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'

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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
 
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iirc isn't the inherent max limitation of the switch itself advertised to only support 2 TB? Would be surprised if you could use anything over 2TB as a storage device for the switch. I was going to buy a 3 TB hard drive just for xci files but remembering this I decided to buy a 2TB instead.
 

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i'm still on 1.9, since i see no reason to update, but...
Does this version have the option to transfer xci files from the hard drive to the SD card?
And if the answer is no, is there any homebrew app that allows to do this?
 
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so what's the procedure for unplugging the USB. as long as the game is closed and it's safe? although the XCI still mounted

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i'm still on 1.9, since i see no reason to update, but...
Does this version have the option to transfer xci files from the hard drive to the SD card?
And if the answer is no, is there any homebrew app that allows to do this?
this would be nice addition too. another reason to never remove the SD card
 

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People could probably get an OTG adapter and perhaps use USB flashdrives for easy access if they want to use this with portable mode.
Surely beats having to rely on docked mode for everything, and also saves up a lot of money for big SDs since USBs are way cheaper.
 
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People could probably get an OTG adapter and perhaps use USB flashdrives for easy access if they want to use this with portable mode.
Surely beats having to rely on docked mode for everything, and also saves up a lot of money for big SDs since USBs are way cheaper.
This is true. I forgot to consider OTG cables and regular usb cables, though I'd imagine that loading from a usb 2.0 drive (like my 32Gig Sandisk) would be rather slow.

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People could probably get an OTG adapter and perhaps use USB flashdrives for easy access if they want to use this with portable mode.
Surely beats having to rely on docked mode for everything, and also saves up a lot of money for big SDs since USBs are way cheaper.
Infact, the image I quoted above from WiiUGold is using an OTG cable to use a self powered hard drive. So I guess OTG cables confirmed to work!
 
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This is true. I forgot to consider OTG cables and regular usb cables, though I'd imagine that loading from a usb 2.0 drive (like my 32Gig Sandisk) would be rather slow.

Infact, the image I quoted above from WiiUGold is using an OTG cable to use a self powered hard drive. So I guess OTG cables confirmed to work!
That's nice :P
But what I actually meant is rather than using USB-C to USB-A cables, use a standalone (and small) OTG adapter like this one:
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In conjunction with a USB like this one:
NEW-Brand-Mini-Small-Usb-Flash-Drive-512GB-32GB-64GB-Memory-Stick-Pendrive-Pen-Drive-128GB.jpg
Both devices put together shouldn't be any bigger than what SX OS' dongle is.
That would be like the perfect match to take advantage of the new USB drive support while in portable mode, for those like me that use the Switch mostly in portable.
 

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This is awesome news! Now we need NSP Loading! (not installing).

Plus we need a wait to un mount games because it's dangerous to remove a hdd while reading!

What else we need? I would say someway to merge updates to xci in a way everything can be done from the HDD in drag and drop system!
 

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In conjunction with a USB like this one:
NEW-Brand-Mini-Small-Usb-Flash-Drive-512GB-32GB-64GB-Memory-Stick-Pendrive-Pen-Drive-128GB.jpg
Both devices put together shouldn't be any bigger than what SX OS' dongle is.
That would be like the perfect match to take advantage of the new USB drive support while in portable mode, for those like me that use the Switch mostly in portable.

Be careful with those mini usb sticks. They get awfully hot. Test them probably before you use them with your Switch.
 
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Now XCI is made more useful with external hard drive support. I can download all the XCI and not worried about sdcard space. Also everything can be installed/copied from the hard drive, there's no need to remove the sdcard anymore - therefore no more rebooting! :grog::toot::hrth:
 

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welp i guess i will save money for another hdd lmao
and now i will reconsider what games i will play docked only and what games i will play both docked and handheld
 

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Now XCI is made more useful with external hard drive support. I can download all the XCI and not worried about sdcard space. Also everything can be installed/copied from the hard drive, there's no need to remove the sdcard anymore - therefore no more rebooting! :grog::toot::hrth:
That was my doubt. Can you copy xci from hdd to sd ???
 

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I would never use a non powered drive external unless it was a flash drive. It draws 2 much power out of the port wich eventually burns out the port and then you're basically fucked without that single usb c port. I had many ports die over the years by using non external powered USB hubs. You're all warned
 

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