TX Announces SX OS v2.2 BETA with Docked USB Drive Support

It's only been a week since Team-Xecuter made the big announcement of SX OS v2.1 with their 'cheat engine'

SXOS22.jpg

And now they are back and on a roll with them adding 'Docked USB Drive Support' and many other nice improvements to their 'cheat engine' and a few bug fixes! :)
How do you do, dear SX OS users?

Today we are back once again with a much anticipated new feature as well as various improvements to existing functionality for SX OS. While this is still labelled as BETA we've had some good success with it internally, we're looking forward to your feedback.

Lets jump into the list of changes!
  • Docked USB drive support!
Yes. You read it right. You can now plug a USB mass storage device into your switch' dock and load XCI or install NSP content from there directly. No longer are you limited by the size of your microSD card when playing the switch from the comfort of your couch, but you can now enjoy TERABYTES of content by using external harddisks and such! The filesystem on the drive needs to be either FAT32 or exFAT, and the directories that are being scanned for content are equal to the ones you'd use on the microSD card.
  • Updates to the cheat system
    • More accurate progress indication during cheat search
      People were reporting "freezes" during cheat searches, often times these were just due to impatience and a suboptimal UI from our end. The progress bars are more honest and update more frequently now!
    • Cheat search for exact value requires no initial dump anymore
      For 'exact value' searches a big initial dump file on your microSD is not needed, and since this is often the way people start a cheat search we decided to streamline the cheat finder process a bit. You are now prompted with a question whether you want to start an exact value search or arbitrary value search, in case of the former the process will be much faster.
    • Automatically apply/disable cheats upon toggle
      The interface for "applying" the cheats was a bit counterintuitive, you now no longer have to press the plus (+) button in order to apply cheats. They are automatically applied/disabled once you toggle them. Disabling cheats now properly works as well, so there's no need for having a dummy cheat any more to work around that limitation.
    • Ability to add cheats using the UI
      Identifying memory locations for cheats using just the console is nice, but previously there was no way of adding an actual cheat-code for a location you found to the cheat code library. This has been addressed, and there is now an interface for doing this directly from our menu.
  • Show homebrew NSP icons in TX menu
    Some homebrew NSP titles were not displaying their icons properly. This has been investigated and fixed.
  • Fix error 2345-0021 when in docked mode opening TX menu
    People who play/cheat in docked mode will like this fix. The frequent crashes that happened when opening the TX menu in docked mode are now a thing of the past!
That's it folks. Enjoy this BETA and let us know what you think. We have more tricks up our sleeves, more rabbits in our tophats. And we only have one gear: FORWARD.

--< Team-Xecuter - Rocking the Switch in 2018 and beyond! >--
Enjoy! :)

:arrow: Source: MaxConsole
 
Last edited by garyopa, , Reason: typos

Reecey

Mario 64 (favorite game of all time)
Member
Joined
Mar 7, 2010
Messages
5,864
Trophies
2
Location
At Home :)
XP
4,449
Country
The only thing I have noticed I thought a fix had been made for missing homebrew nsp apps in the tx menu but still a lot missing I don't see any difference. Still a lot missing than the actual original homebrew menu.
 
Last edited by Reecey,

jakkal

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Apr 27, 2018
Messages
2,303
Trophies
1
Age
44
XP
3,982
Country
United States
The loading times would be terrible :S
Nah you're wrong. The transfer speeds over ethernet is 33-40MBps

That's more than enough to load games properly

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

The loading times would be terrible :S
It should be fine. Ethernet transfer speeds are fast enough.
 
  • Like
Reactions: AndyPanerai

linuxares

The inadequate, autocratic beast!
Global Moderator
Joined
Aug 5, 2007
Messages
13,282
Trophies
2
XP
18,094
Country
Sweden
Nah you're wrong. The transfer speeds over ethernet is 33-40MBps

That's more than enough to load games properly

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------


It should be fine. Ethernet transfer speeds are fast enough.
No need to double reply me. The dongles if I remember correct as USB 2.0. Else s/he must use wifi and it's not stable. A harddrive via USB 3.0 is better (or personally I would say a SSD rather is best option)
 

ghjfdtg

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Jul 13, 2014
Messages
1,360
Trophies
1
XP
3,274
Country
No need to double reply me. The dongles if I remember correct as USB 2.0. Else s/he must use wifi and it's not stable. A harddrive via USB 3.0 is better (or personally I would say a SSD rather is best option)
He forgot the important part: Random I/O is terrible over network and that's what games need. Sequential I/O doesn't matter that much for games.
 
Joined
Sep 17, 2009
Messages
2,575
Trophies
2
XP
3,793
Country
United States
Sort of. If an .xci was available. But for eshop exclusive content this is not the case. So my question still stands: Can NSP content also be installed to USB or can it only be installed from it?

I am pretty much exclusively using the device in handheld mode, I also wonder if we can connect a USB device directly to the switch unit, bypassing the dock (There's tons of USB thumb drives with a USB Type C connector)
It can't be installed to USB because that would require a different implementation of emunand or rednand.
 

fringle

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Apr 16, 2009
Messages
704
Trophies
1
XP
1,106
Country
Canada
He forgot the important part: Random I/O is terrible over network and that's what games need. Sequential I/O doesn't matter that much for games.

Docked mode with a usb network adapter would be more than enough speed for loading games. After all it works great on the PS3 with PS3netsrv at 100Mbps. Wifi may not be too bad but hard to tell without trying it. I think it worked on the psp but was a little sluggish. I maybe wrong though as it's been a long time since I touched one of those.
 

DocKlokMan

Plugin Dev
Member
Joined
Apr 20, 2007
Messages
3,008
Trophies
2
Age
36
XP
4,570
Country
United States
Tested it, you can only install NSP from your USB/HDD to your internal memory or SD card. The only downside is that installing NSP games seem a tad bit slower than from installing them from the SD card. The XCI loading works flawlessly though.
If you use Data Management to check the installed NSP for corruption does it still fail or did they fix that?
 

jakkal

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Apr 27, 2018
Messages
2,303
Trophies
1
Age
44
XP
3,982
Country
United States
No need to double reply me. The dongles if I remember correct as USB 2.0. Else s/he must use wifi and it's not stable. A harddrive via USB 3.0 is better (or personally I would say a SSD rather is best option)
the dongles are usb 3.0 and they give good speeds
Even with over Wifi you can get up to 6MBps which is bad but not terrible. Ethernet would be just as fast as loading from the USB
 

linuxares

The inadequate, autocratic beast!
Global Moderator
Joined
Aug 5, 2007
Messages
13,282
Trophies
2
XP
18,094
Country
Sweden
the dongles are usb 3.0 and they give good speeds
Even with over Wifi you can get up to 6MBps which is bad but not terrible. Ethernet would be just as fast as loading from the USB
If you say so. I still don't recommend it.
 

ghjfdtg

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Jul 13, 2014
Messages
1,360
Trophies
1
XP
3,274
Country
Docked mode with a usb network adapter would be more than enough speed for loading games. After all it works great on the PS3 with PS3netsrv at 100Mbps. Wifi may not be too bad but hard to tell without trying it. I think it worked on the psp but was a little sluggish. I maybe wrong though as it's been a long time since I touched one of those.
You will probably get loading times 5-10 seconds longer i could imagine. And games loading assets dynamically may get a bit of lag. It works but network can't compete with storage directly connected to the device. Way lower latency and random I/O is higher. Loading from USB HDDs is probably still a bit better than network.
 

Site & Scene News

Popular threads in this forum

General chit-chat
Help Users
  • No one is chatting at the moment.
    SylverReZ @ SylverReZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLN9qrJ8ESs