Homebrew RELEASE NX Activity Log - View (slightly) more detailed play statistics!

tallbl0nde · Oct 10, 2019

I've just released version 0.2.0 which now shows deleted titles and has better formatting so it's easier to read!

The full changelog and binary can be found here:
https://github.com/tallbl0nde/NX-Activity-Log/releases/tag/v0.2.0

lordelan · Oct 10, 2019

tallbl0nde said:
I've just released version 0.2.0 which now shows deleted titles and has better formatting so it's easier to read!

The full changelog and binary can be found here:
https://github.com/tallbl0nde/NX-Activity-Log/releases/tag/v0.2.0

Nice!

Whenever you're going the GUI route you might wanna use this:
https://github.com/XorTroll/Plutonium

xmp8851 · Oct 10, 2019

Can I backup my game playing time log and restore after initializing?

veekay · Oct 10, 2019

Love the new update.

Now I just have to figure out the easiest way to remove all of the games I tried once and then didn't end up liking. Don't need 14 pages.

tallbl0nde · Oct 10, 2019

n0v317y said:
Can I backup my game playing time log and restore after initializing?

Not with this sorry. Now that I've been looking at the file that stores this information it looks possible, but I probably won't look into it (or at least not for a while).

veekay said:
Love the new update.

Now I just have to figure out the easiest way to remove all of the games I tried once and then didn't end up liking. Don't need 14 pages.

I could probably add some sort of exclude/blacklist at some point but having that many games should be less of hassle with a GUI.

pLaYeR^^ · Oct 11, 2019

Very very nice tool. Since I don't have a Nintendo account linked on my emuMMC, I was never able to see the playtime of my games. A GUI version would be nice too

axiomjunglist · Oct 12, 2019

Nice app! I'm curious if using a particular app to load hbmenu counts towards its "playing time history" or only when the game is actively being played does it log the time. Anyone know?

lordelan · Oct 12, 2019

axiomjunglist said:
Nice app! I'm curious if using a particular app to load hbmenu counts towards its "playing time history" or only when the game is actively being played does it log the time. Anyone know?

You mean holding R on a game like Zelda?
If you have to choose your Switch user before you get into hbmenu then yes, it is counted towards that game.

Angeloras · Oct 12, 2019

Thank you very much for making this, I love it. =)

tallbl0nde · Oct 12, 2019

slickochet said:
Is it planned/possible in the future to track unofficial NSPs like RetroArch? It shows up as 0 hours for me.

I've been working on getting it to read from PlayEvent.dat (the file which stores all this information) instead of using the available libnx calls and it appears the switch does keep track of how long you spend in unofficial NSPs, it just doesn't show up under the user page (and in the current version of my app) as they don't require you to select a user. So I could show the play time, it just would currently be for all users of the switch. If the player select request is added as @lordelan has requested then I could split the play time up per user.

slickochet · Oct 12, 2019

tallbl0nde said:
I've been working on getting it to read from PlayEvent.dat (the file which stores all this information) instead of using the available libnx calls and it appears the switch does keep track of how long you spend in unofficial NSPs, it just doesn't show up under the user page (and in the current version of my app) as they don't require you to select a user. So I could show the play time, it just would currently be for all users of the switch. If the player select request is added as @lordelan has requested then I could split the play time up per user.

Great news thanks for the reply!

And thanks again for making this app in the first place! It's already awesome and way better than Nintendo's very poor time tracking.

lordelan · Oct 13, 2019

tallbl0nde said:
I've been working on getting it to read from PlayEvent.dat (the file which stores all this information) instead of using the available libnx calls and it appears the switch does keep track of how long you spend in unofficial NSPs, it just doesn't show up under the user page (and in the current version of my app) as they don't require you to select a user. So I could show the play time, it just would currently be for all users of the switch. If the player select request is added as @lordelan has requested then I could split the play time up per user.

Very nice!

axiomjunglist · Oct 14, 2019

lordelan said:
You mean holding R on a game like Zelda?
If you have to choose your Switch user before you get into hbmenu then yes, it is counted towards that game.

Weird. Maybe it does this for you? I tested this out a few times today but using hbmenu redirect doesn't seem to be logging time towards any game I use it on whether I have the user selection screen skipped or not. Not that I'm complaining at all, I was kinda hoping this might be the case.

thaikhoa · Oct 14, 2019

Wish there's an ability to wipe all the playlist out to avoid the sneaking wife :whip:

OneAngryGamer · Oct 14, 2019

thaikhoa said:
Wish there's an ability to wipe all the playlist out to avoid the sneaking wife

Hah what a cuck!

lordelan · Oct 14, 2019

thaikhoa said:
Wish there's an ability to wipe all the playlist out to avoid the sneaking wife

Made my day. Senran Kagura?

Csmrcc · Oct 23, 2019

Hi, very interesting and new Homebrew, no one has focused on this as far as I know, I have a little question about some curious situations.
I explain it with an example: I played 100 hours Zelda with Pepe user.
Then I used kefir to get a Nintendo account link user on the banned switch (that would erase the Pepe account), let's name this account user Pepe-pro. I made a backup and restore the savegame for Zelda from Pepe to Pepe-pro using Checkpoint. Everything fine, I can continue to play Zelda for 1 more hour. Now, the Homebrew shows 1 hour played in total in Pepe-pro (user Pepe no longer exists to be selected), instead of 101 hours. Maybe because there is no record of playing as Pepe-pro?
The curious thing is that when in the switch menu I order the games by time played, Zelda appears as the most played game (for the 101 hours).
Is there something I missed? Can it be "fixed" to show on Pepe-pro the 101 hours? Maybe can be added an option in the Homebrew to see game times not only on one user but in total (and 101 hours would appear there)?
Thank you and sorry for the long text, I wanted to explain it with detail

tallbl0nde · Oct 24, 2019

Csmrcc said:
Hi, very interesting and new Homebrew, no one has focused on this as far as I know, I have a little question about some curious situations.
I explain it with an example: I played 100 hours Zelda with Pepe user.
Then I used kefir to get a Nintendo account link user on the banned switch (that would erase the Pepe account), let's name this account user Pepe-pro. I made a backup and restore the savegame for Zelda from Pepe to Pepe-pro using Checkpoint. Everything fine, I can continue to play Zelda for 1 more hour. Now, the Homebrew shows 1 hour played in total in Pepe-pro (user Pepe no longer exists to be selected), instead of 101 hours. Maybe because there is no record of playing as Pepe-pro?
The curious thing is that when in the switch menu I order the games by time played, Zelda appears as the most played game (for the 101 hours).
Is there something I missed? Can it be "fixed" to show on Pepe-pro the 101 hours? Maybe can be added an option in the Homebrew to see game times not only on one user but in total (and 101 hours would appear there)?
Thank you and sorry for the long text, I wanted to explain it with detail

I'd imagine this is what's happening:
At the moment I get a list of all users present on the system. I then read the statistics for the selected user (which is separate to save files). So, if the user has been deleted, the method I'm using doesn't know that their data still exists (which based on what you've said I'm assuming it's still sitting somewhere). I'm sure there's a way to find this data so I'll keep this in mind for further down the road.

hippy dave · Oct 24, 2019

tallbl0nde said:
I'd imagine this is what's happening:
At the moment I get a list of all users present on the system. I then read the statistics for the selected user (which is separate to save files). So, if the user has been deleted, the method I'm using doesn't know that their data still exists (which based on what you've said I'm assuming it's still sitting somewhere). I'm sure there's a way to find this data so I'll keep this in mind for further down the road.

I see it's using user ID numbers. Do they seem to be in order starting from 0 or similar, or are they arbitrary? If the former, you could loop and check each number to see if any data is returned, either stopping at the highest still existing user number or keep going until you haven't had any hits for a while.

tallbl0nde · Oct 25, 2019

hippy dave said:
I see it's using user ID numbers. Do they seem to be in order starting from 0 or similar, or are they arbitrary? If the former, you could loop and check each number to see if any data is returned, either stopping at the highest still existing user number or keep going until you haven't had any hits for a while.

That's a great idea but yeah I don't think they have any proper order... I'm pretty sure it's random (at least from what I've seen in PlayEvent.dat).

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