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A Night Light Mode. I don't know you guys, but that blue light is painful. People who study on notes or Pdfs know that feeling, after few hours the eyes feel very tired. If it had a blue light filter i'd start using my Switch to study too.
Playing the night is bad too. Because of that ultra powerful blue light, i (at least me) don't feel sleepy anymore, and that's bad. I don't know if adding a filter is hard or impossible, but that would help everyone, mainly people who work or study the whole day on a Pc. In that case, i wouldn't even interested to play 5-10 mins before going to bed.
Wonder why Nintendo didn't add this feature, it should be a must (imo), mainly if your Console is bought by many teenagers\kids.
 
Here's an idea: a certificate spoofer in order to protect your real certificate. Once the spoofed certificate is banned, a new one can be generated, and so on. Also, private online servers.
While its virtually impossible to spoof a certificate (they're locked behind a 2,048 character key and by the time this gets cracked, your grandchildren will be playing the New Nintendo Switch Pro XL & Knuckles), we can simulate LAN play over a VPN: https://gbatemp.net/threads/official-switch-lan-play.520912/
 
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While its virtually impossible to spoof a certificate (they're locked behind a 2,048 character key and by the time this gets cracked, your grandchildren will be playing the New Nintendo Switch Pro XL & Knuckles), we can simulate LAN play over a VPN: https://gbatemp.net/threads/official-switch-lan-play.520912/
Oh, that's really awesome. And here I thought that they would implement something like they did for DS and Wii games. Let's hope that in the future, they also include Splatfests for Splatoon 2.
 
So I don't know if this already goes under the "Themes" entry under Media. but I REALLY want a HomeBrew that would allow us to change our Custom themes on the Switch, by selecting from a range of themes that we have already put on the SD Card.

Also, I don't know if this is possible, but if this could be achieved without having to restart the console, that would be freaking awesome.
 
Is there an homebrew (or another way) to mount a network drive as a folder in the micro SD? I think it will be very useful for retroarch.
 
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The 3DS version of this thread was reasonably successful so I thought I would do the same thing here.

Please don't post "looking for developers" type posts in the forum unless you have a solid WIP repository to show. Otherwise it is just a waste of time for everybody. Instead, if all you have is a good idea but not the skills to bring it to fruition, please share it here. Developers with skills but no ideas will hopefully look here, and your idea may get picked up.

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Please, help maintaining it by adding missing or new released homebrew.
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List of requested and suggested homebrew, and their status


List last updated 2018-09-22, up to this post.

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  1. [datatable]
    [tr]
    [th]Request[/th] [th]Status[/th]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]fully featured NES emulator[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]N64 emulation[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]A NSP installed individual ROM launcher (virtual console channel creator)[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]PS2 emulator it will be possibile? [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Rip EMU from NES Classic and SNES classic and port to switch [/td]
    [td] (would be illegal to share)[/td]
    [/tr]

    [/datatable]


  2. [datatable]
    [tr]
    [th]Request[/th] [th]Status[/th]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Port OpenMW[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Quake 2 with openGl [/td]
    [td] Thread[/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Cannon fodder port or similar, request by Cyan[/td]
    [td] Thread[/td]
    [/tr]

    [/datatable]


  3. [datatable]
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    [th]Request[/th] [th]Status[/th]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Streaming the Switch to PC (Wirelessly or Wired without capture card)[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]A drawing app[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Video player, requested multiple times[/td]
    [td]WIP PlayerNX by XorTroll
    WIP by jjbredesen [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Media player like WiiMC[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Unlock the built in webrowser with an app[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Media server client[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Themes[/td]
    [td] custom theme[/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Manga, pdf,ePub/Mobi reader [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Being able to run Crunchyroll for streaming[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Kodi [/td]
    [td]WIP thread[/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]A bookr mod vita port to switch[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]a PS4 Remote Play app! [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]stream Xbox games from the console to Switch, similar to how it works on Windows 10 devices. [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Android TV please [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]

    [/datatable]


  4. [datatable]
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    [th]Request[/th] [th]Status[/th]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Having homebrew apps installed to the system[/td]
    [td] HacBrewPack by The-4n
    NCABuilder by SimonMKWii
    [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]A cheat program[/td]
    [td] NswitchDebugger, by Type_o_dev
    Noexs
    [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]BlueTooth audio[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]HDD support while docked, External drive supposed via otg? [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Hot MicroSD Swapping[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Wii U to Switch Savefile Converter please![/td]
    [td] [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] A fac-simile homebrew reboot for (possible) coldboot? [/td]
    [td] [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] A way to either lock games to a certain order on the main screen or the grid view is default [/td]
    [td] [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]An Amiibo spoofer [/td]
    [td] [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]homebrew that can display whether pin 10 is shorted? A jig tester of sorts [/td]
    [td] [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]A network title installer. [/td]
    [td]WIP NSPower, tinfoil [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] quick shutdown Homebrew[/td]
    [td] [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] Some sort of modification to the default lock screen to actually require a password of some sort to unlock. [/td]
    [td] [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] An app Turn off auto RCM when not needed to avoid battery drainage and shortage of life with time. [/td]
    [td] ReiNX Toolbox (swap AutoRCM, doesn't affect battery without a reboot)[/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] A new nand dumper that dumps little nand not all the emmc. [/td]
    [td]? [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] Network play emulator over LocalPlay network [/td]
    [td] [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] A multi-SD card game database[/td]
    [td] [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] homebrew to see your playtime from games[/td]
    [td] [/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Wii u Pro Controller Compatibility ? [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]use a USB keyboard as a pro controller,[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]Video game software downgrader[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]an App that let you manage your Album, to copy individual Screenshots to the SD card [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] a homebrew app capable of rebooting the switch into RCM. Useful to switch between CFW[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] a Savestate homebrew For games that don't allow you to save at any point [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] PrivateShop (host your own eshop on nas) [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] Support for other controllers like ps4 or xbox gamepads. [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] notes app [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]YoRHa) or Android wrappers so that we can use Android apps from Nintendo OS. [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]

    [/datatable]


  5. [datatable]
    [tr]
    [th]Request[/th] [th]Status[/th]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] Hardware accelerated graphics for hombrew [/td]
    [td] OpenGL Support[/td]
    [/tr]
    [/datatable]


  6. [datatable]
    [tr]
    [th]Request[/th] [th]Status[/th]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td] Payload injector for mtk and low power phones. [/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [/datatable]


  7. [datatable]
    [tr]
    [th]Request[/th] [th]Status[/th]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]some way to evade bans[/td]
    [td][/td]
    [/tr]
    [tr]
    [td]an app to add custom made user avatars [/td]
    [td] possible with devmenu[/td]
    [/tr]

    [/datatable]

We really need a port of Kodi on switch
 
I have a request:

FTP transfers seem to be capped at a rather measly 3.5MB/s (at least on my system), when I'm pretty certain the NAND (and most of the SD cards) can handle 30+.

Can we get a way to do File transfers over USB? Or possibly an SMB server app?
 
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An ebook reader that can read all popular formats and can switch from landscape to portrait mode please.
 
Some way to use Wireless/Wired keyboards in RetroArch to tinker around in DOSBOX with. Also, a port of the most recent version of DOOMRL with the tiles from ChaosForge, it is open source so shouldn't be too hard, willing to contribute to a bounty as well.
 
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does it allow for portrait mode?

I haven't tried it so i wouldn't know but it sure does support all formats you want, just try it out and if there's no portait mode, just suggest its addition to the author (joel), he's always trying to improve it...
 
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I haven't tried it so i wouldn't know but it sure does support all formats you want, just try it out and if there's no portait mode, just suggest its addition to the author (joel), he's always trying to improve it...
will do. is he on here?
 

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