Homebrew Just curious about 3ds OS...(Question for devs)

[mironicurse]

Is it possible to write custom services or any kind of custom background threads in 3DS OS? What is possible now? What are the limits?
I just thought about custom music player that works in background, or background ftp service, or even background app updater...

 

[EpicLPer]

Is it possible to write custom services or any kind of custom background threads in 3DS OS? What is possible now? What are the limits?
I just thought about custom music player that works in background, or background ftp service, or even background app updater...

I'm not a dev myself but I understand how the 3DS works somewhat. Yes, in general it would be possible but you'd have to modify the 3DS OS which then makes signatures, as far as I know, invalid and won't let it boot (?).

Correct me if I'm wrong. Besides that its much easier to just let an application run at bootup before the real OS even starts to patch the OS in the background then so the services will run.

 

[SomeGamer]

Yes, in general it would be possible but you'd have to modify the 3DS OS which then makes signatures, as

This wouldn't be a problem with A9LH.

 

[Blue]

Would a custom GUI for the home screen be possible?

 

[SomeGamer]

Would a custom GUI for the home screen be possible?

Yes. Take a look at homemenu.co!

 

[Blue]

Yes. Take a look at homemenu.co!

Thats the screen you get when you hold the power button, but what about the actual homescreen like using a launcher on Android.

 

[SomeGamer]

Thats the screen you get when you hold the power button, but what about the actual homescreen like using a launcher on Android.

That would also be possible. With A9LH, everything is.

 

[evandixon]

IIRC, this is what Hans is, an service running in place of the home menu, doing things like screenshots (home button) and soft reset (L+R+B+Down).

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Is it possible to write custom services or any kind of custom background threads in 3DS OS? What is possible now? What are the limits?
I just thought about custom music player that works in background, or background ftp service, or even background app updater...

Yes, in fact a custom loader service already exists, it's used by Luma3DS to provide some neat additional features. It can be patched on the fly and theoretically works with any CFW, no a9lh needed.
NTR-CFW is a good example of what can be done with kernel access. Most of the things you mentioned would be possible with a NTR-CFW plugin. I'm not sure about a music player, it's probably possible but the plugin would need to be able to mute the game as well and I'm not sure if that can be done with just ARM11 kernel.

 

[Altr0n]

Yes, in fact a custom loader service already exists, it's used by Luma3DS to provide some neat additional features. It can be patched on the fly and theoretically works with any CFW, no a9lh needed.

So, since this loader is presumably open source, I imagine that one could use it as a starting template for getting a background process lauchned and keeping it running? Similar to what I imagine BootNTR does?

 

[The Real Jdbye]

So, since this loader is presumably open source, I imagine that one could use it as a starting template for getting a background process lauchned and keeping it running? Similar to what I imagine BootNTR does?

Sure, but there are probably better ways to do that.

 

[Altr0n]

Sure, but there are probably better ways to do that.

Any thoughts or ideas? Maybe some repos you could point us to? I'm also interested in writing a tool that will hopefully run as a BG process.

 

[mironicurse]

Yes, in fact a custom loader service already exists, it's used by Luma3DS to provide some neat additional features. It can be patched on the fly and theoretically works with any CFW, no a9lh needed.

Cool! What about memory layout? For N3DS I think it's okay if playing non-exclusive titles and running some "not so hungry" services with extra memory availible, but o3ds? Custom memory-efficent homemenu?

 

[Halvorsen]

Thats the screen you get when you hold the power button, but what about the actual homescreen like using a launcher on Android.

The sleep menu is still the home menu...
Plus it's not the only thing on the site. There's fonts and hud relocations.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Cool! What about memory layout? For N3DS I think it's okay if playing non-exclusive titles and running some "not so hungry" services with extra memory availible, but o3ds? Custom memory-efficent homemenu?

I'm not sure, but I believe part of the memory is reserved for system titles and that NTR etc. use part of this memory, so it shouldn't matter what game you are running. Available memory is probably highly limited though.