't update their forked repo to include the fix, however someone else did link to a commit which looks like it's probably the correct fix.

So all that said, I probably have all the pieces necessary to get the forwarder ROM updated. I may try to get around to that eventually but given that there's no known issues currently, it's probably not very high on my priority list.

Muxi · Tuesday at 4:59 PM

impeeza said:
hi , what do yo mean by NX-HBloader on the online generator?

A homebrew menu forwarder created via this online generator displays the nx-hbloader version in the top left corner, which is currently declared as version 2.4.1.

In the meantime, however, I have created a homebrew menu forwarder myself, which has the great advantage over this online generator that it is equipped with the latest nx-hbloader version und does not create a savegame when it is used.

tootallnate · Tuesday at 5:23 PM

Muxi said:
In the meantime, however, I have created a homebrew menu forwarder myself, which has the great advantage over this online generator that it is equipped with the latest nx-hbloader version und does not create a savegame when it is used.

If you care to push and maintain your nx-hbloader fork with the necessary patches to a GitHub repo, I'd be happy to update my forwarder to use that version.

Muxi · Tuesday at 5:38 PM

@tootallnate I created my hombrew menu forwarder using SAK, a tool developed by my friend dezem and the two files main & main.npdm from the build/exefs folder of this source code, which is a combination of the nx-hbloader source code from switchbrew and dezem. I have attached the source code below and the HomebrewMenu Forwarder nsp.

impeeza · Tuesday at 7:05 PM

Muxi said:
A homebrew menu forwarder created via this online generator displays the nx-hbloader version in the top left corner, which is currently declared as version 2.4.1.

In the meantime, however, I have created a homebrew menu forwarder myself, which has the great advantage over this online generator that it is equipped with the latest nx-hbloader version und does not create a savegame when it is used.

I always forget about the NX-Loader NSP

Muxi · Wednesday at 6:17 AM

impeeza said:
I always forget about the NX-Loader NSP

I think that the nx-hbloader code is necessary for every forwarder, only it is not obvious with tools forwarders, as it is with the homebrew menu forwarder, in terms of the version number.

Post automatically merged: Wednesday at 7:45 AM

@tootallnate I uploaded the source code to my Github yesterday:
https://github.com/muxi1/nx-hbloader

impeeza · Wednesday at 5:31 PM

Muxi said:
I think that the nx-hbloader code is necessary for every forwarder, only it is not obvious with tools forwarders, as it is with the homebrew menu forwarder, in terms of the version number.

Post automatically merged: Wednesday at 7:45 AM

@tootallnate I uploaded the source code to my Github yesterday:
https://github.com/muxi1/nx-hbloader

Yeah, even the code is embedded on Atmosphère to be able to run HomeBrew Menu.

Lumince · 2024-11-23T00:50:27+0000

Hey all! Just figured that I would share this cool little thing

This main.npdm should work on ANY titleid. I tested it on quite a few forwarders and it works on them all. In theory it should work on everything. Works on tinfoil. Tried on a few rom nsps that were made in the past that use retroarch, (The ones that come with the rom in the nsp), and it works on the homebrew nsps like the sm64 and other game ports. Someone has this and should be able to patch all of the game port, homebrew, and rom nsps just fine

You can use the same layout as the tinfoil patch. Which uses layeredfs (atmosphere/contents/titleid/exefs/main.npdm)

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