RELEASE NX-Update-Checker

NX-Update-Checker
Current Version: v1.5.3​

What does it do?

This app when provided a versions.txt from the nx-versions Repository will compare the current installed versions of your titles against the latest versions known in the versionlist.
Both printing out on-screen any newer versions found to be available and also saving them to a text file at sdmc:/Available-Updates.txt.



What's the point?

I made this app with the intent of helping folks that prefer to keep their Nintendo Switch offline at all times or disconnected from Nintendo's servers, that would like to have a means of keeping track of available updates.
With this app anyone that remains in airplane mode or similar offline status will be able to produce a full list of the most recent updates for installed titles without connecting to Nintendo's servers or searching for updates one-by-one.

Screenshots
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Usage:

• In case of no internet connection, grab the latest versions.txt available from the nx-versions Repository, and save it in the same directory as NX-Update-Checker.nro
• Run the nro with your favorite variation of the HBMenu
• Watch the pretty text move across the screen
• Profit(?)

Kudos:
blawar - titledb
simontime - VersionListBot
aedalzotto - Initial downloading code



Source & Download:
Source: https://github.com/16BitWonder/NX-Update-Checker
Download: https://github.com/16BitWonder/NX-Update-Checker/releases/latest

 

I considered this when making it.

I'd be be able to display the currently installed version-string, but the newer version-strings aren't included in the versionlists produced by ReSwitched, so you wouldn't be able to compare it against anything.

There's no harm in adding it though, when I have free time I'll get it to print local version-strings too.

 

So I know when I get around to doing this, which of these would be preferable?

Name of Title [version-string][0010XXXXXXXXX000][version] -> [new version]

or

Name of Title [0010XXXXXXXXX000][version-string][version] -> [new version]

 

Version v1.1.0 released:

• Locally installed titles will now display version strings in console and the produced txt

I've updated the thumbnails in this thread to reflect the changes made.

 

I'll look into this when I find more free-time.
Admittedly, renaming it to versionlist.json is a dumb extra step that shouldn't be necessary.

I'm not sure I understand this request.
Are you wanting to individually look at each title found that has an update available or just make parsing the versionlist faster?

 

I'll add that to the to-do list on this, I'll work on getting changes implemented next week.

The latest nro will output the locally installed version string next to the version number.
e.g. "Game Title [TitleID][VersionString][VersionNumber]"

However, the jsons used for this don't supply the available update's version string, so I can't print those out unfortunately.