Thanks, I know I'm free to do so but I'm not capable of doing it with my current skills and I don't see me wasting my limited free time after my job to get into the subject far enough to change that.
So I'll stay here hoping someone else does the magic. I'd pay or donate for it but that's all I'm going to do.
Also I'm not offending anyone (including you). Just wanted to point out that the "XCI is for pirates only" argument is not valid and I'm tired reading/hearing that.
Btw: USB is already usable in Atmosphère. Mounting XCIs is the only unavailable feature yet.
Thank you. I for myself am a super lazy guy and love if I setup things only once and have them running then.
On a very meticulous and stupid level (I know that) this even includes the "need to change/swap cartridges or discs" to play different games.
That's why I like digital games. I'm rather buying a 12 TB drive for my PC and download all my Steam games than spamming my bookshelf with hundreds of physical DVD boxes of games, especially when I have to get my ass up and put in different discs each time I wanna play something else.
That - and not
piracy - is the reason why I'm
so glad that something like
USB Loader GX for the Wii exists and why Nintendo officially allowed to install games to USB on the Wii U.
That's also the reason why I'm glad digital games exist on the Switch. Even if I don't have to get up from the couch to swap my cartridges as I could put them beside me, I still dislike the "need" to do something hardware-wise between launching different games.
However the Switch has two disadvantages here:
- The only (officially allowed) storage is the mcro SD card and that's limited/expensive
- Digital games may disappear for good at some point (when the eShop goes offline in a few years) - this also affects physical games as they are not able to (re)download their updates and DLCs when that happens
That's why it's nice that you can dump you eShop games, updates and DLCs, merge them into a single XCI (with NSC Builder) and store them on an external USB drive forever from where you can still launch them whenever you want with SX OS, no matter what happens to the eShop and no matter how much space you have left on your SD card.
But because SX OS is a drowning ship, it would be nice to have that single nice feature ported over to Atmosphère finally.